Nekromantik (1987)

Not your typical horror flick, NEKROMANTIK is pretty strong stuff. I stumbled upon it a while back at a video store which contained its fair share of schlock, took it home, watched it, and thought to myself that this is one sick puppy of a movie; I then sought out a copy and added it to my video collection (much of which consists of "B"/exploitation/horror/independent movies). I have periodically shown NEKROMANTIK to friends and their reactions have ranged from nervous laughter to outright disgust; no one has ever been indifferent.

Somewhere deep in this flick lies what I believe is a message. Recall the scene where Bob is watching television, and the psychiatrist is being interviewed and is taking about aversion to death being a conditioned response? NEKROMANTIK, while on the one hand, an exercise in grotesquery, is also thus an anti-aesthetic reaction against the conditioning of culture and culture's stifling effects. Not that many of us would ever want to f*** a corpse, of course, even in the name of subverting propriety or a philosophy of romanticism.

Beyond this, NEKROMATIK strikes me as a play on nightmare imagery, effectively rendered.

The Germans, with their expressionism, certainly must be credited with having invented the horror film genre, going back to the silent film era and films like NOSFERATU and FAUST. Jorg Buttgereit, a contemporary German maverick filmmaker, here moves the genre forward.

Fmovies: Alternately disgustingly gory and terminally boring, this is clearly a film that tries to coast along on sheer shock value, because it has nothing else of merit to recommend. Technically, it's about as bad as any movie you're ever likely to see (aside from the fairly good gore effects), and the director appears to be a man sick beyond comprehension. (0)

Nekromantik is a beautiful movie in its own right.

It focuses on love, heartache, and despair... Oh yeah, and there's the whole corpse thing, too. That's always fun.

The plot involves a young man who cleans up dead bodies. He occasionally sneaks a small body part home and saves them in labeled jars, much to the odd sexual excitement of his girlfriend. Then, one day, he hits the mother lode. He finds a full body and, with no one around, he manages to get it back to his place without arousing suspicion.

The girlfriend, of course, is thrilled - and much graphic sexplay occurs between the three of them. It isn't until the young man begins to realize that his girlfriend would rather spend her time with the corpse that he starts questioning the sanity of the situation.

The idea behind the film is repellent to most, but that doesn't mean the movie is not still a fine piece of experimental art. It takes feelings we all have, and places them in a very unreal environment. We question the sanity of the film's characters, but find strange similarities between ourselves and them.

Those with an open mind should see this notorious piece of German underground film-making. Its well-worth the search.

Nekromantik fmovies. This movie is the sickest movie that I have ever seen. One good thing about the movie is that it did have a decent plot during the movie enough for me to go by. I couldn't believe some of the scenes that I was watching and I had to even close my eyes during the scenes of animal mutilation. This one is a good one to churn your stomach a little, or a lot. I would definitely recommend this one to anyone into some real gross stuff, give this one a look.

Jorg Buttgereit's "Nekromantik" is one of the most taboo-breaking horror films ever made.Very few movies talk openly about necrophilia("Aftermath","Kissed","Buio Omega","Lucker","Love Me Deadly","Nekro","Mosquito the Rapist"),however this subject is quite fascinating because it draws links between sex and death.Rob(Daktari Lorenz)cleans different places and removes the corpses whenever there was a murder,or an accident.One day,Rob's girlfriend(Beatrice M.)has an idea to steal a corpse and to play with it.The corpse is treated like the third person and all of them make a perverted threesome.But one day Rob is fired from his work and his girlfriend dumps him,and leaves with the dead lover.For Rob it's a beginning of complete madness... "Nekromantik" is pretty gross-there is plenty of yucky gore on display.The ending is truly sick and memorable.So if you like extreme cinema give this one a look.8 out of 10.

I didn't stumble on this film by accident; in fact, I purposefully sought it out, and I'm glad I did - but only because now I'm not searching any more. I feel like a bit of a hypocrite for criticising this film for being sick, given that many of my favourite movies can be described with the same adjective; but Nekromantik crosses a line, and it doesn't even do it in a way that's interesting. The movie features quite a few brutal and sickening scenes, but most of them have no relevance to the plot; and even the ones that do don't serve the film in the way that they should. Nekromantik looks like a trashy piece of crap, and make no mistake; that's exactly what it is. As if the title doesn't give it away, the plot handles the theme of necrophilia. We follow a sewage worker who brings home body parts for his twisted girlfriend. One day, he manages to lay his hands on a full corpse; and unlike most women, she is delighted with this present. We then get 'treated' to seeing the three of them (...) in bed together, etc etc and it's all very difficult to enjoy.

The film obviously wants to examine love; but it just continually fails. No points are made, even the fact that the girlfriend ends up choosing the corpse over her man isn't explored at all. It would seem that the sick pervert who wrote it had a great idea about making a film that handles two of life's most important elements; namely, love and death, but had no idea of exactly how he would go about doing it. The result is this film. Necrophilia is, undoubtedly, a perverse subject; but it's also one that automatically generates intrigue, yet this film also fails even in that respect. The whole plot line is just too silly to take seriously; and even if you look at the movie as a black comedy, it still fails because it's not funny. The necrophilia element isn't even the most shocking thing about this movie; the most shocking things are the animal violence (pointless), and the fact that some people actually like this film! If I really had to come up with positive things about Nekromantik, I would say that I liked the score; and the fact that it's not on for long is a very good thing. On the whole, this movie is a piece of garbage - don't waste your time! Wayward cinema has produced far more satisfying gore-porn flicks than this.