Even today with the likes of Deadgirl by Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel and The Corpse of Anna Fritz from Héctor Hernández Vicens, which both look at the topic of necrophilia in ways that will corrupt the mind, nothing seems to come close to the portrayal that is forced upon the audience in Aftermath. There is an element to that which comes from the found footage aspect of Nekro and that it is designed to have that raw, gritty look to it, but you can see how the production of Aftermath has led to it still being watchable and looking good.īut how did Aftermath become one of the most talked about extreme horror movies? The question that anyone interested in this disturbing sub-genre wants to know. It you compare Mick Nard’s later 1998 short extreme horror film Nekro to Aftermath, you’ll see that even though the former has a few years on it’s senior, it seems to have aged worse. Compared to some of its counterparts that were filmed in the same decade, it still is sleek in it’s approach which makes this in some ways even more unbearable to be witness too. Surprisingly this short extreme horror film was made in 1994, as it has the style, atmosphere and quality that would be expected from an ambitious film made more recently. It gets under your skin very quickly and embeds itself there to ensure you are left with this sense of feeling like you’ve committed an atrocious act just by being a bystander. Therefore the only way for him to overcome these overwhelming sensations is to give into his lust and begin to fondle, abuse and fuck the corpse that lays upon the metal slab in front of him.Īftermath has a quickened runtime of 30 minutes, which is a godsend to the audience because even after fifteen minutes it becomes increasingly tough to watch this depravity without feeling like dirt is cascading from your exposed skull down until the ligaments in your toes. Yet in Aftermath, one mortician finds he cannot control is sexual urges during the preparation of the body of a young girl who died in a car crash. The morgue is typically a place where those who work in the darkened depths of loss, suffering and the end of life are respectful and understanding that these bodies hold a strong significance for people. It’s in Nacho Cerdá’s film Aftermath that the audience become fully aware of what it means to have a sexual fascination with necrophilia. Yet our inner psyche seems to have this magnetic pull towards aspects of the world that make us shocked, we cannot escape our inner curiosity which is why the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” always seems to be relevant. There is nothing more controversial than the unexplainable phenomenon of necrophilia it is a hidden disgust of life that we as humans cannot comprehend purely because it disgusts us to our very core.
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