In 2001, an independent film company called "In Hell Productions", run by Vince Roth & Mick Nards, released their first 15 minute fucked flick of sickening proportions.

Nekro

For a while I had heard about this, extremely short, sick film through many online friends. Finally after almost 2 years of hunting, I received a nice clear copy of the film from an un-known source (I think I prefer it that way).

Starting off with your basic abduction, a strange hooded man drags a bound woman up the stairs of a seemingly dingy home. He then proceeds to toss her into an empty room, with the exception of a plastic tarp covering the floor. He then leaves her there, alone in the room, locking the door behind him. Upon his return, the woman is brutally murdered, and then the killer (Mick Nards) performs horrific, pornographic, sexual acts to the lifeless bloodied and mangled corpse.

Whilst injecting this mind poison into my DVD player, I definitely did not, completely, know what to expect, accept for the fact that I knew I was about to view something totally and completely fucked up. Again, this is all coming from things I have read and the opinions of others.

I was never one for short films, for what reason, I'm not quite sure, but after viewing Nekro, I must say I think I may have changed my opinion of them, somewhat. If in 15 minutes time a film can mortify and disgust me, its ok in my book.

I mentioned before about the film being mind poison. In saying that I meant so in the way that it is a brief tour through the depraved world of murder and the perversion of necrophilia. To be quite honest I loved the film, if you can somehow get your hands on it, I highly recommend it.

Ratings:

Visually the film was great. The graininess, as I always say, adds to the realism and the sickness of the film, especially when it comes to horror and exploitation. Camera angles were not fantastic and quite basic, but this being there first crack, ill cut some slack. For visual quality and filming, I give this short a 6.

As for the sound, it was a bit too strange for me, too artsy, if that makes any sense. A droning woman's voice and repetitive sound FX really made me want to mute the TV for most of the film. On that note, sound and whatever else, sound FX wise I give a 5.

Now as for perversion and gore, I would have to say that it was pretty well done for a film of its caliber. The murder sequences were not really shown, but still give the viewer the sense of the brutality that lay before them. As for the perversion of the film, it was almost sickening, yet quite enjoyable. The gore was done on a low scale, not really seen but during the scenes of necrophilia, there was plenty of blood and guts. For Perversion and gore this film gets a definite 8.

Nekro gets my overall rating of a 7.

This film is a definite for those extreme, sick fuckers amongst you gore hounds. If you enjoyed films such as (Nekromantic 1 & 2, Stethoscope, and even such Asian extremes such as Womens Flesh and Psycho: The Snuff Reels). This one belongs on your shelf.