Nekromantik 2

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a scene showing the protagonist of the first Nekromantik, Rob (Daktari Lorenz), committing suicide. The film then goes to a churchyard in the evening where Monika (Monika M) is searching for a way in. She finds her way in and after quite some digging she absconds with the remains of Rob. Once back at her apartment she unwraps her new found interest and sits and smokes a cigarette while watching him. A short vignette follows showing Mark (Mark Reeder), a future interest of Monikas attempting to catch his train to work but missing it. The film then jumps back to Monika attempting to have sex with the corpse by straddling him. She gives up, frustrated and unable to reach a climax the scene ends. Mark then is seen on the phone with a woman she is trying to meet for a movie. He states explicitly that he despises lateness and that she must be punctual. After he waits a few minutes in front of the theater he asks Monika if shed like to join him. She agrees and after the film, which consists of two people eating soft-boiled eggs naked on a roof top, they adjourn to his place for eggs. They meet again at an amusement park for a day out and get along very well. After their day out she decides to destroy the remains of Rob. After his dismemberment she decides to keep a few mementos of Rob: His head and penis. She continues her relationship with Mark but is disappointed after the first time that they have sex. This is due to the fact that he is moving and must be dominated in order for her to get any pleasure. Their relationship begins to take a weird turn when Mark awakes the next day. He discovers the rotting penis that belonged to Rob in the refrigerator and is perplexed to say the least. He returns the penis to the refrigerator and the film goes back to Monika who is having a dream. This dream consists of her singing a song in French next to a pianist (John Boy Walton) playing a piano. Soon after he is seen hanging upside down with Monika photographing him. After these events he begins to question her nature and whether it is perverse. He meets up with a friend at a coffee shop and he tells her about his worries about Monika in a very vague manner and she assures him that he is overreacting. He tells a man at a bar (Florian Koerner Von Gustorf) about his troubles as well. The man assures him that he is, again, overreacting. He then returns to Monika with a fresh pizza in hand for the two of them and is met by a group of women congregated in her living room. He arrives when she is watching a seal autopsy video with her friends. He does not see the video initially but after asking her what they have been doing all afternoon she tells him that they were watching a movie. He asks to see it and is repulsed after being shown it. Monika becomes defensive and he storms off. They talk on the phone later and she asks him to come over and talk it out. He does and in a burst of passion they begin to have sex. She then begins to ride him and pins his arms down. Unaware of his fate he closes his eyes and enjoys the experience. Monika then reaches under the bed and pulls out a bone-saw and slams it into his neck. He writhes in pain but it is too late. She begins to cut his head off and then secures his erection with a cock-ring and leaves the view of the camera. She quickly returns with the head of Rob which she places on the shoulders of Mark. The scene ends and the next shot that is seen is the back of an ambulance. The film ends with a doctor walking down a long corridor. He approaches the camera, in real-time, in a single shot and tells Monika that she is pregnant.

Tags: insanity, violence, murder, flashback

Review:
There are some genuinely funny scenes that are good for a laugh, and definitely some strong gore that rivals the first "Nekromantik", but I found myself checking my watch too often.
The latter film is a superbly original romantic comedy about an unusual love triangle between a woman, her lover and a rotting corpse.
Nekromantik 2 is a strangely dour affair; the film is slow, affected and a little bit too clever for its own good.
Thankfully, Buttgereit plucks enough grim and gross ideas from his wonderfully sick mind to make the film a worthy, if somewhat disappointing, sequel to a true genre classic.Nekromantik 2 picks up where the original film finished - with Robert pleasuring himself while violently committing suicide with a kitchen knife.
From this point on, the film loses momentum - mostly due to the fact that nothing really happens apart from Monika meeting Mark at the movies and beginning a relationship with him.
There are tedious close-ups of them on a ferris wheel, an unnecessary dating montage and an uncharacteristically dull sex scene.The film only begins to show signs of life when Monika starts asking Mark to play dead during sex and shows him a family photo album full of dead relatives.
Thankfully, the conclusion is premium Buttgereit as Monika finds a way to enjoy the company of both Mark and Robert simultaneously.Buttgereit's excruciatingly long and detailed depictions of corpse cutting, animal dissection and dating rituals do not make for great viewing but the parallels that these sequences draw and the clinical detachment with which Buttgereit draws them, are intellectually stimulating - if clumsy and pretentious.
