CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1987
Nekromantik posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1987 1h 11m DEU

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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Buttgereit’s next death-obsessed provocation shares Nekromantik’s raw underground texture, transgressive body imagery, and bleakly intimate view of alienation, but unfolds as a fragmented cycle of despair rather than a single grotesque romance.

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This has the same grimy DIY German extremity and morbid black humour as Nekromantik, turning isolation, damaged desire, and corporeal disgust into a feverish, deliberately abrasive subjective experience.

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A near-wordless morgue nightmare, Aftermath matches Nekromantik’s clinical grime, taboo-breaking necrophilic horror, and confrontational focus on the body, delivered with similarly uncompromising practical-effects intensity.

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Its monochrome nightmare aesthetic, necrophilic undercurrents, and perversely comic cruelty make it a strong companion for Nekromantik’s collision of art-house stylisation, bodily taboo, and hostile romanticism.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Beatrice Manowski

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