| NR,1hr 15min Released: January 1, 1987 Synopsis: With Nekromantik, first-time feature director Jorg Buttgereit mixes cheap gore, transgressive imagery, and cosmic dread into a cult-classic examination of sex, death, and boredom among the youth of pre-reunification Germany. Passive, blank-faced Rob (Daktari Lorenz) spends his days collecting human roadkill from the side of the Autobahn and his nights enacting a quietly macabre domesticity with girlfriend Betty (Beatrice Manowski, credited here as Beatrice M.) in their autopsy/industrial/Nazi-themed ... Full Synopsis
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| A sick art school joke that combines elements of Taxi Zum Klo, Night of the Living Dead, and Wuthering Heights into a queasily entertaining and thought-provoking whole, Nekromantik manages to have it every which way at once: exploitative outrage, sly humor, and, underneath it all, philosophical depth. Cheap, yet disturbing gore and copious nudity have enlivened many a low-budget horror extravaganza, ... Read Review | |
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