Perfect cast and a good story

One of my all time favorites.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There's a reason they filmed this with the worst quality possible. I ate a sandwich while watching every "brutal" scene (minus the fake vomit, bc that's the most realistic and sickening thing). Pay attention to when they move the camera away, then what happens once it's back. Take the scene with the two girls. Why does the blonde look like she's literally had blood streaks painted on her (no wound would ever cause those oddly perfect lines of blood running down almost her entire body), yet in the previous scene (yep, before camera cut), she's got nothing on her but whatever she spit out of her mouth to look like vomit?!? Now, it really turns into a comedy when they (again) cut away from the brunette and then back to her just in time for him to cut into her abdomen. I mean she wasn't a small girl, but why has her stomach become massive suddenly? Go look. It looks like she's suddenly 9-months along. Then, that scene that probably grossed so many out...when he sliced into her. You would have to have ZERO knowledge of the internal organs of a human to believe whatever he was pulling out looked like her bowels. The poor camera helps their attempt, but he's pulling things out that look like they could be several spleens or kidneys?!?! Do not let the fact that it's grungy and dirty everywhere make you think these effects are realistic. Watch the camera, and what it doesn't show!

I enjoy the genre that this movie is going for, but it never even gets close. It feels like a couple of teenagers trying to be hardcore but they just don't get it. It's not scary, disturbing, or entertaining in any way. Most of the characters are annoying and there isn't really a plot. Yuck...and not in a good way.

"August Underground" is an unbearably vile experience, but that's mainly because it's so realistic. This looks like a genuine snuff film. With absolutely no build-up we see a girl being tortured by a deranged serial killer, while his friend conveniently films everything. The acting of both the killers and the victim is incredible, and so are the make-up effects. I'm assuming all the dialogues are improvised, if only because the two main actors are also credited as the writers. The main criticism to this movie is that it has no plot, but that's kind of the point. Would an actual serial killer's video diary have a plot, or would it just be random, unrelated vignettes like these? With that said, I did wish director Fred Vogel would have come up with a slightly more intriguing ending. That's something "The Blair Witch Project" (the inevitable comparison) did well, cutting away at an interesting point. This movie just ends on a total dud. "August Underground" is an interesting gimmick, but it's not exactly something I'd rewatch.

There are movies meant to be scary, there are movies meant to shock, and then there are films that do nothing but threaten the limits of nausea and putrid film-making. August Underground is a low budget, and frequently disgusting film that portrays a real snuff film about two men that go on a senseless killing spree for no other reason but sick pleasure. The acts are recorded on a now old-fashioned camcorder to intensify the situation.I will give the film credit for looking very realistic, and being shot with a method I personally enjoy. Shot on video horror films do a great deal to intensify the scene, and make for a very realistic film if done right. August Underground does a good job at making this very low budget independent film look like a black-market snuff film.For those not aware of what a snuff film is, it is a film that is compiled or real murders and torture to human beings. The purpose of their existence is to provide sick pleasure to the person watching them. Apparently, not one has ever been made or sold, and they are just a thing we humans believe exist because we fear the strange. I'm sure somewhere, somehow someone has made and sold one, but there is no record of it.I am a fan of films like The Collector and Saw that are works of the torture porn genre. I am also a slight fan of the 2007 horror film Vacancy which plot revolved around motel murders constructing snuff films. The difference between this and August Underground is the fact that those films all had a story line, thin as it may it was there. This film is nothing but a grotesque picture that exists solely for the purpose of extreme shock, without providing a moral or awareness on the subject of snuff. It's not like this is an hour-long PSA saying this could happen.August Underground was most likely made by people who were interested in the field of film, but didn't think they could pull off making a real film of any specific genre. They took the easy way out and made a film that is just a bunch of compiled murders, ridiculous scenes of animals with large reproductive organs, and senseless acts of torture that make the viewer feel like a sick sadist.What are we supposed to feel from this film? Better yet, what was did this film accomplish by being like this? Screams? Shrieks? Jaw drops? Nausea? Vomitting? Well, it could have all of those, if it didn't add credits at the end. Without those credits, this could've been an even more realistic snuff film. But like everyone, the makers wanted to have their five seconds of fame on the screen. Congratulations? Starring: Kyle Dealman. Directed by: Fred Vogel.