August Undergrounds Mordum is the follow up to underground horror classic August Underground. Lensed in Pittsburgh on digital video, then degraded to look like found footage, Mordum is the story of three sick young serial killers who film their acts of violence and torture. The film is peppered with outstanding makeup effects andgrisly set pieces, and the performances from Michael T. Schneider (A Tribute toSanity), Fred Vogel (the original August Underground), and newcomer CristieWhiles, are daring and unorthodox. The filmmakers strike an odd but compellinglinear narrative, while simultaneously creating a disorienting and chaoticenvironment within which the three psychos wreak their madness. A fourth sickoplayed by Killjoy of the band Necrophagia, is introduced near the film's climax. Horror realism at its finest, the August Underground series has the potential to become North America's answer to the popular Japanese Guinea Pig series. Fans of confrontational cinema take notice. Mordum is a harrowing and brutal film that will surprise even the most jaded horror fan. -Art Ettinger,Ultra Violent Magazine,
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