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By now we all know the premise of the August Underground film series. There isn’t much plot, handheld camera work, and lots of death and torture, a faux snuff movie. August Underground’s Penance is the last(?) installment in the series. I would like to say August Underground’s Penance is by far the best of the three movies but it was too long ago that I saw the first film so I have a hard time...
August Underground more or less asks you the question of what you would do if you found a videotape with two men executing the most hideous crimes? Crimes that your imagination never even could come up with? If you found a tape with severe sexual assaults and torture, would that shock you? What if it contained Coprophagia and cannibalism? This is the journal of two men, their way of documenting their everyday life and the...
Tumbling Doll of Flesh is one of those movies most of us just heard about. I think it’s usually ranked in the lower tiers in the iceberg of horror. There are a few different out there of course and some list it in tier 4 while others place it in tier 7. Of course, there are some iceberg charts where it’s not present. It also depends if you rate it for its obscurity or for...
Do you remember back in the day when Charlie Sheen reported one of the original Guinea Pig movies to the authorities, thinking it was a real snuff movie? If I’m not mistaken, that was the second of the Asian films – Flower of Flesh and Blood. Not the most realistic in the series in my opinion but certainly one of the bloodiest! When watching the first American Guinea Pig movie I can help but wonder...
I remember when My Little Eye first came out. It was pretty hated by horror film fans out there. I, for one, actually liked it. A few weeks ago I decided to re-watch it to see if I was “wrong” back then or if I actually still liked it. To be honest, My Little Eye is a somewhat “dumb” film. The acting isn’t much to brag about and there aren’t enough brutality in it. I...
