Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is "Aftermath", a half-hour short movie from over 20 years ago written and directed by Spaniard Nacho Cerdà. Basically you could divide this film into two parts. First part takes place at a morgue where a man working there does the autopsy of a corpse. His colleagues and apprentices are carefully watching, but nobody's talking. There are no spoken dialogs in here. Everything seems normal. Second half takes place also at the morgue, but the guy from before is a lone. He has a young woman at his tables and starts severing her body parts, one after the other. It becomes a pretty bloody mess. Now we know, he who seemed so normal (if you can be normal in that profession) is a complete sociopath and a killer. In the end his dog also gets a bit of the body.I have to say I found this pretty uninteresting. Yes it's bloody and supposed to be shocking, but it dragged so much by half of the film already that the big spectacular second half left me complete unattached. There is also nothing in the script, with which the actors could show their talent, if they have any that is. Also it's a piece of style over substance. The only purpose I can see in here from Cerdà's side is to make a film as shocking as possible. There is no real story or elaboration on the characters, nothing. I have no idea why this got some awards attention. And I am even more clueless about the fact that there is a sequel. I will give this one a look later on. Hopefully, it's better. As for this one here, not recommended and actually should never have been made.

yaktheripper Ehh, oh boy...this is way the heck out there. Disturbing as the day is long it is cold blooded and brutal and exceptionally filmed. This movie is revolting! That of course is it's strong point. I watched it and immediately tried to remove it from my memory. Is there some sort of message here? I don't know. Maybe. "Aftermath" was a movie I had laying around in a stack of DVD's, had no idea what it was, and was pretty shocked at what I saw. That is saying something. I have seen "Necromantik" and it's sequel and am a "fan" of both, for as high as the production value was for "Aftermath" the "story" couldn't hold the weight that "Necromantik" could emotionally. It is a "good looking" movie as previously stated, the production is tight and polished. The shock value is the only weight in the end however. See it as a curiosity and you will be shocked and even offended, but look for a story or meaning and you will be challenged.

merlinlake78 Warning!! This is not a movie to think lightly about, If you're not affected nor horrified by what takes place on screen, Then seriously ask yourself if you don't need help. I saw this movie in its entirety, and I'm usually open to any type of horror. But nothing could prepare me for what I saw this time. The actually act of having sex with a corpse, That's also cut open is just beyond any kind of rational understanding. And the time the people took, To make the corpses and all the special effects look as real as possible, Must come from some kind of love for the dead. I gonna pass on a second sitting with this movie. I think I'm going back to the more mainstream horror movies from now on. This is just a bit,...Eehmm. To extreme. Welcome to hell.

Voland-4 If the guys from Cannibal Corpse haven't seen this yet, I'm definitely bringing a DVD to the next show and throwing it onstage. I mean, this is a visual companion to at least two songs in their catalogue. Totally brutal, detached, no dialogue, loaded with sharp and well-placed symbolism. And oh the realism! I don't think I've ever seen a dead woman's vagina on screen, especially not like this. I'd really like to know how he made the cadavers, because as it stands now, it's one of the most realistic depictions of gore I've ever seen. What makes this a rewarding viewing experience is the fact that it's not just gore porn, a la Cannibal Corpse's lyrical subject matter - the director makes a nice sweeping yet clear statement about the social context of death in modern society. All I have to say - when you get to heaven and they greet you with harps and garlands at the pearly gates, remember not to look back down.