Nekromantik

Nekromantik (1988)

Death is just the Beginning

An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company that cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty.

Date of release
1988-01-29
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (342)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Drama, Horror
Director
Jörg Buttgereit
Collection
Nekromantik Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Germany

Nekromantik is a 1987 West German erotic exploitation horror film co-written and directed by Jörg Buttgereit. It is known to be frequently controversial, banned in a number of countries, and has become a cult film over the years due to its transgressive subject matter and audacious imagery.

Production

This was the first feature-length film directed by Buttgereit who had previously only done featurettes in Super 8 format. Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen conceived the basic concept of the film while discussing the relationship between love, sex, and death. The idea to connect an orgasm to the moment of death, somebody actually enjoying his own death, was part of their initial ideas.

The film was a no budget film, with inexpensive special effects. The film makes use of actual animal intestines and the eyeballs of pigs. The rabbit-related scene uses documentary-style footage of a professional rabbit breeder at work. The original musical score for the film was composed by Hermann Kopp, Bernd Daktari Lorenz and John Boy Walton.

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