xposipx "The most offensive, most shocking film ever!" Is the plot line given from the filmmakers. It's basically a found videotape of serial killer/rapist/thieves stealing, raping, and killing.Violence for the sake of violence. This movie ran about 82 minutes long and about 50 minutes of it were elongated rape scenes. They do a good job at making the gore look 'real' for the most part, but when there isn't a point to it....why should we care? The only interesting scene is when the man cuts off his own penis with a pair of scissors, which looks painfully real. The whole point was for the picture quality to be bad, but it's beyond bad. It was probably shot with a mid 90's VHS-C camcorder in a lot of low-light situations. You could even see the little rainbow at the top and bottom of the screen the entire time. The grain is effective, but not bearable for the entire 82 minutes. Second, the audio was way muffled obviously...I had to turn my speakers way up to be able to hear...as if there was much dialogue to hear anyways. The camera shook and moved way too much for me to understand what was going on some of the time as well....which was the whole point, but it's just not good film making. Last, there were maybe 7 edits through the entire movie, and they were just to cut off scenes that were running way too long. They were attempting to make this look like a real serial killing trio's tape of mischief. Therefore, they should try and do their best to act like real serial killers. What I saw was a few 30 year olds running around screaming curse words a lot. No one with an IQ above 10 uses the curses like they do in every sentence. All of the acting was just not at all creative, and when they were at an obvious loss for words...of course you would just hear them curse some more. The people being raped also never fought back, which was entirely unrealistic as well.Bottom Line: The point of this was to be an extreme gore/shock fest. It's similar to the Guinea Pig series in a way, but without the style or even as much gore. I satisfied my curiosity and was definitely dumbfounded on how blatantly mindless this piece of crap actually was. If these guys could maybe mix a bit of their special effect talent with some script writing or technical work they might be onto something. As for this, it's one long dragging uninspired rape scene after another. It's been done, and it's been done a lot better.

BA_Harrison Fred Vogel's original August Underground was a totally repulsive, yet very convincing piece of fake snuff that worked well due to the fine performances from the leads, the authentic camera-work, and the ultra-realistic gore.For their follow up movie, August Underground's Mordum, ToeTag Pictures have increased the level of sickness, depravity and violence, but in doing so, have lessened its effectiveness as pseudo-snuff. What happens in Mordum is so OTT and grotesque, that it no longer seems real. Despite being a wall-to-wall catalogue of violence, the result is a pretty tedious film (there's just TOO MUCH screaming and swearing) which ultimately lacks the visceral impact and shock value of its predecessor.Although not a great film, Mordum will nevertheless find an audience amongst gore-hounds and fans of extreme cinema thanks to some fine stomach-churning effects and a few very sick taboo-busting scenes: a man is forced to emasculate himself with a pair of scissors; a woman makes herself vomit over her two screaming victims (who not once put up any resistance); a man guts a woman, then drops his trousers and proceeds to have a go at the dead woman's abdominal cavity; and then there's the notorious bath scene which takes sexual deviancy on film to a new (low) level—Hell, I don't even want to describe what happens here!!I'm going to be generous and award Mordum 4 out of 10 for its sheer audacity and willingness to go the extra mile to offend, but to be honest I found it quite tiresome; it really should've been so much better.

performpail This film is in all sense of the word... horror! If you sometimes like an occasional horror flick, go away, rent, watch, see, get involved in something else! You won't like this. Even in the event of the excitement of being told you won't like this.... YOU WON't LIKE THIS!!!This is, in every sentiment, an absolute, cut to the bone horror fans film!Even a seasoned gore, snuff, extreme horror fanatic can appreciate the boundaries this film attacks. Only the truly dedicated will find this film appealing. I love horror, and I give this film a higher rating purely because of it's absolute shock power!This is not a scary film! It is in absolution horrific!!!The cinematography is rigid; borderline awful. The acting is.... so foul that you may almost believe that antagonist's could be real!Those who question the acting at all, could arguably be appealing for a scapegoat from this film. I didn't once believe that such horrifying acts of human indecency could, or have not occurred.There is no mold for this film! Cannibal holocaust comes to mind; but even it had a moralistic endeavor... a plot at the very least.A U M! is the essence of pure chaos! A film that represents absolute indifference to human life. It almost makes a mockery of child sexual abuse, but saves itself with it's only hint of human questioning. Apart from that, there are no holds... it's barbaric, ancient, and relentless!It examines, and exposes the narcissistic voice in all our minds. Face it! You have all thought of at least once of the horrific happenings in this films... you have! And that is why this film resonates so negatively with everyone. To avoid anguish, and anger against human prehistoric mentalities avoid this! It is not simply a shocking scene from the book/T.V series A game of thrones! This will shock you! SHOCK YOU!You will hate it because you've been programmed to! Do not watch this! Unless shock is what you want! This isn't a scary movie! It's a horror movie! An absolute horror experience! You've been effin warned...Hold onto your cocks boys!You've been warned! Guys don't watch this in the hopes of scaring a lady into your safe arms. She will most probably violently resent any attempts of compassion once this film begins... No Sh%^t!

