August Underground's Mordum (2003)

My rating - 4/10

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Cited by some as the best of the trilogy, I actually think this is the worst!. It was a big let down after the first one for a few reasons. Firstly they added a couple of new characters which wasn't needed. The constant shouting and swearing, although a little annoying in the first is so over the top here that it really gets on your nerves very quickly. They also doubled up on the gross nastiness which to be honest got a little boring.

We get some incest added, a headless, maggot covered baby in a bin, one of the guys is found having sex with the corpse of a child in a bathtub, there's self harm, people having their heads smashed in with hammers, and a pointless 10-15 minute scene of two girls tied together in a basement and the new female killer makes herself vomit all over them a couple of times, the girls then vomit before they're slaughtered. The vomiting was all real and the director Fred Vogel said it smelt so disgusting in there when they'd finished. The whole point of this film seems to just see how much nastiness they could fit into it's run time, but it's so over the top that, as said, it becomes boring pretty quickly.

The effects are excellent again with some of the gore being almost to realistic, which isn't a bad thing of course!. The dialogue, as with the first is mostly improvised and the picture and sound quality has the same low quality, degraded feel as the first. I can't recommend this one, but if you do watch it then I guess it'll depend of your tolorance for seeing people vomit and just being gross as to the amount of enjoyment you get from it.

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