sol- Employed as part of a team that cleans corpses off the street, a young necrophile enjoys taking home body parts (and whole corpses where possible) for him and his girlfriend to enjoy in this low budget flick from Germany. Banned upon initial release in several countries, 'Nekromantik' definitely comes with some shock value as it depicts in grisly detail just how the two lovers use their corpses and body parts in their lovemaking routines. What's more, the film even manages to drum up some sympathy for its protagonist who is ostracised by his colleagues and who does everything possible to satisfy his girlfriend's interests (one gets the sense that she was always more into it than him). Unfortunately, the film falls apart around halfway through as his girlfriend walks out, leading to him quite literally meandering around. He cries in the bathtub, goes to watch a horror movie that is not nearly nasty enough for him, and the list goes on as he wallows in depression. And yet, while the fact that the story comes to a virtual halt in the second half is perplexing, it is arguably the less shocking nature of the majority of the second half that underwhelms the most. The extent of the young couple's deviancy is the real highlight here, particularly with all the intriguing questions of what led to them to have such a perverse interest in corpses. The graphic scenes of the protagonist and his work colleagues cleaning corpses up is pretty intense too. Those interested in a shock or two will likely not be disappointed here, but the film is also never quite the cohesive whole that it could have been.

Scott LeBrun Robert Schmadtke (Bernd Daktari Lorenz) is a young man working for a street cleaning business. Therefore, he's able to pursue his fetish of fooling around with dead bodies and dead body parts. He takes prizes home to his willing girlfriend Betty (Beatrice Manowski), who shares his passion. However, things start to head South when he brings home an entire corpse that was fished out of a swamp. Soon after, he is fired, and the fed-up Betty decides to leave him - taking the corpse with her. Robert deals with this problem the only way that he knows how.Co-writer / director Jorg Buttgereit - who actually wore a number of hats on this show - deserves at least some respect for committing himself so thoroughly to portraying absolute filth and nastiness on screen. This may be one of the wettest, grossest films that trash fans are likely to see. The filmmaking is crude, and the makeup effects are tacky, but this adds to the admittedly arresting experience. The rather beautiful music makes for the perfect counterpoint to everything happening on screen. Lorenz and Manowski deliver sincere performances, and Buttgereit creates an overwhelmingly sordid atmosphere.Some viewers will be advised to stay FAR away. However, if one dares to immerse themselves in a very oddly romantic and poetic ode to the wonders of necrophilia, they may find the proceedings to their liking.NOT recommended for cat and rabbit lovers.Six out of 10.

p-stepien You know something is wrong with a movie, when you watch fast forward it out of pure boredom. Especially if it's only a measly 75 minutes long. This ode - or whatever - to grossness in cinema is pseudo-art-house horror with a bit of necroporn put in for good measure. Some pretend that this movie is intelligent and has second layers, but I was too disinterested with the flick to really have an opinion. As far as I'm concerned some people are just trying too hard to pin a cult status to this movie.There is no real plot to the movie. A guy, who works as a cleaner in a mortuary, has a common craze for corpses with his girl. One day he steals a corpse for their pleasure, they copulate with it and than... well who cares. A couple of animal murder scenes, bad gore and bloody ejaculation later the movie thankfully comes to a close... With a lot of pointless overlenghty scenes for good measure.By the way - did I mention the acting is terrible? Even for a horror movie.

GrislyBloodfeast Okay, I have loved horror, gore, independent, dark, disturbing, foreign, and B-films since I was a kid. As someone who is interested in such movie genres, for YEARS I had heard about this film. Mostly that it was worth seeing. Sweet mother of god, was that misguided. This film is absolutely stomach churning and disgusting. I saw it about a year or two ago and will NEVER watch another film about people being sexually attracted to corpses. I don't know if I would have had a different reaction if I had seen it before I became an embalmer, but most of the time I felt like throwing up. The corpse isn't real, of course, but there's a rabbit killing scene that is...and that alone is quite sickening. The protagonist of the film brings home a slimy black ooze covered skeleton-which I assume is supposed to represent organic anaerobic putrefaction and adipocere, to his demented and sick girlfriend. They have graphic and appalling sex with it. She leaves him and takes the corpse. I expected this movie to be more story driven than JUST extremely disturbing, but I was horribly mistaken. Obviously, jorg broke taboos with this film-it's f*cking sick. I'd imagine if someone filmed a graphic sodomization of a 12 yr old and interplayed it with close up footage of animal slaughtering while a couple kisses each other and says some lines in a foreign language,it'd break taboos as well,but it wouldn't make it a masterpiece. I know horror and exploitation fans will continue to see this movie just to see what people are talking about, that's what I did. Gross. Gross. Gross.