Aftermath/Genesis (V)
| release date | August 23 2005 |
| studio | Ventura Distribution/Unearthed Films |
| director | Nacho Cerda |
| writer | Nacho Cerda |
| site | unearthedfilms.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I was very upset with this film, I found it more of a cheap attempt of shock and groos-out value then an actual film. This short had nothing good about it, besides a few good camera angles and some good make-up. I do not understand why Cerda would make such a horrid, uninteresting film when he has such talent. Overall, I would not reccomend this film to anyone, unless you’re looking to see a gross film
I have not seen Genesis yet
How is there only one review for this??
These 2 fillums are in my top 5 all time favorites..
Nacho’s a friggin legend..
Shock and gore to the max, these two little films are gross! Now with that being said there are some fantastic special effects for the gore and the director never looses sight of what he is out to accomplish. These films can be seen in the same realm as Brakhage’s “Act of Seeing Through Ones Own Eyes.” Perfect for those who like their art splattered with red.
I really liked the second movie called Aftermath, its a very sick explicit movie with the only purpose to chock the viewer, and even if you’re used to very gore movies, still this one is gonna leave an impression behind! The camera is very clean in contrast with the images that it shoots, there is no dialogue… Its a piece of art, but its definately NOT for everyone!
what a strange little flick
Awesome film. I cant believe there are no reviews. Has nobody seen this film? Here we have an astounding piece of art and taboo. Who knows what really happens to you when you’re dead? The very taboo of being tampered with when you’re dead crosses everyones mind at some point and here Cerda brings it to screen with ultra realism. A superb piece of film-making that deserves more acclaim. Special effects here are top notch. Watch the horror and the twisted sick fantasies of the coroner unfold on screen in extreme graphic detail. I never like to write spoilers, so i wont but check this film out. Once seen, never forgotten. An absolute masterpiece!!
“Aftermath” was ok, pretty nasty and disgusting though. It does kinda make one think what kinds of things can happen after ones death. I like “Genesis” better though: better film techniques and story. Overall a good rent. There was also a short film in the beginning which was pretty good, one of Cerda’s early yet promising films.
most realistic horror ive ever seen apart from the dog guts at the start, if you aint seen it watch it but be warned you will be disturbed!!!
I am giving this a good score only b/c I have never laughed so hard in my life!!!! ahahahaha the part where he bangs the dead body is soooooooo morbid but sooooooooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!! ahahhahahaha!!! Now I know it represents the helplessness of being dead and I understand that Nacho was trying to be all artsy and shit, but I interpreted it my way and I found it to be quite funny.
I have to admit, I knew what I was letting myself in for when I got my hands of this film but I was not prepared for the sheer unrelenting and violent mind fuck this film becomes. I first watched this film at 5 in the morning with my eyes barely open and I am not in regret of seeing this film. Shock 10/10, Gore 10/10, Sound FX 10/10, Film 10/10
WTF did I just watch seriously between seeing aftermath with some dude fucking a corpse, some fucking random statue that comes alive, and some movie I saw on netflix streaming about zombies coming out the damn TV. I think I might of lost my mind. The netflix one is called the video dead (check it) really terrible funny cheeseball film.
but aftermath is really good and gory. Both films feature no talking and they are both very different. Can’t wait to see what nacho does next.
I really meant it when I referred to this flick as the Spanish Guinea Pig because much like the infamous Japanese faux-snuff film, this is all gore, shock, and little of the not-so-important stuff. The development leading to the shock we get in this flick was positive, and I am glad that writer/director Nacho Cerda took his time getting to the goods, which of course took only about 10 minutes giving this is a flick with a runtime of a mere 30 minutes. The rest of the film is not as shocking as I expected it to be, but was nonetheless too harsh and brash for those who do not know how to handle these flicks AKA you are as messed up in the head as I am.
Direction-wise Nacho Cerda did a fantastic job with all of the applicable elements for such a film. His cinematography was beautiful and top notch, his camera angles and editing were superbly done, and of course…the gore and shock were expertly executed. With such an awesome outing I am sure that most horror hounds who saw this back in 1994 were thinking this guy was the next big horror director, although it seems he may have lost a bit of steam with the mediocre film The Abandoned, his first full length feature film which I saw in theaters during the first Horrorfest series. While it was not an awesome watch(The Abandoned), I still received a few good chills thanks to Cerda’s direction.
So how is the story overall? Well…personally I dug it a lot. I loved the idea of a mortician being tempted to do nasty things to the corpses he has before him, and watching him seep deeper and deeper into his desires was a treat to watch. Our main character has no name, and does not mutter a single word throughout the entire watch. This is a true staple of just how damn interesting a film must be if I enjoyed it without being given any dialogue whatsoever(from a non-silent film).
You may be wondering just how “shocking” this flick is…and I must say that if you have no problems watching corpses be brutally desecrated, which includes penetration with sharp objects as well as documenting necrophilia with a personal camera…then this shouldn’t be all too shocking to you. In fact, you should enjoy this one as much as I did.
Overall, if you are looking for a film with guts(literally, and figuratively) then this short film is for you. The direction/execution is top notch, the story is interesting, and the shock element reigns high in this Spanish horror film. Pressed for time and need to get your horror “fix”? Give Aftermath a shot.
It’s quite disturbing to imagine what really goes on in a morgue, don’t you think?
Look no further for this is the sick purpose of Aftermath.
Plot: None
Story: None?
Gore: 100%
Entertainment: None, depending on the viewer/voyeur.
Artistic/ technical value: 80%
Production value: Decent
Story: A mortician takes snap shots of a female corpse after a marathon of necrophilia, masturbation and dismemberment. He then takes the corpses heart home, feeds it to his dog, and then takes a television break.
