Nekromantik
Nekromantik is a 1987 film from West Germany, directed by Jörg Buttgereit, running 68 minutes. reelscum files it under splatter.
- Year
- 1987 · 1980s films
- Country
- West Germany
- Runtime
- 68 min
- Director
- Jörg Buttgereit
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (25/100)
- Banned in
- UK · Australia · Norway · Finland · New Zealand · Singapore · Iceland
Defined in the glossary: Splatter
Not passed by the BBFC until 2014, when it got an uncut 18, and banned in Australia, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore and Iceland.
German, banned widely, and much sadder than its reputation suggests.
German, banned widely, and much sadder than its notoriety suggests. A street-cleaner who collects body parts and his girlfriend bring a corpse home, and the film uses the ultimate taboo to tell a melancholy story about loneliness and loss. When she leaves him, his unravelling is almost poignant.
Jorg Buttgereit shoots it as grim art film rather than gross-out, and it is far more interested in alienation than in shock, though the shocks are real. It is not enjoyable and does not try to be.
Transgressive cinema with an actual broken heart underneath.
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