Nekromantik 2

Nekromantik 2 - stylised as NEKRomantik 2 – is a 1991 German horror/splatter film directed by Jörg Buttgereit and a sequel to his 1987 film Nekromantik.

The film is about necrophilia, and was quite controversial and was seized by authorities in Munich twelve days after its release, an action that had no precedent in Germany since the Nazi era. Today, it is regarded as a cult classic.

On February 10, 2015, Cult Epics are releasing the film on a Limited Edition Blu-ray. Special features are:

New Director’s Approved HD transfer (taken from the original 16mm negative)
New Introduction by Jorg Buttgereit (2014)
Audio Commentary by Jorg Buttgereit, co-author Franz Rodenkirchen, and actors Monika M. and Mark Reeder
The Making of Nekromantik 2
Still Photo Gallery
JB Trailers
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2011) Live
20th Anniversary Live Concert performed by Monika M. and Friends – Video (2011)
A Moment of Silence At the Grave of Ed Gein, Short film by Jorg Buttgereit (2012)
Half Girl Lemmy, I’m A Feminist, Music video by Jorg Buttgereit (2014)
Limited edition (5000) copies
Includes Nekromantik 2 Collectible Artwork by Johnny Ryan & Nekrophilia photo of Monika M.

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Plot teaser:

Monika (Monika M.) is a beautiful necrophiliac who lives alone in Berlin. By day she works as a nurse. By night she prowls through cemeteries while searching for fresh corpses. When she reads about the suicide of Rob (Nekromantik‘s Daktari Lorenz) she finds his grave to dig up his body and brings it home.

Mark (Mark Reeder) lives across town and makes his living dubbing porn films. After meeting Monika, romance blossoms and they fall in love.

But all is not well in Monika’s world. Her relationship with Mark begins to falter and she has to make a final choice between loving the living or the dead…

Reviews:

“The film is almost a re-imagining of the first, many similar concepts but approached from a slightly different angle. Whereas NEKRomantik focussed on loss and rejection, NEKRomantik 2 is more about female empowerment and acceptance of strangeness. In both films the man in the relationship loses the game but the focal point of the second is the triumphant female whereas the first was of the breakdown of the male.” Horror Extreme

“With Monika M. in captivating form as the intelligent, but lonely soul in search of that illusive orgasm she, in many ways, can be seen as representative of Buttgereit’s ‘lonely’ male audience, except in the heroine’s case, she doesn’t just sit back watching transgressive films all day, she decides to do something about it. Perhaps this is why male viewers find the film distressing? Why predominantly male/right wing censorship authorities deem the film so endangering to the public? And why feminists have welcomed this subversive piece of trash ‘art’ into their collective bosom? Whatever the reason, Nekromantik 2 stands as one of the most provocative ‘horror’ movies…” Carl T. Ford, Unrated: Cinema of the Extreme

” …uses its comparatively epic running time for a more ambitious and densely-textured narrative. While the corpse scenes are naturally gruesome, there’s a strong surrealist sensibility at work that keeps it more curious than repellent. Apart from the aforementioned seal scene, a depressing and ill-advised attempt to outdo the bunny footage from the original film, Buttgereit strangely avoids any graphic bloodshed or nasty latex dismemberments for most of the running time. Of course, he’s really just saving it up for the powerhouse finale, which amazingly outdoes the Daktari Lorenz’s “climax” from Nekromantik.” Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital

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“The film tries rather badly to waver between porno-horror and the new wave, like some mutant offspring of Living Doll (1989) and Jules et Jim (1964), even throwing in a witless parody of My Dinner with Andre, though the exploitation bases are tackily covered with surprisingly elaborate H.G. Lewis-style gore and found footage, ranging from seal-autopsies on video to the hardcore that Reeder is seen to be dubbing.” Phil Hardy (editor), The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror