Product Details

• Directors: Fred Vogel
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: Unrated
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000QXT3QS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,709 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Round 3!!! And this Time the Gloves are Off !!!!!!, March 24, 2008

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Captain Insanity "Horror Happy Hour" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: August Underground's Penance (DVD)

The original was sick.
The sequel was even sicker.
And now the third installment pulls out all the stops, and empties any humanity that was left in your soul onto the abattoir floor.

This time around the depravities are shot on digital,
so the home movie quality of the previous two flicks isn't nearly as apparent.
Also unlike it's predecessors, this one doesn't start up rigt away.
But once it does..... Wow!!! Stand back!!
(mutilation, disembowelment, and a particularly horrific family christmas scene that will go down as one of the most brutal scenes in a movie bar-none).

This installment focuses on the demented relationship between Vogel's character & the chick who I'm refering to as Mrs. Vomit.
Gone are all the outside influences & distractions.
All you have, is the two, and the carnage that keeps them together.
It starts off rather typical.
Just 2 young lovers out having a good time,
But what starts as puppy dog love, descends into extreme, mindless, violence.
Oftentimes going waaaay over the edge.
But that's to be expected. This is August Underground.
Like the others, this one jumps around with no clear timeline in sight,
but the heavy use of special effects (AU's creme de la creme) keeps things nice and interesting. (and by interesting I mean bloody)
They're practically real now (entrails leaking gas & feces, etc.), and boy are they plentiful.
The amount of gore & guts onscreen outdoes any given Mondo flick hands down.

If you've seen the last two, you know what you're in for.
If not, watch every other brutally demented horror film out there,
becase this one is the "Baron of Blood".

MORAL OF THE STORY:
LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!!!!!!
And lay down a drop-cloth by your television set!!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pay Your Penance Now!, October 3, 2008

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Richard Nervous "Dedicated Horror Fan" (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: August Underground's Penance (DVD)

What can I say? This movie delivers on everything it promises. I haven't seen the other films in this series but it doesn't really matter. All of the films in the series bring their own level of depravity or so I am told and have read about. This is the final film of the 3 August Underground films and I still am trying to get some of the images out of my mind although they were exactly what I was hoping for.

Here's the plot, you see 2 serial killers, killing. That's it, there is no compassion and it's brutal and in your face for a full 80 minutes or so of this flick. It was shot on Mini DV and it looks good, apparently better than the previous 2 movies from other reviews I've read. Even though the quality is good it's still done home video style so there are jump cuts from one scene to another for no apparent reason, which is exactly what Fred Vogel wanted you to see. Have you ever had to sit through a friend's vacation clips before? Usually there is no time line at all and this film gives that to you. You go from one death scene to a punk concert, back to gut ripping and more.

I won't go into all of the details but let's say there is a not very merry Xmas scene in here that should disturb you a bit. If you aren't the least bit disturbed by it, then you might want to stick a mirror under your chin and see if you are still breathing.

The reason I gave this movie a full star count is because it is truly what it says it is, a gore flick for splatter and torture fans. You'll laugh at Hostel and Saw after seeing this. It's almost too real but that's what makes it effective and it has some incredible intensity in it. Even when you are not seeing gore, you are seeing the hate and rage between the 2 main characters against society and each other.

You'll feel numb after seeing this but it left me wanting to see it again. Ok, I admit, I'm sick! It's only a movie if you are into pure intensity and disturbing images, don't delay get yours today.

I'll review August Underground #1 as it's in the mail this week, hopefully Mordum soon too. This is my type of flick and did I mention the TONS of extras? The Behind the Bile Documentary runs longer than the movie and it is fun to watch. Also comes with commentary, videos and there are two Easter eggs on the Special Features menu. Look for Blood Spots at the top of the menu screen. When you see them, click on them and you'll get some additional bonus footage that is pretty funny. Perfect for Halloween!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give half a star here but u know amazon's goofy rating system, November 23, 2008

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CraigalsCosmosis (Chicago,IL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: August Underground's Penance (DVD)

My half star is for one scene that had decent special effects with the 2 main characters poking at a victims guts with a pipe...too bad for that damn shakey hand held camera BULLSH@#T otherwise this movie would have gotten a whole star from me for this one scene.The movie is taken from the 2 killers point of view,same as first 2 I believe,thou I have not seen them and after watching this huge letdown ,I'm staying away

I hope to never have to see another one of these shakey hand held camera POV movies,espeically since this 1 is an indie low budget

BTW:Everyone in the movie happens to have gotten hit with the ugly stick and being that everyone was overweight didn't help having to sit and watch this for almost 2 hours.Isuppose that adds to the reality or realism affect they were looking for....well It didn't work August!YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME ACTING SKILLS IN ORDER FOR THAT TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!