Sorry, this movie sucks

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This may contain spoilers, you have been warned. I have been a fan of horror movies for many years. In my opinion an example of a truly gripping film combining suspense and gore to produce horror is "Hostel". It has a plot, characters developed just enough to engage my emotions and make the subsequent torture hit me in the gut. This film lacks anything to stir the emotions. No explanation of who the victims are. No set up. No plot. Three giggling idiots filmed by a cameraman with palsy. No back story. Why should I care about these people or their victims? David Vogel is known for his special effects abilities, yet I found all the on screen blood unconvincing. There is a LOT of blood. There is one scene involving a bathtub that I found genuinely disturbing but, without a plot or characters you care about, one scene does not make a movie, even if you are a big fan of splatter films. I BOUGHT this movie. Wasted ten dollars. Its cover promises "genuine snuff" (according to Rue Morgue Magazine). It's genuine trash. I gave this film one star because I couldn't give it no stars. Do not waste 77 minutes of your life on this failure.

August Underground is definitely an important film to underground horror film making. It had nothing to it, but showed that there are directors out there who are willing to go that extra step further to capture the depravities of humankind. It is everything that the word "Horror" stands for, so I thought that although August Underground wasn't my cup of tea, it understood what true horror is all about. Unfortunately with August Underground Mordum, they pushed the boundaries too far and as a result, lost the realism that the first one created. Mordum came across as a film that's sole purpose was to provoke an angry response. It was the rebellious kid at school who miss behaves because he wants the whole class to look at him. Seeking attention was something I didn't feel so much with the first one, but scenes in the sequel will have you thinking the exact same thing (that the sequel tries too hard). Now don't get me wrong. The first AU has scenes that are truly horrifying and disgusting, but never really elevated to the level of being unrealistic. It had a strange subtlety to it that made you think "this could be your next door neigbours", but AU Mordum just goes beyond that and to the point of a bad horror movie that you have seen before.Its basically a lazy film that was created off the success of the first. Nothing new, just increased the level of depravity to the point where it doesn't feel real anymore.

I feel that I need to take off my hat to this film, because it is extremely artistic, well executed, and clearly does exactly what the director would have wanted the film to be. However, as a consequence, it is not a wildly entertaining film, and it begins to lose it's iconic aggression as the film develops.There is no real plot that you need to know about with "Mordum", because the film basically hasn't got one. All the film does is it follows the lives of serial killers, who feel the need to carry out violent torture scenes to fulfill their fantasies. Since this is in fact a simulated snuff film, it does make sense that there is no plot at all. But that doesn't forgive the pathetic second half of the film.The first half or so of the film is an assault on the senses, as your ears are filled with the screams of victims, and the disturbing comments from the killers, while your eyes are forced to put up with scenes including self-castration and sexual assault. The film quality is low and grainy, which gives the film an arty touch, while the violent executions are worryingly realistic. I must admit I was quite disturbed by many of the scenes, and will stay with me for a very long time.The main problem with the film though is it's rather laughable second half. Whether it was designed to give the audience a break from the repeated face-beating they received from the first half or not, it turned from a horror into a comedy as it began trying to show that serial killers have a social life. I believe this may have been to suggest that anyone could be a serial killer, but despite that the execution didn't make it seem like that. The final execution that followed the social life element didn't make up for it either, being disappointed when compared to other scenes, which didn't lend it a hand either.While I am not a fan of the torture porn genre, I did find this film very impressive artistically. Unfortunately, the film dropped in standard just after the halfway mark, which ruined the effect the film had on me. If the film had had more of a story, or had been less silly towards the end, I may have enjoyed it enough to want to buy it on DVD from the States. But it hasn't. So I won't...

I rarely write movie reviews. But after watching this I felt an inner drive to write what I am writing right now. Its no art. This is so past psychopathic. This is insane. Whoever made the video are not humans. They condemned a fine art. This is s*it in every possible sense of the word. This stinks. Unimaginably boring. This is the most regretful thing I ever did so far. It gives new definition to the word "disgusting". I sincerely and with the bottom of my repentant heart advice every human being that reads it---DON'T WATCH IT. DON'T.DON'T WATCH IT. DO NOT WATCH IT. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE CURIOUS ABOUT. IT'D TAKE MUCH MORE THAN 100 MINS FROM YOUR LIFE AND ITS NOT WORTH IT.