“Nekromantik” is a sadistic West German horror flick. It’s clearly a very amateurish film. Unfortunately, it’s combination of real violence (involving animals) and it’s more absurd violence make this a film with a rather unclear tone. It’s too brutal and disgusting to be considered amusing yet it’s too campy and ridiculous to actually frighten anybody.

In “Nekromantik”, Robert works clearing up dead bodies. He has a sick fascination with collecting body parts, something he shares with his equally demented girlfriend, Betty. While cleaning up after a grisly accident, Robert decides to bring home a full corpse so that he and Betty can enjoy it sexually. However, she grows to love the corpse more than him.

There is very little dialog in “Nekromantik”; we know very little about the characters other than the fact that they enjoy very violent and perverse activities. Robert and Betty just aren’t interesting. Their sickening fascination is never really explained. I suppose the corpse is essentially a character. The threesome sequence is pretty darn hilarious with Robert and Betty embracing the corpse. The way in which they allow Betty to have ‘sex’ with the corpse is so stupid and funny. The other characters are very bland.

“Nekromantik” does feature some truly shocking violence as we see a real rabbit being killed and skinned. The other stuff is less problematic because it’s obviously fake. The genitals, the corpse and the human gore is all just special effects. There is so little going on, almost every scene just features some crude or disgusting content with virtually no story or dialog. We see people urinate, we see an animal killed, dead bodies, people being killed yet we feel almost like nothing is happening because the plot is so thin. If you’re out looking for bad taste cinema then “Nekromantik” may fit the bill, just don’t expect anything besides the shock value.