August Underground's Mordum

The original AUGUST UNDERGROUND was a very unsettling pseudo-snuff movie, chronicling the exploits of two serial killers. It had its share of blood and guts, but its real power was in the psychological terror it managed to convey. The impressively realistic special effects were certainly repulsive, but it was the tone of the movie that really stuck with me.

The sequel, AUGUST UNDERGROUND'S MORDUM is about three times as sick, disgusting and gruesome as its predecessor, but it is also less powerful. The Toe Tag Pictures team goes so over-the-top and takes things to such an outrageous extreme that the movie becomes a freak show of gruesome images and repulsive concepts, with little of the original's chilling atmosphere.

As in the original, the special effects are excellent. The performances are absolutely convincing, particularly the female member of the group, who portrays a demented viciousness that is totally believable.

But when it was all over, I felt that not a whole lot had actually happened.

It's a clothesline of every atrocity and act of perversion that these people could think up, all done in a realistic manner, and nothing else. The claustrophobic terror of the first movie is missing here, and that is what made it so disturbing. Many of the scenes of violence and depravity are taken to such an extreme that they become more absurd than horrifying. A scene in which the threesome make themselves vomit repeatedly on two victims is pretty vile initially, but it goes on so long that I stopped being disgusted and started wondering how the actors were able to continuously make themselves puke.

AUGUST UNDERGROUND'S MORDUM is certainly worth finding and checking out for fans of maverick, underground and sick cinema. But anyone who's seen HENRY - PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, the GUINEA PIG videos or the original AUGUST UNDERGROUND has seen worse.

It is easy to understand what will make you look into this movie, and comments you will find will push you over the edge into watching it, just as I did.

Yes it is likely that it is the sickest film to have ever been put to film, however there is absolutely no entertainment factor to it. When a film introduces extreme gore, it works within the content of a story line that makes you look away and get adrenalin during the violent sequences. This film is a poorly filmed but accurate depiction of nothing but endless, silly gore designed to shock but that fails. It is almost certain that you will come away feeling slightly ashamed that you wanted to watch graphic rape, torture and necrophilic pheadophilia with nothing else to its credit other then it makes it look very real.

To call it shocking is to give it credit it doesn't deserve. The Exorcist was shocking, this has no 'shock' factor, no humorous factor that you get with some gore based films, no dialogue or story of any significance and any film enthusiast should feel offended that this is the most extreme film we have. Pathetic, ridiculous, childish and absolutely not worth looking at.

I watched this film on the grounds that it had a reputation of being the sickest ever made. And it is certainly the most extreme film I've seen. But that doesn't make it entertaining. The effects are top notch and it does what it sets out to do but my god is it boring. The people on here who say they've watched it numerous times must be geeks. There is no reason to watch this more than once unless you are trying to prove a point because it is just the most boring pile of shite I have ever seen. It's basically a 15 year old horror enthusiasts wet dream. I think that the director has great potential and I am looking forward to 'The Redsin Tower' because it looks like it has entertainment value. Mordum is basically a fake snuff movie and its attempts to make it seem real are its major downfall. A lot of it is just shaky camera and shouting and when it gets to the gore and violence it just seems like it's trying too hard. Some may call it art, but they're idiots! It's just a really boring pointless film with really good special effects. I'm not saying don't watch it (because curiosity gets the better of all of us and I watched it because of reviews and comments that I read on this site) I'm just saying: don't expect too much and don't believe the hype. In my opinion a good movie should keep you gripped and a sick movie should disturb you. I was so bored watching this that it didn't disturb me. If you're a gore hound, watch it. If you're curious, watch it, but be honest with yourself afterwards and I'm sure you'll agree that it's crap.

A bunch of morons with a hand-held camera go around screaming ceaselessly and laughing idiotically in a never ending profanity-laden cacophony whilst performing "sick" acts which, as some unknown rule apparently dictates, can only be inflicted on disgusting fat chicks who forget to resist.

This is not a movie, since it has no plot, and it is not disturbing, since you can find worse things on the internet in less than a fraction of the time it would require for you to waste your time with this childish foolishness called "August Underground's Mordum," which belongs in the same trash bin as "Scrapbook." Just because damaged American kiddies with fractured psyches, short attention spans, and a penchant for anything that can momentarily lift them out of their fuzzy world view-defined, over-indulgent, instant gratification-based existence manage to praise this film with the vocabulary of someone who - surprisingly - has at least managed to attain a high school senior's vocabulary, does not make it worth watching. Then again, I suspect anyone who falls for it will probably be the same category of human: a confused child in a man's body, his emotional development permanently arrested at point "Beavis and Butthead." This review is for the sane who like horror cinema, not boring pseudo-porno splatter fluff worshipers: stay away, folks.

I thought this genre of hand-held shock began and ended with Blair Witch Project.

The movie is mindless, self-indulgent porn-gore, poorly "acted" by people simply reveling in attempting to give a shock-effect, while uttering the F*-word in nearly every line.

Sure, the movie apparently meets its attempted goal, of desecrating all that is sane, normal, and decent in humans. But anyone who would sit down and decide to take every single aspect of humanity, morality and mental-health to its opposite extreme would probably easily write such a plot, from the same logical (illogical?) conclusions. The movie is therefore predictable and boring. If you're like me and can watch gore and know that it's merely special-effects, the movie is a mere annoying waste of time.

If you're into grotesque special-effects of mutilation, sexual perversion, porn and bodily desecration, then you'll probably think this movie is exactly what you wanted. Which... would then make me wonder about your own mental health. Otherwise, it's a boring, simplistic and predictable antithesis of humanity and all that is good.

I'm sure that everyone involved, especially the actors, enjoyed the mindless attempts at shock and the flaunting porn-acts. But for me, it's mere self-revelry.