Daktari Lorenz

Graphic, low-budget gore-shocker about Rob and Betty, a couple of ordinary necrophiles who apparently don't mind if their dead sexual partners are not so fresh. Rob's job affords him the opportunity t...( read more  read more... )o bring home corpses and the odd body part; when he loses his job, he loses Betty, and Rob's life gets REALLY bizarre.

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Unrated, 75 min.

Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit

Release Date: January 1, 1987

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  • September 23, 2009
    A necrophiliac loses his job and grilfriend amidst randomly inserted shock scenes of urination, decay, sexual violence and (real) animal cruelty. Virtually no plot or characterization, and rudimentary cinematography; submitted as a student film without the grossout scenes, it wo...( read more)uld probably get a D-. Insert audacious---but ludicrous---scenes of a woman making love to a corpse, and it suddenly becomes a classic in some quarters.
  • March 28, 2009
    First off, I didn't really "like" this film. But, when a film is filled with necrophilia, animal killings, eye-ball sucking and worse, I doubt it was ever meant to be liked. If anything Nekromantik sees how far it can push us. I never felt comfortable, which makes me glad. It's r...( read more)ather well made and is smart and merciful enough to keep things short. The infamous threesome is disgusting and hilarious at the same time. The excellent use of music presents it as an actual love scene and "normal". Actually the music was the first thing to stick out. It's unpleasant, dirty, foul and sickening. Unlike, films such as Hostel, it doesn't glamorise any of the things it presents.
  • March 6, 2008
    Most. Annoying. Score. EVER! Apart from a few hilarious scenes, this film nearly put me to sleep. I was expecting a lot more! And I'm really not a fan of seeing animals skinned and gutted, (in this case, a furry little bunny), which was essentially the only disturbing scene Ne...( read more)kromantik had to offer. I am always disappointed when a film has to incorporate a random animal killing in order to try and repulse its audience. There's just no point to it. The last scene made this worth watching though. I pissed myself laughing! (I'm not going to spoil it, but it was phenomenal!)
  • January 9, 2008
    Jorg Buttgereit's "Nekromantik" is one of the most taboo-breaking horror films ever made.Very few movies talk openly about necrophilia("Aftermath","Kissed","Buio Omega","Lucker","Love Me Deadly","Nekro","Mosquito the Rapist"),however this subject is quite fascinating because it d...( read more)raws links between sex and death.Rob(Daktari Lorenz)cleans different places and removes the corpses whenever there was a murder,or an accident.One day,Rob's girlfriend(Beatrice M.)has an idea to steal a corpse and to play with it.The corpse is treated like the third person and all of them make a perverted threesome.But one day Rob is fired from his work and his girlfriend dumps him,and leaves with the dead lover.For Rob it's a beginning of complete madness... "Nekromantik" is pretty gross-there is plenty of yucky gore on display.The ending is truly sick and memorable.So if you like extreme cinema give this one a look.


    Nekromantik is very hardcore and graphic. There are only a few movies that can be in the same league in its genre. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the first one and original) had demented characters that finally are not punished like they always are in moral guided horror films. Cannibal Holocaust has a graphic approach similar to this film. Some moments of the first Hellraiser (it included a romantic scene of a woman and a resurrected corpse) could be compared.

    But Nekromantik dares to go further than those movies (with less money), there's no moral view over the necrophilia... it is treated lightly, like ordinary everyday stuff. I don't want to spoil anything but I suggest you to pay attention to the last scene... if that's not completely disgusting I don't know where is the disgusting stuff in cinema.

    Buttgereit like many filmmakers used horrifying and gory elements in his first steps. In most cases when an amateur director does 'zombie movie', intentionally or unintentionally, the final result is a comedy. Even if they want to be taken seriously, in most cases people just laugh at what they see. This author made a comedy that most people feel it's not funny at all. Maybe it's because of the particular German sense of humor or something else. Buttgereit's cinema is shocking and bizarre. Those are two compliments that Buttgereit achieved with Blood (many blood and guts also), sweat and tears. But I don't want to be misunderstood; I challenge people to see this movie, because it's ground breaking (even today) not like the typical 'Scream-clones' out there
  • June 12, 2007
    Hands down the absolute worst movie I've had the distinct displeasure of seeing. My eyes are still mad at me.
  • November 27, 2009
    Terrible. Film gives serious tips about maniacs. More broadly further details about roots of torturing, killing, cutting, knifing, disgusting.

    More than bizarre.
  • October 29, 2009
    This underground German horror film deals with the taboo subject of necrophilia - the urge to crack open a cold one.
  • October 27, 2009
    I'm gonna look this up.
  • October 26, 2009
    A very gross, disturbing, and down right disgusting film, I have heard. I can't wait to see it.
  • October 20, 2009
    c'è da dire che visto con sonorizzazione di cupio dissolvi & co nel contesto del post romantic empire, con un bel pò di gin lemon in corpo, deve aver contribuito. stellina che va stellina che viene.

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  • HorrorMaster
    October 15, 2008
    You stupid, idiotic, braindead freak. What the fuck did your parents do to you when you were young to possess you to not only give this film five stars but to actually wear the film's t-shirt, which is, morally, the equivalent of a nazi symbol?

    It defies all logic that a human being who is still physically and technically a human being, could even enjoy this abomination for any reason other than extreme self-loathing. Jesus, fucking, Christ.
  • yojimbo1961
    August 20, 2008
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