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Yes, it's a strange movie. Yes, I still don't know if I like it: Divoff was right as M, I liked him. The plot place for Van Campen's character was right, too, although her own dubbing (to spanish) was bad bad bad. Mark Frost was Jim Carrey in a Gore movie but I liked his Faust part of the role. The psychiatrist character and actress are the most defined and well worked ones. The FX were right (wonderful make-up, specially the Van Campen-turns-into-DesireWoman one: horny at the beginning and more disturbing as it went on). But the mix of bad acting, Spawn-theft plot and bad worked scenes and connections didn't leave me clear one thing: did I like this movie? I don't know...

Faust is a classic German legend focusing on the classic idea of a man selling his soul to the devil. Faust: Love of the Damned takes that basic plot and adds in a heavy metal soundtrack, a bunch of gore and a comic book central character and the result is...well, not even as good as you might think it will be. The inspiration for this film was a comic book by Tim Vigil and David Quinn which, like every other comic book ever made, I haven't read. However, it would seem obvious that director Brian Yuzna took most of his inspiration from this film from the comic book revenge flick 'The Crow', and somehow this film doesn't come off as well. The film focuses on John Jaspers; an artist who witnesses his girlfriend being killed by a bunch of thugs. Some other things happen, and Jaspers end up in contact with the mysterious 'M', who offers him the chance to get revenge on the thugs who ruined his life, for the small price of his soul. Naturally, Jaspers jumps at the chance to sell his soul for revenge, but he later regrets it when he turns into a horned demon...

I'm actually quite a big fan of Brian Yuzna - I wouldn't hesitate to call the likes of Society and Return of the Living Dead 3 modern horror masterpieces; but Faust: Love of the Damned is undoubtedly his worst film. Typically for Yuzna, there's no shortage of gore and gruesome special effects, which is nice and there's plenty of interesting scenes and imagery; but the plot is all over the place, really quite boring and the film doesn't seem to know what it wants to do once the horned demon superhero pops up; it goes from being a demonic horror movie to some sort of comic book comedy! The one liners that Faust utters are awful, and the suit looks pretty damned silly too. Yuzna did manage to collect something of an interesting cast - Mark Frost doesn't really impress in the lead role, but the film has supporting turns for the likes of Jeffrey Combs, who is good in the sort of role you don't often see him in, and Andrew Divoff, who is clearly ripping off his own role in the crappy Wishmaster, but at least it's amusing to see. Overall, Faust: Love of the Damned is really too silly to be taken seriously, and I don't mean that in a good way! Avoid.

Brian Yuzna, the happily disturbed director of such films like `Society' and the `Re-Animator' sequels, returns here with an ultra-violent movie that goes straight for attacking the viewer's last bit of good taste. John Jaspers makes a pact with the devil…In return for his eternal soul; he's offered the change to avenge the death of his girlfriend. John is satisfied after this, but the devil (referred to as `M') wants John to go on with his killing spree. He refuses and gets buried, only to resurrect as Faust! A typical comic book and cloaked superhero, but slightly more bloodthirsty than the average Bat-, Spider- or Superman. Is `Faust – Love of the Damned' a good movie? No…not at all, in fact, but it could have been worse. The basic Faust plot outline (selling your soul to the devil) is as old as cinema itself. The eminent director F.W Murnau (Nosferatu) already made a film with this theme back in 1926. Try and compete with that, Brian Yuzna! The screenplay contains a few slightly ingenious aspects, like the character of the insatiable, sex-addicted sidekick of M, played by the ravishing Monica Van Campen. But the biggest goal of Faust is showing as much gore as humanly possible. Make-up artist Screaming Mad George gets to be his old, filthy self again and inserts grotesque gore such as eye poking and decapitations. There even is a melting-sequence, entirely in the tradition of `Society'. Regretfully, the acting performances are a giant letdown… Mark Frost overacts terribly and Andrew Divoff (who already annoyed the hell out of me in `Wishmaster') is the most undeserved horror lead ever. Jeffrey Combs still is the man, although it hurts to see him being downgraded straight to the supportive cast. Furthermore, there's not the least bit of tension, depth or atmosphere so I wouldn't exactly call this a successful new horror film. Lots of fun guaranteed if you're a gorehound, though

