Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit

“Left for Good. Took the corpse.”

Jörg Buttgereit has a reputation as one of the most original, innovative and dangerous of filmmakers, banned — and bootlegged — the world over. His work, notably Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking, and Schramm, traverses horror and art-house genres with a dry wit, dealing explicitly with themes of sex and death. He is perhaps the first and only true DIY filmmaker superstar, having been championed by a worldwide post-“video nasties” horror zine communi...