Nekromantik

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Director: Jörg Buttgereit Year: 1988 Runtime: 71 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.8

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Synopsis

A necrophilic street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a corpse for him and his girlfriend to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that she prefers the corpse over him.

Robert Schmadtke is a troubled young man who works for a company that specialises in cleaning up public spaces after traffic accidents and other fatal incidents; a job which allows Robert to indulge in and explore his necrophilia fetishes, which are shared by his wife Betty. Their apartment is decorated with centerfolds featuring models, pictures of famed killers, and jars containing human parts, which are preserved in formaldehyde. One day, the street cleaning agency is called to deal with the body of a man found dead in a lake. Robert becomes fascinated upon seeing the man's heavily decayed corpse, and secretly takes it home with him, whereupon he presents it as a gift for Betty. Excited, they both cut off the end of a broom handle, before sticking it onto the corpse's crotch and putting a condom over it, allowing Betty to use it as a makeshift phallus. Betty then commits necrophilia with the corpse. The next day, Robert is confronted at work by his co-workers and ends up getting fired due to his habitual tardiness and the odour festering from the suit in his locker. He returns home and informs Betty of his termination, upon which she angrily chastises him before leaving and taking the corpse with her. Robert suffers an emotional breakdown and kills their pet cat, before bathing with its entrails. Robert drinks some whiskey and takes some pills, before falling asleep and experiencing a dream of him being a partially decayed corpse, playing with a decayed severed head alongside a girl dressed in white. After waking up, it is nighttime, and Robert leaves his apartment to hire a gigolette. They go to a cemetery, where he hopes the environment will help satisfy his libido, but he fails to perform sexually. After the gigolette mocks him, he strangles her to death in a fit of rage and then has sex with her corpse. The next morning, Robert is startled by an old gravedigger who stumbles across them. Robert quickly grabs the gravedigger's shovel and decapitates him with it before fleeing back to his apartment, where he commits suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach, whilst simultaneously ejaculating. Some time later, an unseen figure in high heels is shown digging up Robert's grave.

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Content Warnings

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a dog dies

Yes

someone is sexually assaulted

Yes

someone leaves without saying goodbye

Yes

a woman is brutalized for spectacle

spoiler It is a movie within a movie.

there's domestic violence

Yes

someone gets gaslighted

Yes

there's addiction

Yes

alcohol abuse

Yes

someone uses drugs

Yes

a cat dies

spoiler brutally. you won't miss anything important if you skip it. timestamp is 42:10-45:34

an animal dies

spoiler WARNING the rabbit killing scene isn't over when it first cuts away. skip 4 minutes ahead (15:12-18:58 was the timestamp on the version i watched) to avoid it. the only thing you will have missed is an imagine spot of the main character performing an autopsy on a dead (human) body. the footage is later shown in reverse at the end of the movie (1:06:39-1:08:40)

a pet dies

Yes

there's a dead animal

Yes

animals are abused

spoiler Death of a Rabbit and a Cat [Graphic Warning] A rabbit is seeming butchered for meat the way it was being cut (blood drained, skinned and gutted), however it isn't some wild rabbit - its a fluffy domesticated one. This is intercut with a man performing an autopsy [00:15:19-00:18:5] A cat is introduced at around 00:39:30, however at 00:41:38 it is fed preserved but presumably rotting human meat. Then between 00:42:13 - 00:42:52 it is placed in a bag and thrown at the wall and floor and it dies. From then until 00:45:33, its corpse is seen and the main character is seen bathing in its blood and organs. The rabbit scene is played in reverse at 1:06:45-1:08:42, intercut with a man killing himself.

animals were harmed in the making

spoiler a rabbit was slaughtered and skinned. timestamp is listed under "does an animal die?"

an animal is sad

Yes

rabbits are harmed

Yes

there are spiders

spoiler When she is in the bathtub and they pan to the bedroom on the telivision there is a spider, they are talking about exposure therapy. Once he said “and other fears” you’re good

there are bugs

spoiler A caterpillar is on someone's arm at 01:01:30

there's genital trauma/mutilation

spoiler a character does ejaculate blood towards the end of the movie but iirc this is not because of a genital injury

there's finger/toe mutilation

Yes

there's amputation

spoiler There are detached body parts seen throughout and a man gets the top half of his head removed with a shovel and is seen between 01:01:12 - 01:01:29

hands are damaged

Yes

a woman gets slapped

Yes

a non-human character dies

Yes

a major character dies

Yes

someone dies

Yes

someone cheats

Yes

there are razors

spoiler No but there are scalpels and lots of cutting

there are shower scenes

spoiler there are bath scenes, including a pretty disturbing one where a character bathes in blood and entrails

there's natural bodies of water

Yes

There's audio gore

Yes

someone is eaten

Yes

someone wets/soils themselves

spoiler there are scenes where characters are seen urinating, but not in their pants

there's spitting

Yes

there's eye mutilation

spoiler Lots of gnarly eye stuff

teeth are damaged

Yes

heads get squashed

Yes

there's decapitation

Yes

there's misophonia

Yes

a mentally ill person is violent

Yes

someone suffers from PTSD

spoiler The rabbit scene and the main character are onbiously linked in terms of mentality - however it is unknown as to whether he witnessed it as a child, or it is a mental image he has made

reality is unstable or unhinged

Yes

there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization

Yes

someone has a mental illness

Yes

someone has a meltdown

Yes

someone struggles to breathe

spoiler A woman is strangled to death

someone asphyxiates

Yes

somebody is choked

Yes

shaky cam is used

Yes

there's screaming

Yes

there is obscene language/gestures

Yes

there is a baby or unborn child

spoiler What looks to be a foetus in a jar at 00:10:47 for a few seconds

an LGBT person dies

spoiler None of the characters are portrayed as from the LGBT+ community, but there are miscellaneous found corpses and little known characters that get killed so it's impossible to say

someone dies by suicide

Yes

Someone attempts suicide

Yes

someone self harms

spoiler Someone uses a knife to kill themself

there is sexual content

spoiler Sexual content throughout, including with dead bodies and rape

there are nude scenes

Yes

someone is sexually objectified

Yes

there's BDSM

Yes

a male character is ridiculed for crying

spoiler Not crying, but ridiculed by his girlfriend for being a "wimp" and not standing up for himself when he got fired. His girlfriend promptly left him

someone is sexually assaulted onscreen

Yes

sexual assault is mentioned

Yes

the ending is sad

spoiler Sad in that it ends in a suicide - but we should note the guy is a murderer, a rapist, an animal abuser/murderer and a necrophiliac

a person is hit by a car

Yes

a car crashes

spoiler At 00:02:16 - 00:02:22. The aftermath is featured until 00:06:54

a car honks or tires screech

spoiler Not particularly, but a car attempts to stop a crash at 00:02:16-00:02:22

there's blood/gore

spoiler Not just typical horror/ lots of blood. It's quite graphic and focusses a lot on organs and eye balls

someone drowns

spoiler A decomposing corpse is found in a lake, however he was shot earlier in the film

there's gun violence

spoiler A man is playing with a gun, trying to shoot birds - but he shoots his neighbour by accident

there's excessive gore

Yes

there's torture

Yes

there's body horror

spoiler obviously

there's shaving/cutting

Yes

someone is stabbed

Yes

someone has a seizure

spoiler not sure if this counts but a man spasms after being killed

someone falls to their death

spoiler Someone gets shot and falls off a ladder, i would've guess the bullet killed them, not the fall though

someone falls down stairs

spoiler No, but someone falls down a ladder.

Someone becomes unconscious

Yes

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