Nekromantik (1988)

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).

"Nekromantik" follows a German street cleaner who picks up car accident scenes and disposes of the bodies. He and his girlfriend have a fetish for keeping body parts, and one day he brings home an entire corpse that has been decomposing in a swamp for some months. They enact an array of sexual fantasies with it, but find their relationship challenged when she begins paying more attention to it than him.In writing a review for this movie, it's difficult to know exactly where to begin. There is obviously an audience for it, though it's certainly a specific one. John Waters apparently described the film as the first movie for necrophiles, and he's probably right, although I think its viewership also includes fans of gross-out and extreme horror. "Nekromantik," while typically classified as a horror film, doesn't strike me so much as that—it seems more a meditation on relationships and sex, except it is drawn to the most grotesque margins possible.Make no bones about it (pun intended), this is a well-made film. It has an artistic edge and the writer/director has a very distinct vision here that is articulated on the screen—the real nitty gritty is that its subject matter is extremely disturbing to many sensibilities, and it's hard to watch the film and not have your skin crawl at some point. It is also, by most accounts, utterly insane. And for that reason, it plays out more like a fantasy metaphor for the disintegration of a romance. However you want to read it, the filmmaking is effective.One of its most infamous scenes is the real-life footage of a rabbit being butchered and skinned at a factory, which has offended many. While I do find it hard to watch (and this is coming from a vegetarian), I also think it's important to consider that the animal in question was going to be slaughtered regardless, and that the filmmakers used the filming of it as an artistic opportunity. It bookends the film, playing early on, and then returns, run in reverse once the protagonist has reached the "fulfillment" he seeks. It's symbolic, and it's disturbing, and the "fulfillment" that comprises the conclusion is just as twisted as everything that precedes it, but my point is that the film is making deliberate moves that elevate it above the level of exploitative trash that many have classified it under.I can't say I have a desire to watch "Nekromantik" again, but, in spite of the ludicrous plot and the lengths at which it carries its viewers from grotesque spectacle to grotesque spectacle, there is a distinct artistic vision that ties it all together, and for that, I can appreciate the film. I'm not sure I can say I "like" it, and I can't imagine having any desire to give it a second viewing, but I concede that it is a visionary, albeit extremely provocative, piece of celluloid. 8/10.

Rob Schmadtke (Daktari Lorenz) is part of a clean-up team that removes dead bodies from public areas. Mixing work with play, Rob, a necrophiliac, occasionally manages to pocket random body parts, which he takes home to share with his equally twisted girlfriend Betty (Beatrice Manowski). When given the responsibility of disposing of a whole, decomposing corpse, Rob seizes the opportunity of a lifetime, taking the body home to use as a sexual plaything.It's been over 25 years since I first saw Nekromantik—a dodgy nth generation bootleg VHS with no subs given to me by a friend with the same dubious taste in film—but even though I've seen a lot of extreme cinema since, Jörg Buttgereit's transgressive classick of German underground horror has lost none of its power to shock.Dealing with the extremely iffy subject of necrophilia, with all the yucky, oozing, slime and bodily fluids that go with it, Buttgereit's film is still difficult to stomach despite a streak of dark humour running through proceedings. As if the nauseating sight of someone getting busy with a putrefying corpse isn't bad enough, the film also throws in a spot of animal death (both fake and real), full frontal male nudity, some random urination, the murder and rape of a prostitute (in that order!), a wonderfully bloody decapitation by shovel, and a final scene that has to rank as one of the most unforgettably repulsive acts ever committed to film.Technically speaking, Buttgereit's film is a little rough around the edges, but he tells his tale with confidence, even experimenting with some artsy-fartsy visual effects during a love scene between Betty and the body, and throwing in a hilarious dream sequence that is reminiscent of avant-garde French cinema, albeit with a severed head and gut slinging. Nekromantik also benefits immensely from a surprisingly good score by Daktari Lorenz, Hermann Kopp and John Boy Walton which lends certain scenes a strange sense of beauty despite the repugnant visuals.Needless to say, this isn't a film to share with the whole family (unless your family happens to have furniture made from human bones and an extra large freezer out back, in which case, share away); on the other hand, fans of low budget German splatter, extreme horror, or transgressive cinema in general should consider the film essential viewing.

Necrophilia films usually fall into two categories, "black comedy", or bizarre. "Nekromantik" definitely fits with the bizarre group. A gruesome accident sets the story in motion, introducing a street sweeper husband who collects body parts for his hot wife who routinely takes blood baths. Eventually he gives her a gift of a badly decomposed body, which leads to the bizarre part, a love triangle. It's love at first sight for the wife, who eventually runs off with the rotting corpse. Between interesting visuals, and musical interludes, there is plenty of dead space. Speaking of dead, there is some totally unacceptable animal cruelty, in this crude curiosity of a movie. - MERK