This will be a brief review of Nekromantik 2, mostly because
me and words are not going together that well at the moment, and because in all
due respect, most of the gist of this film is expressed in Nekromatik 1's
review too.
I found that the
story line to N2 was pretty concise, and much better than the other Buttgereit
films I have seen thus far. The plot follows a necrophile lady by the name of
Monika (one of the most beautiful ladies I have seen in a B Movie in a long
while) who digs up the previous film's protagonist Rob.
After taking Rob's newly decaying corpse into her highly
decorated flat, we see that she has chosen her prey based on an article in a
Newspaper (I'm assuming this article expresses how Rob was a necrophile, but
from what I can remember, it doesn't out rightly say that) and has decided to
indulge in her dead body loving desires with somebody who understood them.
This story is interjected by another person's story. We see Mark
(a character that will become key in the middle scenes of the film) doing a
voice over for his... shall we say awesomely bizarre job of being a porno voice
over artist (where can I sign up to a job like that?!). We see him and his
co-voice over female colleague having to do several takes of a scene, as they
aren't making realistic noises.
After a scene that shows Monika's love making to corpse Rob,
we finally have the scene where both characters meet for the first time, and see
another movie within a movie from Buttgereit. After this, we see the full of
life romance between the two develop, until they are so involved that Monika
needs to make a painful decision- does she devote herself to a live man, or to
her corpse? She hesitantly chooses her alive and kicking man, and decides the
right thing to do to Rob is to chop him up into smaller pieces. As she chops
him up, she is devastated, and you can really see that even though he was dead,
she really loved him. (aahhh trueeee loooveee)
After a while, we hear that Mark isn't fond of the way that
Monika makes love to him, she demands that he is deadly still, and takes 'weird
photographs of him' (there is a lovely scene where we see Mark hanging from the
ceiling, expecting him to be dead but unfortunately he isn't) he is
unnerved by these demands, but continues to see Monika as his love for her is
deepening (such a deadly romantic comedy <3)
Mark calls unannounced at Monika's flat during an all girl
film evening (featuring the key oddity of the night, Robs severed head), and
after the ladies leave to give the couple some alone time, they continue to
watch a video of a seal being cut up, which leaves Mark disgusted and angry.
Mark expresses that Monika is perverse for watching such films, and leaves in a
rage-filled mood.
We then see Monika having a quiet and reflective walk along
the beach, where we suspect that she is understanding the repercussions of her
'perverse' actions with Mark. We then see the couple kiss and make up in the
most literal of terms, and are thrown into a full blown (haha) sex scene. During this, we see Monika reach for a
cleaver knife and, you guessed it, cuts Marks head (not that one!) off. She
then lovingly crowns Marks shaking body with Robs mummified head, and for the
first time in the film, orgasms.
The closing scenes are the best throw in clips I have seen
in a film, and well, let's just say you'll be like 'HOW, WHAT, WHY, BUT THAT
CANT BEEEEE!' when you see it.
All in all, I am glad I saw this continuing part of the
Nekromantik films, as even thought it wasn't as shocking as the first installment,
it was still pretty good, and well, the scenes of dead body love making still
really got to me! I later saw a 'Behind the making of' film (I shall link below)
that expressed that Buttgereit saw this film as a woman positive film, as it
was about a woman getting what she fully wanted sexually, which I do agree
with, and it was refreshing to see, especially in this exploitation/b movie
genre. It's definitely worth a watch, and it is a stunningly visually beautiful
film, even the corpse is a work of genius!!
Until next time,
Jessiefer.
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