August Underground's Mordum

AUGUST UNDERGROUND: MORDUM
Review by Blake Redding

WARNING

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit.

A trio of psychopaths goes on a violent crime spree and films the whole thing. The group consists of two guys and a girl, caught up in a fucked up love triangle. It’s fucked up because one of the guys is the girl’s brother. Apparently incest IS best! The plot is simple, because basically there is no plot. Just a lot of scenes of rape, torture, murder, and even a little necrophilia mixed in for added vomit inducing fun. Hold on to your dicks!!

The AUGUST UNDERGROUND movies are pretty notorious in the underground horror scene, usually costing a fortune to get your hands on a shitty bootleg. Well, I was finally able to obtain a copy of MORDUM for a decent price. This is a movie that was made for a sole purpose: to shock, offend, and disgust the viewer. There is no hidden message or artistic value, just smut for the sake of smut. So does it accomplish this goal?

Abso-fuckin’-lutely.

The whole film has the look of a shot-on-video home movie. The majority of the budget was obviously put into the special effects and props. It’s all very real looking and gives the whole film a real ‘snuff’ feel. The trio obviously has a fetish for chubby gals. Three pleasantly plump women are kidnapped and held captive in a basement. They are humiliated and subjected to all kinds of torture. The demented female of the bunch can make herself vomit on command (yes, it is real puke.) She covers her captives’ half naked bodies in her putrid bile. While this atrocity is going on, one of the dudes is cutting off the dick of an already dead guy laid out naked on the concrete floor. He then proceeds to rape one of the girls with the severed member. After the rape fest of both girls, one of them is killed with a hammer while the other is stabbed in the stomach. One of the guys decides it is probably a good idea to have sex with the knife wound after the girl is deceased. All this is shown in graphic detail mind you. Still keeping your lunch down? Great, let’s talk dead babies and more necrophilia. The camera is now exploring one of the killer’s homes. It pans across a decaying, headless corpse of a dead infant. Maggots are the only things occupying the severed stump where its little baby head used to be.  The camera then enters into the bathroom where one of our crazy fucks is having sex with an already dead body in the bathtub. It turns out to be a child’s rotting corpse. In what might be the most disturbing part of the whole movie, the crazy vomit chick is shown stroking the dead kids head stating, “don’t worry, now you never have to grow up.”

MORDUM is definitely not for the faint of heart or the squeamish. It even found this seasoned hardcore horror vet feeling nauseous a few times. This is not a flick you will want to watch with someone who considers SAW the most hardcore movie ever. They might think you are insane.

You might not want to eat for a day before watching this movie!

Blake and Jimmy's Extreme-O-Gauge!

Rape: 5 out of 5- Very graphic scenes of realistic rape are shown throughout.

Realistic Gore: 4 out of 5- The effects are very well done and things get messy. It will have you ‘one eying’ your screen a couple times.

Animal Death: 0 out of 5- Only homo sapiens die here folks.

Necrophilia: 4 out of 5 - Well, kinda gross!

Overall Movie:  3 out of 5, it's a hell of a lot better than AUGUST UNDERGROUND, but not the best.