Sunday, September 7, 2014

Necrophile Passion (2013, Tom Heidenberg)

"Necrophile Passion" was obviously going for the ol' "extreme-arthouse" approach, but really just ends up being lame and boring. It basically just comes across as a very simplistic and amateurish necrophilia fetish film...

A guy finds the corpse of a woman in the woods. He contemplates calling 911, but ends up taking her home and boning her. He then has some flashbacks of a bitchy woman nagging him before he goes into the bathroom and slices his own shoulder with a blade. Somewhere in there, there's a long scene of a chick fucking a decomposed body (... that looked like it was coated in barbecue sauce). He then hears some voices and has some rough sex with his girlfriend, whom he wants to kill. There's also a very abrupt 'twist' ending.

I'd say the only halfway 'interesting' thing about "Necrophile Passion" was how the corpse banging was actually conducted in a way that was meant to be 'erotic'. Or at least that's how it appeared. Still, that all happens early on and is pretty drawn out, which leaves the rest of the movie seeming aimless and dull. Clearly, this flick was very "Nekromantik"-influenced in it's attempts at being aesthetically distinctive, but it just ends up falling flat and being a tedious and highly pretentious piece of shit, even despite the runtime coming in at under an hour. For better necro-themed films, check out the short film,"Nekro", or Nacho Cerda's "Aftermath". Or, of course, the classic works of Jorg Buttgerreit.

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