AUGUST UNDERGROUND'S MORDUM

Two guys and a girl, bored and idle, spend their days wandering around the city, arguing with each other and occasionally torturing and killing their peers, all filmed with a small handheld camera. How high is the probability that a movie shot on mini-DV, without a script, without photography, and with non-professional actors will be bad? Very high! And indeed, "August Underground's Mordum" perfectly fits into this category. The second chapter of the trilogy (a word probably too "serious" for productions of this type) of "August Underground" exactly follows the footsteps of the first, bad movie. Fred Vogel produces, distributes, and "directs", thanks to his Toe Tag Pictures, this second irritating episode with a single goal: to shock the viewer to talk about it. Unfortunately, it seems to have worked as this unlikely saga is now a cult. Too bad we are faced with a movie that not only, like the previous one, hardly ever strikes or shocks, but is also of a boredom and uselessness absolutely deadly. The plot, as expected, is completely absent here too and for an hour and twenty minutes we see these three young people (two men and a woman this time) wandering around the city occasionally slaughtering some peer with torture scenes that last over twenty minutes during which nothing really happens; the victims scream, they laugh, the viewer falls asleep and the time (very slowly) passes. Some scenes that could also disturb perhaps there would be (the woman whose belly is ripped open or the evisceration in the first torture, for example) but the context in which it is proposed and the way it is shown do not have any effect keeping the movie flat, repetitive and irritating throughout its duration. What Fred Vogel should perhaps understand is that even to shock (but perhaps above all) you need style, two little effects sometimes even well presented are not enough, you have to go much further. It is difficult to disturb the viewer, if by disturbing we do not mean to disgust him with a scene with some tripe, without analyzing any psychological aspect, any context and without deepening any type of character or theme. And it is difficult for me too to propose other criticisms because, as written at the beginning, the movie is completely amateur with aspects not cared for at all, from acting to any technical aspect. In short, I do not think it is possible to be even just interested in seeing this movie, from any point of view and I assure you that if even someone who is reading this review is looking for extreme realistic and gratuitous violence should look elsewhere (beyond the care that should be prescribed). Unfortunately, there is a sequel, if one day I have trouble sleeping I will probably watch that too.