Product Details

• Actors: Lucker the Necrophagous
• Directors: Johan Vandewoestijne
• Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Synapse Films
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00140PKD2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #94,721 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Lucker the Necrophagous: Director's Cut" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

About the Director

In 1986, a young film school student named Johan Vandewoestijne shocked the film community in Belgium by creating one of the most disturbing, controversial and gory films to ever be released in that country. With little money and a love for the horror genre, Vandewoestijne won the hearts of horror fans worldwide with his little film called LUCKER THE NECROPHAGOUS. For many years, LUCKER was one of the most sought after and widely distributed films on the grey market. Originally released only on VHS, LUCKER THE NECROPHAGOUS was distributed poorly. The original film materials were destroyed and LUCKER officially became a lost film for decades. Now, over 20 years later, director Vandewoestijne has created the ultimate version of his shocking masterpiece using the only existing video materials in his possession. Do you dare experience LUCKER THE NECROPHAGOUS for yourself?

Product Description

John Lucker is a deeply disturbed serial rapist and killer. Locked up in a clinic after committing eight murders (and keeping the bodies around for his own sexual pleasure after the people died!!!), Lucker manages to escape and flees to the city... searching for the one lone survivor of his previous killing spree. His disgusting rampage continues and more people die one by one. Lucker must find and kill the woman who escaped him the first time and no one will get in his way!

This Special Editon DVD contains:
- Documetary on the Making of the Film
- The ORIGINAL Uncut Rare VHS Version of the Film

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars A Corpse Loving Classic!, September 11, 2009

By	Brian Lueth "WildsideCinema.com" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Finally the much sought after, bootleg gem hits DVD in the U.S. with an official release through Synapse and I couldn't be happier! The remastered film quality is fantastic (better than the bootleg tape I own), the sound is a hundred times better and Vandewoestijne's final vision of Lucker The Necrophagous is indeed far more effective than what's been floating around for years on the gray market.

Improved picture quality, sound and edit are all great things but some of you are probably wondering whether Lucker is going to be a smart purchase and that's really where my review for this film is going to shake some of you. Personally, I love films like Lucker, as well as necrophilia cinema in general, so this film was a major score for me but there's very few out there that can even tolerate nudity in horror cinema let alone rotting corpse lovin'. If the thought of watching somebody lick their hands after stroking slimy, putrid corpse 'tang makes you queasy, I'd recommend passing on this film.

Lucker The Necrophagous is a gritty, no-holds-barred bit of shock cinema and that's about it; it's no cult classic but it is undoubtedly the Holy Grail for some. Synapse should be commended for releasing such a ballsy flick.

Lucker is one nasty little film, it's not very long or incredibly complex, but it's nasty nonetheless and for that I love it. Don't be a dullard and purchase this without knowing what you're getting into first, this isn't a party flick nor is it one of those classic "Must Have" films that make everybody's favorite films lists. If you're a fan of films like Buttgereit's Nekromantik, Cerda's Aftermath or D'Amato's Buio Omega, you're going to probably dig this as I did.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars lucker the Necrophagous, July 10, 2008

By	Brett R. Dick "the Cheese" (GOLDEN VALLEY, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If your reading this then you must already know something about this somewhat notorious film, does it live up to the hype? yes it does. First this movie is one of the lost grey market films of the late 1980's and if you were like me, traded blurry bootleg copies of this one for years because nothing was ever available, bad sound and picture and often with strange sub-titles on the bottom in some unknown europeon language. Story goes the original masters were destroyed and it was thought that this title was probably dust to the ages. Thanks to Don May and the wonderful group at Synapse Films, ( The absolute gold standard of gritty exploitive cult cinema!) and my personal reason to keep living, we have another fine addition to our growing DVD library. This is not Synapse's usual flawless release due to the state of the original source material, but is leaps and bounds ahead of what we used to get under the counter at those old comic book conventions, this is as good as this film ever looked. This is in a new " Directors Cut " made in cooperation with the original director who also sadly recently died. If you are a fan of titles like Necromantik and Aftermath and never heard of this, you will appreciate it's sickness , buy it and help support this film team in bringing hard to find or unreleased grindhouse cult cinema to the masses in lovingly restored package editions, Bravo!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sound effects were really annoying, December 16, 2008

By	CraigalsCosmosis (Chicago,IL USA) - See all my reviews

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As another reviewer mentions,the scene with Lucker humping the 4 weeks of rotting corspe of his latest victim a hooker(which he also licks the slime off of)is the most notable scene,one star for this alone.The rest of the feature itself was pretty good with the creepy atmosphere,too bad for the visuals and audio(especially the sound effects)because they most certainly really ruin the experience.They title the special features as the Horrific Special Features(their not foolin)as they were left only with shabby video material to work with in the the transfer to DVD(all the original materials were destroyed).I would have given a 4 star rating had it not been for the bleeding picture(I'm not talking about the blood)and annoying sound effects that gave me an earache and yes I really need to mention the sound effects again as they are the worst I have ever come across.I also felt more justified in my 1 star rating just to bring the rating down a bit and let people know exactly what their getting in buying this. That is a fuzzy VHS copy with horrible sound effects.Perhaps I would not have been as dissapointed if they sold this for 1/3rd of what I paid and had better sound effects. The corspe sex was really a sick good time.It's a shame the source materials for DVD transfer were so lousy.