Nekromantik
1987 Directed by Jörg Buttgereit
Synopsis
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
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I knew when I saw Der Todesking, a bleak, brutal, and astonishingly graphic exploration of suicide and death, that Jörg Buttgereit was a director to pay attention to. His gripping use of extreme cinema brought interesting focus on—often quite literally—human decay in a surprisingly poignant manner. Nekromantik is not just a film of precisely the same artistic merits, it is a film that actively comments upon its own aesthetic validity. Why, Buttgereit asks, is extreme cinema looked upon with such snobbishness, as though it is somehow lower than a classy costume drama? There's a scene at one point where the protagonist—whose job as a crime scene cleaner has afforded him the chance to bring home a whole decomposing body to…
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Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik is a disturbing, bleak, graphic film about necrophilia. It makes no attempt to masquerade as art, it simply presents the unsettling act of "corpse fucking" as it is for the corpse fucker: an intimate, engaging, addictive experience. It is a difficult film to watch and certainly not recommended for the squeamish (there is a scene involving the skinning of a rabbit that certain viewers might find discomforting) and although the film is gleefully over-the-top, it's well-made for the most part and an important staple of its genre.
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This movie's about necrophilia, which you should already know if you're here. I find it senseless to go over plot in movie reviews, which I'm only stating since this my first review. I fail to see why all reviews talk about the same technical merits, or lack thereof, that are obvious from viewing the film. I don't care. Neither do I have something to say about every movie I watch, so my reviews will probably be few and far between musings. I find this a fault in people, that they try to come up with something to say about every little thing. This is of course nurtured by school making you write papers on every uninteresting tidbit read, turning you…
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omg. i love you!
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This movie's about necrophilia, which you should already know if you're here. I find it senseless to go over plot in movie reviews, which I'm only stating since this my first review. I fail to see why all reviews talk about the same technical merits, or lack thereof, that are obvious from viewing the film. I don't care. Neither do I have something to say about every movie I watch, so my reviews will probably be few and far between musings. I find this a fault in people, that they try to come up with something to say about every little thing. This is of course nurtured by school making you write papers on every uninteresting tidbit read, turning you…
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it was goofier than i thought it would be... i mean, yeah, it's a movie about necrophilia... but i think a good example would be like
early gross out john waters meets bad taste/dead alive humor?some scenes, i genuinely thought were well done... and the score was great
also, my favorite kind of budget.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This movie completely fucked me up! I still haven't brought myself to watch the sequel...
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You know, objectively speaking, this movie doesn't deserve a rating. It's horrible. but then when I saw the scene with a couple throwing a corpse back and forward to each other in slow motion whilst romantic, uplifting music played, I knew I was watching something truly special.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik is a disturbing, bleak, graphic film about necrophilia. It makes no attempt to masquerade as art, it simply presents the unsettling act of "corpse fucking" as it is for the corpse fucker: an intimate, engaging, addictive experience. It is a difficult film to watch and certainly not recommended for the squeamish (there is a scene involving the skinning of a rabbit that certain viewers might find discomforting) and although the film is gleefully over-the-top, it's well-made for the most part and an important staple of its genre.
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Miscalculated grimness and not much else.