Nekrotronic is a Wild Ride and a Wild New Exclusive on Shudder
Holy hell! Shudder has an absolutely wild new exclusive that blends sci-fi, horror and action all together with a dash of cyberpunk aesthetic. Nekrotronic is a thrill ride of a film that seemingly jams in enough story and character development to fill an entire season of a television series into just an hour and a half. Speaking of television series, I am actually advocating for Shudder to give us a full series based on this bananas movie. The following review contains a few amount of spoilers, but honestly this one goes to so many weird places it would be impossible to spoil anything.
The basic premise of Nekrotronic is that the demons from hell have found a way to possess people through the internet using cell phones. These demons have been in an endless war with a powerful group of necromancers armed to the death with crazy looking guns and special powers to fight the demons and send them back to hell. None more powerful than Finnegan (Monica Belluci) who has the power to perform exorcisms with her bare hands.
One day though she plugs into the internet all matrix like and gets super possessed. When she logs off she begins killing all the necromancers but when she tries to kill her young son she is thwarted and he is sent into hiding. All these years later, Finnegan has created a cell phone game much like Pokemon Go! but instead of catching cute little animals, your collect ghosts to upload to demon cloud where their souls will be eventually eaten by Finnegan to grant her eternal life. As well as enough power to possess the entire internet. These events cause an awakening within sanitation worker Howard, son of Finnegan, which leads him to joining a family of necromancers to defeat the evil once and for all.
Now if that doesn’t get you excited you just might not be human.
The amount of mythos they stuff into this movie is absolutely insane. Howard can transform the dead into wraiths which are basically ghosts on steroids. He does this to his stoner best friend Rangi to great comedic effect. The necromancers and demon alike can jack themselves into the internet like The Matrix and if they aren’t cautious, they can find themselves trapped in a Lament configuration like demon box. There’s a resurrection machine to extract demons from the demon boxes which is powered by explosive resurrection goo which is used to bring one of the heroines back to life after an unfortunate head exploding event.
Demonic WiFi extenders called Necropods that are filled with and powered by the severed heads of necromancers. Shape-shifting demons, transporting wraiths, resurrection powers and giant practical effect demon queens run amok. Absolutely jam-packed with the amount of world building content that usually takes 8 hour long episodes to build up. Instead, Nekrotronic gets you from Howard hauling waste to summoning demons captured from the internet and stuffed into demon boxes in 30 minutes flat.
I want so much more of this! This movie could have easily acted as a pilot for a full on Shudder original series and I for one am advocating to see so much more. While I wait, I’ll dive into the only other film directed by Kiah Roache-Turner and will be looking forward to all future releases. Nekrotronic is such a wild mash-up! It has a bit of something for everyone. A hard to classify film, so unique that even the short film that this was spawned from, Daemonrunner and its tagline “Ghostbusters meets the Matrix” doesn’t even come close to pinning down what this movie is. Once again, Shudder comes through with absolutely incredible content, a definite must watch and instant cult classic. Check it out now.
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