the audience applauded

Really Surprised!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Well, the one thing I liked better about this movie, when comparing it to its predecessor, was that this movie had a more professional look over it. Because of this the movie also was more 'pleasant' to watch and easier to follow.Yes, it made the movie and what it tried to achieve more understandable all. However this doesn't mean I liked the movie much though. The movie still remained a bad and tasteless one that uses simple and cheap gore to disgust the viewers.It tries to set up its mood by building up things incredibly slow. It has many long, slow moving sequences and besides that the movie is also featuring sequences that just don't add enough to the movie and seem to be only put into it to disgust its viewers. How can you find some joy and entertainment in seeing a woman making love to a corpse a watch a the autopsy of a seal? I couldn't even watch that sequence since seals are my favorite animals.As a sequel it also doesn't add enough. I mean, this movie basically features the same sort of story as the original. It has the same sort of sequences, though this movie succeeds better at it at trying to tell a story as well. Not that its much of a story though. Jörg Buttgereit tries to achieve much but succeeds at little. He also directed the original first movie, as well as some other German shockers, such as "Der Todesking" and "Schramm". He must have a real sick mind to make movies like this really and it's not like I can't handle any gore or disturbing sequences. The gorier the better really. This movie however just goes too far, even for my taste.The acting is horrible within this movie. Just like in its predecessor they try to conceal this by giving the actors as little dialog as possible. I'm sure this movie would had been far worse when it featured more dialog, so it was a good choice really. Yes, it also adds well to the atmosphere and style of the movie, which basically prevented this movie from being a completely horrible one.More watchable than the first movie but still mostly a movie of bad taste.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

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. Being a necrophiliac isn't easy you know, things like rotting corpses are a pain so Monika decides to saw the cadaver up & just keep the important parts like the head & penis. 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's hardly any dialogue, there are no sub plots & it's a very basic film with a slowish pace & an extremely distasteful subject matter which to be fair to it doesn't shy away from when showing the gruesome details. There are some pretty nasty moments in this especially a gory & twisted ending that you need a strong constitution to watch. 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? Wouldn't you say something like 'darling why do you have a severed rotten penis in your fridge?', well OK maybe not.Director Buttgereit does OK on what was probably a low budget, shot in German you'll have to read the subtitles so bear that in mind. The film feels like an underground experimental effort at times although as mentioned already you'll need a strong stomach & not get easily offended. 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. Also bear in mind the special make-up effects are excellent & pretty realistic & it's filmed in a matter-of-fact sort of way so there's no exaggerated sound effects or goofy rubbery limbs. Add that to the fact there's a scene of a seal autopsy & it being sliced to pieces so animal lovers beware & anyone who gets queasy easily. I wouldn't say there's anything scary here, it's more disturbing piece of work overall.Technically it's OK, it's basic, barren & doesn't have much style but it's generally well made for what it is. 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'll leave this one in the air & say this one's down to personal opinion & tastes.

I embarked to see Nekromantik 2 in optimism and happiness. since it was a cold night and I remember how the original made me feel after viewing, leaving me in a strange daze. I had nothing to do, especially on a week night. Watching Nekromantik was a huge thrill,I heard soo much about it's ending. 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. I leaned back and forth through my twirly chair,earnestly to what went on. Reader, I'm sorry, I really wanted to love this film, everything about had me annoyed, confused, overwhelmed and impatient. I admired Jorge Buttgereit for making a sequel out of his audacious first film. Here, he uses the same concept with a woman who recoils having sex with a dead person. The film is shot the same way as the original, it has no dark atmosphere, Buttgereit uses his score again, only different. He uses dreams again to see what may lead a head to his characters, but doesn't to the depths to them, there's hardly anything dialogue or hero to look up to. 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. She takes him to her apartment is a little better than Rob's was. There's no bodyparts around, only odd drawings .If you think Monika has sex with Rob's corpse, sure. But she's too good to get sticky with him! Monika is not a necrophiliac, she's just a poser. We see Betty! But sadly only for a moment, how a movie with her going on with her life with Rob's corpse. Sounds good, right? After she meet the bible salesman dresser, Mark, who works in dubbing in porn. We see Mark and Monika stroll around the park, this hapless Happy Together scene goes on forever, nothing eventful happens at all. 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. She keeps his head and penis in the fridge, which Mark finds but ignores it. If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to take something good with it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through. But sure,I'll try seeing Buttgereit's Schramm and the Death king.I just won't watch this again…but maybe the ending. One more thing,what the hell was it with the damn editing?cutting to black abruptly,it looked like a slideshow. * out of ****

This is quite a beautiful course of death, and I should like to think that those who became enamored of Nekromantik,also here should find a maggoty morsel or two, to satiate their rotten pallets. I certainly did. Necrophilia has no favorites, and this time around, the haunts are reserved for the ladies. And who ever said that a corpse is worse off in the tender and dismembering hands of a woman, than in a mans'? This destructive little thing tells the tale of Monika, a nurse, whose greatest wish when coming home,after caring for her patients, is to have an absolutely still and passive face to greet her lovingly. And what better cadaverous candidate, than good old Rob whose been nursing coffin-boards for the last five years? A beautiful relationship soon evolves, and in the loving hands of Monika, Rob soon learns how to part with those tiresome appendages one calls legs, arms and head. But it seems that love moves in mysterious ways, and while her decaying amour is patiently waiting in a plastic bag, a second relationship between Monika and porno-voice-over-dubber Mark ensues. At first Mark seems completely at ease with this new found affair, but as time progresses, he is faced with, among others, the question: "Is a severed, rotten penis your everyday, refrigerator affair?" While Mark have seemed to be the most eager in the relationship, Monika on the other hand is sporting a deadened, sour face(Sexy, nevertheless!), which according to the German psychiatrist Erich Fromm in his great book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness", is often a hallmark characteristic of a necrophile. And exactly what kind of necrophile is Monika? In order to interpret the blood-feast to come, in which she at the climax of sex decides to saw off Marks head while still on top of a writhing him, one could see it from two angles. 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. She has no intent of killing Mark, but in the battle between the fresh spring-shoot and the moldy, autumn leave, Death proves to be the victor, and in the end she must succumb to her lust for murder. 2. She is a calculating dame, and from the very beginning she is dead set on procuring for herself a fresh body. She really doesn't fancy Marks face, and do not need another one since she has Robs to begin with, and what better thing to do than wed Robs head with Marks body?! In my opinion both angles are just as plausible. While Nekromantik relied minimally on dialogue, and was perhaps a bit more surreal and introspective( Not to say that Nekromantik 2 isn't.Far from it!), part 2 has got more dialogue. Except from the obviously bigger budget this time, and that it has a woman leading the show, that is probably the only difference between the two. While I find the end sequence in Nekromantik rewarding and special, nothing had prepared me for the end sequence in Nekromantik 2!! The first time I saw it, it blew me away. Even if you are a seasoned gore-hound, I can almost guarantee you that you have never seen an ending as bloody and bizarre as this! F**king excellent! The music comes yet again courtesy of Daktari Lorenz,John Boy Walton and Herman Kopp, and this time Mark Reeder(playing the part of Mark.) has thrown in a few tunes as well. If you decide to buy the double disc edition of this sweet candy, listen especially to Reeders "Nekrowaltz" and "Pure", Waltons "Menage A Trois", and Kopps "Supper"! Perfect. I love the films, and I love the music! And that's the end of it.