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9 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
Decent Sequel, Doesn't Live Up to the Original, 9 September 2005
7/10
Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

The first "Nekromantik" is one of my favorite underground horror films. Although "Nekromantik 2" is shot beautifully and has some really good gore scenes, it just doesn't have the punch that the first one did. There are many scenes that are long and drawn-out and detract from the pace of the film. Some scenes seem like they don't belong in the film at all. There are some genuinely funny scenes that are good for a laugh, and definitely some strong gore that rivals the first "Nekromantik", but I found myself checking my watch too often. Buttgereit and crew could have easily shaved a half hour off this film and made it a more sleek and streamlined film, but being that Buttgereit seemed to have a bigger budget this time, it appears he wanted to spend it on filming as much footage as possible, not always to the benefit of the viewer. Still a decent experience and definitely worth checking out for the extreme horror enthusiasts, and the ending is suitably matched to the first film. Give this one a look 7/10

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
you will loose your head, 15 October 2008
6/10
Author: trashgang from Midian

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After the unexpected success of the first part it came clear that there would be a second part. Starting of were the first one ended. That was/is already the reason for most of the viewers to eject the DVD. The person spanking the monkey and by getting his orgasm cutting himself is offending. The acting is better but still worse, the story line is also a turkey but this kind of movies must have it from the gore factor and yep, there's a lot. Taking a bath in the blood of your victim for example. Like the first one the movie is a bit too long but the second part also became cult due the fact of , again, the love scene. But this time the effects are better, no blur, delayed visions, this time straight. And what a sequence it is, a girl making love to a guy, suddenly she graps a knife and cut of his head, all watchable in front of the camera, before he dies she makes sure that he still has a hard on. Having that done she immediately replaces his head with the rotting head of her ex lover, anyway, if your not into gore this part will make you vomit, not for the squeamish. Again, catch the limited double disc DVD, be sure not to loose your head

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
An Idiosyncratic Sequel, 10 September 2006
Author: Crap_Connoisseur from Australia

Joerg Buttgereit's films have their own unique place in horror movie history. Few directors have even come close to producing anything as beautifully depraved as "Schramm", "Der Todeskoenig" or his signature film "Nekromantik". The latter film is a superbly original romantic comedy about an unusual love triangle between a woman, her lover and a rotting corpse. It comes as something of a surprise that the sequel is content to re-hash the original - only without the sardonic humour or the perverted sense of romance. Nekromantik 2 is a strangely dour affair; the film is slow, affected and a little bit too clever for its own good. Thankfully, Buttgereit plucks enough grim and gross ideas from his wonderfully sick mind to make the film a worthy, if somewhat disappointing, sequel to a true genre classic.

Nekromantik 2 picks up where the original film finished - with Robert pleasuring himself while violently committing suicide with a kitchen knife. The brutal imagery of Robert ejaculating blood while stabbing himself has lost none of its bite. After such an eye opening beginning, the film quickly takes on a more solemn tone. Monika, a nurse with a taste for necrophilia, rescues Robert from his grave and takes him home. The painstakingly detailed depiction of erotic corpse cleaning is textbook Buttgereit. From this point on, the film loses momentum - mostly due to the fact that nothing really happens apart from Monika meeting Mark at the movies and beginning a relationship with him. The courtship between Mark and Monika is painfully boring to watch and incredibly drawn out. There are tedious close-ups of them on a ferris wheel, an unnecessary dating montage and an uncharacteristically dull sex scene.

The film only begins to show signs of life when Monika starts asking Mark to play dead during sex and shows him a family photo album full of dead relatives. It soon becomes clear that Monika is finding it difficult to choose between the decomposing object of her desire and her living boyfriend. In an excruciating scene Monika appears to choose Mark and cuts Robert into pieces with a handsaw. This sequence is wonderfully grotesque but incredibly long. Buttgereit appears intent on testing not only the viewer's ability to hold down their dinner, but also their patience. Despite chopping him into small pieces, Monika can't seem to part with Robert completely, so she keeps his head and his penis in the fridge. Strangely, Mark doesn't take finding a decomposing penis in his girlfriend's icebox as an indication that he should look for a new woman. The film falls into another slump until the gory conclusion, with the exception of a particularly unsavoury and lengthy clip of a baby seal being dissected. Thankfully, the conclusion is premium Buttgereit as Monika finds a way to enjoy the company of both Mark and Robert simultaneously.

