Der Todesking (1990)

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Avg Rating: 4 / 5. Voted: 71

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AKA: The Death King
Year: 1999
Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit
Starring: Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Eva M Kurz, Angelika Hoch, Nicholas Petche
Country: Germany
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 01:15:27
Genres: Bizarre-Surreal, Nazism, Violence against Men, Snuff, Necrophilia, Mass Killings

Plot – Spoilers:
A slightly surreal take on death, mostly suicide, from the director of Nekromantik.

Der Todesking consists of seven shorts named after the days of the week. Other than the overlying theme of death and a recurring body in varied stages of decomposition, the seven stories are not inter-connected.

Music is an integral part of the movie and is quite brilliant especially the soundtrack to the decomposing body. Some of the more interesting scenes include:
1. A long continuous rotating shot of a room with a man doing different things at different times of the day. Lots of rehearsals probably went into this to make sure the actor got his timing right.

2. Two sexy female Nazis cutting off the cock of a prisoner with shears.

3. A disgruntled boyfriend watching the above scene, then shooting his girlfriend and framing her splatter on the wall as a photographic memory.

4. The philosophies spoken by the mass-murder woman are eerily current in our times of mass shootings.

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mar
mar
October 21, 2023 9:17 pm

waste of time Nekromantik it is the only film id watch again of this guy

hhhx
hhhx
June 6, 2023 9:57 pm

love everything about this movie

Buttrodgers
Buttrodgers
January 5, 2023 8:53 am

Serious contender for one of the worse movies ever made!!!

ThisDude
ThisDude
October 6, 2022 10:02 pm

The rotting body effects are very good, the cracked skin, bones and maggots are too detailed.

Hatemale
Hatemale
February 14, 2022 7:56 am

serious SERIOUSLY
WTF
Not for me
Only decent scene was the penis removal…..

ThisDude
ThisDude
Reply to  Hatemale
October 6, 2022 10:07 pm

Schramm has better cock mutilation effects

ruby rain
ruby rain
August 23, 2021 8:08 pm

the woman that was watching the couple kissing was pathetic and you can tell she never cleaned those damn windows.the movie was boring as shit and i regret wasting my time on this bullshit

Rape Van Winkle
Rape Van Winkle
Reply to  ruby rain
August 20, 2023 5:46 am

I regret wasting my time reading this boring bullshit comment.

PeterGillis
PeterGillis
April 14, 2021 2:15 pm

Guaranteed this movie has the best theme track of any movie on this site.
Don’t @ me. 5*

Matisse Famke
Matisse Famke
March 1, 2021 9:16 am

The young man choosing to commit suicide by carbon dioxide inhalation was heartbreaking to watch. I found these features mesmerizing.

ThisDude
ThisDude
Reply to  Matisse Famke
October 6, 2022 10:05 pm

I got distracted here because he looks too old to wear captain america undies and sleep with a teddy bear, maybe the scene was meant to be a child but they didn’t get a good actor.

fred fat
fred fat
January 17, 2021 11:09 pm

the guy in the last sequence had just been told he’d have to watch the first six days again
interesting idea but lame film

Zed Man
Zed Man
July 12, 2020 11:57 am

Possibly one of the dumbest, pointless movies I have seen for a while. Sorry, did not enjoy it at all.

Dee
Dee
December 15, 2019 7:27 am

More beautiful than effed up.