A Bridgeport-based company specializing in the sales of vintage horror, grindhouse and adult films has purchased two industrial buildings in Waterbury’s South End.
Benedict St. Management LLC paid Dumouchel Associates LLC $700,000 for two buildings on just under an acre at 45 Benedict St. One is a 30,465-square-foot warehouse dating to 1938. The second is an 8,150-square-foot industrial building completed in 1940.
The property is home to Dumouchel Paper Co., a paper products and janitorial products supplier that traces its lineage back to Hotchkiss Paper, a company that made its first deliveries by horse-pulled wagon in 1881. Attempts to reach a company representative have been unsuccessful.
The buyer’s principal is Bridgeport-based Vinegar Syndrome Direct LLC. The company sells an archive of hundreds restored and out-of-print grindhouse and low-budget movies, primarily produced between the 1960s and 1980s. The company’s products include films like “Shriek of the Mutilated,” a 1974 low-budget, gore film about anthropology students who meet messy deaths while on the hunt for the abominable snowman. Vinegar Syndrome also sells racy vintage adult films with titles like “Prisoners of Paradise” and “Purely Physical.”
On its website, Vinegar Syndrome notes itself as “one of the premier independent genre film focused distribution companies in the world.”
Attempts to reach a Vinegar Syndrome representative were unsuccessful.
David R. Theroux, a principal with Drubner Commercial, brokered the deal for the seller. Theroux said Thursday that Dumouchel Paper will continue to operate on a portion of the site through a lease with the new owners.
