Line #64 Film/NEKRomantik


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3	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nekromantik_3672.jpg]]
4	[[caption-width-right:340:[[TakeOurWordForIt The rest of the image]] shows this [[{{NSFW}} nude woman]] being [[{{Squick}} fondled by a semi-skeletal corpse]].]]
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6	-> ''"Ground-breakingly gruesome. The first erotic film for necrophiles."''
7	-->-- '''Creator/JohnWaters'''
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9	-> ''"What lives that does not live from the death of someone else?"''
10	-->-- Opening Quote by '''V.L. Compton'''
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12	''Nekromantik'' is a West German horror film released in 1987.
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14	Meet Robert Schmadtke, or just Rob, an outwardly normal (but meek) German man who lives with his girlfriend Betty, and works for Joe's Streetcleaning Agency. What does Joe's Streetcleaning Service specialize in? Body parts. And that's just perfect for Rob, since he and Betty are necrophiliacs. Every once in a while, Rob just pilfers some random pieces of the mangled bodies at his worksites, taking them home and preserving them in jars for him and Betty to play with, his latest score being from a grisly car crash.
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16	One day, Rob hits the mother lode, stealing a rotted, waterlogged corpse he and his co-workers were charged with moving. Taking the corpse home, Rob and Betty waste no time in having a ménage a trois with it. Unfortunately for Rob, his happiness does not last long, as he is fired from his job due frequent tardiness, prompting Betty to verbally emasculate him, and run off with the corpse. Now alone, Rob is left to spiral into a deep and disturbing depression...
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18	A sequel, simply titled ''Nekromantik 2'', was released in 1991.
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20	No relation to {{Necromantic}}.
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23	!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
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25	* AccidentalMurder: A man accidentally shoots his apple-picking neighbor in the neck.
26	%%* AllTakeAndNoGive: Betty (taker) and Rob (giver).
27	%%* BathroomStallGraffiti: It's all over the place.
28	* BathtubScene: Two scenes feature Betty and Rob taking baths. [[BloodBath Both times in blood no less]].
29	* BlackComedy: The film has been viewed as such by some, with emphasis on "black". It would be a typical plot about a dysfunctional couple in which one of the partners leaves for another person... if not for the fact that the other person is a ''corpse''.
30	* BloodBath: Betty's has one in blood from an unidentified source, apparently out of [[HemoErotic getting aroused by it]], while Rob takes his in cat blood and guts, which in his case is more of a ShowerOfAngst as a result of Betty's departure.
31	* BloodFromTheMouth: Rob bleeds from the mouth while killing himself.
32	* BurialAtSea: After accidentally killing your neighbor, the best thing to do is just stuff the body in a wheelbarrow, and dump it in some water.
33	* BurnBabyBurn: Rob burns a picture of Betty very dramatically.
34	* CarryABigStick: The rabbit that the farmer kills in Rob's daydream first gets smacked in the head with a stick.
35	* ChickLit: Betty reads a book to the corpse, and her description of it fits the stereotypical attempt at targeting an adult female readership.
36	* CleanupCrew: Joe's Streetcleaning Agency where Rob works at. Rob takes advantage of this job to steal human remains but eventually gets fired for always being late.
37	* ContentWarnings: The very first shot in the film is a content warning.
38	-->"Warning: Some of this film may be seen as grossly offensive and should not be shown to minors!!!"
39	* CoolShades: Betty wears some nice shades during her BloodBath, for some reason.
40	* CountryMatters: When the prostitute mocks Rob's apparent erectile dysfunction, he angrily shouts "Don't laugh at me, you cunt!"
41	* CreatorCameo: Director and writer Jorg Buttgereit plays one of the Joe's Streetcleaning Agency workers.
42	* CreepyCemetery: Rob kills and rapes a prostitute in it, then murders its groundskeeper.
43	* CreepySouvenir: Rob takes home various human remains that he steals from work. Ranging from human hearts to a ''fetus''.
44	* CuteKitten: After being fired, Rob gets one to try and appease Betty. After realizing she's left, he stuffs it in a bag, and beats it to death.
45	* TheDeadHaveEyes: The corpse Rob brings home that he and Betty fool around with still has its eyes in tact despite being rotted to the point of being skeletal. Rob had a frequent habit of sucking one of said eyes out of the corpse's socket...
