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By now we all know the premise of the August Underground film series. There isn’t much plot, handheld camera work, and lots of death and torture, a faux snuff movie. August Underground’s Penance is the last(?) installment in the series. I would like to say August Underground’s Penance is by far the best of the three movies but it was too long ago that I saw the first film so I have a hard time...
As with the first part in this trilogy August Underground, the plot in August Underground’s Mordum is very shallow and concerns a couple of individuals’ killing- and rape spree. They stop at nothing to for fill their sexual desires including masturbating with a chopped-off penis and raping a dead child! One would think that these things would be shocking beyond belief but that’s not entirely the case. Of course, it’s disturbing but the whole movie...
August Underground more or less asks you the question of what you would do if you found a videotape with two men executing the most hideous crimes? Crimes that your imagination never even could come up with? If you found a tape with severe sexual assaults and torture, would that shock you? What if it contained Coprophagia and cannibalism? This is the journal of two men, their way of documenting their everyday life and the...
