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Robert Schmadtke is a troubled young man working at JSA (Joe’s cleanup operation), a company specialized in cleaning up the bodily remains of accident and crime victims. The job suits Robert all too well, as he harbors a necrophilic obsession with death and corpses, often helping himself to body parts when the opportunity arises. When Robert manages to bring an entire corpse home, his fellow necrophilic girlfriend Betty is delighted. However, the resulting ménage à trois becomes strained once Robert suspects that Betty might prefer the corpse to him…
Jörg Buttgereits Nekromantik is one of the more infamous and controversial movies in German film history. Born out of the tense political climate of West Berlin in the 1980s, its provocative nature made it an act of rebellion against overbearing censorship. Instead of shocking through typical horror and exploitation tropes, this movie confronts and provokes the viewer on a deeper level by subverting our relationship with the dead and death itself; a topic denied and repressed especially in western society. Shot on Super 8 and made without a real budget to speak of, Nekromantik is a unique blend of exploitation and art through the interplay of romantic intimacy and death, non-linear storytelling, and an atmosphere of desensitization and alienation.
Adrian Molière
