A necrophiliac has a hard time finding fulfillment in life.A necrophiliac has a hard time finding fulfillment in life.A necrophiliac has a hard time finding fulfillment in life.
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Bernd Daktari Lorenz
- Rob
- (as Daktari Lorenz)
Beatrice Manowski
- Betty
- (as Beatrice M.)
Clemens Schwender
- J.S.A.
- (as Clemens Schwenter)
Heike Surban
- Prostitute
- (as Heike S.)
Suza Kohlstedt
- Vera
- (as Susa Kohlstedt)
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Gross.... Pure Gross
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.
The art of horror
Obviously filmed on super8-format Jörg Buttgereit´s masterpiece "Nekromantik" looks much more professional and expensive than it´s actually is! Being banned in many countries the most people only see a depraved and disgusting horror movie in it, but to me it is a disturbing, but simultaneously beautiful film about a weird fetish! The whole film is surrounded by an almost apocalyptic poetry and the wonderful piano score emphazises the sinister death-is-everywhere atmosphere perfectly! Some may be offended by gross scenes like the suicide masturbation, the autopsy, the rabbit dissection, the beheading of an old cemetery gardener or the climax when Robert and Betty have sex with the corpse (A very esthetical scene by the way...), but exactly that´s the stuff which makes this movie so unique: the surreal combination of bizarre symbolic, gore and dream like mood! Watch it whenever wherever you can!
The best necrophiliac love story ever told
Jorg Buttgereit's most famous movie. And just for the record, the combined cost of both, "Nekromantik" and "Nekromantik 2" was something like $45,000. Anyway, I happen to like this movie, or, to be exact, this necrophiliac love story. A good thing about it is that it's not some stupid exploitation flick, and its ultra low budget and cheap special effects fit well into the whole mode. I love this whole primitive, underground feel of it all. Buttgereit and the star Daktari Lorenz actually managed to make a likable character out of a necrophiliac. Poor Rob, he just couldn't get no satisfaction until his own unfortunate demise. And the "love" scenes were all consumed by these artsy blurs and twinkles. It's weird, but the most brutal scene in the movie seemed to be the documentary footage of a farmer skinning a rabbit. Finally, to top it off, the film's soundtrack was strangely compelling and evocative. "Nekromantik" is a pure underground cult classic, no doubt about it.
shocking movie..!!
After watching salo and serbian film i thought nothing could be worse than this...
but nekromantik is step forward than other sick movies.
the story is so simple easy to understand but representation is so shocking and yuck..!!
it is based on 'necrophilia'.
this is not the movie that i can watch again in my life.
hats off to actors (i don't know how did they sign such role).
overall it's good to watch once in life (not for weak heart people).
Exactly what you paid for
The director said it himself: It was made to spite German censors. And that's exactly what you get. A few scenes are mildly entertaining, and the film is thankfully short.
Did you know
- TriviaJörg Buttgereit said in an interview that he never intended to be a director and Nekromantik was just a film to rebel against the German film rating system, trying to shock as many people as possible.
- Alternate versionsAllegedly, the Japanese theatrical version was heavily cut, and edited together with Nekromantik 2 (also heavily cut) to make one long film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Nekromantik 2 (1991)
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