Admittedly the ending truly must be seen to be believed and easily equals if not tops the originals ending, but the rest of the film (a gruesome dismemberment and a pointless seal autopsy aside) is extremely slow paced, especially the 'art' cinema scene.
With a film as original and shocking as Nekromantik a sequel was never going to pack the same punch.
Director Buttgereit's impressive skills as a film maker are evident throughout: from the opening credit flashback of Part 1's climax, to the infamous seal autopsy, to the must-be-seen-to-be-believed closing sequence.
The original "Nekromantik" was a pretty bizarre misfire attempting to craft a movie out of a subject as taboo as necrophilia, but this so-called "sequel" is even worse.
Not only is the one-note joke REALLY dead this time around, but the title seems like an afterthought, since most of the movie revolves around what looks like a couple's home movies, with some very lame corpse sex intercutting the plodding pace.
Every aspect of "Nekromantik 2" is a cut below its predecessor, from the cheap effects (the "corpse" being the saddest one of all) to the indifferent direction (which Buttgereit must have slept through), to the fact that the whole concept was exhausted (albeit poorly) in the first film..
The only "highlight" is the scene in the end, when Monika cuts off Marks head while having sex and replaces it with Roberts head.
That´s  what NEKROMANTIK 2 is all about.If you´re looking for gore you´d better check out some of Peter Jacksons early movies....
I have to say that the way the movie is filmed (nice moving of camera with its charming shaking), is acted (with a kind of "playing for playing"), opened my mind to Evil Dead, another kind of movie made by passionate young and a little crazy people who got the ability to do everything they want.
Well, because this movie was incredibly slow paced and with very little of any interest or any consequential worth, so it just felt like time stood almost still while a whole lot of nothing transpired on the screen.I am rating "Nekromantik 2" 3 out of 10 stars, whereas I rated the prequel 2 out of 10.
This very strange fetish of hers is something she tries to keep from the man (Mark Reeder) she's dating but soon he finds out.Jorg Buttgereit's NEKROMANTIK is a film that pretty much sent shock waves down the horror community and it quickly gained a notorious reputation for being a work of art that really managed to cross several lines.
This sequel isn't nearly as good but there's no doubt that fans of the director will want to check it out and especially since it contains more bizarre and rather vile scenes between the living and the dead.NEKROMANTIK 2 is a more polished and better looking film as it's clear the director was working with more money.
I think the raw nature of the film movie is what helped make it so memorable but I personally didn't mind the more polished look here.
The movie that the two are seeing on a date could have been edited out and I'm not exactly sure what the seal autopsy has to do with anything other than letting the viewer experience some real gore.As usual, the special effects were quite good and I must say that the corpse was a very good design.
The film has several gory moments as well as some outrageous sex scenes and yes there are some involving the corpse.
As if we could ever forget, director Jörg Buttgereit reminds viewers of how his first Nekromantik film ended during this sequel's opening credits (it wasn't pretty, as I'm sure you will recall—a suicide that involved a whole mess of bodily fluids).
Amazingly, the ending to Nekromantik 2 is even more shocking and gory, and to get there one has to wallow in an even greater level of depravity.Buttgereit's film opens with attractive necrophiliac Monika (Monika M.) paying a visit to the grave of Robert Schmadtke (the central character from the first film) and exhuming his body, taking the already decaying corpse back to her pad for some icky sexual antics.
Soon after, however, the young woman embarks on a regular relationship with a live dude, Mark (Mark Reeder), and decides to ditch her dead guy, dismembering the stiff in her bath-tub (keeping only his head and mouldy tally-whacker for old time's sake!).As hard as she tries, though, Monika cannot completely shake her craving for humping the deceased, and begins to imagine Mark as Robert during sex.
It's one hell of a sickening scene and is sure to shock all but the most hardened gore-hounds.But while extreme horror/splatter fans are more than catered for, there are downsides to this sequel as well: at 104 minutes, it's waaaay too long, the generous running time allowing the pace to drag and for Buttgereit to indulge his pretentious side a tad too often.
