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August Undergrounds Mordum

Mordum is part of the August
Underground Trilogy and probably it's most famous/infamous. The basic premise is it being a pseudo-snuff film, filmed on a handheld camera. It opens with a scene of a woman having sex with a guy, and someone watching through a window or keyhole - we then find out the guy she's sleeping with is her brother. The woman opens to the door to the peeping tom after he keeps knocking, they have an argument, and in this argument the sexual tension rises with her then cutting herself with a piece of glass across the stomach. Sex and self multination within the first 5 minutes. Welcome to August Underground! There isn't too much of a plot aside from these sado-masochists going around killing people, intercut with scenes of them doing pretty much everyday things in between. But that almost adds to it's disgusting qualities with the thought that these people are living and walking around us - ticking time bombs - seemingly normal on the face of things. Sure, some of the footage is grainy, but again that adds to the realistic quality of this being pseudo snuff. I guess.

The effects are actually top quality, very realistic looking, there's a lot to disturb. Someone's bludgeoned to death with a hammer to the skull, a woman trapped in a box with a mask duct taped to her face - tied up - and showing signs on her arms where she's been cut. She's then forced to touch the female killers pussy and raped by the male one. He strangles her and spits on her chest... Then opens 'coffin' two, where her husband is trapped inside, and they say he either cuts off his own penis or they're going to fuck his wife with a knife. Reluctantly he starts snipping with the nail scissors... Brutal. 20 mins into the film!

The female killer then tastes the removed appendage before offering the victims wife 'one last fuck' with it. I won't go into too much more detail, but you get an idea.

In all honesty, this is definitely one of the most extreme films I've witnessed. I can see why people rate it so highly. I can see why a lot of people throw it into its own little 'torture-porn' subgenre at the same time, though, I'm not entirely convinced it deserves to be left at that and that alone. If you're a fan of films like Man Bites Dog or even just interested in picking this up to test your own stomachs - I'd recommend this as you won't be disappointed, it's not one for the fickle stomached though - you've been warned haha!