Nekromantik 2

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Lots of gore and perversion, but way too much filler makes this tiresome at times........2007-09-04

After hearing about Nekromantic and its sequel under review here, I finally had a chance to check it out. I've heard everything from "the sickest film ever made" to Jorg Buttgereit being described as an "art house director". I'm writing this review has both a student of serious art film and as an avid viewer of exploitation, b-movies, and trash cinema (hey - you can't watch Godard all the time!).

First of all, I found "Nekromantic 2" uneven. It fluctuates between genuine, surreal imagination; depraved, uninhibited sickness; and incredibly vapid filler. There are some scenes that are nearly worthy of Bunuel such as the naked people on the roof top eating eggs and talking about ornithology for nearly ten minutes or the bizarre dream sequences. Some scenes go WAY over the top with blood and gore. I'm not going to defend it artistically, but that's beside the point anyway - exploitation isn't artistic, it's just fun!

Finally, and this is what kills the film for me, there is a huge amount of filler. I know the movie can't ALL be sex with dead people, but do we really need to spend TWENTY MINUTES following two lovers around a carnival? Do we need to watch uninteresting characters go about their daily monotony in extended takes? Do we need to watch the heroine dig for a full five minutes to unearth a body? While it's extremely funny to see a frail woman (in high heels no less!) exhume a corps, the scene is way too long.

This leads me to the conclusion that Buttgereit is most definitely not an art house director. Maybe this seems obvious to some, but there are some great moments in this film. The aforementioned roof-top scene is straight out of "Un Chien Andalou" or one of Duchamp's Dada films not to mention the grand finale (I won't give it away). You might be tempted to think Buttgereit is better than he really is. However, these scenes make up less than half of the film. Nektromantic 2 is a 40 minute film that runs and hour and 40 minutes. If you edit out all the filler and keep only the scenes that are justified by the narrative, you're left with a very disturbing and engaging short film. It would be a classic, no contest. As it stands though, it's just too long and the good doesn't always out-weight the bad.

One final criticism: the dream sequence where the male lead (the living one) sees himself buried up to his neck is straight out of Arrabal's "Viva la Meurte". It's effective, but completely derivative. No points for Buttgereit on that one.

Overall, if you're a fan of exploitation or extreme perversion, you'll want to see this. It's not great and you may want to fast forward through large portions, but it IS fairly unique. I wouldn't say it's overly disturbing. I still think "Last House on the Left" is about as disturbing as possible because it handles its material in an infinitely more sophisticated and thoughtful way.

Essentially, this is like many Herschell Gordon Lewis films - great moments of exploitation between lots of bland, boring, poorly filmed walking around and talking. HGL always said that he needed to get his films to 69 minutes so they could qualify as "feature length". I think Buttgereit should have stopped there as well.

I don't want to be too hard on the film, but I also don't want it being called an art film. I know art film and this is not it. It's just sick fun. If you like that, give this a shot.

Five stars for some of the scenes *****
Two stars for the rest **

Overall - Three stars (for making me waste so much time on filler.

Exactly what I've been looking for!.......2007-03-03

This and the first "Nekromantik" movie are two of the most screwed up flicks to have ever been made!(oh yeah, "Schramm" too). Jorg Buttgeriet is a true horror movie fan, opposed to a lot of Italian and American movies that were trying to make a couple of dollars, and I feel that "Nekro" 1&2 are the only movies that hold a flame to the mighty "Cannibal Holocaust". Two is not as good as the first but very close. A lot of critics put this down just because of how far it went, but thats why I like it. If you want extreme gore buy this movie.

Far inferior to the already overrated original........2006-01-09

Despite the wonderfully perverse sex scene at the end this film is barely worth watching.

Wordless for the first 19 minutes the film opens with the graphic suicide scene from the ending of part one. We then get 8 horrible, boring minutes of a woman digging up a grave. She takes the guy from part one home and makes boring love to the corpse. The film goes on like this until she meets a new guy (he's alive by the way). They go to the theater and watch a long, meaningless film about birds. They go to the zoo and to the fair and I nearly went to sleep.

The live guy is fond of the girl but senses something is wrong when he finds a chopped off wang in the refrigerator! More stuff happens including an intensely graphic dissection of a seal then finally the sex scene that almost...almost...makes this art house snoozer worth watching.

Look for a cameo by Buttgereit on the left side of the screen in the movie theater.

Great Film For a Date.......2005-06-22

gruesome! totally disturbed! it doesn't get more depraved then a low budget german film about necrophilia. just bought the first one finaly and will have to compare. this is a film made by nuts for nuts. the first ten or fifteen minutes doesn't even have any talking. wow. my girl friend was wary of me after i made her watch this. barrel entertainment did an excellent job with presenting this. get it you freek.

Crap movie for sickos of extreme horror.......2005-03-06

I remember reading some advisors review of this from another , the critic a supposed veteran named Mr Bracken bragged about this film like it was as gross and coolest movie ever.

The Nekromantik movies are just plain gross, stupid and deserved to be in the trash. German Director Jorg Buttgereit is just some sicko who obviously has mental problems. I cannot imagine how he made a sequel to the equally incompetent "Nekromantik" but it goes to show the vast difference of movie trash from Europe compared to the US.

The story revolves around a disturbed woman who digs up a corpse and makes love to it. The nurse actually doubles as a voiceover for porn film, she has a loser boyfriend who has no interest in her, until she uses some manipulation on her part.

(Spoilers)

Skip to the last sick moments of the film and we see this sick woman dismember the corpse and then kill her boyfriend while theyre having sex. Its utterly mindless and stupid shlock that really serves no purpose except to gross you out

There are no clever "sequences" here or any clever psychology at work, the characters are all forgettable. Nekromantik 2 has the same low budget as the first one, but it looks cheaper than the first. It's basically the first movie with a twist that it's a woman necrophiliac and not a man. Still skip this stinker unless your into this sort of thing.

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