"I want to master life and death" - Ted Bundy

The sequel to NEKROMANTIK starts exactly were the first film had finished: with a high-heeled woman’s foot ramming a spade into the grave of Rob, the hero of the precursor. Monika  has read about the violent demise of Rob, and become fascinated with him and his love for all things dead. Now she’s digging him up to start an intimate relationship with his rotting remains.

But being a true necrophiliac is not as easy as she had expected: her first try at a romantic night of love-making with the smelly carcass sends her to the bathroom puking. She does not completely give up on Rob, though... At about the same time she meets a rather sweet and quiet living guy, Mark, and they begin a cautious relationship. Mark is shocked by some of Monika’s habits  but in general, he loves her and they have a fairly good time. But Monika grows bored very soon. She still has some parts of Rob in the fridge...

If Rob was too dead and smelly and Mark is too alive and bothersome - what about creating a new bedtime partner by using the best parts of both? In the midst of making love to Mark, she begins her bloody work...

This final segment proved to be too much for the German authorities to tolerate. A movie theater premiering the film was raided and the film was banned for several years.

Johannes Schönherr

NEKROMANTIK 2 quite wisely abandons the gross-out and pursues a kind of low-key humor. The idea of corpse-fucking has lost its novelty (if you can imagine that), so Buttgereit pursues the peculiar sexual problem of his female protagonist, using the slimy corpse as both a prop for sight gags and as a symbol for the alienation of a woman with a peculiar sexual proclivity.

The hero is a women (played by one Monika M.) who digs up the fresh grave of NEKROMANTIK's deceased protagonist and hauls the corpse home. Rather than just humping the damn thing, she's interested in spending a little more quality time with it. She props it up next to her on the sofa and takes Polaroids of the two of them together. But sex is unsatisfactory, so she carves out the corpse's genitals and stores them in the fridge while she courts a real live boyfriend (who dubs porno films for a living).

Again we see a movie within the movie, this one a black & white parody of "art" films -- again Buttgereit seems to be making a point about what his movie may be expected to be, in sharp contrast to what it really is. "The classic European art film is worthless to my generation," he may be saying. "This means nothing anymore."
 
Buttgereit later said that he tried to make NEKROMANTIK 2 a film that would appeal to women, and he feels that he succeeded. Indeed, Buttgereit is very kind to his women. They are consistently portrayed as more independent than his men (if a little on the weird side), and the most violent scenes in both movies are the deaths of men rather than women.

Bryant Frazer

Directed by
Jörg Buttgereit        
 
Written by
Jörg Buttgereit        
Franz Rodenkirchen

Produced by
Manfred O. Jelinski

Cast
Monika M.: Monika
Mark Reeder: Mark
Lena Braun: Porno-synch girl
Jörg Buttgereit: Cinema Audience
Carola Ewert: Nekro-gang member
Astrid Ewerts: Nekro-gang member
Florian Koerner: Drunk at bar
Käthe Kruse: Actress in film playing at cinema
Eva-Maria Kurz: Nekro-gang member
Daktari Lorenz: Robert in flashback sequence
Beatrice Manowski: Betty
Wolfgang Müller: Actor in film playing at cinema
Petra: Nekro-gang member
Franz Rodenkirchen: Cinema Audience
Vanessa Salata: Girl at bar
Simone Spörl: Ex Girlfriend of Mark
John Boy Walton: Piano player
Eddi Zacharias: Barkeeper
Bjoern Zielaskowki: Man in cinema

Cinematography by Manfred O. Jelinski        
 
Film Editing by Jörg Buttgereit, Manfred O. Jelinski

Musik by Hermann Kopp ,Daktari Lorenz, John Boy Walton
Peter Kowalski
 
Special Effects by Alois Vollert & Sammy Balkas   

Visual Effects by Manfred O. Jelinski

Sound recording: Harald Weis   

Best Boy: Jan Hartmann
 
Assistant Director: Franz Rodenkirchen
 
poster artist: Andreas Marschall