What Is Necrophilia But Love Persevering?
On the romanticizing of doomed relationships between the living and the dead in NEKROMANTIK 2 and DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE.
By Melissa Kay · @mechamelissa · May 5, 2021, 3:35 PM CDT NEKROMANTIK 2 (1991)
A man and woman kiss against a bright full moon, then make love on her deceased husband’s grave. Suddenly, the dead corpsegroom climbs out of his crypt and interrupts their passionate love-making. He’s hungry. He takes a fatal bite out of his wife’s arm and the man kills him a second time. This woman, his love, is now dying. The man moans as he carries her to the ossuary, “Nothing can separate us. I swear. Nothing.” The woman looks up between pained breaths and whispers “Nothing will separate us, will it?” He stares down at her, still ensorcelled by her face. “Nothing, my love. Nothing. Not even death.” She takes her last breath. “Not even death.” Then dies in his arms.