Nekro

I heard about this movie while online, scowling through forums, looking for some of the most fucked up and disturbing movies around. It was brought up a few times along side August Underground and Martyrs and the like. My interest was peaked. I looked for it on the usual sites, amazon, ebay, xploited cinema. No dice. I tried to find it for download online, torrents, forums, upload sites. Nothing.

I went to the production studios site only to find out that they didn't exist any more. In Hell Productions only release and now they don't exist. It was intriguing. After digging through forums for hours, I finally found it. A link to a little, skeevy, site that claimed to have it. wtfdvds.com. I ordered it and waited.

It was a little off putting when it arrived in a jewel case, printed cover, and on a dvdr. But after thinking about it for a bit, I doubt this movie got an actual, full release. The length I had to go through to get this movie makes it a sort of gem in my collection. So now, on to it:

The movie opens with a long shot of a neighborhood road, you hear the silence as crows squawk and car engines putter, you feel serene. The grainy look and darkness of the film gives a foreboding sense. The thing that this movie gets right is that it drips with a realistic gloominess. Its stifling, it's unnerving, its great.

We watch as a van rounds the corner to this peaceful neighborhood and slowly pulls into a driveway. The back door is wrenched open by a man and the limp unconscious body of a woman is lifted out and dragged up the steps of the house. The mans walk is odd, almost inhuman, unsettling.

He rages as he drags her to the second story of the house, her heavy body complicating his ascent up the stairs. Final he reaches the room at the top. It's barren. Covered in plastic wrap and windowless. He throws her in and closes the door. Blackness.

She wakes in her new surroundings, bound, naked, and terrified. We feel that the only thing she can see is darkness and the light peeking in from the cracks around the door. Backing into a corner and panicking, she sees the light broken by a figure. Gutteral groans come from the other side of the door. Anger and frustration, you can see the form pacing as its shadow passes the door back and forth. Louder and louder.

The door bursts open as the man comes at her with a knife. He plunges it in, stabbing and stabbing and stabbing. He finally stops as his anger subsides and he sees her mangled lifeless mass lying there naked and bloody.

We watch as the man violently defiles her corpse. Fingering, licking, fucking. He switches from anger and intesity, to sorrow and regret, and back again. Its catches you off guard, the care at times, but then blasts you back with hatred.

As he finishes, there is a scraping. A rustling in the walls, muffled tones, movement. A bloody, terrified woman bursts from a crawlspace. Free from whatever hell the man had put her through. In his moments of ecstasy he is caught off guard, she grabs the knife from the floor. She stabs him over and over in a frenzy. Lifeless on his victim, she begins to panic at the scene.

It ends as we watch this fractured woman break down over what she has done, what she has been through.


Nekro is a low budget movie that would have worked a lot better had there been as little sound as possible. Its largest flaw being the horrible over dubbed sounds and growls that were put on top of such a dark and well done short.


All in all, Nekro is a great, disturbing look into the serial killer/necrophiliac mind that gets dragged down by bad sound.