Reviews

"you're 21 and still a virgin." Diologue like that could make a porno sound cheesy, Daddy is a wheelbound husband who sits by the window with binoculars peeking at strangers having sex.Daddy and his wife get ready for a so-called evening of sexual fun and games and send their "oversexed virgin" daughter to her cousin's.But she demands to stay since she's curious, there's a son too!And he insists on knowing if he's adopted since he has a longing for his dirty mother.Once both leave a bickering couple are let in the house, What happens for the duration of the film is full on insanity.

Richard Strong who plays Daddy almost echoes Zebedy Colt's crazy performances like UNWILLING LOVERS or SEX WISH.The dude is sick, creepy, and gross.The ending where the daughter gets revenge on her father is a neat twist,doing what she always wanted.The scene where a dude is humiliated with a strap-on dildo and Daddy screeches "F%^K him!Suck him! F^%k him! Suck him!" Over and over is hysterical yet pretty disturbing.I don't think I'm going to watch this again..its too sinful

I embarked to see Nekromantik 2 in optimism and happiness. since it was a cold night and I remember how the original made me feel after viewing, leaving me in a strange daze. I had nothing to do, especially on a week night. Watching Nekromantik was a huge thrill,I heard soo much about it's ending. How Jorge Buttergereit had more money,the movie has bigger budget.I watched as the plot unfolded…the film went on and I kept paying good attention at the first 20 silent minutes. I leaned back and forth through my twirly chair,earnestly to what went on.

Reader, I'm sorry, I really wanted to love this film, everything about had me annoyed, confused, overwhelmed and impatient. I admired Jorge Buttgereit for making a sequel out of his audacious first film. Here, he uses the same concept with a woman who recoils having sex with a dead person. The film is shot the same way as the original, it has no dark atmosphere, Buttgereit uses his score again, only different. He uses dreams again to see what may lead a head to his characters, but doesn't to the depths to them, there's hardly anything dialogue or hero to look up to. Before The SURPRISE ENDING I wanted to do cruel things to the screenplay; I yelled and tried to turn it off.I hated this movie,to tell you

Monika ,our new hero goes in the cemetery in broad daylight and digs up Rob Shmadtke who had a less boring life then her. She takes him to her apartment is a little better than Rob's was. There's no bodyparts around, only odd drawings .If you think Monika has sex with Rob's corpse, sure. But she's too good to get sticky with him! Monika is not a necrophiliac, she's just a poser. We see Betty! But sadly only for a moment, how a movie with her going on with her life with Rob's corpse. Sounds good, right? After she meet the bible salesman dresser, Mark, who works in dubbing in porn. We see Mark and Monika stroll around the park, this hapless Happy Together scene goes on forever, nothing eventful happens at all. This film is actually dead, but doesn't know it.There was nothing new at all in Nekromantik 2,there's an seal autopsy with women fixed to the screen,it may have worked in the first Nekromantik but it has no reason in this.

Lucker the necrophagous, kissed, aftermath, and Nekromantik had better ways of showing us the characters lives, and they had better ones.Monika doesn't really know what she wants in life or in death,we don't really get to know much about her except she likes having sex with Mark without moving,watching animal autopsies and hanging with friends.

A few things that annoyed me :the swaying of the camera in a bar scene where Mark yaks with a friend, Monika M's face and acting throughout,she even cuts Rob's body apart. She keeps his head and penis in the fridge, which Mark finds but ignores it. If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to take something good with it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through. But sure,I'll try seeing Buttgereit's Schramm and the Death king.I just won't watch this again…but maybe the ending.

One more thing,what the hell was it with the damn editing?cutting to black abruptly,it looked like a slideshow.

* out of ****

The other night I was watching a news report on real depicted violence caught on camera phones that are sent,posted and shown on the internet for laughs,a trend progressing in the U.K. where unknowing victims are slapped viciously,ultimately killing them.There is also violence for entertainment starting in Texas just like in the U.K. where willing participants are slapped,punched,and dragged across the pavement almost killing them,it is filmed and sold on the internet for $20.