Thus, viewers are treated to a dull scene in the art-house cinema where Monika meets Mark (did we really need to see so much of the poncey film they were watching?), random shots of snails and slugs, a bizarre musical interlude in which a man with a ponytail tinkles the ivories while a woman wails a song, and a sickening moment in which Monika watches the dissection of a dead seal with her equally twisted friends (animal lovers might want to look away: this bit is really stomach churning).Overall, I think I slightly prefer the original film (if only because it's about half an hour shorter), but if you're a fan of Buttgereit's style, definitely give part 2 a watch: there's more than enough nastiness to make it worth your while..
I had never heard of Jörg Buttgereit before watch this NEKROMANTIK 2 but now I know he has a lot of movies in the same genre of this one.
Only three years after the first film, director Jorg Buttgereit went back behind the camera and made 'Nekromantik 2' for his loyal cult audience.
Actually, the German authorities seized the movie a few days after it was released, but luckily for Buttgereit and us, they did not confiscate the original negative of the film, hence now we have an excellent Blu-ray from Cult Epics in glorious high definition.Some people might look at this sequel much like how they viewed the first film, which is a sadistic film that depicts deplorable violence and sex acts so depraved that it would make the seasoned cinephile blush.
Others like myself, view the original film and 'Nekromantik 2' as a work of art that is expertly crafted to show a woman and man's search for love and sexual satisfaction.
Sure, they go about it in a much different way than we're used to seeing, and in this case, we follow a woman who engages in sex with corpses, but there is so much more to the larger picture than just having sex with the dead.Buttgereit wants to show us the simplistic nature of a human trying to find love and not be lonely, and how sometimes that might be more of a struggle than not.
Soon after, a woman named Monika is seeing digging up Rob's corpse (from the first film) and bringing it back to her apartment.
Monika and Mark seem to be the loving couple that could be in any romantic comedy as they see movies and go to the park together.
However, Mark is unaware of Monika's unnatural need for the dead until he sees a few images in her apartment and walks in on Monika and a few friends, watching some truly disturbing shows on television.Despite all of this, Mark is like Monika in a way.
Though one is more distant than the other, both are trying to find their better half in life, and Buttgereit reveals each emotion and action with a calm and collected view as if to tell us that's it's okay to choose this lifestyle.More often than not these days, horror directors tend to only rely on the gore aspect and only want an action scene that follows into another action scene.
How Jorge Buttergereit had more money,the movie has bigger budget.I watched as the plot unfoldedthe film went on and I kept paying good attention at the first 20 silent minutes.
The film is shot the same way as the original, it has no dark atmosphere, Buttgereit uses his score again, only different.
Before The SURPRISE ENDING I wanted to do cruel things to the screenplay; I yelled and tried to turn it off.I hated this movie,to tell you Monika ,our new hero goes in the cemetery in broad daylight and digs up Rob Shmadtke who had a less boring life then her.
This film is actually dead, but doesn't know it.There was nothing new at all in Nekromantik 2,there's an seal autopsy with women fixed to the screen,it may have worked in the first Nekromantik but it has no reason in this.
Lucker the necrophagous, kissed, aftermath, and Nekromantik had better ways of showing us the characters lives, and they had better ones.Monika doesn't really know what she wants in life or in death,we don't really get to know much about her except she likes having sex with Mark without moving,watching animal autopsies and hanging with friends.
A few things that annoyed me :the swaying of the camera in a bar scene where Mark yaks with a friend, Monika M's face and acting throughout,she even cuts Rob's body apart.
But sure,I'll try seeing Buttgereit's Schramm and the Death king.I just won't watch this againbut maybe the ending.
*******CONTAINS SPOILERS*************** Anyone with a more extreme taste for horror cinema would surely have come across the Nekromantik films at one time or another, and after finally hearing so much about them i procured copies of 1 and 2.
I will not go into part one here, but part 2 was simply a really low budget (it looks horrible, which kind of gives the film a dirty nihilistic feel) art fest with two extreme gore sequences...The first is a massively long sequence of the 'protagonist' cutting up the dead body of Rob which she has dug up, the scene drags on for what seems like 25 minutes, with Monika slowly sawing each limb off the corpse and pulling out its entrails.
This scene involves Monika finally deciding that she wants the best of both worlds, that is her living boyfriends body, with her dead boyfriends head.
I fast forwarded through 70% of the movie (and i never do that) because it was simply painful to watch.Its like Jorg Buttface was giving a slap to the face of gorehounds, saying "im going to give you one real cool gore sequence, but before you see that, you're going to have to sit through the *beep*est 90 minutes of celluloid you're likely to see this year!" And i include the cutting up of the corpse..