This movie lives by those words. Faust is simply a fluff film meant to have fun with. You people have got to stop saying that this film ripped off Spawn. This comic was published back in the 1980's! The 80's folks. Got that straight? Now, Faust is not a good movie, it's a good looking movie. It's stylishly done. Brian Yuzna has certainly progressed as a filmmaker. Screaming Mad George's effects are, as always, different. There is a strange lack of gore, however (most reviews kept talking about the gore, but they obviously have not seen other Yuzna/George collaborations). It does get a little far fetched when M turns the chick into a blob of goo. It's just ridiculous, I wish Yuzna would take his films more seriously sometimes. I mean, sometimes it's funny, but at others it's inappropriate. There is also a monster that looks dead-on like Dr. Freudstein in Fulci's House by the Cemetery. My other complaint comes during the subway scene. Why do they have to have sex after they escape danger? It's over the top to say the least. Faust does have a plus side. You've got a couple of cult favorites starring. Jeffrey Combs always adds something to a picture and Andrew Divoff is perfect as M. He has one of the most evil voices ever (I'm just not sure about that haircut). Mark Frost gets the award for gratuitous over-acting. It is a comic book movie though. There's also a great soundtrack. Nothing like some good old fashioned heavy metal to drive a violent flick.

"You can't cure evil, Dr. It's not a sickness."

Oh, I always wanted to watch the 2000 movie titled "Faust", but actually never found myself with the chance to get to do so. Well, at least not before now, late in 2020. So needless to say that I had some expectations for the movie, especially since the movie was directed by Brian Yuzna and had Jeffrey Combs on the cast list.

And now that I have just finished watching "Faust", I must say that 20 years of waiting set my expectations up a bit too high, because this was not an impressive movie. And for a movie directed by Brian Yuzna, it was just a swing and a miss, especially since he has so many iconic horror movies to his name.

It was the storyline, or the train wreck of a storyline, that killed off the movie for me. It felt like writer David Quinn was just stumbling about in the dark when writing the script and storyline for "Faust". Granted, I haven't read the comic that it was based upon, but man, this movie sure was a heap of...

The acting in the movie was for the most parts good enough, despite the fact that the actors and actresses had very little proper material to work with, both in terms of script and dialogue. It was Jeffrey Combs that made the movie bearable to sit through, though I must say that it was also good that Andrew Divoff was in the movie as well, as he usually have that rugged dark charm about him.

Visually then "Faust" was adequate, but it was definitely showing signs of being 20 years old.

All in all, I found "Faust" to be a disappointing movie, especially since the storyline felt like random odds and pieces put together to make a movie. It was hardly an entertaining or overly enjoyable movie experience. Much less a horror gem or classic.

My rating of the 2000 movie "Faust" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

...really, really stupid, ugly and bad.

If your idea of a fine ol' cinematic experience is seeing puppety, rubbery, crappy monsters, unfathomably bad acting, and (the biggest horror of this film) a peroxided Andrew Divoff in a caftan, then this movie is for you! Boy, it's got it all! Honestly, much maligned Ed Wood never made a film this wretched. It's got lots of Europeans playing Americans (accents so thick you could cut them with a knife); it's got a lead with the screen presence of moist balsa wood; it's got poor ol' Jeffrey Combs, who really needs to break ties with Brian Yuzna. Combs actually has acting chops and deserves better than to guzzle Divoff's big yellow snake (I'm not being smutty here; the poor guy does just that). Oy, this movie. I can't say it didn't hold my attention, but it was that kind of stunned, "What the hell possessed them (get it?) to make such a lousy movie?"

Where are Mike and The Bots when you need them?

FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED is a superhero reworking of the classic German folk fable and a big screen adaptation of a comic book. It's also the debut film from Brian Yuzna's short-lived Spanish studio, Fantastic Factory, and was directed by Yuzna himself. So what's it like? I can truly say this is one of the dumbest, worst films I've ever witnessed.

All of Yuzna's power and skill as a director has vanished to be replaced by ineptitude on a massive scale. The plot is some piece of nonsense about a guy who sells his soul to the devil (an overacting Andrew Divoff, naturally) before going on a killing spree utilising some Wolverine-style metal claws. We get a right load of nonsense involving devil-worship cults, a random badly-animated CGI monster, an awful grotesque scene borrowed from SOCIETY in which a woman's body parts are distended, and lots of icky gore effects.

The problem isn't so much with the story as with the execution. This is a disjointed, badly-edited mess, headache inducing with the constant heavy metal noise blaring in every action scene. This makes FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED a real chore to sit through. Pity poor Jeffrey Combs, playing in support as a cop; he deserves better.

