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When I saw the dailies – as we say (laughs) – of Nekromantic, which was not the dailies, because when you shot on Super8, it took two weeks for the films to come back… so after two weeks, I saw the footage and I felt that it looked too normal and not dirty enough, so I was a little bit worried. That Super8 look is very important to the film. But when you transfer Super8 film stock to HD material there is not more depth, and there is no 3D effect, you get more dirt and more grain, so I’m happy (laughs). It was a lot of annoying work and I felt, what’s the use, because I prefer the movie to look very dirty (laughs). It took ages because we did our old master from the Super8 film stock, which is not negative but positive film stock, because Super8 is made for daddy’s home films from the 70s, so you don’t have a negative. Jörg Buttgereit: The idea of releasing it on Blu-ray is something we had in mind for quite a while. Virginie Sélavy: What’s your reaction to the fact that Nekromantik is getting an official Blu-ray release in the UK? Virginie Sélavy talks to Jörg Buttgereit about the naivety of serial killers, disappointing people’s expectations and the academic theory that saved him from jail. This release, 27 years after its creation, finally makes widely available a film that has much more to offer than shock for shock’s sake. Shot with friends on Super8 in the greatest underground tradition, the story of necrophiles Rob and Betty, and the corpse that comes between them, became notorious and sought after for its outrageously grisly imagery. Banned in a number of countries, the film was never officially banned in Britain, having never been submitted to the BBFC, although any imported copies would have been seized by British customs.

Just in time for Christmas, Arrow Video are releasing Jörg Buttgereit’s legendary underground sex-and-death shocker Nekromantik on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in the UK. Writers: Jörg Buttgereit, Franz RodenkirchenĬast: Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt Format: 3-disc digipak (Blu-ray, DVD, CD)