AfterMath directed by
Nacho Cerda. Starring Dead bodies (real and fake) 1994.
There
is a lot of controversy attached to this short film by Spanish director Nacho
Cerda and criticism by Chas Balun calling it out as pure gorenography. Is this
a misunderstood gem, an ahead of its time film that should be re-evalutated?
I’m not sure myself and for all the years I watched Last House On Dead End Street I regarded it with confusion and
distain for it’s methed out, speed freak thieving director who conned everyone
into thinking it might be a genuine snuff film. Last House review is coming
soon. Even though it was never a snuff film, it carried a stigma of that
controversy and the myth is often more powerful then the truth. After I learned
that Roger Watkins made a genuinely scary film with zero funds (at least
nothing recorded) I gained all this reluctant respect for him posthumously.
So
back to Nacho Cerda’s Aftermath, he is making a statement that gore hounds are
kind of psychotic in the way they gravitate toward Mondo Films (like Faces of
Death, Jacopetti/Prosperi films) and have an unhealthy fixation on the macabre.
Is he trying to piss off and alienate his own demographic? In a way Yes! because
Aftermath is set up like a porn but
in an autopsy room and like all myths we’ve heard the necrophilia ones.
But
did we really need to see a morgue attendant perform sex acts on a corpse?, not
really but here it is immortalized on film! I actually found it really tedious
and not hard to watch like Cerda intended (read his perspective HERE!) I’m also going to include the backlash critique that Chas gave at the screening
with Jim Van Bebber (who defends the film). It is doubtful I will revist the
film and I guess I have closed my mind to this journey, but then again why
would I want to respect a basic corpse fucking porn (and I am a huge fan of Nekomantik). Aftermath divides horror
fans and forces them to search within and determine why they watch these types
of repulsive realistic snuff movies and in that respect it is an important
statement. I saw this originally on Netflix instant but it has since been removed. You can still rent it though.
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