Oh, I always wanted to watch the 2000 movie titled "Faust", but actually never found myself with the chance to get to do so. Well, at least not before now, late in 2020. So needless to say that I had some expectations for the movie, especially since the movie was directed by Brian Yuzna and had Jeffrey Combs on the cast list.

And now that I have just finished watching "Faust", I must say that 20 years of waiting set my expectations up a bit too high, because this was not an impressive movie. And for a movie directed by Brian Yuzna, it was just a swing and a miss, especially since he has so many iconic horror movies to his name.

It was the storyline, or the train wreck of a storyline, that killed off the movie for me. It felt like writer David Quinn was just stumbling about in the dark when writing the script and storyline for "Faust". Granted, I haven't read the comic that it was based upon, but man, this movie sure was a heap of...

The acting in the movie was for the most parts good enough, despite the fact that the actors and actresses had very little proper material to work with, both in terms of script and dialogue. It was Jeffrey Combs that made the movie bearable to sit through, though I must say that it was also good that Andrew Divoff was in the movie as well, as he usually have that rugged dark charm about him.

Visually then "Faust" was adequate, but it was definitely showing signs of being 20 years old.

All in all, I found "Faust" to be a disappointing movie, especially since the storyline felt like random odds and pieces put together to make a movie. It was hardly an entertaining or overly enjoyable movie experience. Much less a horror gem or classic.

My rating of the 2000 movie "Faust" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED is a superhero reworking of the classic German folk fable and a big screen adaptation of a comic book. It's also the debut film from Brian Yuzna's short-lived Spanish studio, Fantastic Factory, and was directed by Yuzna himself. So what's it like? I can truly say this is one of the dumbest, worst films I've ever witnessed.

All of Yuzna's power and skill as a director has vanished to be replaced by ineptitude on a massive scale. The plot is some piece of nonsense about a guy who sells his soul to the devil (an overacting Andrew Divoff, naturally) before going on a killing spree utilising some Wolverine-style metal claws. We get a right load of nonsense involving devil-worship cults, a random badly-animated CGI monster, an awful grotesque scene borrowed from SOCIETY in which a woman's body parts are distended, and lots of icky gore effects.

The problem isn't so much with the story as with the execution. This is a disjointed, badly-edited mess, headache inducing with the constant heavy metal noise blaring in every action scene. This makes FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED a real chore to sit through. Pity poor Jeffrey Combs, playing in support as a cop; he deserves better.

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...