Steineded How sad is this?

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

slayrrr666 "Faust: Love of the Damned" is a fun and gory action film with a few slight problems.**SPOILERS**Following a tense hostage scenario, Police Lt. Dan Margolies, (Jeffrey Combs) finds that John Jaspers, (Mark Frost) is the only survivor, apparently the one responsible for a mass slaughter. When Jade de Camp, (Isabel Brook) arrives and takes the case over to the Feds, and while investigating him, he begins to experience the memories of what happened to him, including meeting the mysterious M, (Andrew Divoff) who gives him a newfound sense of power by turning him into an immortal being and sets about on a path of vengeance, ripping apart those who have wronged him in the past. When he chooses to disobey M's orders and give up the lifestyle, he starts a war against him, with Lt. Margolies and Jade trying to find out why. As they finally get the clues necessary for the real reason why he has been left, they team up to stop his nefarious plans to take over the whole world.The Good News: This is a lot of fun. The effects are the main thing to be enjoyed in this. Faust's makeup and the various mayhem that ensues as our demon fighter gets busy with his wrist knives are clearly the main focus, and they do not disappoint at all. The costume itself isn't terrible. The facial makeup during the two stage transformation of Faust is excellent, and combined with his wise-cracking and frankly insane dialog delivery, brings the character to life. The rest of the costume is acceptable, as it's a rubber red "Batman"-like suit, sports "Wolverine" rip-off claws and owns a "Spawn"-like cape. Those claws are it's most striking feature and provide lots of the gore. Several have their arms sliced off, the claws pop out of almost every body orifice imaginable, several victims are burned alive, eyeballs are popped out and there's even some minor scenes that are over-the-top, including some decapitations, a couple of stabbings and a slit throat coming out incredibly gory. Not to mention the fact that there's one scene where snakes burst out of people's chests which is quite inventive and gives it a really brutal tone. There's a scene definitely worth mentioning that has to be seen to be believed. As part of a punishment, a character has her breasts and buttocks enlarged to ridiculous proportions before being melted down to a lumpy mass. She is then somehow reborn from the remaining fleshy pulp in a scene that is beyond bizarre, and is one of the best scenes in the film. The over-the-top aspects also appeal to it's sense of grandeur and scale. There's plenty of big action scenes in here that would feel right at home in a more traditional fantasy film, including a hallucination while being buried alive that is quite impressive, and several showdowns during the vengeance moments are nicely action-packed. The final encounter, held during a Satanic Black Mass, is suitably enthralling with a gigantic demon, a massive orgy, a massive amount of bloodletting and much more inside a really stand-out scene that really makes the movie. As a final trump card, it's sex and sleaze are quite sexual, including sexualized electro torture, lesbian paddle whacking in stocks, the aforementioned orgy one character performing fellation on a giant snake. It's out-there and quite sexual, and make this a really over-the-top, sleazy entertainment piece.The Bad News: This does have a few problems with it. The first problem is the convoluted screenplay. The first problem is that the story is told in a semi-disjointed fashion, with much of the key information presented in flashback. This leaves us watching characters in the early going and wondering just who they are or how they figure into the plot. Then, there's the feeling that story-wise, they tried to cram in everything but the kitchen sink. Characters seem to make random changes throughout. One starts out for at least half the film as quite sympathetic, then suddenly makes a random change to become one of the slavish acolytes. Another is able to sell their soul but then is just able to stand up and reclaim it later on, while more importantly Faust wavers between being a bad guy mass murderer and a sympathetic avenging hero without clear distinction. The biggest plausibility gap is where, after selling his soul to M, is for no particular reason suddenly able reclaim it and affect a complete resurrection from the dead. There's a stunning lack of how and why he is able to do such a thing. It tends to be that selling a soul is something that should have a total and utter finality of choice to it and it should be irreversible, which is completely lost here and doesn't make any sense at all. Even less confusing is the lack of passion to the romance. When you consider that the heroine is someone they have come back from the grave because he loves her, the failure to invest any type of passion in the relationship amounts to an almost complete indifference to the tone of the film. Even more confusing is the sense of how they come together, as every time they meet, he's either killed or about to kill someone. It's really unbelievable, and really captures what the film's flaws are.The Final Verdict: An extremely gory and sleazy action film that's a lot of fun if only confusing, this one is a really entertaining movie. It's mostly for the fans of the comic, who will love it, or fans of the previous films, and all those that find a lot of enjoyment in it's sleazy appeals are encouraged to check this out.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and several sex scenes

shanathan319 Does any one realize that this whole Faust idea that this movie and your beloved comics are based off a long play written by an eighteenth century writer over his entire life. That was based off of folk stories that were created in the late Middle Ages. And published versions of these stories dated back to at least 1592. I haven't seen the movie, as a matter of fact, I've just heard of it just within a half-hour before writing this. But it seems you people watching this movie and those who seem to be devoted fans to the comic book series seem to be quite ignorant of how this whole story came about., regardless of whether this movie did really suck or not. The idea of Faust is the idea of a man torn by reason and individuality against the values that society try to blindly install into its citizens, which at the time the idea was conceived would be the influence of the Church and its ideas of how the world works and how people ought to behave.

funnybunny19 I saw this in the video store a couple of times and I thought it looked like a good movie but I never took it home until a week ago. I started watching it and found it quite good at the beginning but then it came down to the IMDb rating of 4.1. I'll give you what was good and what wasn't about it but this may ruin the whole movie for you. The gore was bad, and I mean really bad, you see body parts flying off which you can buy in a joke shop and in no way looked real. Every time Faust started fighting some lame rock music would come on and the fight scenes would only last for like 30 seconds which were not very well choreographed. Faust's costume was rubbish too, those antenna's on his head wiggled every time he moved his head which showed how fake it was. Especially with his cloak, it looked like something the costume designers had cut out from an old raincoat. Mark Frost looked good when he was supposed to be insane, but then when you realise he's not crazy and he's supposed to be the big hero, he really doesn't look very good. He doesn't give the watchers much respect for Faust, when he like running down the train he looks quite stupid. Maybe if he would have moved straight way up and killing anything that even tried anything would him, that would have being alright. "I wanted you from the moment I saw you" says Jade de Camp to Mark Frost, when she first saw him he was tied up in a stray jacket in complete silence, this girl has a strange taste in men. They made Jade go nuts on the table which made her character lose all self dignity and made her look like a complete idiot which was embarrassing to watch. There is one particular scene where M is making his, let's say exotic wife driven into lust, which made me feel so sick that I went off my dinner and breakfast the next morning.But here's an advantage which I liked about this movie, and that was Andrew Divoff, I have wanted to see him in the wishmaster but have not been so lucky. Then when I heard he was in this I was pretty excited and when watching this he was as cool and fantastic as all his fans make out. He's the one thing that did make me watch this two more times, avoiding certain scenes though. OK, there are more disadvantages than advantages but either way, if I don't see anything else good in the store (which I should hope will have a small chance) I will be renting this again. All in all, 5 or 6/10.

willywants An artist, John Jaspers (Mark frost) sells his soul to the mysterious "M" (Andrew Divoff) in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant serpentine demon onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin. "Faust: Love of the damned" is a great horror film! Good acting from the mostly unknown cast (Though lead Mark Frost tended to overact, I still dug his performance anyway!). Brian Yuzna's direction was stylish and the film is visually stunning. The special effects by Screaming mad George were EXCELLENT! I especially loved the Homunculus, what a brilliantly designed monster! The gore was plentiful (Loved the decapitation!) too. Not a film for the faint of heart, that's for sure, but it was a wild ride and I enjoyed it! 8/10.