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	...	Rob (as Daktari Lorenz)
Beatrice Manowski	...	Betty (as Beatrice M.)
Harald Lundt	...	Bruno
Collosseo	...	Joe
Henri Boeck	...	J.S.A.
Clemens Schwender	...	J.S.A.
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

Graphic, low-budget gore-shocker about Rob and Betty, a couple of ordinary necrophiles who apparently don't mind if their dead sexual partners are not so fresh. Rob's job affords him the opportunity to bring home corpses and the odd body part; when he loses his job, he loses Betty, and Rob's life gets REALLY bizarre.

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Plot Keywords:

sexual perversion | corpse | body part | dead body | rotting corpse | 

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Taglines:

Death is just the Beginning

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

1987 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Некромантик

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jelinski & Buttgereit

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jörg Buttgereit said in an interview that he never intended to be a director and Nekromantik was just a film to rebel against the German film rating system, trying to shock as many people as possible.

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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

A Laserdisc version released in USA 1998 contains an English dubbed version.

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Connections

Referenced in Schramm (1993)

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Soundtracks

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

User Reviews

Sick gore fest not for many people

For the uninitiated, Nekromantik is one of the most notorious horror movies ever made. It may actually be reviled more than it is admired, even in horror circles, but it's one of those few movies that's provocative, in the truest sense of the word. Nekromantik is the story of a nice young couple with unusual sexual proclivities. Specifically, in order to get off, they require congress with a human corpse -- or at least a nice selection of pickled organs. Fortunately for these two, the fella (Daktari Lorenz) has a good job on the clean-up crew that tidies up automobile accidents, and eventually winds up with a real find, a half-rotten carcass dragged out of a swamp. He brings it home, where he and Betty (Beatrice M.) give it a warm welcome in a distended love scene involving a striking optical-printing technique that leaves motion trails on the screen as someone (presumably Lorenz, who doubled as composer of the score) pounds out the lyrical love theme on a piano. It's not all hugs and corpses, however, and when Betty abandons Rob after a tiff, the corpse goes with her.