August Underground's Penance

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Audience Member A wonderfully tamed follow up to August Underground's Mordum. That's not to say it's tame by the standards of real human beings, only the horny blood-beasts that could've created Mordum. There is a tangible plot in the final film of the trilogy, and it becomes real in the final act. Unlike Mordum, but much like the original, this movie feels like two psychos that liked to use a camera. You just happened to get your hands on the tape. It doesn't feel vicious for the sake of being vicious, but that you're riding along with something you want no part in. There are some truly sick moments here, but they are justified as we get some character from the male killer and the horny, angry, sociopathic, neurotic freak he is, and the female killer for the attention craving, narcissistic, psychotic PERSON that she is- there is good in her. But just as we know, there's no forgiving and forgetting what they've done. A genuinely good follow up to AU for any fans of morbid underground horror. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member After watching all three August Underground films, you will be questioning yourself whether the directors are disturbed for making such a sadistic series, or are you disturbed for watching all three. The first august underground was dark and disturbing as it mimicked a snuff film so accurately. Mordum, in my opinion, is one of the most brutal films ever made. So, what are we expecting with Penance? Well, Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles are back as directors and star in the third installment of the series playing the psychopathic killers Peter and Crusty. Penance takes a different approach, yes, there is still vile scenes such as disembowelment and cutting out a fetus from a victim, but we see more from the killers. There are more "breather scenes" in between the torture and murders showing them just goofing around in front of the camera. What is pivotal in this film is that it digs deep into Peter and Crusty's mental state. Over the series, we have seen Peter, a big strapping lad perform such barbaric acts that he is now reduced to gagging, not being able to perform and abusing substances heavily. On the other hand, we have seen Crusty drop her punk goth image and her twisted enjoyment of brutally torturing and murdering women, to become highly emotional and realizing how vile she has become. It was going to be very hard to top the horrendous depravities that occurred in Mordum, but somehow Vogel and Whiles managed again to have us reaching for the sick bucket. For a film that had a very low budget and unknown actors, it pulled off something so spectacularly disgusting that the series will be implanted in our memory for a long time. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Great, this movie is now stupid a third time. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member this trilogy is horrendous. worst series of movies ive ever seen. none of which were disturbing to be at all. just dumb Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member No SUBS Director's Cut Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 3rd installment. Interesting. But Mordum was the best Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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