Jörg Buttgereit
Jörg has an unhealthy fascination for death and extreme perversion but he doesn't exploit it, he explores it. His interesting, even artistic direction and use of music are effectively gripping, but his subject matter is almost always extreme and twisted, and his camera is unflinching and fearless. Buttgereit is a serious director with talent, and sometimes even has something to say. As such, he should not be compared to his peers like Ittenbach and Schnaas who deal with simple splatter.
Brooding, artsy ruminations on suicide and death shown as a series of suicides intercut with scenes of a decomposing corpse. Death is explored as part of the cycle of life and as a solution for empty lives, depression, problems, the need for celebrity status and cult religion, etc. Atmospheric, depressing and dark, but devoid of any intellectual stimulation.
The most explicit and fearless exploration of necrophilia with plenty of extra shock values added to boot. A man works for a company that cleans up death scenes. He shares a very unhealthy fascination with his girlfriend for cadavers, gore and body parts which he collects in jars at home. One day he brings back a rotting leaking corpse and they have a romantic threesome but then his girl dumps him and runs off with the corpse. Distraught, the man finds other ways to console himself which includes bathing in his own cat's guts, murdering and raping corpses and stabbing himself literally to a bloody orgasm. To the film's credit, it's not a simple shock-fest. The direction and style is interesting and it explores issues such as desensitization, comparing the gore while killing animals for food and people's fascination with horror. But let's face it, this is utterly vile.
An artistic portrait of a very disturbed man, exploring the last days of a serial killer. This man kills Christian missionaries that come knocking at his door then takes pictures of their corpses in sexual positions, has guilty fantasies and dreams of his own body being disfigured and dismembered, imagines dentists pulling out his eyes, and vaginas with teeth (amongst other things). His relationship with the local whore is also ridden with guilt and obsessions as he drugs and molests her, leading him to the notorious scene where he nails his penis to a chair. Extremely moody, twisted and dark.
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl cheats on boy. Boy gets beat up. Boy rapes and impregnates girl. Girl gives birth. Baby turns into boy-monster. Boy-monster axes girl. Boy takes her heart back, literally.
So how do you make a sequel for a movie about necrophilia when the protagonist is dead? The answer is obvious. This time around, the main protagonist is a female, however, who has a fling with the rotting, putrid corpse but then falls for a live man and therefore has to chop up her previous 'lover'. But she can't get rid of all the parts... So what is a girl to do when she gets bored of the new boyfriend who doesn't share her perverse tastes? Chop off his head while having sex and replace it with the rotting one of course! Yet again, Buttgereit explores and compares romance, sex, porn, necrophilia, gore and animal butchering and our varying sensitivies for them. It's artistic and well-done but simply too vile to recommend.