I believe this is what Ruggero Deodato was trying to convey in his film,"Cannibal Holocaust"for its harrowing straight forward violence and real animal slaughtering,it is a film about the nature of humanity's cruelty and how crazed we are on violence.The director and one of the film's producers were arrested and the film seized a week after the premiere,the courts in Milan believed Deodato actually had the actors in the film murdered for the camera and was tried,so Deodato took the cast members to a talk show to prove they were alive.Deodato came up with the idea after witnessing his son watching the news and they focused on the violence just as you would watch the news at night seeing people kick helpless people to death.

It begins with a search for a missing documentary crew by Harold Monroe who goes to the amazon rainforest and is accompanied by Jacko and Miguel with a native they've have captured to guide them to his tribe in search for the missing crew,they witness an unbearable punishment ritual.When they get to the natives tribe they find the films footage but not the missing documentary crew,Professor Monroe goes back with the film to New York and talks to television executives,he plays the found film footage for them and for us. We see young a young group of a documentary crew Alan Yates,the director,his girlfriend Faye Daniels,two cameramen Jack Anders and Mark Tomasso being accompanied by a guide Felipe,the crew are in it for fame and fortune,they film abortion rituals and terrorize the village.On not wanting to show much of the footage Monroe talks to a female executive and talks to her what it would feel like if she were one of the tribes-people,we find out how the film crew's lives were and the people they left behind do not even care,the greedy executives insist that they show the rest of the footage and showing it off as a real documentary which angers Monroe" You haven't seen the stuff that even your editors didn't have the stomach to put together, and if you had, you wouldn't hesitate but to agree with me!,"with resilience he shows them and us the rest of the footage and what we see is terrifying,unnerving and intense.There is a scene where one of the crew members are carried off by the angered villagers we see a terrified expression on Alan,it gives us a chill knowing what they had done was wrong.

Accompanied by the celestial music of Ritz Ortolani which captures the atmosphere of "Cannibal Holocaust"it gives us a chill while watching the demise of the film crew,there is a scene where what could be the native leader says in his language and we do not need subtitles because it is obvious what he is saying wailing and howling at Harold Monroe played elegantly by porn star Robert Kermen as a professor standing up to his principles.Alan yates played slyly by Carl Gabriel Yorke a conniving snake with a sense of greed who thought he was going to be killed after witnessing the animal slaughtering.The film may be known for its slaughtering real animals but it is not what Deodato wanted but since most of the natives were cannibals they did eat the animals including a monkey that was going to be a prop but the natives insisted a real one,by the end we hear the obvious line that we thought all along but we needed to hear it to be reminded.Ruggero Deodato made this film not to shock makes us think,what he wanted to but look away and asks"what does our society look for in violence?"

**** outta ****

It begins with a couple killed in a car accident,the husband and wife dead,four men in white plastic suits appear and clean the site.They're from Joe's Street-Cleaning Agency,one man,Robert"Rob" Schmadtke takes the husband's dangling eye,takes it home for his strange and morbid collection that would make Ed Gein nod in delight.One of his co-workers complains to the boss that Rob,a short and timid man that he is useless and always late but the boss gives him a chance.Then one day they find a body in a ravine and the crew leave home,Rob takes it home for him and his girlfriend.

Nekromantik has been advertised as an erotic necrophilia film,"finally!A film for necrophiles!"said John Waters,it has been labeled as disturbing,sick,weird and disgusting but although this film's subject matter is handled with care. The sex scenes are done in a tender and sweet way,which evokes that time and place.We are later shown disturbing images of Rob's memories that maybe how his love with death came to be,the film is 75 minutes and not a minute too short and the film is not heavy on plot because we are not watching them but closely observing these two lives.

The difference,maybe,is between great art and great craftsmanship, mankind has many perversions and we cannot think of them as wrong or right.Jörg Buttgereit has made a well-made low budget film out of a super 8,trangsgressive and filled with beautiful but cruel imagery. Buttgereit titles his him"Nekromantik" which I think because of Rob,Betty,and the corpse which doesn't last long at all.When the memoriable but graphic end arrives we see how we got there, our hero that has gone mad but it is meant that he loved death itself and death will be the most extreme pleasure he could ever have,it is a very anesthetical scene,that left me in an extreme strange daze that I could not shake off in mere minutes.

Nekromantik isn't and shouldn't be labled a horror film but a close spiritual study in a forbidden taboo,nor a film about necrophilia,it is about a couple who love death just as much we love watching horror movies in the dark.