Aftermath is a technically well made film with creative camera work, it’s nicely lit, and has a nice classical music score that makes the whole experience even more disturbing. I don’t know what Nacho was intending, but it does have a so called “Artsy Fartsy” feel and look. Expect close ups and convincing special effects and you’ll be in for a treat if you’re a gorehound. For a strange reason I couldn’t seem to look away, and was fascinated by the atrocities on show here. I am sure that was Nacho’s whole premise, and it succeeds.
Aftermath was made by Spanish director Nacho Cerda, while attending film school. It is part 2 of a Trilogy, the other 2 Genesis and Awakening I have yet to see. Aftermath is only 30 minutes long and doesn’t need to be longer, or any sane viewer would be vomiting if the mortician had taken his time. This is by no means a cheap film and is visually stunning. Director Cerda didn’t have a big budget to build a set, so an actual morgue was used. The film has no dialogue either. Don’t be put off by the lack of the plot, as director Cerda clearly displays talent in Aftermath.
Director Cerda went on to direct his first feature film THE MACHINIST in 2005 staring Cristian Bale and Michael Ironside, that was excellent in my opinion. Later he directed another horror called THE ABANDONED, which I have read some nice reviews of and is described as a terrifying Lucio Fulci meets Andrei Tarkovsy type of film. I have to get this one day.
It has been previously released on a limited edtion DVD as a double bill with Genesis, and can be found on Amazon.
The only reason I stumbled into this one was because of an ad I saw in the paper, of a creep selling his collection. I had never heard of Aftermath, and the creep (he lived in a tiny apt. behind a beer brewery) eagerly recommended this one. I also bought Erotic rites of the Living Dead or something, and Nekromantik. I think the guy had identity issues. I said I was in a hurry, gave him some cash and left quick.
I lent this to a friend about ten years ago, and have still not got it back. He also had issues, was a big Kiss fan, and at the time was making a replica of a Star Wars ship into a bed.
I rest my case …
Just got done watching this, pobally the best thing I have seen in the last few months. The only thing that bugged me about this was the bodies were not always shot correctly and looked rubber in some shots…but I would rather have that than C.G.I.
Terrible, the rubber bodies and the ending make this a curious choice for such a high rating.
Ok, After reading relentless hate reviews for this, I will just say merely say. YOU STILL WATCHED IT right? I mean this movie has no plot, fine. It has some at times kinda lame fake bodies, ok sure. BUT, it is still a movie about a mortician that enjoys his job a LITTLE too much.
Still, I enjoyed this only because of the fact that Nacho Cerda had the balls to make this (even if it wasn’t super amazing), and honestly just put the IDEA into people’s minds. It’s pretty shocking really..
So if you’re looking for 30 minutes of mundane shock, gore, and necrophilia.. here it is. Enjoy.
The second in the Spanish Trilogy of Death, again Directed by Nacho Serda. The most extreme short film out of all three. And possibly the most extreme horrific short film that has ever been made to date. Although it runs for just over half an hour, the first four minutes is credits.
This is one of the most disturbing of all the films I’ve watched. âe~Aftermathâe(TM) is set in a morgue. A place where lost ones go either waiting for identification, removal for autopsy or disposal for burial, a place we hope in real life is a safe area where the deceased are handled with respect. In this film it graphically demonstrates the worst that could happen behind a locked door. It makes you wonder about horrific acts that can, probably have and do happen to corpses if the silent and unknowingly mentally ill, ones that have slipped through the net, are managing the dead within the morgues isolated environment.
The film is incredibly baron with shots of the morgues steel wash basins, long shots of steel taps, autopsy cutting tools and metal slab drain channels. It is suffocating because the setting remains within the morgue throughout. The environment is cold and so is the soul of this work.
Camera shots focus onto the faces of the corpses long enough in such a way you actually believe they may still see and feel everything that’s happening, but are unable to scream, just like a miscalculated anaesthetic dose given to a patient that wakes up during major surgery and can’t move or speak…. apparently this happens to 2,000 patients a year here in the uk. Chilling.
The actors just use their eyes to express themselves as they are fully surgically equipped, so half their face is masked. The film is so well executed in its presentation I just cannot get my head around how such a controversial story managed to be made real on film. The camera positions, pace of the experience and creativeness is exceptional, which makes the ordeal even more difficult to fathom. The prosthetics are amazing, however when a dead body is moved at one point, it did seem light in weight. Perhaps Iâe(TM)m being pedantic, but for Nacho Serda to get such detail wrong would be surprising.
My jaw fell open at one particular moment because it was beyond vicious. If a word was appropriate to describe this work, it would be a word that is over used so much that it does not carry the gravitas that it deserves. That word is ‘disgusting’. You will feel guilty and probably numb after this experience, I understand the trilogy is about death, the other two stories âe~The Awakeningâe(TM) and ‘Genesis’ focus on aspects of death that are imaginative. âe~Aftermathâe(TM) is the odd one out of the three because it is so literally so bloody, gory and insane.
The mix of an awesome production, stunning imagery and classical music gives this film an arthouse, alternative experimental look and feel. As a body of work it is without doubt incredible and uncomfortable, thatâe(TM)s why it stands head and shoulders above other shocking films. You will have other films you have seen that are terrifying, but after watching this ‘Aftermath’ will take pole position. ‘Aftermath’ covers such a disturbing subject thatâe(TM)s so offensive, you need to question do you really want to go down that rabbit hole? If you do have a chance to watch this film, remember – you will not be able to undo the degrading images from your memory. Hard, beyond brutal and you might notice during the film that you are physically shaking.
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