Buttgereit's excruciatingly long and detailed depictions of corpse cutting, animal dissection and dating rituals do not make for great viewing but the parallels that these sequences draw and the clinical detachment with which Buttgereit draws them, are intellectually stimulating - if clumsy and pretentious. That is not to say that the film is entirely without humour. The film within a film about ornithology is very amusing and a clear swipe at "art-house" filmmakers. The irony is that Nekromantik 2 is 10 minutes of necrophiliac sex and extreme gore away from being art-house fodder itself. Those 10 minutes make up for a lot of the film's posing. The make-up and gore effects are typically gross despite the extremely plastic looking corpses. The seal dissection looks like it has been stolen from the Greenpeace archives as it appears to be authentic.

The acting and general production values are still rather amateur in nature. This is easy to disregard when you are being swept along with Buttgereit's gory magic as with the original "Nekromantik". However, these flaws are far more obvious at the snail's pace with which this film proceeds. Monika M puts in the best performance and makes an appealing lead with her clear blue eyes and Germanic disinterest. Buttgereit's direction and script remain as idiosyncratic as ever. I'm convinced that Buttgereit is a genius but this film only shows rare glimpses of what he is capable of. Nevertheless, Nekromantik 2 does give us something to think about while we wait patiently for his next dose of cinematic perversion.

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The wedlock between Thanatos and Eros., 17 August 2005
10/10
Author: glyptoteque (glyptoteque@hotmail.com) from Norway

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This is quite a beautiful course of death, and I should like to think that those who became enamored of Nekromantik,also here should find a maggoty morsel or two, to satiate their rotten pallets. I certainly did. Necrophilia has no favorites, and this time around, the haunts are reserved for the ladies. And who ever said that a corpse is worse off in the tender and dismembering hands of a woman, than in a mans'? This destructive little thing tells the tale of Monika, a nurse, whose greatest wish when coming home,after caring for her patients, is to have an absolutely still and passive face to greet her lovingly. And what better cadaverous candidate, than good old Rob whose been nursing coffin-boards for the last five years? A beautiful relationship soon evolves, and in the loving hands of Monika, Rob soon learns how to part with those tiresome appendages one calls legs, arms and head. But it seems that love moves in mysterious ways, and while her decaying amour is patiently waiting in a plastic bag, a second relationship between Monika and porno-voice-over-dubber Mark ensues. At first Mark seems completely at ease with this new found affair, but as time progresses, he is faced with, among others, the question: "Is a severed, rotten penis your everyday, refrigerator affair?" While Mark have seemed to be the most eager in the relationship, Monika on the other hand is sporting a deadened, sour face(Sexy, nevertheless!), which according to the German psychiatrist Erich Fromm in his great book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness", is often a hallmark characteristic of a necrophile. And exactly what kind of necrophile is Monika? In order to interpret the blood-feast to come, in which she at the climax of sex decides to saw off Marks head while still on top of a writhing him, one could see it from two angles. 1. She has mixed feelings regarding necrophilia, it is hard to come to terms with(In the beginning she vomits when she fondles Rob.) the loneliness of love for the dead, and Mark could represent her genuine hope of connecting with Life as well as Death. She has no intent of killing Mark, but in the battle between the fresh spring-shoot and the moldy, autumn leave, Death proves to be the victor, and in the end she must succumb to her lust for murder. 2. She is a calculating dame, and from the very beginning she is dead set on procuring for herself a fresh body. She really doesn't fancy Marks face, and do not need another one since she has Robs to begin with, and what better thing to do than wed Robs head with Marks body?! In my opinion both angles are just as plausible. While Nekromantik relied minimally on dialogue, and was perhaps a bit more surreal and introspective( Not to say that Nekromantik 2 isn't.Far from it!), part 2 has got more dialogue. Except from the obviously bigger budget this time, and that it has a woman leading the show, that is probably the only difference between the two. While I find the end sequence in Nekromantik rewarding and special, nothing had prepared me for the end sequence in Nekromantik 2!! The first time I saw it, it blew me away. Even if you are a seasoned gore-hound, I can almost guarantee you that you have never seen an ending as bloody and bizarre as this! F**king excellent! The music comes yet again courtesy of Daktari Lorenz,John Boy Walton and Herman Kopp, and this time Mark Reeder(playing the part of Mark.) has thrown in a few tunes as well. If you decide to buy the double disc edition of this sweet candy, listen especially to Reeders "Nekrowaltz" and "Pure", Waltons "Menage A Trois", and Kopps "Supper"! Perfect. I love the films, and I love the music! And that's the end of it.

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BIZAAAAAARRE.., 22 July 2004
9/10
Author: mike biggs (mercyfulfate7410) from usa

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**SPOILERS**

Man, I can't believe I'm just now getting around to reviewing this, but anyway, this is just one bizarre film. It picks up right where the first ended, following the activities of that sick chick that dug up Rob from the first film. She takes him home and, um..Well, you guys that've seen it know and whoever hasn't can figure it out. Then she props him up and takes photos w/ him and then dismembers him after he gets too ripe. Finally, she meets a guys that's still among the living, but can't just get over IL' Rob, so that makes for a just plain sick and original ending. Those true to the core gore hounds that haven't seen this...well actually, your not a true gore hound if you haven't seen this! Also, the very end has a pretty messed up twist...

