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.

Monika, a nurse with a necrophilia fetish, disinters the body of Rob Schmadtke in a church's graveyard. Rob had achieved infamy as a necrophiliac who had committed suicide by stabbing himself while masturbating. She takes the corpse to her apartment, where she undresses it and uses it to stimulate herself. Unable to orgasm, she vomits in the bathroom. Then she redresses Rob's body and takes photos with it. Monika goes to see an art film. There she meets Mark, who has been stood up by a friend and offers Monika his extra ticket. Monika and Mark hit it off and soon go on a carnival date, after which point Monika decides to "break up" with Rob's corpse. She tearfully saws the corpse of Rob into pieces, puts them in garbage bags and returns them to his grave. However, she keeps his head and genitals, which Mark finds in Monika's refrigerator when he spends the night. This discovery, combined with Monika's desire to photograph Mark in positions that make him appear dead, plants doubts in his mind about the relationship. Mark drops in unexpectedly at Monika's apartment and finds her watching a video of the dissection of a seal with other necrophilic friends. Mark is disgusted, and he and Monika fight. A few nights later, Monika invites Mark back to her place to discuss their relationship. She seduces him as soon as he arrives. As they have sex, she cuts his head off and replaces it with Rob's. She finally has an orgasm. Sometime later, a doctor congratulates Monika on her pregnancy.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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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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