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The Necro Files

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The Necro Files
Directed byMatt Jaissle
Written by
  • Todd Tjersland
  • Sammy Shapiro
Produced by
  • Matt Jaissle
  • Todd Tjersland
CinematographyMatt Jaissle
Edited byMatt Jaissle
Music byMatt Jaissle
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Necro Files is a 1997 horror comedy zombie film by director Matt Jaissle. The film depicts zombies as sexual creatures whose desires for human flesh are not limited to anthropophagy.[1]

Plot

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The film follows a zombie rapist as he returns from the dead to cannibalize and assault the living.[2]

Reception

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Erik Piepenburg of The New York Times called the film a "jaw-droppingly gory trash fest" which should be seen by "video disciples with steel caldrons for stomachs".[3] Noreen Giffney expresses in her book Queering the Non/human that the film "offers cinematic representations of clinical associations between criminality, murder and necrophilia" but that the film is infantile.[4]

Sequels

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The film was followed by two sequels Necro Files 2 (2003)[5] and Necro Filles 3000 (2017).[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ McGlotten, Shaka; Jones, Steve (2014). Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead. Contributions to Zombie Studies (new, illustrated ed.). McFarland. p. 12. ISBN 9781476617381.
  2. ^ Rowan, Terry (2012). The Book of the Undead A Zombie Film Guide. p. 108. ISBN 9781257129454.
  3. ^ Piepenburg, Erik (June 28, 2017). "A Salute to Stomach-Churning Pleasures: Horror on VHS". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  4. ^ Giffney, Noreen; Hird, Myra J. (2008). "Necrosexuality". Queering the Non/human. Queer interventions (new, illustrated ed.). Ashgate Publishing. p. 347. ISBN 9780754671282.
  5. ^ Hantke, Steffen (2007). Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear After 1945. University of Michigan: Scarecrow Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780810858787.
  6. ^ Black, T. (April 26, 2017). "Necro Files 3000 (Review)". Horror Society. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
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