"Director: Jörg Buttgereit"

• Nekromantik 2 | Blu Ray | (07/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Return of the Loving Dead Monika isn’t like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves the object of her affections. But then the good-natured Mark comes into her life, and she finds herself torn between the prospect of a ‘normal’ life with a living partner and her overwhelming love for her rotting bed-fellow. Once prosecuted in its native Germany for “glorifying violence”, Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his ground-breaking Nekromantik is just as shocking as its reputation would suggest. But it’s also a profoundly moving (if decidedly twisted) love story, and a thought-provoking meditation on death – that most mysterious aspect of the human condition. 3-Disc Director-Approved Limited Edition Contents: New High-Definition transfer of the feature from the original 16mm camera negative, supervised by producer Manfred Jelinski High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Optional English subtitles Limited Edition packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx Individually-numbered #/3,000 Certificate Exclusive Limited Edition 100-page book Disc 1 & Disc 2 - Nekromantik 2 Audio commentary with Jörg Buttgereit, co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen, and actors Monika M. and Mark Reeder Brand new interviews with Buttgereit and Reeder The Making of Nekromantik 2 – vintage documentary featuring a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage, viewable with two different audio tracks: an English commentary with Buttgereit, Franz Rodenkirchen, Monika M. and Buttgereit biographer David Kerekes, and a German-language audio track featuring radio interviews with Buttgereit and Rodenkirchen, subtitled in English Outtakes Reel Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert – footage from the 2011 live performance of the film score in Berlin, featuring Monika M. Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert – the complete 20-track audio recording of the Berlin concert [DVD-ROM content] A Moment of Silence at the Grave of Ed Gein – Jörg Buttgereit short film Two Buttgereit-directed music videos: ‘Rise Up’ by Die Krupps (1997), starring Monika M., and ‘Die Frau in der Musik’ by Stereo Total (2007) Complete collection of Buttgereit feature film trailers: Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Nekromantik 2 and Schramm Extensive image gallery Disc 3 (CD) – Nekromantik 2 Soundtrack - Limited Edition Exclusive CD featuring the complete Nekromantik 2 soundtrack 100-Page Book - Limited Edition Exclusive Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing on Nekromantik 2 from Electric Sheep editor Virginie Selavy alongside archive pieces, all illustrated with new artwork and original archive stills PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!

• Nekromantik 2 | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE RETURN OF THE LOVING DEAD Monika isn't like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves as the object of her affections. But then she meets good-natured Mark, and soon finds herself torn between the prospect of a ˜normal' life with a living, breathing partner and her overwhelming desire for her rotting bed-fellow. Once prosecuted in its native Germany for glorifying violence, Jörg Buttgereit's follow-up to his ground-breaking Nekromantik is just as shocking as its reputation would suggest. But it's also a profoundly moving (if decidedly twisted) love story, and a thought provoking meditation on the nature of life and death. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition transfer approved by director Jörg Buttgereit High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles Audio commentary with Buttgereit Introduction to the film with Buttgereit Masters of Life and Death a brand new documentary looking at the film's production and release history City of the Loving Dead a walking tour of some of the original Berlin locations with Reeder and Jelinski Necropolis: Jörg Buttgereit's Berlin film scholar Dr. Marcus Stiglegger on the significance of the German capital as the backdrop for Nekromantik 2 The Making of Nekromantik 2 vintage documentary viewable with two different audio tracks: an English track comprising audio interviews with Buttgereit Nekro Waltz: The Music of Nekromantik 2 Reeder discusses his work on the film's score Outtakes Reel Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert footage from the 20th anniversary Nekromantik 2 concert Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert the complete 20-track audio recording of the concert [BD/DVD-ROM content] Two Buttgereit short films: Bloody Excess in the Leader's Bunker (Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker Two Buttgereit-directed music videos: ˜Rise Up' by Die Krupps (1997) Complete collection of Buttgereit feature film trailers Extensive image gallery

