Nekromantik

Robert Schmadtke works for a street cleaning company that handles the aftermath of fatal incidents. His job allows him to indulge in necrophilia fetishes, which saturate his private life with a disturbing contrast to his outward duties. His apartment is filled with centerfolds, models, and jars of preserved human parts, revealing the depths of his fixation.

A dead man is recovered from a lake by the cleaning crew and brought to the couple's apartment. Robert becomes fascinated by the decayed corpse and secretly brings it into Betty's world as a gift. This act marks the beginning of their twisted ritual.

The couple cuts off part of a wooden chair leg and attaches it to the corpse's crotch, then covers it with a condom. Betty eagerly treats the modified body as a sexual instrument. This grotesque action cements their shared necrophilic dynamic.

The next day, coworkers confront Robert at work, and his chronic tardiness and the odor from the suit in his locker lead to his firing. The termination exposes their private fixation to the outside world and forces a reckoning with consequences. Robert returns home to tell Betty what happened.

Robert informs Betty about losing his job, and she chastises him before departing with the corpse that has become part of their ritual. Their isolation deepens as she takes the body away, leaving Robert alone in the apartment. This marks a turning point in their relationship and the unraveling of their shared life.

Overwhelmed by the collapse of his life, Robert kills their pet cat and then bathes in its entrails. He spirals into despair, signaling the depths of his fixation and the collapse of any sense of normalcy. The act demonstrates how far he has fallen.

He drinks whiskey, takes pills, and falls into a dream where he is a partially decayed corpse playing with a decayed severed head beside a girl dressed in white. The dream foreshadows his disintegration and his obsession with death and decomposition. It blurs the line between wakefulness and nightmare.

That night, Robert hires a gigolette and they go to a cemetery, hoping the atmosphere will heighten his arousal. He fails to perform sexually in the eerie setting, and the gigolette mocks him. The scene marks the escalation of his fragility and dependence on death for stimulation.

In a surge of rage, Robert strangles the gigolette and then continues with necrophiliac activity using the corpse. The act deepens his descent into violence and his fixation on dead bodies.

The next morning, an old gravedigger stumbles upon the scene and confronts Robert and the corpse. Robert grabs the gravedigger's shovel and decapitates him before fleeing back to his apartment. The violence marks a turning point in his break from reality.

Back in his apartment, Robert stabs himself in the stomach, dying as he experiences a final ejaculation. The suicide ends the immediate horrors and seals his fate within the macabre story.

Some time later, an unseen figure in high heels is shown digging up Robert's grave, suggesting that the consequences of his actions linger beyond his death. The haunting image hints at an afterword where death continues to cast its shadow.