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August Underground's Penance

2007 · 85 min

A relentless, ugly plunge into madness, like watching a real-life nightmare on a stolen camcorder.

Tagline
Today is the day that our sins will be over
Overview
Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about it, only telling you to watch it. What if that tape was the personal home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree? This is their home movie, for their eyes-only. This is August Underground's Penance. The third and final film in the AU franchise directed by Fred Vogel and starring Cristie "Crusty" Whiles. Penance shows the dark decline of the two nameless killers from the previous films as they continue to videotape their madness on their path to destruction.

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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
  • madness
  • obsession
  • death
  • guilt
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • found footage
  • unreliable narrator
  • serialised
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 weight8

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Fred Vogel
Written by
Cristie Whiles, Fred Vogel, Allen Peters
Starring
Fred Vogel, Cristie Whiles, Shelby Vogel, Jerami Cruise, Anthony Matthews, Rob Steinbruegge, Talia Becker, Lucious Ridgewood
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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