German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit has built a career as a provocateur, playwright and theatre director, and director of some of the most notorious and controversial films ever made. Starting from a punk ethic and steadily developing a startling visionary visual aesthetic and cinematographic technique, his films are suffused with a perverse fascination with death. At the same time, he always pays heed to the fragility of life, and to a twisted but sincere form of romance. This artistic approach can sometime alienate regular horror fans, despite the abundance of gore and minutely detailed imagery of mutilation, death and decay, but Buttgereit's sardonic film quartet ("Nekromantik" 1 and 2, "Der Todesking" and "Schramm") seals his status as one of cinema's most original, innovative and "dangerous" filmmakers. Over the years, these films have lost none of their power to shock, and may not be suitable for viewers of a sensitive disposition.