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 finally got around to watching "Nekromantik", despite it being a cult movie in the genre. I just never had the time, nor the chance to get to watch it. I finally managed to get my cold, dead hands - hint, hint - on a DVD copy and got to watch it.

So was it all it was cranked up to be? No. Not even by a longshot. Sure, there were some rather unsettling moments in the movie, I had never seen this kind of necrophilia in a movie, and it was rather graphic (just as a word of warning to those not having seen the movie yet). But of course, this is a movie that you watch solely for the shock effects, because there is nothing even resembling an interesting storyline here, and the movie is just full of flaws.

As for the acting, well let's just say bless them for trying. You shouldn't go expecting award winning acting performances here. You know what you are getting yourself into with a movie such as "Nekromantik" and sure enough, you will not be disappointed.

The music in the movie was horrible, and it was unfathomably unfitting for the movie. It was way too upbeat and energetic. It just would have served the movie so much better with dark, somber music instead.

"Nekromantik" does, of course, also have a totally unnecessary amount of nudity in it, which doesn't really serve any purpose and doesn't really help to further whatever little of a storyline there actually was present. Just felt like an excuse to throw in the showing of naked people as well. And within the first 5 minutes of the movie, you have seen someone peeing twice... Again, to what purpose? None!

The effects in the movie were adequate. Not great, mind you, but they served their purpose well enough. The corpse was actually fairly nicely made and it was the main attraction of the movie - in more ways than just one.

I didn't understand why the staff working at JSA didn't wear protective masks and gloves while handling the deceased. It just made absolutely no sense. Using bare hands, and then seen several times throughout the movie with their hands at the faces, scratching their eyes, etc. They should be so sick from the exposure to the decaying corpses, as should the girlfriend whom made love to the corpse.

But of course, the movie is all about shock effect and shock value. And yes, there is something to that. I haven't seen necrophilia this explicit before, so that was a new for me, and it was somewhat gross. Somewhat. Takes a lot to throw off a seasoned horror veteran like me. But seeing the rabbit being killed on screen was a bit too visual for me, I didn't like watching that. One thing is seeing staged necrophilia with a prosthetic corpse, another thing is seeing a real, live animal killed.

All in all, not a very noteworthy movie. I have seen it now, and will never see it again, so I can tick it off of my watched-movie-list now.

"Nekromantik" is a German movie from over 25, almost 30, years ago. The writer and director is JJörg Buttgereit and he was still in his early 20s when he made this movie, probably his most famous work. However, this one here is really only a movie by the very basic definition of having moving pictures. It has zero cinematic value and almost no artistic significance either. Instead, it goes for thrills by repulsive images and disgusting cinematography. I have to say this is slightly superior to Buttgereits very early works, maybe because he got actual actors for this one instead of playing the protagonist himself. There were a couple decent scenes like the main character being fired or how he tells his girlfriend afterward, but it all stands in no comparison to the lows of this movie. A young man and woman are sexually turned on by corpses, so the guy regularly brings home some and the two have their fun with these later on. Truly gross. And the suicide scene at the end was not only extremely repulsive, but also a prime example of how one should not end a movie if you want it to remain in the heads of the audiences for anything other than how graphic and shocking it was, without being convincing in any way. The worst thing, however, is that Buttgereit actually made a sequel to this one. I highly recommend to not watch "Nekromantik". As bad it gets for a film. The only good thing about it is how short it was.