Thursday, February 7, 2008

Nekromantic 2 (1991) 3/10

So I watched the original Nekromantic a couple of years ago and was simultaneously disgusted and bored. I didn't think it was possible but the German flick proved me wrong. I figured since the sequal actually got made and was produced about 5 years after the original, I thought the script would be better. Nope. In fact it's worse.

If you couldn't figure it out from the title Nekromantic 2 is about a woman who loves the dead. I mean loves the dead. Sounds like a gross but possibly entertaining idea right? Wrong. The film is mostly filled with useless dialogue scenes, character's walking sequences, and other garbage material. There is a pretty good does of necrophilia and dismemberment but its super disgusting and difficult to watch. This would have been tolerable if the rest of the film backed it up but it's almost as if the Writer/Director didn't know how to fill a feature length film with anything of substance. It seems like he just wanted to gross the audience out and play the rest of the film off like a piece of arthouse garbage. Well he suceeded, but only half way. The film is much too exploitative to be taken seriously and too pretentious to just simply laugh off.

So, if you really want to be grossed out then just FWD to all the gross out scenes and skip the rest.

Nudity - medium
Gore- medium-high
Overall - 3/10

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