One of the most notorious films ever made, Jörg Buttgereit’s Nekromantik, was released on January 29, 1988. Filmed on 8mm with little money and a homemade corpse, Nekromantik was courtesy of co-writers Jörg Buttgereit and Franz Rodenkirchen. It’s a nasty little number, an irreverent, late ’80s journey through perversion and …
Read More »Hung, Drawn And Slaughtered (2017) Book Review
Legendary Aussie artist Martin Trafford has been a busy boy, sketching covers and themes for a majority of indie films. He has also teamed up with German cult filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik, to deliver a very cool underground comic that serves as a sequel to the films. Presented by …
Read More »Edmund Kemper 2: La Mort C’est La Vie! (2001) – Movie Review
Straight from the French underground comes this obscure but well executed series of repulsively satisfying necrophiliac serial killer films. I reviewed the original Edmund Kemper film on another site previously and recently my gore buddy and creator of this series, Laurent Tissier, sent me part 2 and 3 in the trilogy, along …
Read More »Unearthed Horror: NEKROMANTIK (1987)
In 1987, German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit released a film that soon became a popular fix of underground cinema. Shot on weekends with next to no budget, Buttgereit created one of the most startling and depraved films, not to mention one of the most darkly hilarious, in cinematic history; its taboo-breaking …
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