Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Joe Miller I checked this out because soooo many people found it disturbing.I was curious how it could be so disturbing and gross if it is so short and well it isn't.There is no talking in the movie whatsoever and it really just seems fake to me in general.I understand the whole necrophilia thing is disturbing and gross but this movie really isn't that graphic to me.Some people might find this outrageously gross and might get a little sick from it but it isn't one of the most disturbing I have seen.There was really no story at all so it might be best to skip this.~Joe

Paul Andrews 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.

Igor Shvetsov Is there anything else on earth to be more enticing than to learn what expects our frail bodies after, um, death. Spanish director Ignacio Cerdà (a soul-mate of his German colleague Jörg Buttgereit) provides blow-by-blow answer to our curiosity and invites us to an exciting journey in the world of preparation tables, scalpels, surgical saws, human entrails and warped minds.Welcome to the autopsy room!I don't know which facets of the film, apart of its notorious reputation, may have helped it to acquire sufficiently high rating.Storywise it's fairly simple and straightforward - a day in the life (actually half an hour) of a troubled coroner (or, perhaps, assistant pathologist or whoever he is) that is fed up with his routine morbid duty and discharges his psychological tension in a non-traditional fashion, right at his workplace. I'm perplexed of what particular message the authors tried to deliver with this one-note plot. I suspect it may be somehow inspired by Udo Kier's character's quirky demeanor in Andy Warhol's Frankenstein.Artistic values of the film are also questionable. It's hard to evaluate the performance of the actors that don't squeeze a single word. Their emotions are concealed behind the medical masks. There's also not enough room for great camera-work - basically, the entire action unfolds mostly within four walls.Authenticity - effects and makeup are impressive and the setup looks very plausible, but only a handful of medical/forensic experts can judge how truthful and anatomically correct the dissection is carried out here (if anyone cares). Honestly, I used to think that the autopsy is done to examine the condition of particular organs and to ascertain the cause of death. Now I know that dead bodies are severed, raped and humiliated, intestines are ripped apart, brains are retrieved from the head, stuffed into abdomen and mixed with guts, then the body is stitched back and washed - nothing personal. And what are these poor lads expected to write in their deceitful autopsy reports afterward?Shock and disgust factor - it's much unlikely that an unsuspecting viewer would discover, to his horror, that the disc he was intended to watch with his wife and kids beside a Christmas tree turns out to be a graphic video manual on vivisection. This obscure item is barely available, sought by people well familiar with the subject and not easily offended. Hence it would be pointless to warn anyone to sabotage this film. They are well aware what exactly they are watching and what they want to see.Cerdà is really gifted and stylish director, which is clearly obvious from at least two other parts of his "trilogy" - preceding 'The Awakening', amazing black and white short, and 30-minute 'Genesis', visually stunning and moody piece with an off-beat and interesting concept. And I'm pretty sure that one day he will conquer the hearts of moviegoers with his new, more mainstream oriented, material. And sooner or later 'Aftermath' would become a rarity for the meticulous collectors of his "early" "warm-up" works.But in the meantime, I'm afraid, it may be recommended strictly for medical students or specialists that study mental disorders and sexual deviations.

Voland-4 If the guys from Cannibal Corpse haven't seen this yet, I'm definitely bringing a DVD to the next show and throwing it onstage. I mean, this is a visual companion to at least two songs in their catalogue. Totally brutal, detached, no dialogue, loaded with sharp and well-placed symbolism. And oh the realism! I don't think I've ever seen a dead woman's vagina on screen, especially not like this. I'd really like to know how he made the cadavers, because as it stands now, it's one of the most realistic depictions of gore I've ever seen. What makes this a rewarding viewing experience is the fact that it's not just gore porn, a la Cannibal Corpse's lyrical subject matter - the director makes a nice sweeping yet clear statement about the social context of death in modern society. All I have to say - when you get to heaven and they greet you with harps and garlands at the pearly gates, remember not to look back down.