El_Ingeniero I'll accept watching gory stuff if there's a point to it, so I'm glad I sat through this 30 mins short. Atmospheric, clinical and beautiful, disturbing and disgusting all the same.You could argue that Cerda lingers too much on the blood and guts, but I guess it's more than justified since we are in a Morgue! I would never watch it again, but like many other pieces out there I think it deserves to be experienced.PLEASE NOTE: IMDb's summary ruins the film. First, because the plot is minimal and everything is given away. Secondly, it belittles or ignores the value of the short: the way is shot, and the combo of music and camera work.

sddavis63 This Spanish short film (if you take away the opening and closing credits) it probably comes in at about 24 minutes) is not for those who have queasy stomachs. It's set in a morgue and deals with the preparation of corpses. The opening 10 minutes or so is disturbingly graphic, but offers a portrayal of the probably fairly typical activities that are involved in the work. Be warned, though. Bodies are sliced open and organs are pulled out. It's very graphic. After that, though, the movie leaves the realm of graphic and becomes really quite sickening.When the body of a young woman is brought into the morgue we discover that one of the morgue workers is - to put it bluntly - quite depraved. Alone with the body, he engages in very violent and very graphic necrophilia. This part of the movie isn't pleasant. It's not even interesting. It's quite sick.Credit has to be given for the very realistic look to everything, and the performance of the actor playing the depraved morgue worker was quite good and quite believable. There are no words spoken in the film. When communication is necessary (as the movie begins there are two workers in the morgue) it's all done with the eyes. So, yes, credit for those things, but this is nevertheless a disturbing and unpleasant film to watch, and in all honesty it seems to lack any particular purpose or goal. Only for the strong points mentioned above I'd give this a 3/10.

Casey_Moriarty Just watched this movie. Can't say much about it, except, WOW. This film is only half an hour long, but had it been any longer I don't know if I would be able to get through it. And I am not disturbed by movies... I have seen some pretty gruesome ones. But it's not the gore that makes this movie disturbing. And it's not even the necrophilia. We've all seen more graphic movies than this by far. It may not seem to be so upon first watching this movie, but there's actually not as much as it feels like there is. So I guess what makes this film so disturbing it is is the sterility of it; the coldness of the morgue; the fact that the victim has no idea she is the victim and the perpetrator of the crime shows no guilt towards his crime. The purely casual way this depraved character, excellently portrayed by Pep Tosar in a performance that hides half of his face most of the time, commits his indecent acts. That MIGHT be what makes this film a disturbing one- but it's hard to put your finger on it. Either way, you can't tear your eyes off of this thing once you've started watching.

Michael_Elliott Aftermath (1994) *** (out of 4) Spanish horror film from director Nacho Cerda about two morgue workers who enjoy rubbing their hands through dead bodies and more. Needless to say, this film is very gory and graphic so it'll probably turn most viewers off. There's also a sex scene, which will make a few others run. The direction is top notch however and there are many strong scenes that don't have anything to do with the gore. The special effects are incredible and while watching the film I thought they were using real corpses but later read they weren't.