Reception
On the exploitation film database The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre, Mordum is ranked as the third most "vile" film viewed by the site, below Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom and The Angel's Melancholy. Their review of the film (which is categorized as "worthless") referred to it as "pointless hardcore depravity".
While traveling to Canada to attend the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear in Toronto, co-director and writer Fred Vogel was arrested, pending charges of transporting obscene materials into Canada, when copies of Mordum and its predecessor were found by customs officials among the merchandise he had intended to bring to the convention. The charges were eventually dropped, after Vogel had spent roughly ten hours in customs prison, and his films were sent to Ottawa for further observation.
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