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August Underground

2002 · 70 min

A grim, unrelenting descent into sadistic violence, presented with such raw, amateurish realism that it feels like watching a genuine snuff tape.

Tagline
The sickest film ever made.
Overview
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair. The devastation of your morals continues throughout the entirety of the footage, while subtly revealing the killer's shattered pasts via the interaction with their victims and each other.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • violence
  • crime
  • madness
  • death
  • obsession
Places
  • home
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • found footage
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror9
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness10
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Fred Vogel
Written by
Allen Peters, Fred Vogel
Starring
Fred Vogel, Kyle Dealman, Allen Peters, Casey Eganey, Dan Friedman, AnnMarie Reveruzzi, Alexa Iris, Victoria Jones
Runtime
70 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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