Nekromantik (1987)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Jörg Buttgereit

Writers:

Jörg Buttgereit (writer)
Franz Rodenkirchen (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Death is just the Beginning

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Corpse | Body Part | Dead Body | Rotting Body | Condom

Cast

Daktari Lorenz	...	Robert Schmadtke
Beatrice Manowski	...	Betty (as Beatrice M.)
Harald Lundt	...	Bruno
Colloseo Schulzendorf	...	Joe (as Collosseo)
Henri Boeck	...	Joe's Streetcleaning Agency (J.S.A.) Employee
Clemens Schwender	...	Joe's Streetcleaning Agency (J.S.A.) Employee
Jörg Buttgereit	...	Joe's Streetcleaning Agency (J.S.A.) Employee
Holger Suhr	...	Joe's Streetcleaning Agency (J.S.A.) Employee
Volker Hauptvogel	...	Man with Gun
Harald Weis	...	Dead in Garden
Heike Surban	...	Prostitute (as Heike S.)
Patricia Leipold	...	Prostitute
Elke Fuchs	...	Prostitute
Margit Im Schlaa	...	Prostitute
Susa Kohlstedt	...	Vera

Also Known As:

NEKRomantik (West Germany) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:(Banned) | USA:Not Rated | Spain:X | Australia:Refused Classification | Finland:(Banned) (1993) | Germany:18 | Argentina:18 | Sweden:(Banned) | Norway:(Banned) | Italy:VM18 | France:-16 | Chile:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:(Banned) (Nova Scotia/Ontario)

Quotes:

Betty: [on a note] Left for good. Took the corpse.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Nekromantik 2 (1991)

Soundtrack:

Ménage à trois

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!