mgmprofits2 Wow! First off, let me state that my "title summary of the movie was sorta a joke....August Underground Boredum (ryhmes with Mordum)This movie does start out a bit slow and boring though. I actually put it on the shelf for years because I thought it was just too fake or over the top. This is the same thing you hear from most of these reviews.....BUT let me tell you that THIS IS THE 2nd MOST DISTURBING MOVIE OF ALL TIME, next to August Underground Pennace. Yes that's right, this is it. Anyone who wishes to be disturbed, I recommend this film 100%. It did a fantastic job of seeming totally REAL and that is why the disturbing factor is so high and deserves a perfect 100% rating here. Nobody could hope to reproduce a film like this. All these fools who say this movie was boring, obviously turned it off half way through. The only mistake this movie makes is starting out slow...(which shows by the reviews it's got....its obvious that anyone who said this was boring either turned it off half way through, or they simply turned off their own brain, because they could not handle what this movie showed to them) but I can tell you that if you keep an open mind, and imagine this movie to be real, it would make any other film seem like child's play. I refuse to watch real snuff films. I am a good person (just with an open mind) and I do not wish to have the trauma of watching an innocent person be tortured and killed. THATS WHY THEY CALL IT A MOVIE....I LIKE MOVIES, I am not some sick **** who likes to watch real people be tortured and killed. But this movie did such a good job with the special effects that it seemed SO REAL. I couldn't help but imagine it was real. And this is what makes this THE SECOND MOST DISTURBING MOVIE OF ALL TIME. I've watched it all so I am a good judge. I even used to like the "Real" stuff when I was younger, like Traces of Death. I loved the Bud Dwyer Suicide scene where he blew his brains out) (on National TV?) BUT this August Underground Mordum blows that away. This is by far the most disturbing thing you'll ever see on film if you can watch it all the way through with an open mind. I wont spoil the movie for you, I just wanted to write a review, since I read most of the other reviews on here and 90% of them seemed to not be able to handle this movie all the way through so they just claimed it was boring. Sure, it starts out that way....but just give it time and Don't TURN IT OFF Like some ***** and you'll see that I was right. There will never be anything that can top this, other than it's sequel, Pennace (which I found to be equally or even MORE disturbing than this) This is as real as it gets folks, (without actually being real) I've seen it all. I just got done watching the UNTOLD STORY, which I found to be boring personally. 99% of the reviews on here said that movie was disturbing....I think 99% of the population is backwards then. Why the heck do you find some FAKE Japanese "B" movie to be disturbing, but not A.U.M? Are you guys insane?! A.U.M is BY FAR much, much, much, much more disturbing than The Untold Story. That movie wasn't funny either, but I cant say "Don't waste your time watching it" since most of the fools out there enjoyed it. It just goes to show though how hardcore AUM Really is, and how most people cant handle it, so they shut down their brains or turn it off. But then they say The untold story is disturbing....LOL obviously they haven't seen this movie yet.I knew once i watched this that I would get nightmares...and I did. I had a nightmare the same night. (and NO movie has EVER done that to me) I am very impressed with the impact this movie made on me. BUT still, its just a movie, don't let it traumatized you....There's always MDMA to cure you if it does though. I don't even watch real stuff, like 3 guys 1 hammer I refuse to watch (only because its truly supposed to be real) BUT if this movie were real, then I can safely say it would blow away 3 guys 1 hammer. So, if you want to be truly DISTURBED WITHOUT watching something real, then this is the movie for you.I've seen it all, I watched A Serbian FILM (The uncut original version) twice in one day, and I've seen it many times since. I love that movie. It's not disturbing at all to me (Except when I first watched it and saw him getting sucked off to a child eating Popsicles) (oh yeah, and when he rapes his own son without knowing it) ....(IMDB this is NOT a spoiler since I am referring to a totally different movie here) but yeah A Serbian Film is my number 1 favorite movie....but AUM is just so sick and over the top that it will give you nightmares. YOu might need MDMA to cure your trauma, (that is, if you are a real person and you actually stomached the movie to begin with) Most people cant handle this movie and it shows by the reviews. I'm all for people having their own opinions...I mean everyone finds different stuff to be disturbing. But if you thought AUM was not disturbing, and just "boring" then that means, either you're trying to act cool, or you simply did not watch the movie with an open mind. Nobody could possibly watch this with an open mind and come out unscathed.