I first stumbled upon this film ten years ago. To say this film affected me is a real gross understatement, no pun intended. Traumatised would be the best adjective for me to use. I read a review and followed a link to watch the trailer. I was frightened, disgusted,disturbed, you name it. I even went as far as to show my friend and lost a little of his respect.
To be serious though it took me ten years to actually watch this film. Not necessarily for the above mentioned reasons,but more or less availability issues. Because lets face it, this film will never get put on the shelves on your local blockbuster. Apoun watching i was very strangely surprised and oddly enough challenged on more then just a level of endurance.
the film centers around rob. A complete loser played with great sympathy by doktary Lorenz. Rob seems like a fairly normal man, only rob has a horrible fetish. Namley he's a necrophiliac. His job both fortune and unfortunately fuels and inhibits his compulsions. Rob works for Joe's street cleaning service. Witch cleans body parts off of the road and has provides rob with access to body parts that he has culminated into a a very morbid collection.
Rob comes home every day to his girlfriend Betty. played by the very beautiful actress Monika.m. Betty is just as sick as rob in that she shares the very same compulsion's as rob, perhaps more so then rob. One day rob finds a bloated nasty 60% decomposed corpse in a swamp. He takes off with it and brings it home to Betty. Betty of course is thrilled and what we are now subjected to is the most disgusting and vile three way scene i have ever had the displeasure of seeing.
once the after glow is done rob is unfortunately fired. Once the news is brought Bettie's attention,she rebukes and puts him down not do much for loosing his job but rather that he did not stand up for himself. the next day rob comes home with a gift of a cat only to find a deer john letter. i must note that of all dear john letters i have seen i have never read " I'm leaving and i took the corpse". Taking the kids is one thing but the corpse is another. That in itself is and example of some of the black humor in this film that many will fail to see.
This leads rob down a spiral of self destruction. He goes on to kill his cat, a hooker and and a Shepperd who later finds rob and the dead prostitute. Rob ultimately finds his solace through suicide by disemboweling himself. Although those familiar with nekromantik 2 know that his troubles are far from over.
what intrigued me about this film is that under all the disgust and sickness,there were real themes. Alienation, self destructive behavior,madness,codependent relationships and above all sexual deviancy. What intrigued me more was the irony behind the purpose of this film. Jorge buttgeriet and Manfred jelensky were aiming to make a black comedy. I've seen so many horror films that try so hard to be frightening,but end up being so silly and stupid that one cant help but laugh. This film however was intended to be a comedy and turned out to be one of most disturbing film ever made. john waters quoted as "groundbreakingly gruesome".
i will give credit where credit is due however. The director of this film really made something with nothing more then super 8 millimeter film and his friends. To make a low budget film that is not only just stands the test of time, but is just as effective as it was 23 years ago is an achievement in this reviewers opinion. I really must mention the score witch really makes this film what it is. It is nothing more then a simple minimalistic piano score.
The main theme especially has a very upbeat tempo and pace That gives this film such a sense of perversion. If the film were set to anything else,it wouldn't have the same effect.
It really pulls no punches from the very beginning. even when we see a woman urinating in the grass we know that this will be uncomfortable at best. what i think is extremely unsettling is the fact that there is no redemption in this film what so ever. With that lack of hope, or solution, or redemption,Whatever you want to call it. There is a bleakness and a bit of a sadness that permeates throughout this entire film. That also is what drives the entire film home.
To be serious though it took me ten years to actually watch this film. Not necessarily for the above mentioned reasons,but more or less availability issues. Because lets face it, this film will never get put on the shelves on your local blockbuster. Apoun watching i was very strangely surprised and oddly enough challenged on more then just a level of endurance.
the film centers around rob. A complete loser played with great sympathy by doktary Lorenz. Rob seems like a fairly normal man, only rob has a horrible fetish. Namley he's a necrophiliac. His job both fortune and unfortunately fuels and inhibits his compulsions. Rob works for Joe's street cleaning service. Witch cleans body parts off of the road and has provides rob with access to body parts that he has culminated into a a very morbid collection.
Rob comes home every day to his girlfriend Betty. played by the very beautiful actress Monika.m. Betty is just as sick as rob in that she shares the very same compulsion's as rob, perhaps more so then rob. One day rob finds a bloated nasty 60% decomposed corpse in a swamp. He takes off with it and brings it home to Betty. Betty of course is thrilled and what we are now subjected to is the most disgusting and vile three way scene i have ever had the displeasure of seeing.
once the after glow is done rob is unfortunately fired. Once the news is brought Bettie's attention,she rebukes and puts him down not do much for loosing his job but rather that he did not stand up for himself. the next day rob comes home with a gift of a cat only to find a deer john letter. i must note that of all dear john letters i have seen i have never read " I'm leaving and i took the corpse". Taking the kids is one thing but the corpse is another. That in itself is and example of some of the black humor in this film that many will fail to see.
This leads rob down a spiral of self destruction. He goes on to kill his cat, a hooker and and a Shepperd who later finds rob and the dead prostitute. Rob ultimately finds his solace through suicide by disemboweling himself. Although those familiar with nekromantik 2 know that his troubles are far from over.
what intrigued me about this film is that under all the disgust and sickness,there were real themes. Alienation, self destructive behavior,madness,codependent relationships and above all sexual deviancy. What intrigued me more was the irony behind the purpose of this film. Jorge buttgeriet and Manfred jelensky were aiming to make a black comedy. I've seen so many horror films that try so hard to be frightening,but end up being so silly and stupid that one cant help but laugh. This film however was intended to be a comedy and turned out to be one of most disturbing film ever made. john waters quoted as "groundbreakingly gruesome".
i will give credit where credit is due however. The director of this film really made something with nothing more then super 8 millimeter film and his friends. To make a low budget film that is not only just stands the test of time, but is just as effective as it was 23 years ago is an achievement in this reviewers opinion. I really must mention the score witch really makes this film what it is. It is nothing more then a simple minimalistic piano score.
The main theme especially has a very upbeat tempo and pace That gives this film such a sense of perversion. If the film were set to anything else,it wouldn't have the same effect.
It really pulls no punches from the very beginning. even when we see a woman urinating in the grass we know that this will be uncomfortable at best. what i think is extremely unsettling is the fact that there is no redemption in this film what so ever. With that lack of hope, or solution, or redemption,Whatever you want to call it. There is a bleakness and a bit of a sadness that permeates throughout this entire film. That also is what drives the entire film home.