46	* DeathByMocking: The prostitute that Rob hires makes fun of his erectile dysfunction, which ends up getting her strangled to death.
47	* DecapitationPresentation: The woman that appears in Rob's bizarre dream hands him a box with a rotted, decapitated head inside. It even came gift wrapped.
48	* DisposableSexWorker: Rob hires a prostitute to satisfy his libido, but then proceeds to kill and rape her in that order.
49	* DramaticDrop: When the cemetery guard finds Rob and the dead prostitute, he drops the shovel he was olding in shock. [[OffWithHisHead Big mistake on his part]].
50	* DrivenToSuicide: Rob's first attempt, with alcohol and pills, is unsuccessful. Later, he just knifes himself.
51	* DrowningMySorrows: Rob starts drinking heavily after Betty leaves him. It cumulates in an unsuccessful suicide attempt by mixing pills and alcohol together.
52	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Betty has raven black hair and slightly pale skin.
53	* EtherealWhiteDress: Rob has an hallucination of a girl wearing an eerie pale dress. Given the theme of the film, it's not exactly out of place.
54	* ExtremeDoormat: Rob is pit of a pushover, letting himself get berated by his co-workers, Betty, a movie-goer, and a prostitute. Though he finally develops some backbone by the time the prostitute mocks him... albeit with strangulation involved.
55	* EyeScream: The driver losing an eye, the rabbit having both of its gouged out, and Rob sucking the corpse's eye out and spitting it back into the socket.
56	* FacialHorror: Rob is missing half of his face during his dream.
57	%%* FadeToBlack
58	* FilmWithinAFilm: Rob watches what seems to be a SlasherMovie late in the movie, and from what little of it was seen, it had just about every horror film cliché that was common at the time (a [[AbandonedArea ruined house]], an axe-wielding murderer with a MenacingStroll, the main character gives some MaleGaze by wearing {{stocking\|Filler}}s and outright female nudity, a ChaseScene, [[PeekABooCorpse a body in a bathtub]], the villain captures the main character using a TrapDoor, etc.).
59	* {{Flashback}}: Rob performing an autopsy, and the rabbit slaughter, which is later shown in reverse.
60	* GagPenis: Rob unleashes a superhuman-level of ejaculate while committing suicide.
61	%%* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Rob.
62	* {{Gorn}}: For a film centered on necrophilia, there's surprisingly little of it. However, the partial decapitation and the skinning of the rabbit are definitely quite bloody.
63	* GraveRobbing: A variation; Rob steals a corpse that he was supposed to take to the morgue.
64	* GrossUpCloseUp: Not that a corpse to the naked eye would be exactly appealing already, but no, they have to give the audience some ''[[SarcasmMode loving]]'' close-up shots of it.
65	* GuttedLikeAFish: A rabbit and a cat are shown being gutted very bloodily.
66	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A passenger in a car crash is shown betting bisected.
67	* HandbagOfHurt: As Rob is strangling her, the prostitute strikes him with her handbag.
68	* HemoErotic: Betty gets very aroused by blood.
69	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Let's say that trying to shoot birds while drunk is ill-advised: A man accidentally shoots his apple-picking neighbor in the neck as a result.
70	* ILoveTheDead:
71	** In case the title didn't tip you off, the film revolves around a man, his girlfriend, and their obsession with human remains.
72	** Of particular note is how, after his girlfriend Betty leaves him (absconding with a corpse in the process), Rob hires a prostitute to satisfy his libido, but then proceeds to kill and rape her. In that order.
73	* ImAHumanitarian: The source of the steak Rob and Betty have for breakfast is never identified, but considering its appearance and their obsession with dead bodies, the implications are... gross.
74	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The apple-picker getting shot in the neck.
75	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Bruno.
76	* KarmaHoudini: The man who accidentally shot his neighbor dead (while drunk!) does not appear to face any consequences for it.
77	* KickTheDog: Rob smashing the cat to death, and bathing in its spilled innards. At least his previous sexual proclivities weren't ''directly'' hurting anyone.
78	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: So many long, ''long'' scenes.
79	* LeFilmArtistique: Of the "True Art is Offensive" kind.
80	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: After hiring a prostitute and taking her to a cemetery, Rob is unable to get it up.
81	* LonelyPianoPiece: Most of the music consists of melancholic piano pieces that convey a sense of solitude.
