Necromancer

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Movie
Original title Necromancer
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1987
length 68 minutes
Age rating FSK no youth approval
Rod
Director Jörg Buttgereit
script Jörg Buttgereit, Franz Rodenkirchen
production Manfred O. Jelinski
music Daktari Lorenz , John Boy Walton , Hermann Kopp
camera Uwe Bohrer
cut Jörg Buttgereit, Manfred O. Jelinski
occupation

Necromancy is a 1987 from the German director Jörg Buttgereit turned low-budget horror film . The amateur film was shot in Super 8 format.

action

Robert Schmadtke works for "JSA - Joe's Cleansing Action", a company that specializes in cleanup after death. His work suits Robert as he is necrophilic . Again and again he steals body parts and brings them to his apartment, to the delight of his friend Betty, who shares his fetishism .

When Robert brings a whole corpse with him one day, he and Betty initially start a love triangle with the dead body, but after he loses his job, Betty runs away with the corpse. Robert remains alone and tries to compensate for the loss through alcohol, drugs, violence and sex, but only finds ecstatic fulfillment in suicide. After his death he is buried. The last scene shows a woman, recognizable by her lady's slipper, who begins to open the grave with a spade.

Remarks

The biggest difference to more violent film productions is the creation of horror less by showing murder and manslaughter, but rather the "attempt" to artfully depict the act of love with a dead person. Several black humor scenes break up the genre stereotypes of the classic horror film.

Again and again there were moral arguments against the film from different quarters, mostly with the accusation that the filmmakers slaughtered a rabbit in front of the camera. In fact, the film shows such a slaughter, but this was already scheduled by the breeder and was only filmed by Buttgereit.

Despite the intended transgressions , the film was never threatened with indexing or even confiscation when it was released , not least because of its obscure status. It was not until years after the premiere that Nekromantik came into the crossfire of criticism, in the wake of the controversy over the sequel Nekromantik 2 (1991), in which Buttgereit ironically no longer relied on breaking taboos as a design feature.

reviews

“The film remains a matter of taste overall. You like him or you hate him. The style takes getting used to and should not please everyone. "

- Carsten Henkelmann

"With Nekromantik Buttgereit created a polarizing, provocative and at the same time taboo-breaking 8mm film full of detail and artistic imagery."

- Martin Hentschel

swell

  1. ↑ Reference to Sense of View
  2. ↑ Video Rebellen - The 100 best and weirdest German underground film pearls, ISBN 978-1515257424 , page 138.

literature

  • Jörg Buttgereit (Ed.): Nekromantik , Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3927795464
  • Martin Hentschel: VIDEO REBELLEN - The 100 best and weirdest German underground film pearls , self-published by Martin Hentschel, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-1515257424

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