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    Darkgod Reviews August underground

    August Underground(2001)
    Director: Fred Vogel
    Writer: Fred Vogel Allen Peters


    The Story: Two sick and twisted individuals record their exploits and killings.

    Gore: The gore in August Underground is top notch. Even for a low budget movie, they obviously worked on their gore. The dismembering scene in the bathroom, and the torture of the bound girl stick out as some extreme gore. The shit I could have done without, as it was done well( as well as Shit can be done) but there is no need other then to fill someone's fetish. No gore scene made me sick or turn away, and in fact the most grossed out I got was when the bound girls shit was on his hand.

    Cinematography: The movies shot on a video, and is supposed to look like the deranged videos of some crazed lunatic so it isn't supposed to have amazing videography. That being said Man Bites Dog was made in the same vein and it is more visually pleasing then August Unferground. Granted that was supposed to be a documentary crew and this is supposed to be a serial killer filming a murder spee, but it can be taken care of more.

    Storyline: August Underground holds its roots soley in Man bites Dog, but is a more brutal and visceral story. Where as Ben in Man bites Dog is a serial killer, you as the viewer still kind of like him. There is no like for the killer or his video taping buddy, because they are just sick individuals. They both show the stereotypical homicidal killer symptoms: anti-social, masochistic, no love for women and makes them have no redeeming value. This goes along with the movie being more Brutal because why would you want to like these men. At times it feels like a couple friends filming Jackass Scenes ( though a little more disturbing) the scene when the killer helps an old lady with her groceries, before killing her off camera looks like any videos me an my friends filmed where we would play pranks on people. (though we didn't kill any old ladies)

    Acting: Luckily the two main actors are playing normal everyday peole because the acting was so bad it is believable that these are real people. The bound girl does show some signs of acting, but if I was a naked
    girl tied up with fake blood and shit on me, and those two waving a knife and camera in my face it wouldn't be so hard to act scared. But everyone else just seems fake and stale.

    My Thoughts
    I get that this is a bloodier, more disgusting version of Man Bites Dog but it is nowhere near as good of a movie. My biggest gripe with alot
    Of underground movies is their elevating of gore and effects above the storyline. August Underground (other then one scene) doesn't do that. Instead it focuses the brutality and realism above the storyline because that is all that needs to be focused on in this movie. If we didn't focus on the brutality we would see this as a vastly inferior version of Man Bites Dog. It's a movie I'll never rewatch, not due to the material of the story or anything along those lines. It based on it soley being a terrible movie.

    4/10(most of that for the gore)

    Note: I started to watch mordum but fell asleep, once I finish that I'll review it as well.

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    Agree with most of your review DG.
    Movie sucked bigtime. Fuckin' boring if you ask me.
    Only redeeming quality was the way it was shot....looked like the way I'd imagine 2 lunatics filming their atrocities...kinda like a snuff flick. Can't believe some of the reviews I've read hailing this shitfest...calling it "The Citizen Kane" of horror movies is laughable at best.

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    I never bothered to watch it, thanks for the review Dark.

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    Me likey this review
    I wouldn't compare this detritus to Man Bites Dog though. Man Bites Dog was clever, brutal and funny whereas August Underground marks the absolute nadir of simulated snuff. It's a fucking stupid, childish film made by a deluded dickhead who thinks that opening a film with a ten minute long shot of a shit covered woman with her nipple cut off is disturbing. It's not, it's desperate.
    I'd give it a 2/10.
    And DarkGod, if you didn't like this you will HATE Mordum
    Two thumbs up for the review though

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    The film series & toetag have obviously been talked about for years on the board, but I've never seeked anything out. I have a friend in the redsin tower and never bothered to watch it.

    However I did see man bites dog because when i was a hoity toity film student I went through a lot of my library's criterions. That is a scathing, jet black comedy. I doubt au has a scene where the lead kills a gramma then complains about the cheapness of modern architecture and concrete

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    Quote Originally Posted by choptop2 View Post
    I doubt au has a scene where the lead kills a gramma then complains about the cheapness of modern architecture and concrete
    It doesn't, nor does it have a scene where the psycho kills a black security guard and then complains about AIDS - and green monkeys!!!
    Man Bites Dog is head and shoulders above anything Fred Vogel could ever produce.

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    MBD is an 8 out of 10 for me... but you can see roots from that in this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkgod View Post
    MBD is an 8 out of 10 for me... but you can see roots from that in this.
    Soz dude, I enjoyed your review but I can't see a single comparison of AUM to MBD.
    One is an idiotic, hysterical shitflick and the other is an intelligent indie horror.
    No prizes for which is which.

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    I agree with that... but look at the basics of both films... camcorder filmings a of a serial killer... MDB blows AU out of the water, but they both do have the same simlar movie idea.

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    Nah, they differ in intent. The makers of MBD were actually trying to make a proper film.
    Fred Vogel was just trying to boost his sick fuck image.

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    I agree with that

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    nice review 2/10 for me. not for me. not gonna knock the people will like it though

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    Personally I enjoy both MBD and AU for different reasons. Even though they are the same core premise the takes on them are so different it is kind of apples and oranges. I actually enjoy the grain of the film and how erratic and confusing some of the shots are. I think doing it differently would have hurt the overall idea. I can't disagree about the acting though, some of it felt incredibly forced.

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    First off Man Bites Dog is brilliant! 9/10 film for me...but this thread is not about that film.

    If you found August Underground lying somewhere as an unmarked movie and put it in and watched it, you’d swear it was a real snuff film. You wouldn’t think that a home video camera could be so effective, but for me, this was such an amazing way to look into the world of sick murderers.

    This movie made me rethink what horror is all about for me, because it truly and wholly pushes you to the very limits of what you can take, or at least it did me. The people that will like this are the hardcores out there, the viewers who like to see disgusting and sickening scenes.

    August Underground certainly had some parts that are fuckin hard to watch, but it doesn’t even begin to hold a candle to the depravity that is, Mordum.

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    You can find streaming versions of these if you look around. I think I saw them at stagevu.

    I was curious and checked these out shortly after looking up Martyrs and seeing what the whole Serbian Film drama was about. The AU stuff was in another category but, like the most over-the-top images in ASF, I couldn't help but reflect on the fact that so much of the depravity in the AU films has also been depicted elsewhere in the form of comedy, though I've never found corpse fucking humorous, personally.

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    AU and Mordum OMG Watched these back to back

    Cannot wait for AU Penance to come in the mail

    Really need to see 'Man Bites Dog', remember when it was first releasedbut never watched it.

    Fuck...gonna watch 'Mordum' now

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