82	* ALoveToDismember: Rob and Betty aren't discriminatory when it comes to their fetish; pieces of dead bodies are just as good as a whole dead body.
83	* MaleFrontalNudity: Rob bares all, primarily in his bathing scene.
84	* MeadowRun: Rob dreams about participating in a very odd one involving, among others things, flailing intestines and a head used as a ball.
85	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Granted, a threesome in which one of the participants is a ''dead corpse'' isn't exactly "mundane" per se, but the scene is shot like something out of a classy vintage porno, coming complete with beautiful music, slow motion, and artsy angles.
86	* MushroomSamba: The combination of alcohol and pills causes Rob to have a vision where he wakes up in a bodybag with half his face gone. A girl in white approaches him with a severed head in a box, which they play catch with before it transforms into entrails, which Rob dances through the meadow with.
87	* NamelessNarrative: You can count the number of named characters on one hand.
88	* NightmareFetishist: Betty and Rob are necrophiliacs, who have quite the grisly collection.
89	* NippleAndDimed: An odd case of this happening on a cover that's otherwise very much NSFW. While the cover shows a rotten, semi-skeletal corpse fondling a nude woman, the corpse conveniently covers one of the woman's breasts with one hand, while the other breast appears to ambiguously either be covered by the corpse's torso or [[BarbieDollAnatomy not have a nipple at all]].
90	* NumberedSequels: Yep, there's a ''Nekromantik 2!''
91	* OffWithHisHead: The cemetery guard gets killed after Rob beheads him with his own shovel.
92	* OminousFog: The night scenes in the film are full of ominous fog.
93	* OneWordTitle: "Nekromantik", but it consists of two words crammed together.
94	* OutWithABang: While stabbing himself, Rob starts ejaculating all over the place.
95	* {{Overcrank}}: The scenes of the threesome and when Betty is playing with the corpse alone are played in slow motion.
96	* {{Portmantitle}}: Try and guess what two words make it up.
97	* PunkInTheTrunk: Rob steals the corpse that he brings to his and Betty's home by putting it in the trunk of his car.
98	* RagingStiffie: Rob has an erection while killing himself.
99	* ReCut: As to be expected with this type of film.
100	* RedShirt: The death of the cemetery guard was rather superfluous, making it look like he was just there to be killed. It's especially egregious in that neither of the [[ILoveTheDead corpse-fetishistic]] main characters appear to think to do anything with his remains.
101	* SceneryGorn: While the audience isn't shown the moment it happens, the movie later gives a horrific, lovingly-detailed look at the aftermath of a car crash.
102	* ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience can only hear a scream when the car crash happens off-screen.
103	* SequelHook: The film ends with a woman digging up Rob's body, with the implication that she plans to subject his remains to the same "games" he liked to do to other corpses while alive.
104	* SeveredHeadSports: Rob and his dream girl play catch with a decapitated head.
105	* ShirtlessScene: Rob gets a shhirtless scene at one point.
106	* ShovelStrike: Rob beheads the cemetery guard with his own shovel.
107	* ShowerOfAngst: Rob bathes (in blood, admittedly) after Betty's departure.
108	* SilenceIsGolden: There are long stretches with no dialogue.
109	* SlashedThroat: The poor rabbit that get its throat cut by Rob.
110	* SoundtrackDissonance: Such a beautiful soundtrack for such an ugly little film.
111	* TakeThat: WordOfGod says that both ''Nekromantik'' films (and their infamous content) were mainly made to piss off the notoriously strict German censors and MoralGuardians.
112	* TakingTheKids: A variation; Rob and Betty live together with a corpse as a third wheel, and when Betty leaves, she absconds with the corpse.
113	%%* ThousandYardStare: Rob.
114	* ThreewaySex: Rob and Betty have a threesome with a corpse.
115	* TwoFaced: Rob, in his hallucination, has half his face gone.
116	* UnabashedBMovieFan: Rob goes to a skid row theatre to watch a SlasherMovie.
117	* UrineTrouble: The film begins with a woman peeing on a dead bird.
118	* VillainProtagonist: Rob is already at the start of the film a necrophiliac, but eventually crosses into full villainy when starts killing people (and a cat) to fill his urges.
119	* VillainousBreakdown: Rob tries to kill himself, fails, murders two people, then successfully kills himself.
120	%%* WallBangHer: Rob attempts to do this with (who? who's Rob banging?) against a tombstone.

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