The acting is better but still worse, the story line is also a turkey but this kind of movies must have it from the gore factor and yep, there's a lot.
Like the first one the movie is a bit too long but the second part also became cult due the fact of , again, the love scene.
1. She has mixed feelings regarding necrophilia, it is hard to come to terms with(In the beginning she vomits when she fondles Rob.) the loneliness of love for the dead, and Mark could represent her genuine hope of connecting with Life as well as Death.
With that thought in mind there are films I've come to in my travels that at the end i ask myself or whoever is still in the room at that time " How can you follow that one up?".
Monika meets a nice guy who dubs porn films for a living.
After some odd indicators that Monika isn't who she says she is and some soul searching she decides to have her cake...or corpse and eat it too resulting in a creative but disgusting solution to her love troubles.Now first off i do not in any way shape or form advocate or condone necrophilia but the film was solid.
Love it or hate it this is one of the few times that one will find a film that actually lives up to the original.
Keeping Robert's severed head in a wooden chest and his pecker in her refrigerator, Monika M will have to come to a decision regarding Mark and the result is quite a hatchet job, let me tell you(*wink* *wink*).Well, you do see a little bit of necro-loving, and if you are looking for some shocking, disturbing subject matter, director Jörg Buttgereit doesn't fail to deliver the goods.
Jörg Buttgereit takes plenty of time shooting the sky or a lizard / snail under Monika's surveillance as she conducts her sickening activities.The opening of the film carefully studies Monika's desecration of Robert's grave, preparing us for what is to come.
Nekromantik 2 is set in Germany where a nurse named Monika (Monika M.) digs up the corpse of necrophiliac Robert Schmadtke from the original Nekromantic (1987), she takes it back to her flat where she has sex with it.
While this is happening Monika is also seeing a guy called Mark (Mark Reeder) who starts to have suspicions about her when she asks him to have sex but not to move while doing so & the strange photo's of him in dead positions don't help either, unable to be totally satisfied in bed by either the living or deceased Monika devises a plan to have the best of both worlds...This German production was co-edited, co-written & directed by Jorg Buttgereit & I have to say Nekromantik 2 is an acquired taste to say the least.
The script by Buttgereit & Franz Rodenkirchen doesn't really have a plot so to speak, it's a bizarre & often grotesque character study of someone who has necrophilia & if that sounds like something you would enjoy watching then the original Nekromantic & this sequel are the films for you as I don't think there are many other films quite like them.
There are some strange scenes though, particularly when Mark finds Robert's severed penis in Monika's fridge & doesn't seem to say anything, I mean wouldn't you?
There's the predictable gross scenes of sex with a corpse, there's an extremely gory decapitation & a sequence where Monika saws Robert's corpse up in a bath, it's lovingly shown in detail complete with severed body parts & intestines.
The acting is OK by people who probably needed the money.Nekromantik 2 is not a film for everyone, I found a certain morbid fascination with it & it's got some nasty scenes in it which helps although I'm not sure everyone will agree with me & take many positives from it.
I haven't seen any other scene like that involving a decapitation, gore, and sex in such a brutal way.
The gore effects are also top notch and are the highlight of the movie.The movie is worth the watch for it's shocking content and brutal scenes.
This sequel to "Nekromantik" is pretty weak to me.The first one is filled with magic,whilst "Nekromantik 2" is just overly long and dull.A young woman named Monika(Monika M.)takes home a corpse of Robert,the necrophile murderer who committed suicide at the end of the first film.Then she finds a live boyfriend-his name is Mark and he has a job dubbing porn movies.They strike up a relationship,but soon all hell breaks loose..."Nekromantik 2" is a slow-moving film filled with meaningless sequences.The special effects are excellent-Robert's rotting corpse is disturbingly real.The sequence,where Monika  dismembers his body is truly hideous.There is also very graphic footage of a seal autopsy that will definitely sicken most viewers.The climax has to be seen to be believed-it's so sick and horrendously gory that it won't be easily forgotten.This is perhaps the most graphic depiction of sexual violence ever captured on film,therefore it's a crying shame that the rest of the film is so pointless.Still if you liked "Nekromantik" give this one a look..
"Nekromantik 2" came out 4 years after the original movie and the writer and director, as usual, is Jörg Buttgereit.