• Nekromantik Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (15/12/2014) from £22.25   |  Saving you £0.74 (3.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Death Is Just The Beginning. Nekromantik is the one-of-a-kind shock classic from cult director Jörg Buttgereit. Never before released on home video in the UK (until now no distributor even dared submit it for classification) Nekromantik plunges the viewer into an unremittingly bleak world of depravity and necrophilia - weaving the tale of Rob Schmadtke (Daktari Lorenz) a young man who finds himself competing for the affections of his girlfriend with a putrefying cadaver. Rob is employed by Joe's Streetcleaning Agency a company which handles the unenviable task of cleaning up grisly accidents and crime scenes. But Rob has a particular reason for liking his chosen profession allowing him as it does to indulge in his hobby of choice - collecting body parts which he keeps preserved in jars around his flat. Tasked with transporting the body of a young man from a murder scene Rob seizes the opportunity to abscond with the corpse - bringing it home much to the delight of his equally unhinged girlfriend Betty. A twisted love triangle ensues resulting in some of the most shocking scenes ever committed to celluloid. Nearly 30 years after its original release Nekromantik with its grotesque imagery and shocking subject matter still retains the power to offend - a point borne out by the fact that it remains banned in a number of countries. But Buttgereit's film is much more than a shock piece; Nekromantik shares as much in common with the movies of the preceding New German Cinema movement as it does with splatter films of its era. Arriving on Blu-ray in a brand-new Director-approved transfer Arrow Video is proud to present this underground classic - finally classified for UK release in its fully unexpurgated form. Director-Approved Special Edition Features: Limited Edition featuring exclusive new artwork by Gilles Vranckx New High Definition Digital Transfer approved by writer-director Jörg Buttgereit High Definition Bluray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Original Stereo audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles Audio Commentary with Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen The Making of Nekromantik - featurette comprising behind the scenes footage shot in Super 8 transferred in HD Buttgereit 10th Anniversary Interview Hot Love (40 mins) - a 1985 short film by Buttgereit featuring Daktari Lorenz Complete collection of Jörg Buttgereit film trailers (Nekromantik Der Todesking Nekromantik 2 Schramm) Extensive collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Graham Rae David Kerekes author of Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit and much more all illustrated with original archive stills and posters Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

• Schramm Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (29/07/2019) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Controversial German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2) takes you into the twisted mind of a deranged sex killer in the last of his feature films to date, 1993's deeply disturbing Schramm. Lothar Schramm, the so-called Lipstick Killer, lies dying in a pool of blood and paint. As he expires, fragments of his life flash before his eyes his uneasy friendship with the prostitute that lives next door (Nekromantik 2's Monika M); the brutal slaughter of a pair of doorstep evangelists whose bodies he poses in obscene fashion; his unhealthy pastime of hammering nails into his own manhood. Told in an entirely non-linear fashion, Jörg Buttgereit's Schramm with its nightmarish hallucinatory sequences involving severed limbs and gaping, sharp-toothed female genitalia comes about as close as a film can get to transporting you directly into the world of a sick, disordered mind. 2-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS HD transfer overseen by the filmmakers High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed Stereo 2.0 audio Optional English subtitles Limited edition digipak packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx Limited edition certificate Set of 5 exclusive Schramm polaroid postcards Soundtrack CD Limited edition 60-page book DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] - 'SCHRAMM' Archival audio commentary with director/co-writer Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen Archival audio commentary with actors Florian Von Gustorf and Monika M Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt: Scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm (2019) brand new animated short film sequel to Schramm made by award-winning filmmaker and stop-motion artist Robert Morgan, produced exclusively for this release Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll writer Kier-La Janisse on how she came to be the owner of a particularly interesting piece of Schramm memorabilia Jörg Buttgereit in conversation with Arrow Video's Ewan Cant at the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival The Making of Schramm archival behind-the-scenes documentary Mein Papi Jörg Buttgereit short film available in HD for the first time ever and with optional director audio commentary Jesus Der Film (1995) short film segment directed by Jörg Buttgereit Two short films by Schramm producer Manfred Jelinski: Orpheus in der Oberwelt (1970) and Ein Ku'ze' Film übe' Hambu'g (1990) Extensive image gallery Jörg Buttgereit Trailer Gallery DISC 2 [CD] - 'SCHRAMM' SOUNDTRACK - LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE CD featuring the complete Schramm score 60-PAGE BOOK - LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing from Virginie Selavy and Graham Rae, all illustrated with new artwork and original archival stills