I´ve been a fan of the movies of Brian Yuzna for a long time. Although he won´t be remembered as the greatest directors of all time, his movies have been funny, bloody and imaginative entertainment. But what he did with his new movie "Faust" is beyond words. The acting is painfully terrible, the score destroys every atmosphere, the settings are cheap and the special effects are absolutely cheesy. But, hey, it could´ve been a nice popcorn-movie nonetheless, if "Faust" wasn´t so completely in bad taste and if it had a story. There are moments which remind me of the worst in pornography: There is a disgusting torture-scene which is supposed to be sexy and nearly every boring, stupid and unmotivated scene ends with sex or some uncreative killings. This movie was directed only for money and you see it in every second of it: Throw in some gore, some metal music and some sex and those stupid horror-fans will like it. But it simply doesn´t work, it just makes you want to throw up. "Faust" is the debut of Yuzna´s new production company - He couldn´t have a worse start than this one. Avoid at all cost!!!

The first thing I noticed on the cover were the pictures of 'Faust'. This guy sells his soul to the devil and in 'return' he gets these sharp blades, 2 on each hand. That looks a lot like 'Wolverine'. Than he also has a cape which looks like the one 'Spawn' has. So, original...NO. The movie itself is entertaining, I really liked the music!. The story is very simple, First get rid of some guys here than there... than do you're own thing which is killing the boss (Mr. Devil). You should only watch this film if you like Gore. Tho the SFX where lame... it was fun to watch!

This movie is really to awful for words. They took a beautiful play and comic and turned it into absolute crap. The special effects are so bad that you can't laugh about them anymore. You can on the other hand wonder about the fact that the movie won an award for best special effects at some festival....Why? Are the people who gave away the awards blind? Cause that's the only logical reason I can find for it. And then the acting...Oh my God, even wooden puppets could act better then all those people together in this movie. The worst thing of it all is that Brian Yuzna really could have made a beautiful movie looking at the story of Faust, but he didn't. Instead he made a movie not really worth seeing. In my opinion this movie never should have been released in the first place.

Looking to exact revenge on the gangsters who murdered his girlfriend, artist John Jaspers (Mark Frost) strikes a hasty deal with the mysterious 'M' (Andrew Divoff), exchanging his soul for supernatural abilities and a mean set of arm-mounted blades. But in his eagerness, he forgets that it always pays to read the small print before signing a contract, which in this case states that he must continue to kill for M after settling his score. When Jaspers refuses, M has him buried alive, but somehow (details a bit fuzzy here...) the artist comes back from the dead as a demonic being and once again goes looking for retribution.

Anyone looking for a faithful adaptation of the classic German legend is going to be majorly disappointed by Brian Yuzna's Faust, which is less a tragic study of moral abandonment, more a diabolical, blood-soaked, logic-free comic-book-style fever-dream packed with hokey gore, heavy metal, surreal effects and nudity. In telling his demented tale, director Brian Yuzna gives viewers lots of insanely OTT action full of severed body parts and slashed throats, while makeup artist Screaming Mad George provides some suitably weird prosthetics work (including one effect that sees a woman reduced to a giant pair of breasts and a huge ass with a face), and voluptuous actress Mònica Van Campen gets naked and has sex a lot. All of this is accompanied by a thundering soundtrack that includes the likes of Fear Factory, Machine Head and Coal Chamber.

Literary scholars will most likely be appalled by what they see; students of 'serious' horror will think it churlish; I thought it was one hell of a fun time!

7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

I saw this in the video store a couple of times and I thought it looked like a good movie but I never took it home until a week ago. I started watching it and found it quite good at the beginning but then it came down to the IMDb rating of 4.1. I'll give you what was good and what wasn't about it but this may ruin the whole movie for you. The gore was bad, and I mean really bad, you see body parts flying off which you can buy in a joke shop and in no way looked real. Every time Faust started fighting some lame rock music would come on and the fight scenes would only last for like 30 seconds which were not very well choreographed. Faust's costume was rubbish too, those antenna's on his head wiggled every time he moved his head which showed how fake it was. Especially with his cloak, it looked like something the costume designers had cut out from an old raincoat. Mark Frost looked good when he was supposed to be insane, but then when you realise he's not crazy and he's supposed to be the big hero, he really doesn't look very good. He doesn't give the watchers much respect for Faust, when he like running down the train he looks quite stupid. Maybe if he would have moved straight way up and killing anything that even tried anything would him, that would have being alright. "I wanted you from the moment I saw you" says Jade de Camp to Mark Frost, when she first saw him he was tied up in a stray jacket in complete silence, this girl has a strange taste in men. They made Jade go nuts on the table which made her character lose all self dignity and made her look like a complete idiot which was embarrassing to watch. There is one particular scene where M is making his, let's say exotic wife driven into lust, which made me feel so sick that I went off my dinner and breakfast the next morning.

But here's an advantage which I liked about this movie, and that was Andrew Divoff, I have wanted to see him in the wishmaster but have not been so lucky. Then when I heard he was in this I was pretty excited and when watching this he was as cool and fantastic as all his fans make out. He's the one thing that did make me watch this two more times, avoiding certain scenes though. OK, there are more disadvantages than advantages but either way, if I don't see anything else good in the store (which I should hope will have a small chance) I will be renting this again. All in all, 5 or 6/10.

Say what you will about Bryan Yuzna, the man has found a very distinctive niche in the subterranean levels of the body-horror-comedy market. Although it is superfluous to attempt a summary of this hokum, it is the sheer exuberance and vitality of its execution that you will remember. There are demonic skeletons, grotesque bodily transformations, satanic rituals, eye-popping gore and more blood-drenched T&A than you can shake a stick at. Beelzebub himself even makes an appearance in full latex glory during the deranged climax. The result is like Dario Argento swallowed an entire sheet of acid before whopping 5 grams of cheap cocaine up his shnoz bucket. Sure, it's ludicrous tripe but I can't understand how this hasn't found a larger cult audience. If it's a late night gore fest with added laughs you're after, this will hit the spot.

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.

This movie was the first made by the Spanish company Fantastic Factory, they have released later two films more "Arachnid" and "Dagon" but While these two have been a total flop "Faust" was at least a bit more successful. Nevertheless it was, at my opinion, the worst of the three.It was nothing more than a kind of "Spawn" rip-off but more cheaper and the plot and specially the dialogues were written in a completely careless way. I still remember a scene in which the female leader character was talking about her rape when she was a child and she defines the raper as "The soft man", everybody laughed at that and the dubbing of the Spanish actress Monica Van Campen was so ridiculous that again everybody laughed when she talked (Despite her undoubtful beauty. But not everything was a disaster here, at least special effects were OK and there are some funny moments.I only hope that Fantastic Factory gets better monetary and artistic results with their next film"Darkness" directed by Jaume Balagueró, the author of the very interesting "The Unnamed", I trust in that project which has good actors in it such as Lena Olin or Anna Paquin, on the contrary this adventure of Filmax in fantastic genre will have a very dark future.

This is a juicy terrifying material fashioning an iconic diabolic possession, providing screams , thrills , shocks and chilling scenes . A man (Mark Frost) sells his soul to the incarnation of evil , the devil himself (Andrew Divoff) , to gain superpowers and execute a relentless revenge due to his sweetheart's grisly killing . When he realizes that the price is the soul of his new love interest (Isabel Brook) , so he becomes on a kind of devil. As his sanity begins to crack , he sees evil everywhere . He turns on a cold and mentally unstable person and whose emotional life seems to have frozen ; acting agressively against enemies . He is an arrogant and self-obsessed man fallen from grace . Everything has a price...Evil rises from the depths of hell !. From Julio Fernandez, the king of horror comes the most terrifying movie from Spain !.

Horror picture based on the comic book by Tim Vigil And David Quinn who are screen writers as well . Concerning the ghastly events executed by creepy demoniac beings , causing creepy , scary and terrible moments. A peculiar horror picture finds an artist selling his soul to Lucifer minion called ¨M¨ in exchange for vengeance for on his girlfriend's killers . A rare film about devilish possession in which our starring gets sent to hell but returns as avenger Faust in a red rubber suit . A modern-day Spanish re-working of classic German writer Goethe from a Faustian trilogy which also includes the movie ¨Faust 5.0¨(2001) and an opera . At its best , this is eerie and ingenious at times , with an undertow of macabre humor. Genuinely scary moments overcome some obvious plot devices, adding loathing and overblown special effects from Screaming Mad George .There's also a good guy detective played by terror icon Jeffrey Combs , a troubled shrink performed by the attractive Isabel Brook involved in the action, and a nasty underling girl played by busty Mònica Van Campen . And some Spanish secondaries as Fermí Reixach , Marc Martínez, Miguel Ángel Jenner and even newcomer Michelle Jenner as Little Jade . An unrated version is also available.

