UNEARTHED FILMS BLU RAY: August Underground’s Mordum (2003)

The sequel to August Underground, this shot on digital video — in Pittsburgh — movie is supposed to look like snuff and does a pretty good job of getting close, one assumes.

Peter Mountain (director and writer Fred Vogel) now has a girlfriend, Crusty (Cristie Whiles) who also has a relationship with her brother Maggot (Michael Todd Schneider).

After nearly attacking his girlfriend — she gets him off by self-mutilating herself instead — they got to a crackhouse and beat the owner with a hammer. This is followed by watching a drug abuser die, assaulting a kidnapped woman and cutting a man’s penis off. This is about ten minutes in, so you know, if you want to turn back now, this would be the time.

There’s also a scene where they caused a ruckus in the old Incredibly Strange Video in Dormont and I wish the whole movie was just an hour or so of Bruce walking the camera through the aisles and showing what movies he just got in versus watching people defile corpses and cut themselves, but I didn’t make this one, you know?

This film was also directed and written by Whiles, Jerami Cruise, Michael Todd Schneider and Killjoy, who is Killjoy DeSade from the bands Necrophagia, Viking Crown, Eibon, Wurdulak, Forlis, The Ravenous and Enoch.

Unearthed has given this movie a packed blu ray including commentary with Jerami Cruise and Ultra Violent Magazine‘s Art Ettinger plus a Toetag commentary; new interviews with Vogel, Cruise and Maggot; a Necrophagia music video; memories of Killyjoy; deleted and extended scenes; a photo gallery; trailer and even breakdowns of some of the most disgusting and terrifying scenes in this.

A warning: This movie isn’t for everyone. It wasn’t for me. I see no redeeming value in non-stop murder presented as near pornography with no conclusion other than the credits. Yet some people like extreme movies and to prove that they can make it through some repugnant material. Who am I to tell you what to watch? That said, the actual blu ray is so well made and Unearthed has gone all out on it. If you’re a fan, here it is.

You can get this from MVD.