Faust

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.

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...

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 isn't going to be a long review infact it's very small compared to all the others i've read here today, i first saw a clip of this on some programe on the BRAVO channel it was the part where he was in the alley saving the Doc, when he rips open the top of the car, once i'd seen that clip i tried my local vid shop naad they'd never heard of it plus they weren't very helpful, so i went online and ordered it, at first i was a little bit miffed, they're wasn't as much blood as i thought there would be, and the part where she turns into a blob, mmmm. That aside i thought the film was fantastic, the actors were actually all very good, and as for Monica Van Campen, what can i say, i am now a huge fan!!

My last word on it is that it is or will be a classsic.

Wolverine can only hope to that good.

I loved Frost's role as poor, deluded, misguided Jon Jaspers. I liked Dr. Jade. I think that *Bruce Payne* would have made about a 1,000% better "M". That bint who played Claire was very good, but the part near the end was confusing when M took the albino boa out of her gut, then put it back in (her or was it a guy by then?) mouth. Also, the part where M made Claire blow up like the world's biggest bbw bint was totally unnecessary, and looked so fake it was a laugh.

But there was definitely cause for some "sympathy for the demon, Faust". I don't think he knew what he was doing, and he was willing to protect Jade with his life or whatever was left of him.

I would have loved to have seen those dirtbags who did poor Blue get a lot worse than they did. They deserved to be chopped up in little tiny dog food pieces and fed to sharks.

Any way, I'm now a confirmed Frost fan.