It delivers a creepy and eerie ambient thanks to expert cameraman Jacques Haitkin . As well as a frightening and chilling musical score by Xavier Capellas with full of hard rock. Being efficiently produced by Carlos Fernandez and Julio Fernandez from Fantastic Factory and Filmax . They have produced a lot of hits in terror and thriller genre such as : ¨Abandoned¨, ¨Km 31¨, ¨The nun¨, ¨Quarantine¨, ¨Paintball¨, ¨Summer camp¨, ¨Baby room¨, ¨The returned¨, ¨Machinist¨,´Transsiberian¨, ¨Rec saga¨, ¨Sleep tight¨, among others. The motion picture was regular and professionally directed by Brian Yuzna , though with no originality and has some flaws and gaps . Yuzna is a gore and guts expert director (Faust, Dentist 1,2 , Society, Bride Reanimator, Progeny, Rottweiler, Beneath Still Waters , Amphibious 3D). He often uses harsh, bright lighting and soft blue hues in his movies . Brian Yuzna along with Stuart Gordon are important American filmmakers expert on terror cinema , both of whom working for Castelao , Fantastic Factory or Filmax . Rating : Average but some moment entertaining. Only for hardcore horror fans.

This DVD has sat on my shelf for 6 years, bought it cheap secondhand. Good job as it's not worth more than the £1 that it cost me. I'm not saying that this comic book fantasy/horror/comedy movie is bad but it certainly isn't good either. There is plenty of action, bloodshed, sex and an abudence of special effects, both CGI and practical. Plus metal bands such as Machine Head, Sepultura, Fear Factory and Coal Chamber contribute to the soundtrack. Sadly I found the plot silly, I didn't like any of the characters and much of the acting was awful. Two of the leads are played by British actors with terribly phoney sounding "American" accents. An adult movie, hence the 18 certificate (UK), but not my cup of tea, disappointing despite the lure of genre heavyweights Brian Yuzna and Jeffrey Combs.

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".

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.

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.

Mark Frost stars as John Jaspers, a young man whose girlfriend "Blue" (Jennifer Rope) is murdered by thugs. Now he's depressed and despondent enough to contemplate suicide - only for an enigmatic stranger, "M" (Andrew Divoff, whose performance outclasses this movie), to turn up and offer him a deal. John WILL get his revenge, but he will have to promise his soul to "M". He agrees with too much haste, and DOES get his revenge, but finds that his work is not done. "M" attempts to dispose of John, only for John to be reborn as a cartoony version of a demon (think a wrestler with a gimmick) and now possessed with incredible powers (including retractable, Wolverine-style blades).

"Faust: Love of the Damned" is based on a graphic novel by David Quinn & Tim Vigil, and retains that sort of aesthetic for the film version. As a result, it's highly stylized by director Brian Yuzna ("Society", "Bride of Re-Animator"). Made in Spain around the same time that Yuznas' friend Stuart Gordon made his H.P. Lovecraft adaptation "Dagon", this movie has little to no dramatic impact. What hurts it a lot is the fact that leading actor Frost is so insipid as a hero; he's a bad actor, at least here. To be fair, though, he does seem to be enjoying himself when he's done up in demon garb. Overall, it's an amusing, disposable comic-book style horror-fantasy with a mostly European cast that ranges from passable (Isabel Brook, as the leading lady) to solid (Jeffrey Combs has one of his most normal roles as a dedicated detective) to very hammy (Fermi Reixach, as the police commissioner) to delightfully vampish (Monica Van Campen as M's sexy female cohort). Divoff towers over all with another of his captivating, soft-spoken villainous portrayals. He's quite a sight with his hair done like that, though.

Yuzna once again utilizes the services of makeup effects expert "Screaming Mad George", whose work is typically outrageous, goopy, and completely outre. Appropriately Hellish visuals and a persistent heavy metal soundtrack (including Sepultura, one of this viewers' favourite bands) are also part of the mix.

A fairly fun movie that kills approximately 101 minutes in well-paced fashion.

Six out of 10.

I love a lot of Yuzna stuff like "Society", "The Dentist", his final

episode in "Necronomicon" was easily the best in the movie,

"Progeny" wasn't bad and "Return of the living dead 3" had some

good outrageous moments, but this movie...really... it is just

astoundingly bad! It's so bad it's almost embarrassing to watch. The acting is

terrible,it's sad to see Jeffrey "Re-Animator" Combs in this mess,

but probably he couldn't say no to an old pal Like Brian Yuzna.

The effects, especially the digital bits, are laughable too. The

costumes are rubber costumes that seem to come from a shop

that sells cheap Halloween outfits! And worst of all, there is no

atmosphere whatsoever. Knowing his previous work I really don't

know what to say...it seems as if Yuzna has directed this

blindfolded. I know the man has intelligence and a sharp sense of

humor (in his grotesque but enjoyable over the top way), but it

seems he's lost them completely on this one. Avoid at all costs Vote 2/10