The Best Underground Horror Movies About Necrophilia

The body horror Thanatomorphose by Éric Falardeau takes its title from the French term referring to “the visible signs of a body decomposing after death”. The film literally translates this concept into images, portraying the protagonist's gradual physical deterioration through a process of putrefaction shown with striking realism.
Thanatomorphose is exactly that: a slow and inexorable physical decline, a bodily death depicted in meticulous detail that elevates the film into shocking extreme territory. The outward death is only the most horrifying reflection of the protagonist’s inner decay, as she comes to view her deteriorating body as an attractive and acceptable sexual object, ultimately leading her to practice autoeroticism.
Plot: Laura is a young woman trapped in a monotonous and joyless life, marked by a relationship in which her boyfriend treats her as nothing more than a sexual object. One day she realizes that something in her body is beginning to change and, convinced that it is only a temporary illness, she tries to treat herself. As time passes, however, nothing improves and her body slowly begins to deteriorate.
Cast: Kayden Rose, Émile Beaudry, Davyd Tousignant, Karine Picard.
Special effects by David Scherer.

An extreme and deeply disturbing film, Headless originated as an expansion of the film-within-the-film seen in Found (2012) by Scott Schirmer. Directed by Arthur Cullipher, the feature brings to the screen the imaginary splatter movie that reflects the twisted mind of the protagonist’s serial killer brother in Found.
The result is a deliberately shocking work that revives the dirty and brutal aesthetic of 1970s and ’80s exploitation cinema, pushing the slasher genre into extreme territory dominated by sadism and necrophilia.
With its raw style and explicit violence, Headless quickly became a cult title within the contemporary underground horror circuit, often cited among the most disturbing films of American extreme cinema of the 2010s.
Plot: A masked serial killer roams isolated areas, brutally murdering young women and turning their bodies into objects of his perversions. Amid mutilations and physical desecration, his homicidal madness unfolds as a spiral of violence with no moral restraint.
The cast includes Shane Beasley, Kelsey Carlisle and Ellie Church.

Directed by Phil Stevens, Flowers (USA – 2015) is an extreme horror film that drags the viewer into a space beyond death, where necrophilia merges with a grim, suffocating aesthetic.
Devoid of dialogue and built entirely on disturbing imagery, Flowers relies heavily on practical effects, turning the human body into the core of a nightmarish vision shaped by obsession and decay.
The result is a stark, uncompromising experience that tackles necrophilia head-on, placing Flowers among the most striking entries in contemporary underground cinema.
The film follows six women who, after being brutally murdered, awaken in a liminal reality, trapped within an underground maze connected to their killer's house, where they are forced to relive trauma, abuse, and fragments of their past while a dark presence continues to haunt them.
Cast: Colette Kenny McKenna, Krystle Fitch, Anastasia Blue, Tanya Erin Paoli...

TetroManiac: Confessions of a Necrophile Girl by Domiziano Cristopharo draws inspiration from the real-life case of American necrophile Karen Greenlee, a Californian embalmer arrested in 1979 after stealing a hearse to perform necrophilic acts on the body of a young man.
The film addresses the theme in an explicit and disturbing way, placing it within a context shaped by thanatopraxy rituals and erotic obsession, becoming a mirror in which eros and thanatos are reflected.
Through a video diary, a thanato-aesthetician retraces the most significant moments of her life, from childhood to the scandal that made her notoriously known, revealing a deep and obsessive attraction to death and to corpses.
Cast: Angela Del Regno, Lorenzo Fedele, Dario Almerighi, Vincenzo Paliasc.

Necrophile Passion by Tom Heidenberg is one of the most controversial titles associated with the underground horror cinema of the 2010s.
The film tackles the theme of necrophilia in a direct and uncompromising way, relying on a deliberately raw and disturbing aesthetic.
Through explicit imagery and a cold, unhealthy atmosphere, Necrophile Passion explores the relationship between sexual desire and the dead body, turning the viewing into an extreme experience and, over time, becoming a small cult among fans of extreme cinema.
The story revolves around a man who brings the lifeless body of a young woman into his home to satisfy his morbid impulses.
Cast: Günther Brandl, Eldrid Remy, Katharina Buchberger, Sandra Pucher and Simone R.

Directed by Domiziano Cristopharo, TetroManiac: eROTik is an extreme horror film that tackles the theme of necrophilia with an explicit and disturbing approach. The film draws loose inspiration from the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal.”
TetroManiac: eROTik further explores the necrophilic theme by focusing—without taboos and with touches of pornography—on morbid sexual relationships as well as the various stages of decomposition.
Plot: The story follows a man driven by necrophilic and cannibalistic urges, living within a universe of obsessions, violence and macabre practices.
Cast: Adam Western.

A provocative work tied to contemporary Italian extreme cinema, Beyond The Omega stands as an explicit homage to Buio Omega (1979) by Joe D'Amato.
Written and directed by Mattia De Pascali, the film alternates slasher moments with psychological and hallucinatory digressions, exploring various paraphilias including, alongside necrophilia, agalmatophilia (attraction to inanimate objects).
Plot: Aris, a shy translator about to get married, loses his fiancée Iris when she is murdered by a maniac. Devastated by the trauma, he isolates himself in a mountain house where he develops a morbid relationship with a life-size doll named Persephone. As his mind sinks into an increasingly perverse delirium, the killer continues to claim new victims.
The cast includes Lorenzo Lepori, Benedetta Rossi, Pio Bisanti, Alex Lucchesi and Lucia Pipchak.

