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.
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.