Faust: Love of the Damned

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Summary: David Quinn eats his young...
Review: To say this movie is a waste of time, effort and money is an understatement. Where do I even begin? Ok I will try to back up my scathing unappreciation and disappointment in this feature as I best I can to be fair to the original creators of "Love of the Damned".

First off this feature should have been written, produced, and created as a NR or XXX production! This I feel was near essential to properly translate the imagery integral to making it a worthwhile effort. To even try to bring it to screen with anything less was their first, but not the biggest mistake.

Secondly, the movie failed to capture the vision and passion the graphic novel displayed so vividly. Not so much by the lack of carnage or sexual elements, but I failed to identify with the characters...their nature and ambitions. Their fears, inner secrets and motivation integral to the story were brief and two-dimensional. Quinn as the screenplay writer tried to capture this but utterly failed miserably. This is by far what I found overall to inhibit any sense of enjoyment I might have found in the adequate special effects or "butchered for commercial mass media" storyline.

I could hammer on the other areas of the film...but why bother after missing the above crucial areas. It would be insult to injury...these "other areas" could have been lackluster if the crucial elements of story, feel, and imagery were present and accounted for.

If you have already partaken in the original "graphic novel" version, take my advice and don't waste your time unless you enjoy crude letdowns.

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Summary: More icky fun from the producer of RE-ANIMATOR
Review: Uneven but entertaining update of the Faustian legend based on the comic book is like a horrific hybrid of SPAWN and THE CROW. After his girlfriend is murderered John Jaspers (Mark Frost) strikes up a bargain with a cult leader named M (Andrew Divoff from WISHMASTER) who offers him the opportunity to exact vengeance in exhange for his soul. Jaspers returns as a devil-like creature to raise hell on the creeps who killed his soulmate.
FAUST is full of the gooey FX you'd expect from a Brian Yuzna film (The melting woman is a special highlight among other things). Features the memorable line from Jaspers' alter ego: "Help me? Help you ya mean! I'm the pornography that gets you hot!". The full title onscreen is FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED.