Sorry, this movie sucks

Boring

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is like Wishmaster (1997) but with the devil instead of a malignant genie. The actual monster was seriously cool when it was on the screen but that is for a disappointingly short time. The story was full of twists and interest but something was missing so I found my attention drifting. The ending was great with a big thingy that burnt stuff with wonderfully tacky effects. Not very intense but the ending was worth waiting for.

Holy moly, what the heck happened here? Brian Yuzna...you're better than this! I've seen you do better than this! How did you make something this hideously AWFUL?I watched this because it has Andrew Divoff and Jeffery Combs in it. Well, at least both of them are fun to watch as always, but they're only as good as the awful material will let them be. It seriously, truly feels like they shot this from the first draft of the script, and that said draft was written by a high school dropout goth. The two leads are horrifically awful. Frost hams it up something fierce as John Jasper. Hamming is probably too generous a word. He has absolutely no idea what he's doing and uses idiotic facial expressions to fill in his complete lack of any talent whatsoever. Brook is nearly as bad, just slumming it hideously the whole way through. The makeup is awful, with Faust's outfit looking like the cheap rubber that it is. His Wolverine-knockoff claws look like flimsy plastic and bounce around everywhere. You really don't believe that he could cut through a car roof with them. The story lurches around and barely manages to stick together. The characters have no dimension to them. They do things because the script wants them to, not because it actually fits their paper-thin character in any possible way. They just do what's necessary to move things along. There's no motivation here beyond "The director and writer said to!" One minute, the lead chick loathes and fears Faust, and the next minute they start shagging. Yeah, that makes sense.Yuzna, how did you mess this up so BADLY? At least his other efforts have managed to be fun. Reanimator, From Beyond, Dagon (I know, he wasn't the director, but he was heavily involved in creative direction), etc may not have been great movies, but they were fun cult flicks. Faust isn't fun at all. It's not even so bad it's fun. It's just nigh-unwatchably horrid.How this movie won ANY kind of award other than a Razzie is something that I will never grasp even if God himself came down and explained it to me. Do yourself a favor and miss this. If you want to see Divoff being sinister, go watch Wishmaster. If you want to see Combs doing his fun hamming (and I mean that in a good way. Combs is fun to watch), go watch Reanimator, From Beyond, or The Frighteners. If you want to see something that will make you truly believe that you've wasted 92 minutes of your life beyond anything you could imagine, watch Faust.

Last night the subject of comic books was discussed. I'm not sure how it started, but eventually the issue of dark heroes came up...and from this Faust became a topic. This is actually one of my favorite comic stories of all time, despite the fact that I'm not usually into extreme gore or pornographic imagery.So today I find myself looking around online, thinking of the great read and exceptional artwork. Lo and behold I ran across movie information and read some of the reviews listed here (and elsewhere).It seems the movie received some really bad reviews. I have seen the movie some years ago, and I admit it's no masterpiece...but I strongly feel that there should be some consideration. In order to enjoy the movie at all, you have to know and understand the story.First it should be said, in order to do the story of Faust justice...it would take a multi-million dollar budget. There's simply no way around it. It's also impossible to fit properly into a 90min or 2hr span.Second, the story is easily the goriest I've EVER read. And to stay true to the creators intention, the gore has to translate to the movie.Third, with the exception of a few characters...everyone in this movie is a satanist. Their lives revolve around sex and S&M. I think it would be silly to just imply that it happens...it is something that must be seen. You have to expect a cheese factor here, because otherwise this movie wouldn't even be capable of a XXX rating. (One example comes to mind, I read that a "gore porn" was recently attempted...but the "blood" was green instead of red due to the zombie nature of the film. The movie was banned, there can be no blood in porn whether it's red or not) And finally, people leaving review obviously do not understand the condition the hero is in. Yes, he is insane...or more precisely he's a tortured soul. He always had been, since childhood...or if you read the comics, even prior to birth. Sure, sounds like a stupid idea but it was actually well executed in the comic.That being said, I admit the movie was far from great. It wasn't even a great adaptation of the comic book. But it's a standing achievement that an underground comic that was boycotted and at one time even stopped production has enough of a fanbase to even BECOME A MOVIE. I sh*t you not, "hollywood" would have never touched this movie with a 10ft pole. Unfortunately it was victim to a b-movie budget and cast with b-movie (though respected) actors.Oh, and I'm just going to assume that the "heavy metal" music in use was what they could afford royalties for...because in the original comic, the music referenced to was all highly recognized work such as "papa's got a brand new bag" and "don't fear the reaper".

An artist, John Jaspers (Mark frost) sells his soul to the mysterious "M" (Andrew Divoff) in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant serpentine demon onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin. "Faust: Love of the damned" is a great horror film! Good acting from the mostly unknown cast (Though lead Mark Frost tended to overact, I still dug his performance anyway!). Brian Yuzna's direction was stylish and the film is visually stunning. The special effects by Screaming mad George were EXCELLENT! I especially loved the Homunculus, what a brilliantly designed monster! The gore was plentiful (Loved the decapitation!) too. Not a film for the faint of heart, that's for sure, but it was a wild ride and I enjoyed it! 8/10.