Nekromantik (1987)

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.

Director:

Jörg Buttgereit

Writers:

Jörg Buttgereit, Franz Rodenkirchen

Stars:

Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bernd Daktari Lorenz	...	Robert Schmadtke (as Daktari Lorenz)
Beatrice Manowski	...	Betty (as Beatrice M.)
Harald Lundt	...	Bruno
Collosseo	...	Joe
Henri Boeck	...	J.S.A.
Clemens Schwender	...	J.S.A. (as Clemens Schwenter)
Jörg Buttgereit	...	J.S.A.
Holger Suhr	...	J.S.A.
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
Suza Kohlstedt	...	Vera (as Susa Kohlstedt)

Storyline

Sharing a mutual fascination for the dead, and the macabre, the Berlin misfits, Betty and Robert, are in for a big surprise that will soon broaden their horizons when Rob takes a job as a cleaner at an aftermath clean-up agency. Little by little, right under everyone's noses, the obsessed new employee amasses a rich and grotesque collection of severed limbs and human organs, and what is even more fascinating, their dreams will finally come true when Rob brings home a putrid cadaver to amaze his girlfriend. But, can Robert handle this bizarre and gruesome ménage a trois?

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Plot Keywords:

sexual perversion | necrophiliac | ejaculating blood | psychotronic film | exploitation film | 

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Taglines:

A film about love for man and what remains of him.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Film debut of Bernd Daktari Lorenz and his only performance on a feature film.

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Quotes

Narrator: What lives that does not live from the death of someone else? V.L. Compton

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Alternate Versions

The Japanese version where the first and the second movie was put together was released in Germany by Laser Paradise in 2003 with the necrophilia scenes intact.

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Connections

Referenced in Antichrist (2009)

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Soundtracks

Ménage à trois
Written by John Boy Walton
Performed by John Boy Walton

User Reviews

A strong, sickening gross-out cult film from Germany.

Rob (Daktari Lorenz) works days cleaning dead bodies up from fatal car crashes on the Autobahn, develops a sick fascination with death and collects body parts and internal organs which he stores in mason jars back at his cramped apartment. In order to spice up a rocky relationship with his equally disturbed necro girlfriend (Beatrice M), he brings home a rotted corpse for a ménage-a-troix, which backfires when she decides she prefers the stiff to him!

The grainy, low-budget feel adds extra oomph to the shock value, not to mention some gritty atmosphere, and there is certainly enough depraved sickness to go around, including one of the most twisted and memorable endings in horror history. In addition to all the simulated gore, a real rabbit is killed and skinned, there are some hilariously misplaced "artistic" touches and loads of full (often unappealing) nudity. Film Threat offers a subtitled and unrated (would be X) version, and its 1989 sequel, NEKROMANTIK 2: RETURN OF THE LOVING DEAD.

Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

1987 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Nekromantik

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jelinski & Buttgereit

Technical Specs

Runtime:

71 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1