The Monsturd Coverbox Rejected By The MPAA

So it comes to this. My cinematic legacy, such as it is, boils down to the most repulsive DVD cover box I've seen outside of something that might be tucked into the back shelves of your seedier porno shops. The MPAA refused to grant us an "R" rating if we used this cover...not sure how that works...they also have input on cover box art work? In any case, Blockbuster Video (who, upon its initial release, astoundingly, purchased 4,000 copies of this movie) refused to carry Monsturd if we used this cover box design. I will go on record as saying that the first time I saw this cover box layout, my jaw dropped. I was shocked and repulsed by it...and yet had to admit that this was the point of the whole joke of the movie in the first place. I will also go on record as saying, "Blockbuster Video bought 4,000 copies of this thing? Were the people in acquisitions sniffing glue or huffing spray paint when they made that choice?" Well, here the infamous banned cover yet again has risen from the dead, as our new distributor, Brain Damage films, (appropriate, no?) has chosen to exhume this ghastly cover box for our 2009 re-release. I find this cover box design to be simultaneously repulsive and fascinating...it's really just so wrong on so many levels. If I could assess this from any objective distance I would probably cringe. But, alas, I cannot. We reap what we sow. All fingers...including those made out of shit, point back to myself and Rick Popko on this one. Looking at this monstrosity makes me sympathize with John Waters every time he is asked the question : "So did Divine REALLY eat dog shit in Pink Flamingos?". This concept is about as lowbrow as one could stoop to to get attention and garner any type of notoriety in the present market of low-budget indie movies . I suppose it's exactly what we deserve.