Tuesday 27 September 2011

Faust: Love of the Damned

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Year:2001
Country of origin:USA / Spain
Director:Brian Yuzna
Genre:Comic book adaptation
Starring:Mark Frost, Mònica Van Campen, Isabel Brook, Jeffrey Combs, Andrew Divoff
Rating:2/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223268/
Tagline:Everything has a price...
Favourite line:None worth mentioning

It's the old, old story.
Your girlfriend is killed.
You swear vengeance on the murderers.
A mysterious stranger, M, shows up and offers you the chance for revenge. You accept, and a mysterious shaft of light appears from the sky and, before you know it, you're transformed into Faust, a demonic creature with a penchant for killing. Problem is, once you've started, you can't stop, and soon your bloodthirsty appetites are being sated on the innocent as well as the wicked.
M, incidentally, has plans of his own.
He intends to resurrect a monstrous lizard like beast, to wreak havoc upon the world and open a portal to Hell, and only Faust and his new found powers can stop him.

Based on a graphic novel (a comic book to you and me) this is a dark, cartoonish superhero story with a twist. Similarly to the equally bad Spawn, this anti-hero has his wishes granted, but at a price: his very soul.
Andrew 'Wishmaster' Divoff is great as the sinister 'M', and cult hero Jeffrey Combs (Reanimator, From Beyond) shows up too as jaded cop Lt. Margolies and puts in a star performance as always.
The gore levels are reasonably high and you can be assured of their quality by the fact that 'Screaming Mad George' is the effects mastermind behind the scene, he of Society notoriety.
But all of the plus points can't take away from the fact that this is one mess of a movie.
Never quite sure if it is a darkly 'zany' (shudder) horror, a straight out gore fest or a comic book caper, this succeeds in being none of the above.
Disappointing for Yuzna.

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