• Der Todesking Limited Edition | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The second feature film from German provocateur Jörg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking (The King of Death) presents seven suicides across seven days of the week. As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed Brotherhood of the 7th Day circulates encouraging its recipients to end their lives, a series of grim murder-suicides unfold. In one vignette, a young woman massacres a room of concert-goers before turning the gun on herself; in another, a man, driven to madness by some unspecified mental disturbance, repeatedly slams his head into a wall before collapsing in a pool of his own blood These are just some of depictions of death and despair that make up the tortured fabric of Der Todesking. Regarded by many as director Jörg Buttgereit's most accomplished work, Der Todesking is an existential masterpiece - a powerfully haunting howl of rage from one of the genre's most underrated filmmakers. 3-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Director's approved HD transfer from the original 16mm negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original Stereo Audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles Limited edition packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx Limited edition certificate featuring original artwork Replica Brotherhood of the 7th Day Chain Letter Der Todesking Soundtrack CD Limited Edition 60-page book DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] ˜DER TODESKING' Audio commentary by Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen From Bundy to Lautréamont - Jörg Buttgereit in conversation with journalist Graham Rae at the 2016 Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films The Making of Der Todesking - vintage production featurette Footage from the original 1990 Berlin premiere Corpse Fucking Art - 1992 documentary bringing together the making of featurettes of Nekromantik, Der Todesking and Nekromantik 2 Der Gollob (1983, 25 mins) - short film by Jörg Buttgereit, newly transferred in HD and viewable with optional director's audio commentary Two short films by producer Manfred O. Jelinski: Die Reise ins Licht (1972, 27 mins) and Geliebter Wahnsinn (1973, 7 mins) Still Gallery Jörg Buttgereit Trailer Gallery DISC 3 [CD] ˜DER TODESKING' SOUNDTRACK LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE CD featuring the complete Der Todesking score 60-Page Book LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film from Graham Rae and Kat Ellinger, all illustrated with new artwork and original archive stills

• Nekromantik | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nekromantik is the one-of-a-kind shock classic from cult director Jörg Buttgereit weaving the tale of Rob Schmadtke (Daktari Lorenz) a young man who finds himself competing for the affections of his girlfriend with a putrefying cadaver. An employee of Joe’s Streetcleaning Agency a company which cleans up after grisly accidents Rob takes advantage of his profession to indulge in his chosen hobby – the collection of body parts. Then one day Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse much to the delight of girlfriend Betty. There follows a twisted love triangle resulting in some of the most shocking scenes ever committed to celluloid. Nearly 30 years after its original release Arrow Video is proud to present this classic of underground horror cinema – finally classified for UK release in its fully unexpurgated form. Features: High Definition Bluray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of three Buttgereit films: Nekromantik (1987) Hot Love (1985) [29 mins] and J.B.’s Horror Heaven (1984) [23 mins] Optional English subtitles for all three films Nekromantik audio commentary with Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen Hot Love audio commentary with Buttgereit Horror Heaven audio commentary with Buttgereit Director’s Introduction to Nekromantik Alternative “Grindhouse” version of Nekromantik transferred from the only existing 35mm print [Blu-ray only] In Conversation with The Death King – a brand-new 2014 interview with Buttgereit Morbid Fascination: The Nekromantik Legacy – a brand-new 2014 documentary looking at the impact of the film on the horror scene both in the UK and abroad featuring interviews with genre critic Alan Jones Marc Morris producer of Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Parts 1 & 2 and Buttgereit biographer David Kerekes Q&A with Jörg Buttgereit recorded at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (2014) The Making of Nekromantik – A vintage featurette including behind the scenes footage viewable with two different audio tracks: an English commentary featuring Buttgereit co-author Franz Rodenkirchen and David Kerekes and a German-language audio track featuring radio interviews with Buttgereit Rodenkirchen and producer Manfred Jelinski viewable with optional English subtitles Nekromantik Featurette – A look back at the film’s production featuring interviews with Buttgereit and Jelinski produced for the film’s 10 year anniversary German VHS release Nekromantik Premiere – short featurette comprised of footage from the film’s premiere in Berlin January 1988 “Das Letzte” – short featurette comprising footage from the 1985 premiere of Hot Love Two Buttgereit-directed music videos: ‘I Can’t Let Go’ by Shock Therapy (1995) and ‘Lemmy I’m a Feminist’ by Half Girl (2013) Complete collection of Buttgereit film trailers: Nekromantik Der Todesking Nekromantik 2 Schramm Extensive image gallery including behind-the-scenes stills rare promotional material and the German-language Nekromantik der Komik from Berlin comic artist Fil reproduced in its entirety Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Godmachine