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You'll realise there is not a simple sliding-scale of "extemity" in film, but it is a whole lot of fun trying to outdo your last viewing "pleasure" with the latest notorious discovery.
Films are affecting in different ways - one could find the graphic necropheliac elements of Nekromantik or Aftermath unwatchably disgusting, yet cruise through the casual torture of The Flower the Flesh & The Blood (the effects in which are not bad at all, simply dated now that the film is nearly 20 years old and there are so much more outrageous CAT 3 titles around).
What are you looking for? Are the raw knife-murders in The New York Ripper jarring enough for you - or are they somehow less "extreme" than the assorted disembowelings in Cannibal Holocaust? How about the real animal killings in that film, and how does it compare to the rabbit farm-footage in Nekromantik or Coppola's ox-slaughter in Apocalypse Now? Rats set on fire in your Men Behind the Sun?
Personally I find the whole of Nightmares in a Damaged Brain far more disturbing than most other movies - it's the tone a film makes when it sets up shop inside your head that is unnerving and leaves a lasting impression. The Blair Witch Project is also a very troubling film, but for different reasons.
So far as August Underground and Mordum are concerned, they are at once shocking on the surface... but cracks begin to show as the actors inevitably begin to try too hard as the movies go on, and the knowledge that the filmmakers are so blatantly trying to fool the viewer is ultimately patronising - in a WWF kinda way.
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