Faust: Love Of The Damned
| release date | February 2 2001 |
| studio | Lions Gate Films |
| director | Brian Yuzna |
| writer | David Quinn |
| starring | Isabel Brook, Mark Frost |
| rating | R |
| tagline | Everything has a price... |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I saw this movie years back, for the ridiculous reasoning of ‘hey, cool metal soundtrack’. So me and my buddy take it home and start to real dig it for the first 20-30 min or so, then it gets completely ridiculous. The hero turns into some Batman-Wolverine-Spawn mixture and everything that follows is extremely corny and weird. At the time (many years ago) I wasn’t having any of this. With about 30 min remaining, we fast-forwarded to the end and were done with it.
From that point on I credited it as one of the dumbest movies I’d ever seen and never looked back.
So yesterday I was in a used record store and started browsing the old VHS section. When I came across this for $5 I thought ‘what the hell, my tastes have changed, and the corny stuff is great fun now’.
I was exactly right to pick this up. If you put your preconceptions of a ‘good movie’ aside and just enjoy the ridiculous ride this takes you on, it’s a fuckin’ blast. I warned my girlfriend before hand stating ‘ok, i saw this years ago, and it’s probably awful, just warning ya’. Needless to say, the first time the hero shows up in his beyond-the-grave costume she exclaimed ‘What the Hell??’, as I’m sure I did the first time. It’s a very funny and entertaining moment, as well as the beginning of an entirely different tone than the 1st act of the movie sets up.
Like I said, the film has an excellent metal soundtrack and makes actual use of it in the film, unlike most horror soundtrack offerings
(I’m looking at you, Saw sequels). Just be prepared to hear the same Machine Head and Sepultura tunes repeated during fights.
What else can I say…?
The special effects, for the most part, are awesome for a direct-to-video movie (excluding a scene near the end involving a giant snake-monster thing). But even when this film faults I’m pretty sure it’s intentional. It’s campy as hell, and incredibly violent. Just be sure to get the real version of the film, my vhs copy was absolutely the edited-for-violence cut (LAAAMMMEE!!!).
Tons of fun. Jeffery Combs. Lots of tits. Metal! _/
I have to agree this was a tight little film made by a horror legend. The director has been linked to some serious horror. Faust is a cool flick. Just watch it.
This film is, surprising, a fantastic, enjoyable thrill-ride that’s loads of fun, well-made, gory, and has very good art-direction and acting. I really wasn’t expecting much from this, and I received a film 5 times better than I had ever expected.
Sell your soul to become a satanic Wolverine jr. (lol!)—this was a bad movie and not entertaining in any aspect. The only redeemable thing was some cool metal music for the soundtrack. This cartoonish and horribly acted “horror” movie hit the trash can right after it ended–bad stuff.
Just so everyone knows, this is based on a comic book from the late 80s/early 90s by the same name. Tim Vigil is the writer/artist.
Not a bad flick, not great either. Not nearly as graphic as the comic either.
Tim Vigil drew the Faust stories, but he didn’t write them. David Quinn did.
Faust thematically and stylistically is very similar to Spawn and The Crow; quality wise it falls somewhere inbetween the two, it’s better than Spawn but nowhere near has good as The Crow. This would make a great party flick; grab some buddies and some booze and soak in the quality violence and T&A. Save for some interesting moments in the plot, Faust is a whole lotta campy and loaded with cheese; especially the main characters ridiculously, sometimes unbearably so, over the top acting. Still there’s alot of fun to be had in Faust; mainly the gore, gratuitous boobage and the fun plot and performances( M and Jeffery Comb’s character). Worth checking out; just know what you are getting into.