A German freeway cleaner takes rotting bodies home to a lover who has a necrophelia fetish. Involves skinning of a rabbit, use of a metal pipe in conjunction with a condom, nudity, and graphic sexual scenes with dead bodies. –IMDb
Infamous primarily on the strength of his shocking 1987 debut feature Nekromantik, German director Jörg Buttgereit was born to make horror films. His grandmother bought him horror trading cards while he was a kindergartner in Berlin, and for his first communion gift, he received a Super-8 camera. At age 14, he made his first short films, and by the time he was 19, the future enfant terrible of the German underground was already creating controversy by showing concentration camp footage with his questionable 1982 short Blutige Exzesse im Fuhrerbunker. For the next several years, Buttgereit honed his talent with a series of increasingly disturbing shorts, picking up what would form the core of his repertory company (Daktari Lorenz, Manfred O. Jelinski, Beatrice M., Franz Rodenkirchen, and others) along the way. Then came Nekromantik, an uncompromisingly grim and savagely appalling study of an Autobahn worker (Lorenz) whose progressive mental collapse leads to grave robbing, necrophilia… read more
I'm sure many people enjoy this film and would defend it. And I am a very open person, to things like Salo (which took a while for me to respect, but I do now). But this is a film that shouldn't exist in our world. These are images that should not be seen ever by a human being of Love. I'm not a hardcore Christian. I'm as anti-Christian as you can get. And this film is too truly repulsive.
Jörg Buttgereit’s underground classic “Nekromantik” was one of the first extreme German films to come out of the 80’s. It tells the story of a disturbed man working as freeway cleaner who brings home… read review