I'd give this film a 10 but I'd be worried the FBI would be out looking for me or something. This is a short, simple and not very sweet film. While Aftermath has been booked as horror/disturbing film it really isn't for the gorehound crowd. Aftermath is a silent film with an ominous score and beautiful cinematography. The film is rich in detail and shows off Cerda's talent as a filmmaker. Most impressively the film seems to find beauty in the grotesque and make a taboo topic feel *almost* common place. Some people have discredited this film for not having a plot or meaning however Aftermath is an it is what it is kind of experience. There's no shying away from the content or pretending it's something it's not. It's a simple, straightforward graphic film that works. Highly recommend for the extreme art-house crowd along with the other short in this trilogy Genesis. Cerda you have a fan!

This really isn't a movie. Hell, there really isn't even a story (nor is there talking). It's just some shock content and an overly long opening credits (around 5 minutes, which is absurd for a 30 minute film). While it's not exactly art it's definitely different. The film concerns a morgue where some morticians are doing autopsies. Later, one of the morticians proceeds to violate a female corpse while he's alone. The film features full-body nudity although I'm not sure if the bodies were fakes, real corpses donated to "the arts", or actors with prosthetic effects. Either way you see full-bodied nudity (both genders).There's a weirdness to the whole thing. The scene with the morticians just going over their bodies is somewhat surreal. There's a bizarre character development that takes place despite the lack of speech and most of the mortician's face being obscured. His eyes convey his bizarre curiosity as he examines one of the men's naked frames, seemingly stopping on the genitalia. Later on when he starts with the female he seems to gingerly cut free her clothes. He plays with his blade delicately against her skin... then he guts her open. And a little after that the film really starts to get graphic, although I will say that he only uses one hand to examine her... There's a definite progression to the depravity.It's a film that I wouldn't really think I'd be interested in but there was a certain oddity to this premise. And while the initial legitimate autopsies were harder for me to watch, a morbid curiosity better kept my attention for the second half especially since it was almost downright funny in places. I'm honestly not sure what they were going for with this, though. It's short, it's a little weird, but mostly it's just pointless. All the same it's really not bad and somehow has a strange charm to it. Ultimately it's more silly than disturbing, almost like an angsty teen's attempt to be edgy.

Back in 1994, if you would have watched this movie at a friends house... you probably would have been glued to the screen, trying to figure out if the VHS tape you were seeing was offering up some deranged snuff film. I have no doubt that you also would have bootlegged a copy and showed as many people as you felt comfortable in offending. That was then, this is now, this is the HD age of video. What does this mean? It means that you know right off that this is not real, and if you had any doubts if it was, as soon as you get a good look at the rubber dolls that they are cutting into.. your disbelief becomes overwhelming. So what are we left with here? A half hour of a guy cutting into rubber dolls, humping one, and then going home to his dog. I give this 3 stars just because of the whole VHS thing I thought up, but this is just not any good. It's slow, it's tasteless, it's boring, and you don't care about the rubber corpses on the tables any more than you care about the tables themselves. You want to watch something disturbing? Check out A Serbian Film, or Antibodies instead.

This movie is not so good as I thought it would be. There is no story whatsoever, no characters and some dialog would have been nice. The gore effects are good and it gets quite bloody at times but nothing over the top. It starts with an autopsy on a man and when that is over the scene with the girl starts. The music is a classic score and fits the movie very well. They should have made a 90 minutes version in which they could have had some time for character development so we can feel sorry for the person on the autopsy table. And some more info about the morticians would have made this movie far scarier than it is. Don't expect a scary movie but a nice, gory special effects reel.