Faust

I haven't read the graphic novel which inspired this terrible crap, so I don't know whether it's a bad adaptation, or just a bad movie. And it is a VERY bad movie! I liked Yuzna's debut 'Society' many years ago, and he produced 'Re-Animator' and some other good Stuart Gordon movies which I have a lot of time for, but this is just awful! The two leads Mark Frost and Andrew Divoff are both terrible, the script is an illogical mess, Faust's costume is absolutely ludicrous, and 'Re-Animator' star Jeffrey Combs, who plays a cop, is given so little to do you wonder why he bothered to participate. In short, there is no reason in the world to subject yourself to watching this, one of the worst movies I've seen in quite some time. Man, even 'Spawn' was better than this, and that's REALLY saying something!

I have to say I enjoyed this. Yes the dialogues (and much of the acting) are bad and I know nothing about Geothe's hero, Faust. All I know is that this movie got some pretty nasty FX - after all Brian Yuzna directed it! - and a heavy dose of an erotic / pervert element which I enjoyed. Still I find all this satanic stuff too silly for my tastes. And yes this costume sucked!!! As a conclusion, I liked it, nevertheless, I did't take it seriously.

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.

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.