Faust the Necromancer

While I had indeed never heard about this 2020 movie titled "Faust the Necromancer", I must admit that the movie's cover and the title had be lured in. Though the movie's staggering 3.1 rating, as of this very moment of me sitting down to watch it, certainly didn't forebode well. But still, I opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt.

Now, I am sure that writer and director Varun Giridhar had the best of intentions with this, and the script certainly had potential in certain places. But it just didn't really provide me with much of any entertainment.

Needless to say that I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. And while that is usually something I enjoy, watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen, I have to say that the acting performances in this movie were pretty wooden. Especially leading actor Terrance Willis playing Faust and Freddie Webster III playing Mephistopheles, it was just like watching fish out of water. Of all nineteen actors and actresses listed to have participated in the movie, only one had a photo in her IMDb profile; that pretty much sums up the low budget and home-made ambition of the project that is "Faust the Necromancer".

"Faust the Necromancer" looked and felt like nothing more than a group of friends coming together with one of their parent's video camera to make a movie. This was rather amateurish and home-made.

The movie's cover actually over-sells the movie by a landslide. It was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.

My rating of writer and director Varun Giridhar's 2020 movie "Faust the Necromancer" lands on a two out of ten stars.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my whole entire life no special facts no nothing no costume just a bunch of friends pretending to play in a movie. I honestly think I can make it better movie with my friends. This movie shouldn't even be in the Internet Movie Database.

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