Review of Faust

Faust (2000)
5/10
A mediocre Spanish/US coproduction with visually impressive and gory scenes
11 December 2022
This is a juicy terrifying material fashioning an iconic diabolic possession, providing screams , thrills , shocks and chilling scenes . A man (Mark Frost) sells his soul to the incarnation of evil , the devil himself (Andrew Divoff) , to gain superpowers and execute a relentless revenge due to his sweetheart's grisly killing . When he realizes that the price is the soul of his new love interest (Isabel Brook) , so he becomes on a kind of devil. As his sanity begins to crack , he sees evil everywhere . He turns on a cold and mentally unstable person and whose emotional life seems to have frozen ; acting agressively against enemies . He is an arrogant and self-obsessed man fallen from grace . Everything has a price...Evil rises from the depths of hell !. From Julio Fernandez, the king of horror comes the most terrifying movie from Spain !.

Horror picture based on the comic book by Tim Vigil And David Quinn who are screen writers as well . Concerning the ghastly events executed by creepy demoniac beings , causing creepy , scary and terrible moments. A peculiar horror picture finds an artist selling his soul to Lucifer minion called ¨M¨ in exchange for vengeance for on his girlfriend's killers . A rare film about devilish possession in which our starring gets sent to hell but returns as avenger Faust in a red rubber suit . A modern-day Spanish re-working of classic German writer Goethe from a Faustian trilogy which also includes the movie ¨Faust 5.0¨(2001) and an opera . At its best , this is eerie and ingenious at times , with an undertow of macabre humor. Genuinely scary moments overcome some obvious plot devices, adding loathing and overblown special effects from Screaming Mad George .There's also a good guy detective played by terror icon Jeffrey Combs , a troubled shrink performed by the attractive Isabel Brook involved in the action, and a nasty underling girl played by busty Mònica Van Campen . And some Spanish secondaries as Fermí Reixach , Marc Martínez, Miguel Ángel Jenner and even newcomer Michelle Jenner as Little Jade . An unrated version is also available.

It delivers a creepy and eerie ambient thanks to expert cameraman Jacques Haitkin . As well as a frightening and chilling musical score by Xavier Capellas with full of hard rock. Being efficiently produced by Carlos Fernandez and Julio Fernandez from Fantastic Factory and Filmax . They have produced a lot of hits in terror and thriller genre such as : ¨Abandoned¨, ¨Km 31¨, ¨The nun¨, ¨Quarantine¨, ¨Paintball¨, ¨Summer camp¨, ¨Baby room¨, ¨The returned¨, ¨Machinist¨,´Transsiberian¨, ¨Rec saga¨, ¨Sleep tight¨, among others. The motion picture was regular and professionally directed by Brian Yuzna , though with no originality and has some flaws and gaps . Yuzna is a gore and guts expert director (Faust, Dentist 1,2 , Society, Bride Reanimator, Progeny, Rottweiler, Beneath Still Waters , Amphibious 3D). He often uses harsh, bright lighting and soft blue hues in his movies . Brian Yuzna along with Stuart Gordon are important American filmmakers expert on terror cinema , both of whom working for Castelao , Fantastic Factory or Filmax . Rating : Average but some moment entertaining. Only for hardcore horror fans.
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