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"From the producer of Re-Animator". so says the splash
across the front of the video box. What the cover blurb fails
to add is that this guarantees nothing. Put bluntly, Faust
is one of the worst films I've ever seen. And I've seen some
rubbish in my time, let me tell you.
A
man who has been driven mad by the violent killing of his
girlfriend sells his soul for the power of revenge but chickens
out of his agreement with the dark forces and is summarily
dispatched to hell. But he escapes the fiery pit (by digging
with his hands!) and returns to earth as a sort of anti-Batman
- all red cape and horns and biff, pow moves. Unfortunately,
his devilish makeup is 'not good'. not even by the standards
of Carry on Screaming.
Meanwhile,
a doctor who helped the mad man - before he returned from
the grave - gets beaten up and put in a metal bikini. She
loves it and is soon asking to be raped. A policeman wanders
around and gets killed while a bunch of people in dark clothes
plan on calling up a mighty demon - because they want to.
More
stuff happens - mainly killings - a naked woman gets a snake
pulled from her stomach while another gets her breasts enlarged
to titanic proportions by a minion of Satan. I could go on
but frankly I'm losing the will to live. Slash! Kill! Maim!
Talk rubbish! Act badly!
But
the wooden acting, which makes Bob the Builder look
like a RADA lovie, is nothing compared to the dialogue. It's
like the outpouring of all those monkeys trying to write Shakespeare
- but on a very bad day. At one point the principal protagonist
leers over at the doctor in the metal bikini and mumbles:
"When your father raped you, you loved it. It's the only love
you've ever known." Stop now.
How
Faust ever got made is a mystery. At heart it's a misogynist
slasher, which is pretty repellent for starters, but that's
only part of its transgression. Randomly plotless, badly directed,
boasting dialogue seemingly written by a lunatic with only
a passing familiarity with the English language, and doused
in several gallons of fake blood, the movie commits every
known cinematic crime and then adds a couple of new ones just
for good measure. This is truly a film to avoid. Horrific,
but not the way its makers intended.
Anthony
Clark
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