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post #1 of 14
2/25/03 at 1:28pm
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If you're into extremely sick graphic horror you might have heard of the Spanish short "The Aftermath" by Nacho Cerda. Well, good news, guys! It's coming to DVD as a double feature with "Genesis". The good folks over at Unearthed Films have acquired the rights to those two controversial films.
Check it out:
<a href="http://unearthedfilms.com/" target="_blank">http://unearthedfilms.com/</a>

Not much info as of yet but definitely awesome news.

ILSA
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post #2 of 14
2/25/03 at 1:37pm
But they're also two of the most beautiful horror pictures ever made.

There's been a VHS available for a while in Europe with Aftermath, a making of and Cerda's first short The Awakening.

This is almost brilliant news. My only concern is that, with the Guinea Pig films, Unearted have marked themsleves out as a somewhat schlockier verion of Synapse (is that fair?) and I hope that people don't go into Aftermath expecting a riotous gore fest. It is graphic. But it is a deadly serious, hugely powerful and disturbing picture. Jim Van Bebber, a huge supporter of Cerda, infamously laid into a bunch of ignorant monkey-spunks at the Fantasia fest a few years back who sniggered and whooped at he gore in the picture.

Genesis is totally opposite to Aftermath, a spare, aching love story of a sculpter and his dead wife.

So glad Cerda's going to finally get some recognition at last though.

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post #3 of 14
2/25/03 at 2:06pm
Wow. We've had 'Aftermath' sitting in our living room for at least a year now and have never watched it, mainly because all I'd heard is it was massivly gory and not much else. Now that I know it's so well loved...
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post #4 of 14
2/25/03 at 2:07pm
It's not gory. But there is a lot of gore. If that makes sense.

Just stick your super cool film afficianado heads on and go for broke. It's quite tough and it's a jolting experience. But a grand one.
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post #5 of 14
2/25/03 at 3:16pm
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Yep, I used to have that tape when I was still living over in Europe. The Aftermath is an unbelievable short film. It's a very artsy kind of movie, not gory but extremely shocking and graphic. The corpses in it just look absolutely incredible. The make-up FX used are second-to-none. I'm really looking forward to the DVD. Love Unearthed Films! They're getting better and better.

ILSA
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post #6 of 14
2/25/03 at 3:18pm
Quote:
ILSA:
If you're into extremely sick graphic horror you might have heard of the Spanish short "The Aftermath" by Nacho Cerda. Well, good news, guys! It's coming to DVD as a double feature with "Genesis". The good folks over at Unearthed Films have acquired the rights to those two controversial films.
Check it out:
<a href="http://unearthedfilms.com/" target="_blank">http://unearthedfilms.com/</a>

Not much info as of yet but definitely awesome news.

ILSA
Damnit! I didnt even notice your post. My bad for not seeing this. =)

PEACE OUT!
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post #7 of 14
2/25/03 at 4:40pm
Never heard of it... Amazing... I've still so much to see.
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post #8 of 14
2/25/03 at 4:40pm
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Straxboy - Featuring John Lithgow:
It's not gory. But there is a lot of gore. If that makes sense.
My eyes just crossed.
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post #9 of 14
2/25/03 at 5:32pm
It's THE classiest necrophelia flick ever made! Gorgeously shot. Glad it's coming out... though don't know if I'll pick it up.
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post #10 of 14
2/26/03 at 6:38am
Now, y'see, you didn't need to put it quite like so eloquently as that...
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post #11 of 14
2/26/03 at 11:26am
Okay, watched it last night for the first time, and I have to agree with Straxboy...beautiful. Disturbing, yes, but not as bad as I had thought..ver clinical in it's depiction of gore, which does make it worse.

The coolest part was that the tape (from Blackest Heart...sure do miss them) had, after the movie of course, a making of featurette, a debate between Nacho and the director of 'Necormantik' (name escapes me, sorry) about death, and Nacho's first film, 'The Awakening'. I hope all that's on on Unearthed's DVD, it's good stuff.
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post #12 of 14
2/26/03 at 1:27pm
Yup, the most remarkable part of the tape is Jorg Buttgereit coming across like the man has an ounce of sense in his head. Ironic that this interview is conducted byt the man who made the absolute opposite type of picture in Nekromantik. He atones well here though...

Glad you "enjoyed" it fella.

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post #13 of 14
2/26/03 at 2:00pm
Quote:
Geekmonthly:
It's THE classiest necrophelia flick ever made!
No, that would be "Kissed".
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post #14 of 14
2/26/03 at 2:31pm
I couldn't get interested in Kissed, dunno why, I was really bummed too as I had bugged the shit out of my boss at the rental shop I worked at to pick it up. Ah well...

I saw Aftermath about 4 years ago when I first got that tape we watched last night. Powerful stuff, beautiful filmaking, even more beautiful due to the subject matter, and of course doubly disturbing to think something so well presented can look so great.

Good stuff, I will most definitely pick up the DVD when it's available.
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