August Underground's Mordum

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.

I wasted $25.00 this weekend buying Mordum at a horror convention in Ft. Lauderdale because a vendor told me this would be the most violent movie for sale at the event. I took his word, and although it is disturbingly violent, it is a waste of film-making and audience time. The camera work is terrible, and the acting seems like the director invited a few friends to the house to play murder movie. A five year old could make a better movie. I just want to save someone else from making the same mistake I made. I am a great fan of ultra violent cinema, but I am ashamed that this movie is even considered to be a violent movie. It is not even a movie, it is someone's sick idea for playing with a camera he should not even be aloud to touch. Please, find real jobs Toe Tag crew, save the rest of us from wasting our time viewing your ridiculous film.

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.

Wow!!! what can I say ,slicing,stabbing,rape,drugs. The only thing missing from this turd is a storyline. The real name of this movie should have been 8 min. of good special effects in a huge 80 min. waste of time. the internet buzz was way off on this one there is nothing good about this movie, if you bought it like i did sorry,if you are thinking of buying it, think again.

The special effects were violent and semi-bloody the location they used was the most disturbing thing in this movie. 2nd only to the

horrible camera and sound I am all for amateur film makers as long as they are actually making a film (even a bad film) but this was like 8 or 9 people running around drunk with a camera. Special effects can't make up for the lack of storyline and camera close-ups of walls, carpets and cat litter boxes. Next time try a Trypod. and not making a horror movie.