Confrontational Horror: a) to challenge the audience intentionally by putting them into an uncomfortable emotional state through the display of constant and unrelentless horrifying images. b) depictions of blood, gore, dismemberment seen on screen for long, extended and upsetting periods of time. These are not scary films. These are not monster movies. These are like car accidents on the highway - scared to look at it, hard to look away. Toe Tag Pictures is just one of those companies that produces confrontational horror with their recent release August Underground. This is perhaps one of the most intense films you will see. Directed, produced, and starring Fred Vogul who put this film together on a budget that might equal 1,000 pairs of shoe-strings, around $2,000.00 with remarkable results. Excellent special effects and shot on video resulting in what few would call a work of art. In fact, art and reality are closely met here that many had to question whether what they were seeing was real or just a movie. The premise is watching a serial killer at work. There is little story, but not much in needed in this context as it attempts to replicate the mental happenings of a deranged person living in the world while his friend captures all of it on video camera (whom we never see). Secondly, in this catergory, which relates to the serial killer theme, is a German film titled Schramm Director J??rg Buttgereit of Neckromantik fame brings this filthy, dirty, grungy film of a stalking type of killer. The kind of killer that you would keep your daughter in the house, even if the killer was in Germany and you were in America. This DVD, from Barrel Entertainment, is a Region 1, however it is currently out of print, but according to Xploited Cinema.com, it is being re-released. Currently a Region 0 PAL edition is avaialble.