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Squirtle
14-01-2002, 13:44
Anyone prepared to admit owning this "filth". Are they as sick as most reviews suggest?
I have Nekro 1 (Barrel release), and Nekro 2 is out shortly from Barrel also, which I may also purchase.
I happen to think it's a good film, where the nastiness makes sense within the context of the film and the situations contained therein.
Great stuff. Though undeniably grim...
Squirtle
14-01-2002, 14:25
Where did you get no. 1 from? Would imagine it would give the customs man a heart attack!? :D
I have N1 and have to say it's pretty much dreadful. It's a shame - interview's with the director suggest he's far more interesting than this film is. It's not sooo gruesome though. If you're not just after the shock value I'd recommend Der Todesking, it's a far more interesting film, though still not amazing...
I tries to watch Nekromantik a few years back but gave up after half and hour or so because it was absolutely terreible (IMHO)
Michael Brooke
14-01-2002, 16:36
I've seen <I>Nekromantik 2</I> - on the big screen, no less - and it's barely watchable dreck: there's about enough plot material for five minutes, which is stretched out well beyond breaking point by a director with seemingly no talent whatsoever apart from a couple of appropriately gross ideas.
I would have walked out if it hadn't been in a double bill with the far superior <I>Deranged</I>, which was showing afterwards.
If you lot think Nekro is bad, you should try sitting through mr buttrgeriets'(sp) SCHRAMM blimey-talk about dull!
It makes Nekro look like a work of art!
Then again Nekro 2 is a lot better, more gory.
Evilbones
19-10-2006, 14:31
Watched the first one last night and the image of the end is still burned into my skull, it was this 'White Splash' bit, cant wait till the GF watches this un, Ferox scared the 'Wii' out of her.
Great yet twisted Film
Holy thread resurrection batman. This one even has a post from the legendary Michael Brooke
Holy thread resurrection batman. This one even has a post from the legendary Michael Brooke
...and SQUIRTLE!!!!!11111111 :luv:
SIMON ADEBISI
19-10-2006, 15:19
Holy thread resurrection batman. This one even has a post from the legendary Michael Brooke
He only made 16 posts. i thought he was the big man around here back in the day?
Evilbones
19-10-2006, 16:37
I'm one of those rare people that use the 'Search' Button b4 posting lol
Holy thread resurrection batman.
It's amazing how many old threads get bumped up in the Movie Forum.
Moving to World Cinema and DVD Forum
Shingster
19-10-2006, 22:09
He only made 16 posts. i thought he was the big man around here back in the day?
Pah! In his prime Brookie used to make 16 posts a second! :suspect:
George vader
20-10-2006, 09:14
He certainly did, I miss the mad opinionated fool :dork:
...and SQUIRTLE!!!!!11111111 :luv:
Hang on, the SQUIRTLE account appears to be active which means you are running two accounts at the same time :nono:
I've seen them both. I think they are very well made films personally, the second getting credit for following a different direction than part 1, rather than being a cheap cash in. They are an excellent blend of art house and horror.
..and both have endings that are quite unforgettable.
Was there any truth to the thing I read a long time ago about Buttgerreit only making Nekro 1 as he got turned down for some art grant, so wanted to make something shocking?
I liked them when i saw them first, but was an impressionable teenager and i dont know if i'd like them now. I do remember the best thing about all Buttgereit films is their soundtracks. The one for Der Todesking is fantastic.
Yeh, strange soundtracks! Nekro 2 actually comes in a ltd edition with the soundtrack to both movies included.. very odd indeed.
I wasnt so quick seeing the Nekro films, yet wanted to see them since hearing about them as a teen. As i'm far from teenage, I expected to be let down - but wasnt. I think the younger you are, the more you want and expect an ott splatfest.. when they are actually quite contemplative & well made art house flicks. I think if I saw them when I was younger I would have hated them.. but as it is, I was surprised to find myself rather impressed.
Like Texas Chainsaw.. as a teen - and i'm ashamed to admit it - I was disappointed when I first saw it (and all the effort I went too to get a copy!). Now its one of my favourite horror movies - as it has been for many, many years. It always makes me roll my eyes when youngsters say how the remake is far superior to the original - they miss the point completely. Its far from the slick, polished, showing-a-budget "safe" gore that people expect these days.
anephric
20-10-2006, 16:02
Doesn't a Michael Brooke write for Sight & Sound now? Is it the same geeezer?
LordoftheDance
20-10-2006, 16:15
Well I used to be stigdu on here, and I still maintain that part 1 is very original in concept and execution, and succeeds in its aims as far as I'm concerned.
Part 2 is bloody awful though. Except the last 5 minutes.
I saw both Nekro films on the big screen in festivals at the Scala cinema.
Nekromantic was the last film at the second 24 hr Shock around the clock , it came on at 6 am (the programmers figured it wouldn't matter if people walked out of the last film). I was sitting next to the film reviewer for Kerrang! who after it finished said that he felt the need to stab the director (mainly for the rabbit sequence). Luckily he had another job that day and didn't wait around outside.
Nekro 2 was shown as part of an Eastern Heroes Extreme Festival.This time evryone knew what they were in for and we all left with the no doubt entirely legal VHS of the film £30 Bargain !
It's a shame that Buttgereit hasn't really done anything (bar appearing in dvd extras for other people films) since Schramm (and an episode of Lexx). I suspect that since his producer Manfred Jelinsky committed suicide (due to the numerous criminal cases against the films in Germany, though it has been suggested that Jorg not being around- he was a minor horror celeb at that point and was travelling the world- didn't help) he couldn't find anyone to finance his films.
Gary Couzens
20-10-2006, 17:56
Doesn't a Michael Brooke write for Sight & Sound now? Is it the same geeezer?
Yes. To both questions.
And I found Nekromantik 2 barely watchable - for reasons of tedium more than anything else.
anephric
20-10-2006, 20:27
I've always thought Buttgereit films were vile, self-reflexively transgressive rubbish. I've never seen a grain of art (be it corpse-******* or not) in them and I can't say I miss the fact he's not making films any more. I thought he made music videos or something now?
Surprised at the negativity for Nekro 2. Felt it was a very strong flick - although the 'seal' sequence I had a bit of a hard time with.
Doesn't a Michael Brooke write for Sight & Sound now? Is it the same geeezer ?
It surely is. Unless the £3.46 (reduced from £4.98 no less - cheap me ?) Sauvignon Blanc I'm swigging has blurred my memory beyond its normally questionable state, I swear I saw a review of his pop up on DVDTimes last week.
Shingster
20-10-2006, 23:02
Brooke used to review for DVDtimes regularly but for whatever reason decided to give that up, he recently submitted a new review to us and it's up there now. I don't know if this will signal a return to the DVDtimes fold or just a one off.
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