I really want to see this movie, Nekromantik. I've heard all kinds of wonderfully bad things about it - like even hardcore horror buffs and gorehounds find this one hard to stomach. Copies on eBay run an average of $100, so I guess it will be awhile before I'll get my hands on it. Perhaps I'll get lucky and find an old VHS at a garage sale. One can hope.
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What a cover : )
I bet it's up there with AFTERMATH.
I bought a bootleg of NEKROMANTIK way back in the early '90s at a Fangoria Convention in NYC. While the scenes of gore are graphic, the FX are pretty low-budget and kinda ridiculous, especially the climax (pun intended). There are some haunting moments--a girl in black sunglasses in a bathtub of blood is my favorite--and the tinkly piano score is haunting & effective, especially during the necrophilia scenes (which are oddly psychedelic). I don't remember finding it particularly difficult to watch--certainly not compared with movies like INSIDE and MARTYRS today--and in fact I'd compare it more to RE-ANIMATOR, except NEKROMANTIK also functions as a parody of European art films, which *might* be lost on the average horror film fan.
Back in 1998, I think, I rented it and the sequel (Return of the Loving Dead) from a video store in Maine and watched them back to back. You have to watch them back to back or you won't watch the second one at all. It is sort of a gauntlet of German horror.
I found the story mostly pedestrian but it had some nice moments of execution. The sequel felt more like a standard horror film and had a strange "film within a film" interlude when the main characters went to an art film during the story.
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