
Fred Vogel
Directing
Biography
Fred Vogel was born on April 18, 1976, in Warren Township, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for the controversial August Underground film trilogy (2001-2007), The Final Interview (2018), and Sella Turcica (2010). He has been married to Shelby Lyn Vogel since October 13, 2006.
Known For

Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair. The devastation of your morals continues throughout the entirety of the footage, while subtly revealing the killer's shattered pasts via the interaction with their victims and each other.
August Underground

The sequel to the cult classic August Underground is a character study in the sick, an amoral putrid fantasy. The found footage contained in August Underground’s MORDUM documents extreme deviant sexuality, torture and murder, while unfolding a classic tale of a man and woman in love. However, the woman cannot give up her other lover, who also happens to be her younger brother. August Underground’s MORDUM will vomit all over you and leave you for dead!
August Underground's Mordum

A ferocious, misogynistic, and morally deprived serial killer is active in Las Vegas. Obsessed with the collapse of the Twin Towers, and with Nazi tendencies, he even targets underage girls.
Murder-Set-Pieces

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.
August Underground's Penance

S&Man (also known as Sandman) is a 2006 pseudo-documentary film that examines the underground subculture of horror films. It combines real interviews with indie horror film makers and a scripted plot that does not immediately come into focus until the second half of the film.
S&Man

A teen girl's psychotic ex-boyfriend follows her friends to Redsin Tower, where a night of partying quickly becomes a fight for their very lives.
The Redsin Tower

A zombie kept in hiding by his niece and nephew for over forty years suddenly becomes famous when the world discovers he can talk and reason as though he were alive. As his popularity grows, he is discovered by zombie hunters who want to kidnap him and hunt him for sport.
My Uncle John Is a Zombie!

A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.
Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

MASKHEAD tells the depraved tale of Syl and Maddie, a lesbian couple who produce extreme fetish and dark specialty movies. With the help of their sociopathic associate, The Cowboy, the ladies audition numerous up-and-coming talent to star in their top selling, stomach-turning fetish series: “MASKHEAD,” which features a large man in a bizarre mask who tortures and kills his “co-stars” on camera.
Maskhead

Adrian Simms had everything the average American could ask for, a passionate career in the arts as a photographer, a beautiful fiancé, a sports car, and a nice house. But something was not quite right with this equation of... normality. Success did not satisfy Adrian Simms.
Opening the Mind

Delves into the history of the most extreme and shocking films that have ever been made. chronicles the timeline of Red Films: those films that are too extreme for the mainstream and historically have been circulated via the bootleg circuit.
Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films

A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.
Sella Turcica

An anonymous web presenter offers up a collection of death themed segments presented in a shockumentary style a la Faces of Death.
Murder Collection V.1

A veteran newscaster desperate for ratings secures an interview with a mass murderer on death row the night before the man is set to be executed. What our newscaster thinks will be an easy ratings boost turns into a dangerous psychological game between two manipulative alpha males.
The Final Interview
A documentary about the underground horror production company Toe Tag Pictures.