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Wonderful Movie

Sorry, this movie sucks

Great Film overall

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This movie started off okay, but just went downhill fast.Some of the worst acting, worst special effects, and silliest plot line all from the so-called "king of horror"...I could overlook the bad acting, there's plenty of bad acting in horror films, but the cheesy mask and suit that Faust ends up wearing is just absurd. Rather than look intimidating, he just looks silly. They would have done better to just keep him in a "human" form. The plot was okay to start off with, but it quickly became quite full of holes. So M or the Devil has the power to grant superpowers to humans but he doesn't have the power to keep track of them? He doesn't have the power to even know if a doctor is injecting him with something bad or not? And he doesn't have the power to have decent security at his own house?And what was with Claire? A beautiful nympho who seduced just about every man in the film and secretly plots to kill M, partially succeeds and then proceeds to dress up as a Dominatrix and sexually torture the female lead character. What exactly was the point of her character? Don't get me wrong, I always enjoy a slutty woman on screen, but if its just for the sake of T&A, why not just make a late-night Cinemax skinflick? As I said, most of the acting was horrid and some of the dialogue was just absurd. I will say the guy who played M did a good job, and in any other film, he would have made a great villain.As for the special effects...they look like they are from the early 90s, not 2000. And you gotta love the evil lizard demon enemy at the very end...not really, but it probably took up most of the film's budget. I didn't pay for this film in any way (other than through Netflix Instant) nor would I recommend anyone else pay for it. This is like a Spawn knock-off...just much worse.

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.

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.

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.