They also used slimy pig’s eyes to put in the corpse’s head, since they couldn’t afford to make fake eyes, which one of the actors got the honor to suck on during one of the nekro-love scenes. To point out some qualities, the musical score by Hermann Kopp is pretty remarkable, the poster is pretty cool, and the cadaver dolls look decent enough, which took four weeks to make, and I assume that’s where the budget was spent. Even though Nekromantik is too sloppy and amateurish to be taken seriously, it quickly found its way to controversy and made its purpose by being banned in numerous countries, and has a dedicated cult-following. However, I can at least point out a certain, hysterical scene that includes a big, erected rubber dick that doesn’t look real for a second, which is the films most memorable moment, for all the wrong reasons. We also get a complete random, pointless stock-footage scene where a rabbit gets skinned and slaughtered on a farm to add some cheap shock value. Most of the film takes place in a cramped, filthy apartment, shot with a Super 8 camera showing close-ups of the couple sitting and daydreaming, bathing and fucking a corpse when it gets too boring. And when the director says it’s terrible, then that’s all you need to know. The technical aspects speaks for itself when the director has to start the commentary track by explaining that someone is pissing on a dead pigeon in the opening scene, which you can’t see due to the poor image quality. And I’m not doubting that for one bit, since there isn’t much film-making to witness here, really. The trivia page on IMDb can tell us that the director, Jörg Buttgereit, never intended to be a director and Nekromantik was just a film to rebel against the German film rating system, trying to shock as many people as possible. And to fill out the running time, we get some bizarre and tedious artsy-fartsy avant-garde montages that doesn’t add much more than an urge to push the fast-forward button. He loses his mind completely, as if he already haven’t, and goes out at night chasing hookers to kill (and rape their dead bodies). After one of their sex rituals, they have a fight, break up, and Betty leaves Rob alone with their cat – which he smashes in a rage and then takes a bath while he rubs the cat’s intestines over his body. Rob works for a street-cleaning agency where he cleans up dead bodies from road accidents, and takes some of those bodies home so he and his girlfriend can have a nasty threesome now and then. If you are looking for the ultimate stomach churner, you've found it.Rob and Betty are two deranged necrophiliacs who share a small flat in Berlin. If you're looking for a good sex flick, look else where. If you are looking for good story telling, look else where. And with the script being so barren and the acting merely passable, the shock moments are all that will keep hardened viewers watching 'till the gruesome conclusion. The corpse and gore effects are very good, but the film stock and technique are both pretty sub-standard. For better or worse, the film is not very competently made. I will not spoil the best of them, just rest assured that gore-hounds will most certainly be pleased (if not disgusted). All manners of assorted atrocities are committed for your viewing un-pleasure, most all of them rank in the 'so sick you can hardly watch' category. Believe it or not, watching them have sex with the gooey body is NOT the nastiest thing you'll see here. Needless to say, this does nothing healthy for his already deranged mental state (being dumped for another guy is bad, being dumped for a dead one is even worse). It soon becomes clear that the girl is enjoying the company of the corpse more than her still breathing boyfriend and runs off with it. He manages to sneak the body home, much to the delight of his lady-friend, and they go about having their dirty little way with it. As luck would have it, one day he comes across a rather well preserved corpse ('rather well' as in it's a rotted, blue hunk of tissue) while on duty. This works out well for them, as the boyfriend works for a crime scene clean-up crew. The story concerns a young couple with a predilection for all things dead. Well, film lovers, here we have my vote for nastiest film ever. "Salo" takes the most disturbing award "Dead Alive" (aka Brain Dead) wins the goriest film award "Caligula" runs away with the most over-sexed honor. I have a penchant for applying my own little award system to genre pictures.