August Underground’s Mordum

Peter walks in on Crusty and Maggot having sex, triggering a heated argument. Crusty responds by provoking him with a display of self harm, pushing the boundaries of their volatile alliance. The confrontation establishes the trio's pattern of violence and control early in the story.

They break into a crack house, and Peter beats the owner to death with a hammer. The killing solidifies their willingness to use extreme violence for domination. Crusty records the crime and its grim surroundings, turning it into a disturbing home movie.

Crusty films the filthy interior and the decaying corpse, turning the grim setting into a disturbing record of their actions. The footage underscores the trio's obsession with documenting depravity.

A dispute erupts over the motive for undressing the body, and Crusty questions Peter's choices. The argument escalates with a harsh insult, deepening the toxic dynamic between them. The moment marks a turning point in their ruthless conduct.

Crusty demonstrates her love of self harm to Maggot and a friend, slashing her arm with a knife to prove her devotion. The display reinforces the group's fixation on pain and control. The scene deepens the bleak mood surrounding their activities.

They remove a bound and masked woman from a box and Maggot subjects her to sexual violence while Crusty taunts him. The trio continues to exert brutal control over captives as they expand their perverse acts. The sequence highlights their shared cruelty and coercive dynamic.

Maggot and Crusty force a male captive to mutilate himself with cuticle scissors, and Crusty imitates sexual acts with the instrument. They keep more captives nearby and escalate the abuse. The disturbing actions reveal the depth of their depravity.

The trio goes into town to torment a shopkeeper and wander the streets, sampling fast food and drifting through public spaces. The spree shows their appetite for power beyond confinement. The outing blends mundane activities with their growing violence.

Maggot and Peter watch Crusty torture two women, while a male corpse sits nearby. The women are killed in the ensuing violence, and Maggot disembers one of them and handles the remains. The sequence cements the trio's line between voyeurism and murder.

After drinking, Maggot is found in the bathroom shaving and cutting himself to look beautiful for Crusty. The moment shows his obsession with appearance amid the group’s depravity. It hints at a fragile mental state under the surface.

The trio plays in the snow, attends a concert, and meets up with friends, then rape a woman and visit a piercing shop where Maggot gets a nose ring. The sequence blends normal social activity with predatory violence. Tension rises as Maggot's relationship with Crusty causes friction with Peter.

They meet another serial killer who shows them the contents of his shed, including mutilated bodies and a disturbing scene that Maggot responds to by eating a chunk of a victim. The encounter deepens their exposure to death and cruelty. The group leaves with a reinforced appetite for gore.

While the others sleep, the new killer borrows their camera and films himself taunting and slitting the throat of a female captive. The act introduces a rival killer and adds another layer of violence to the cycle. The borrowed footage amplifies the bleak mood of the film.

The trio attacks a family, killing the father by hanging and torturing the mother as Maggot engages with the daughter's corpse. A fight erupts when Peter threatens Maggot, who grabs the knife and seems ready to harm himself. Peter slits the mother's throat, Crusty screams, and Maggot's fate becomes uncertain as the scene ends in chaos.

In the post-credits scene, a cat is shown eating a mouse, offering a stark, bleak coda to the film's carnage. The final image underscores the film's brutal, unflinching tone and leaves the audience with a lingering sense of unease.