culmo80 This movie started off okay, but just went downhill fast.Some of the worst acting, worst special effects, and silliest plot line all from the so-called "king of horror"...I could overlook the bad acting, there's plenty of bad acting in horror films, but the cheesy mask and suit that Faust ends up wearing is just absurd. Rather than look intimidating, he just looks silly. They would have done better to just keep him in a "human" form. The plot was okay to start off with, but it quickly became quite full of holes. So M or the Devil has the power to grant superpowers to humans but he doesn't have the power to keep track of them? He doesn't have the power to even know if a doctor is injecting him with something bad or not? And he doesn't have the power to have decent security at his own house?And what was with Claire? A beautiful nympho who seduced just about every man in the film and secretly plots to kill M, partially succeeds and then proceeds to dress up as a Dominatrix and sexually torture the female lead character. What exactly was the point of her character? Don't get me wrong, I always enjoy a slutty woman on screen, but if its just for the sake of T&A, why not just make a late-night Cinemax skinflick? As I said, most of the acting was horrid and some of the dialogue was just absurd. I will say the guy who played M did a good job, and in any other film, he would have made a great villain.As for the special effects...they look like they are from the early 90s, not 2000. And you gotta love the evil lizard demon enemy at the very end...not really, but it probably took up most of the film's budget. I didn't pay for this film in any way (other than through Netflix Instant) nor would I recommend anyone else pay for it. This is like a Spawn knock-off...just much worse.

Noble Brown Holy moly, what the heck happened here? Brian Yuzna...you're better than this! I've seen you do better than this! How did you make something this hideously AWFUL?I watched this because it has Andrew Divoff and Jeffery Combs in it. Well, at least both of them are fun to watch as always, but they're only as good as the awful material will let them be. It seriously, truly feels like they shot this from the first draft of the script, and that said draft was written by a high school dropout goth. The two leads are horrifically awful. Frost hams it up something fierce as John Jasper. Hamming is probably too generous a word. He has absolutely no idea what he's doing and uses idiotic facial expressions to fill in his complete lack of any talent whatsoever. Brook is nearly as bad, just slumming it hideously the whole way through. The makeup is awful, with Faust's outfit looking like the cheap rubber that it is. His Wolverine-knockoff claws look like flimsy plastic and bounce around everywhere. You really don't believe that he could cut through a car roof with them. The story lurches around and barely manages to stick together. The characters have no dimension to them. They do things because the script wants them to, not because it actually fits their paper-thin character in any possible way. They just do what's necessary to move things along. There's no motivation here beyond "The director and writer said to!" One minute, the lead chick loathes and fears Faust, and the next minute they start shagging. Yeah, that makes sense.Yuzna, how did you mess this up so BADLY? At least his other efforts have managed to be fun. Reanimator, From Beyond, Dagon (I know, he wasn't the director, but he was heavily involved in creative direction), etc may not have been great movies, but they were fun cult flicks. Faust isn't fun at all. It's not even so bad it's fun. It's just nigh-unwatchably horrid.How this movie won ANY kind of award other than a Razzie is something that I will never grasp even if God himself came down and explained it to me. Do yourself a favor and miss this. If you want to see Divoff being sinister, go watch Wishmaster. If you want to see Combs doing his fun hamming (and I mean that in a good way. Combs is fun to watch), go watch Reanimator, From Beyond, or The Frighteners. If you want to see something that will make you truly believe that you've wasted 92 minutes of your life beyond anything you could imagine, watch Faust.

danielmartinx "You are the most perfect disciple I've ever had," M declares at the end, suspended over the Homonculus pit.Um, Jaspers killed like a few dozen people, and he sucked as a disciple. I mean, one of the snapshots on M's bureau showed M with Hitler. Jaspers was better than Hitler as a disciple of evil? I suppose after taking so much from this film, it's nitpicking to call attention to this one dumb detail. But it stood out for me.I enjoyed the film in some ways, and I didn't hate it entirely. There were times when it was compelling.Cheap special effects and cgi, but that's standard fare these days.I would recommend this film because there were moments when its gore quotient made me sit upright and in complete surprise. Also, there were some unexpected twists.Enjoy! But "best disciple"? Hmmm.

HighlanderArg I wasn't sleepy last Sunday night and I chose to watch whatever was on TV. Channel 29 ("Space")was airing this, and I foolishly believed it was "Exorcist III". The movie lacks everything, but it's watchable.John Jaspers made a deal with some sort of devil named "M" to clear M's way to world domination. Somewhere in the way, he repents and ends up in an asylum, where a pretty psychiatrist (or doctor, or whatever) visits him and hears his story. Jaspers claims "they" (M's band) are coming tonight. She hears it as if he was saying "1 + 1 is 3" but on his way out sees something "unusual" and runs away. Indeed, Jaspers is taken away and buried, while the girl calls a detective friend and is caught by the same guys before the cop arrives. Luckily for her, Jaspers is back as Faust, who should (given it's an horror film) look like a devil but most of the time is a red bug ("Bugman":::). Unfortunately, M won't give up, and the bulk of the movie starts there.The cast is nothing spectacular. I wonder why Andrew Divoff keeps getting overlooked by the mainstream, since he's a hell of an actor. The girl who plays the shrink is OH beautiful, and M's chick seems to be taken out of a porn. Comic-based, it should be scary but it is not. However, despite everything, it's worth a watch, even to laugh a while.4/10