Nekromantik (1988)

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

After watching salo and serbian film i thought nothing could be worse than this... but nekromantik is step forward than other sick movies. the story is so simple easy to understand but representation is so shocking and yuck..!! it is based on 'necrophilia'. this is not the movie that i can watch again in my life. hats off to actors (i don't know how did they sign such role). overall it's good to watch once in life (not for weak heart people).

With a title like Nekromantik, you should know what you're getting into. As I was watching this movie; there are plenty of times where I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I have seen many controversial films over the years, and I can honestly say this is in my top 10. I'm gonna do my best not to spoil things too much, but here are some examples. Our necrophilia addict is a guy named Robert. He can't get an erection unless a woman is dead, so he starts murdering people and having sex with them after. He also brings home a corpse for him and his wife to enjoy… That's not all though. He kills animal and bathes with their body parts. When it's not busy trying to be explicitly offensive, it's busy doing plenty of padding. There are some scenes that were pointless. There is an ongoing scene in the film that repeats itself. It's a skinning of a rabbit (which managed to make my stomach churn) but there are also many scenes of Robert walking around and doing nothing of note. I get the feeling there wasn't enough stuff for a full length feature, so the director resorted to padding. I won't reveal the ending, but it is what one of the most messed up scenes I have ever seen in my life. You wanna know why this is banned in places? The ending most likely has plenty to do with it. I guarantee you that you'll have trouble getting aroused for a day after or so. I know I didFinal thoughts: This won't be for everyone, that's an understatement. I got some strange satisfaction from it, but it's not something I'm ever going to watch again. It was downright horrifying, and did what it set out to do. Believe the hype… it's something else5.5/10

The only reason I decided to watch this was because I was informed it was sick,deranged,horrific etc. and of course love being disgusted. It does take a lot to gross me out and I hate to admit it but I was grossed out by parts of this. It took a while to find this but at least all the time didn't go to waste. If you are looking to be grossed out or want something interesting or are surprisingly a necrophiliac I would suggest this movie. Not for people who are easily grossed out or people who aren't into the genre. All in all it was an okay movie but the gross factor was pretty up there. 6 out of 10 from me.~Joe

A lady, panties at her ankles taking a p!ss by a roadside. I smiled. In this topsy turvy world of ours its gratifying to see such an opening so beauteously brazen, when you sit down to a film and a stream of urine is practically the first thing you see, well you know for damn sure you ain't in Kansas any more. Of course Nekromantik isn't really a film about women pissing by roadsides (probably a niche area even by urine fetish standards), not much thematic content in that there pale fluid, but the gesture is still delightful. Then both lady and her companion get in an altercation with a road barrier, bringing the film to its point, Death. I got a little hard. Plot is simple, we follow Rob, who works for a corpse cleanup team and has a hot girlfriend with whom he shares a passionate fondness for the departed. And just when things are really looking bright, everything goes to pieces. For all this the film is never truly depressing and has little of the truly sickening, instead it thrives on visual flair, morbid hilarity (notably a hysterical game of innard catch) and quality leads. The key is that whilst Rob and Betty may be a wee bit twisted, the film never reacts in disgust, indeed they seem positive, an antidote to apathy in their death steeped world. Whilst others stumble into death (accidents!) or commodify it (stomach churning rabbit farm sequence) they take death for their lives, for their pleasure, they luxuriate in its beauty in manner presented without abhorrence. Happily both are captured in fine performances, Daktari Lorenz makes for an utterly compelling haunted and dirty lead, skeazy complexion, dank and drear demeanour flaring to activity when around his beloved dead and Beatrice M. equally great as Betty (sadly she doesn't have as much screen time since she's pretty fine in a stab as soon as kiss you kinda way). She provides a bit of contrast, animal sexuality with a hint of malice and a nice sort of energy, like Lorenz wholly convincing. Its actually somewhat surprising that the acting is on the money here as the real goods come from writer/director/cinematic ultra wizard Jorg Buttgereit's artists eye and sense of humour, backed up by superb scoring (also from Daktari Lorenz). There are great images throughout this one, blood dripping from a cats tail or shattered rear view mirror, gorgeous line of outstretched leg from bath of blood, even a gentle meadow, cinematographer Uwe Bohrer capturing beauty and yearning romance on perhaps unpromising film stock (Super 8?). Lots of quality set decoration as well, rather authentic with the various corpses around often pretty convincing. Some sweet gore into the bargain too. The score is equally impressive, tunes of love and charm, of uplift and delight during the sex scene, later passages of disturbing discord and a memorable patch of repetitive strings portending breakdown. For all that the film excels at its art (and there are scarce few efforts in any genre from the same time period that come close) it probably should be noted that this one really isn't for everyone. This isn't a film of much psychological subtlety or philosophical depth, seekers after intellectual rigour will not find too much here as thematically this is about as upfront as they come, more concerned with aesthetics than serious discourse. I also wouldn't recommend it to those who look for gloss or conspicuous professionalism, though a triumph it is still definitely an underground film. And finally there's the small question of taste, it is conceivable I suppose that the notion of sex with dead people may not be palatable to all. But I can hardly recommend it strongly enough to those hardy enough to take the journey, 'tis truly one of the master-works of cinematic sickness. 10/10 from me, an instant favourite.