[Film Review] Confessions of a Necrophile Girl (2021)
Directed by controversial director Cristiano Domiziano (Vore Gore, Nightmare Symphony), Confessions of a Necrophile Girl follows a young mortuary makeup artist as she documents through a video diary her struggles to fight her necrophiliac urges whilst on the job, or run the risk of getting caught.
Based on the true crime story of Karen Greenlee, an apprentice embalmer who became the most infamous modern necrophiliac, Confessions of a Necrophile Girl is a stark and almost clinical look at the reality of one of the most taboo subjects in the horror genre. Through a slightly sympathetic lens, the film examines the life of a person who is constantly surrounded by death, and so inevitably finds their love and sex developmental mapping slightly eschewed towards the more morbid end of the scale. Marginally flirting with the twisted romance of other taboo films such as Nekromantik (1987) Confessions of a Necrophile Girl manages to subvert the damning and judgmental viewpoints of necrophilia thus exploring the rather human side of the unmentionable act of fornicating with a dead body.
Despite the psychologically delicate handling of the topic at times, the initial sequence of the act itself is extremely long and drawn out, which in some regards causes it to lose any sort of efficacy when it comes to shocking or jarring an audience. This may have been a purposeful ploy by the director to format the corpse copulation scene to make the act seem “ordinary” but instead it comes across as tedious.
The central character is well written and acted, depicting the necrophiliac as a somewhat “normal” and unsuspecting member of society, which only makes the discovery of her habitual act all the more shocking. Confessions of a Necrophile Girl is a thought-provoking examination of one of the most horrifying sexual taboos in humanity, with plenty of exceptional gross-out moments to satiate extreme horror and gore fans.
Confessions of a Necrophile Girl is available now on TetroVideo!
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