Love & Death: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit

Love & Death: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit

Controversial, crazy, shocking, disturbing… Using any of those words to describe horror director Jörg Buttgereit’s output would be putting it mildly! Over the years, the Berlin based filmmaker has created some of the genre’s most graphic and twisted films and cemented his reputation as one of cult cinema’s grisliest auteurs.

ARROW invites you to feast your eyes upon three of Buttgereit’s most infamous works: Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2 and Schramm. Plus a very special documentary from ARROW Stories on the making of Nekromantic looking at the impact of the film on the horror scene both in the UK and abroad, featuring interviews with Buttgereit, genre critic Alan Jones, Buttgereit biographer David Kerekes and others.

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Love & Death: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit
  • Nekromantik

    Nekromantik is the one-of-a-kind shock classic from cult director Jörg Buttgereit, weaving the tale of Rob Schmadtke (Daktari Lorenz), a young man who finds himself competing for the affections of his girlfriend with a putrefying cadaver.

    An employee of Joe's Street cleaning Agency, a company w...

  • Nekromantik 2

    Monika isn’t like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves as the object of her affections. But then she meets good-natured Mark, and soon finds herself torn between the prospect of a ‘normal’ life with a living, breathing partner and her o...

  • Schramm

    Controversial German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2) takes you into the twisted mind of a deranged sex killer in the last of his feature films to date, 1993's deeply disturbing Schramm.

    Lothar Schramm, the so-called "Lipstick Killer", lies dying in a pool of blood and pai...

  • Der Todesking

    The second feature film from German provocateur Jörg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking (The King of Death) presents seven suicides across seven days of the week.

    As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed Brotherhood of the 7th Day circulates encouraging its re...