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Nice work!, 24 June 2004
Author: from montréal, canada

I juste saw Nekromantik 2. One of the movie I had to see ten years ago to extend ma vision of shocking cinema. Since then, and after a break of gory movies, I've come back to violence in cinema. Well, Nekromantik 2 is a singular piece of art. The authors are as gentle and creative as the movie is dark and destructive. See it on DVD! I have to say that the way the movie is filmed (nice moving of camera with its charming shaking), is acted (with a kind of "playing for playing"), opened my mind to Evil Dead, another kind of movie made by passionate young and a little crazy people who got the ability to do everything they want. I'm talking about the special effects which are really good and improvised by the director. About my own feelings and thoughts: 7/10.

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I guarantee you've never seen an ending like this!, 20 February 1999
10/10
Author: DaWHo from Maryland, USA

Very interesting, very well made and (obviously) very disgusting follow-up to NEKRomantik. Director Buttgereit's impressive skills as a film maker are evident throughout: from the opening credit flashback of Part 1's climax, to the infamous seal autopsy, to the must-be-seen-to-be-believed closing sequence. With an "art house" visual style and a fine performance by Monika M, it's well worth sitting through the sometimes slow moving action. Often difficult to watch--the squeamish need not even try--but I guarantee you've never seen an ending like this! Highly recommended.

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4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Slow and ultimately pointless, 11 September 2002
Author: DocEmmettBrown from London, UK

The first Nekromatik was an original concept and was executed in a darkly original way (as has become Buttgereit's style). Sadly the sequel seems merely to rehash the original's ideas and does so without the flair and inventiveness of the original. Admittedly the ending truly must be seen to be believed and easily equals if not tops the originals ending, but the rest of the film (a gruesome dismemberment and a pointless seal autopsy aside) is extremely slow paced, especially the 'art' cinema scene. With a film as original and shocking as Nekromantik a sequel was never going to pack the same punch. If you're a fan of the first film I strongly suggest you check out Schramm or the excellent Der Todes King instead.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Not your typical gore movie but worths a watch for it's unusual script., 9 August 2005
7/10
Author: insomniac_rod from Noctropolis

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*SPOILERS!! BIG ONES* The sequel to the infamous and heavily criticized "Nekromantic" delivers some interesting scenes filled with gore but lack of feeling. The movie moves very slow and the fact that the score is dull and sometimes tedious doesn't help the movie to become entertaining or interesting. What really got me was the deep plot involving feelings, sex, gore, and violence. The situations are bizarre but passionate.

Monika M's performance is average. I know that her character needs special skills because it's a really difficult situation the one she's been through but I think that she wasn't that passionate for the role.

I expected a whole lot more from the shocking, thrilling ending. The scene is raw and shocking itself but I guess that it could've been more shocking. It's disturbing, and I don't mind saying provocative. The way she hurries in order to get her ex lover's head and places it on the recent dead man is as weird as you can expect. But the highlight is the way she "rides" the dead body with the rotten head. Nice. I haven't seen any other scene like that involving a decapitation, gore, and sex in such a brutal way. The scene delivers and makes the movie worth watchable just for it.

I praise the director's intention to shock the audience and display the Necrophiliac disease as a deep feeling.

There's plenty of violence, gore, sex, and the occasional shocking scenes so if you are into exploitation this is a must see. Probably not as best as the original Nekromantik but still deserves a watch. The movie is visually stunning and the camera angles are really good. The gore effects are also top notch and are the highlight of the movie.

The movie is worth the watch for it's shocking content and brutal scenes. Also, Monika M. is very, very attractive.

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BIZAAAAAARRE.., 22 July 2004
9/10
Author: mike biggs (mercyfulfate7410) from usa

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

**SPOILERS**

Man, I can't believe I'm just now getting around to reviewing this, but anyway, this is just one bizarre film. It picks up right where the first ended, following the activities of that sick chick that dug up Rob from the first film. She takes him home and, um..Well, you guys that've seen it know and whoever hasn't can figure it out. Then she props him up and takes photos w/ him and then dismembers him after he gets too ripe. Finally, she meets a guys that's still among the living, but can't just get over IL' Rob, so that makes for a just plain sick and original ending. Those true to the core gore hounds that haven't seen this...well actually, your not a true gore hound if you haven't seen this! Also, the very end has a pretty messed up twist...

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