A short film about a coroner or funeral director or something who treats the corpses in his office in a very inappropriate manner.So, this short film came my way because someone put it on a list of the best horror and thrillers. I have to disagree with that. It is alright, but not really much better than average. The same person says it is more disturbing than "A Serbian Film" and "Human Centipede" combined. Again, disagree. I actually did not find this film that bothersome. But then, I don't find Human Centipede bothersome...This is just a lower budget film about a guy with bad habits... nothing really special.

This really isn't a movie. Hell, there really isn't even a story (nor is there talking). It's just some shock content and an overly long opening credits (around 5 minutes, which is absurd for a 30 minute film). While it's not exactly art it's definitely different. The film concerns a morgue where some morticians are doing autopsies. Later, one of the morticians proceeds to violate a female corpse while he's alone. The film features full-body nudity although I'm not sure if the bodies were fakes, real corpses donated to "the arts", or actors with prosthetic effects. Either way you see full-bodied nudity (both genders).There's a weirdness to the whole thing. The scene with the morticians just going over their bodies is somewhat surreal. There's a bizarre character development that takes place despite the lack of speech and most of the mortician's face being obscured. His eyes convey his bizarre curiosity as he examines one of the men's naked frames, seemingly stopping on the genitalia. Later on when he starts with the female he seems to gingerly cut free her clothes. He plays with his blade delicately against her skin... then he guts her open. And a little after that the film really starts to get graphic, although I will say that he only uses one hand to examine her... There's a definite progression to the depravity.It's a film that I wouldn't really think I'd be interested in but there was a certain oddity to this premise. And while the initial legitimate autopsies were harder for me to watch, a morbid curiosity better kept my attention for the second half especially since it was almost downright funny in places. I'm honestly not sure what they were going for with this, though. It's short, it's a little weird, but mostly it's just pointless. All the same it's really not bad and somehow has a strange charm to it. Ultimately it's more silly than disturbing, almost like an angsty teen's attempt to be edgy.

Aftermath is set in a Spanish hospital morgue where autopsies take place, the bodies of the dead are strewn across metal tables & are unceremoniously cut to pieces to determine the cause of death. For the pathologists who work there it's just another day in the office but one has a very sick secret, he gets off on violating a female corpse & having sex with it while a camera takes pictures...This Spanish production was written, produced & directed by Nacho Cerdà & is a pretty strong depiction of necrophilia & the violation of a corpse, to be fair I found it quite watchable in a grisly sick sort of way but what I call entertainment many would disagree & Aftermath is definitely the type of film you don't admit to liking in public if you still want people to talk to you. There's little point to this thirty odd minute endurance test, there's some graphic (although clearly fake) autopsy footage & some necrophilia thrown in there for good measure & that's about it. There is not one word of dialogue spoken (apparently director Cerdà has been quoted as saying 'I felt a film about death should be silent.) & as such there's character development as such & Aftermath relies on it's shocking imagery to make it's slight point about even after death we are all vulnerable still & the way that pathologists treat the dead with utter disdain & zero compassion. The moral message is negligible, the imagery is strong & will be very shocking to some & at thirty minutes at least it's short, overall I liked it but as a rather sick curiosity rather than some profound piece of meaningful art. Yeah, I'm just weird.The gore levels are high with graphic depictions of autopsies, bodies are sliced open, organs are removed & seen & terrible injuries are also shown, there's loads of graphic blood letting here with the human body sliced open & cut to pieces. The necrophilia scene isn't graphic, the pathologist is never seen naked for instance. The film is very stylish & great to look at, every shot seems to have been thought out with a nice clean metallic look for the autopsy room which further dehumanises the process & really nice cinematography with measured close-ups, long panning shots & a sleek visual look throughout.Aftermath is a powerful film with shocking imagery that will surely be labelled as nothing but sick rubbish by many but the film looks great, it has a moral point to make although it's a little lost with no dialogue at all & I liked it but mainly because it was just a sick & twisted thirty odd minutes featuring lots of graphic gore & a bit of necrophilia, so shoot me.

Well, necrophilia isn't on my top-list of things to enjoy, still I have quite a few movies that involve this subject. What they all have in common is that they have to ability to gross you out, without having to feature a plot involving around it. Movies like "Nekromantik" and "Schramm" are like this. This movie is like that as well, with a touch of Ginî piggu-series added to it.Yet this movie perhaps deserves better than to be compared to any of these movies, since this movie is quality-wise a far superior one. It's a movie that got extremely well directed, in an almost artistic like way at times. Nacho Cerdà is a director who enjoys making shorts and prefers it above making long featured films with an elaborated story, I would guess, judging by this movie. All sequences are being nicely constructed and it keeps you glued to the screen, even though there is no real story to the movie and the it doesn't even feature one line of dialog. The movie it's story is purely being told by its images, as brought to us by the fine directing approach of Nacho Cerdà.Yes sure, it's a pretty gross and gory movie to watch and if you can't handle themes such as bloody autopsies and necrophilia you should simply avoid this movie. If you are able to appreciate the art of film-making this is just one great short to watch, despite of how you think or feel about its subject.The gore wasn't too shocking though, at least not to me, since the cadavers used in this movie were obvious puppets, which perhaps was the only disappointing aspect about the movie; it wasn't always quite realistic enough.Still it obviously didn't prevented me from being drawn into this movie, due to its wonderful directing and artistic, classy approach of its subject.8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/