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Corpse Fucking Art: The Films of Jorg BUTTEGEREIT

Nekromantik ¥±

Jörg BUTTGEREIT

Germany1991 104minmin 16mm Color

Synopsis

The sequel to Nekromantik starts exactly were the first film had finished: with a high-heeled woman’s foot ramming a spade into the grave of Rob, the hero of the precursor. Monika (Monika M.) has read about the violent demise of Rob, and become fascinated with him and his love for all things dead. Now she’s digging him up to start an intimate relationship with his rotting remains. But being a true necrophiliac is not as easy as she had expected: her first try at a romantic night of love-making with the smelly carcass sends her to the bathroom puking. She does not completely give up on Rob, though... At about the same time she meets a rather sweet and quiet living guy, Mark (Mark REEDER), and they begin a cautious relationship. Mark is shocked by some of Monika’s habits (like watching seal vivisection videos for fun) but in general, he loves her and they have a fairly good time with each other... which is a nice thing to have but Monika grows bored very soon. She still has some parts of Rob in the fridge... If Rob was too dead and smelly and Mark is too alive and bothersome - what about creating a new bedtime partner by using the best parts of both? In the midst of her first really sweaty fuck with Mark, she begins her bloody work... This final segment proved to be too much for the German authorities to tolerate. A movie theater premiering the film was raided and the film was banned for several years. (Johannes SCHÖNHERR)

Diretor

Jörg BUTTGEREIT

Jörg BUTTGEREIT was born in 1963 in Berlin. Since the age of 14, he directed short films using Super 8mm, and made a controversial debut in 1987 with Nekromantik, a film about a love between a corpse and human. He then went on to make such films as Nekromantik II (1991), and Schramm(1993), pleasing hardcore audiences all over the world with his regular theme of necrophilia and death. BUTTGEREIT is a DJ, and is the first person who wrote a book about Japanese monster films in Germany.