"Nekromantik 2" came out 4 years after the original movie and the writer and director, as usual, is Jörg Buttgereit. I thought the first film was really bad in all aspects. This one is equally absurd, but slightly superior from start to finish. The acting is better (especially by the lead actress) and same goes for the script. Buttgereit probably improved his skill in the years between the two films. The lead actor is worth the watch, not because of any skill he possesses, but because of how campy and ridiculous the character is with his porn movie voice acting. This film is also considerable longer than the first, roughly half an hour. The title already tells you that this film is again about obsession with death and the female protagonist (pretty hot) has the rotten corpse of the main character from the first film in her bathtub. I felt that I could take this film here a lot more serious in terms of mental disorders than the previous film, which was just pointless and embarrassing and trying to be as shocking as possible. "Nekromantik 2" does have some substance in terms of story. And hands down, the final sex scene is pretty hot. All in all, the negative still outweighs the positive, but it is no complete failure like most of Buttgereit's other works I think. Certainly among the director's better efforts.

I have seen that movie yesterday evening. It was a very interesting and absorbing experience. the first sequence depicts a suicide, alternating with the credits, a guy butchering is belly while ejaculating. so your are directly in the point. After that you have the story of a women who get his body back from the cemetery... and you have a whole allegory of a breaking up and a new love. She keeps the body in her apartment, meets a knew boy, tears the body into pieces and just keep the penis... in all those sequences we are on the verge of throwing up. it also alternates moments of true romance, while kissing, cleaning and finally sawing the body, with ironical or even wry sequences, for instance the wooing sequence (photo, ferris wheel, ice cream and the stripped underpants...), the bar discussion over what is a woman and the cinema sequence showing an experimental with 2 people on a devastated roof talking about ornithology and eating tons of eggs. the photography and the montage are very free and experimental. the music that alternate very fast creates a very special ambiance... a real strange experience

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.

I juste saw Nekromantik 2. One of the movie I had to see ten years ago to extend ma vision of shocking cinema. Since then, and after a break of gory movies, I've come back to violence in cinema. Well, Nekromantik 2 is a singular piece of art. The authors are as gentle and creative as the movie is dark and destructive. See it on DVD! I have to say that the way the movie is filmed (nice moving of camera with its charming shaking), is acted (with a kind of "playing for playing"), opened my mind to Evil Dead, another kind of movie made by passionate young and a little crazy people who got the ability to do everything they want. I'm talking about the special effects which are really good and improvised by the director. About my own feelings and thoughts: 7/10.