Larva Mental is an experimental extreme horror piece directed by and starring Mikel Balerdi, a Spanish artist known for his work in extreme body art. The film functions as a full-on performance, with Balerdi using his own body as both medium and statement, turning it into a vehicle for provocation and artistic expression.
Blending gore with physical decay, Larva Mental unfolds as a barrage of extreme imagery that pushes well beyond the usual boundaries of underground horror. Between sacrilegious gestures and necrophilic undertones, the film stands as one of the most uncompromising examples of contemporary extreme underground cinema.
Plot: John is a man consumed by sadomasochistic impulses and self-harm, seeking pleasure through pain. When his daughter discovers disturbing videos of his practices on his computer, the trauma of past abuse resurfaces, driving her to suicide. Overwhelmed by guilt, John descends into a spiral of self-destruction.
Also featuring Dairi Gaona.

Walging by Wesley Remory is a descent into the darkest human impulses. Devoid of dialogue, this powerful 10-minute short film relies entirely on the strength of its imagery and on practical effects centered around a corpse.
As the title suggests, Walging plunges into the most absolute disgust. It moves beyond the dimension of death, bringing to the surface the remnants of a painful past: wounds that never healed and are fueled by a desire for revenge, continuing to nourish torment and depravity.
Plot: A solitary figure crosses a field until reaching a group of abandoned houses. After entering one of the dilapidated homes, the intruder finds a room where a corpse in an advanced state of decomposition lies on a bed, destined to become the macabre focus of his obsession.

Mors Omnia Solvit is an Italian occult film that explores themes such as necrophilia, esotericism and Satanism through a provocative and nihilistic visual language. The work reinterprets the myth of Persephone and Hades in a contemporary key, with a disturbing approach strongly influenced by European extreme cinema, recalling cult titles such as Nekromantik, Begotten and Opera Mortem.
The story follows a young woman, a modern incarnation of Persephone, who lives trapped in an oppressive reality and eventually comes into contact with a clandestine death-worshipping cult led by a figure representing Hades.
The film stars Samael Von Martin, Vax Absent, Simòn Ferètro.

Crisalida by Mikel Balerdi serves as the twisted prequel to Larva Mental, pushing even further into the artist’s extreme and confrontational vision. As in his previous work, Balerdi turns his own body into the centerpiece of the film, merging experimental cinema, body art, and underground horror into an experience that feels even more disturbing and unrestrained, with necrophilic elements woven into its imagery.
Crisalida firmly belongs to the landscape of contemporary extreme cinema, where performance art and visual provocation are not just elements, but the very language of the film itself.
Plot: John is a troubled man undergoing psychotherapy in an attempt to come to terms with the harm he has inflicted on his wife and himself over the years. As the sessions unfold, however, he begins to unravel, exposing the darkest layers of his mind and the horror that lies within.
Cast: Mikel Balerdi, Xochitl Espinoza, and Traian DC.

The Degenerates by Jonathan Doe is one of the most extreme and brutal titles associated with contemporary underground horror cinema.
The film draws inspiration from a real crime case: the murder of Robert Beckowitz, which took place on July 14, 1982, in Detroit, Michigan. On that occasion, Beckowitz was shot in the back of the head by his friend James Glover and subsequently stabbed dozens of times.
After the murder, Glover and his accomplice Jeannine Clark mutilated and desecrated the corpse for several days, photographing themselves next to the dismembered body in a series of images that later became notoriously known. Glover was eventually sentenced to between 30 and 50 years in prison for murder, while Clark received a 10-year sentence for mutilation of a corpse.
Jonathan Doe’s film reworks this grim episode by focusing on a pair of psychopaths who, after committing a murder, use the victim’s body as a macabre attraction during their drug-fueled escapades of depravity.
Shot with a dirty and provocative aesthetic, The Degenerates belongs to the most radical strand of European extreme cinema, standing out for the direct and shocking way it confronts themes of necrophilia and physical degradation.
Cast: Jonathan Doe and Felicia Fisher.

Directed by Hugh Gallagher, Gorotica is the central installment of the director’s necro-gore trilogy (the first chapter is Gorgasm, while the final one is Gore Whore), an underground project that combines disgust and dark humor.
Filled with nudity, Gorotica stages extreme sexual situations intertwined with death. Gallagher crafts a film that alternates gore and necrophilia, pushing beyond the limits of taste in order to shock and provoke the viewer, earning a place within the most extreme side of underground cinema.
Plot: Mortally wounded during a shootout, a thief manages to swallow a jewel to hide it shortly before dying. His accomplice, determined to recover the precious object at any cost, entrusts the corpse to a goth necrophiliac woman, thus setting in motion a macabre chain of events driven by obsessions and perversions.
Cast: Ghetty Chasun, Dingo Jones, Bushrude Gutterman.

The brutal Flesh Meat Doll(S) is a gore short film that belongs to the most extreme territories of underground cinema. The film confronts the theme of necrophilia without any filter, adding elements of sadism and pornography.
Flesh Meat Doll(S) constructs a sick universe that deliberately pushes the viewer beyond the limits of disgust.
Precisely because of the rawness of its sequences and its direct approach to the most disturbing paraphilias, the film is often cited among the most controversial titles in underground horror.
Plot: In a universe dominated by violence and depravity, the human body becomes an object of brutality and perversion, giving rise to a spiral of mutilations, extreme sex and death.
Cast: James Bell and Tabitha Doran.