Faust: Love of the Damned

An early '00s mess that mixes Spawn, Wolverine, and every nu metal video ever made into an unpleasant concoction that will please emo teenage edgelords but leave everyone else looking for the remote.

Very guilty & very pleasurable slice of hellishly excessive heavy-metal mayhem. Wears its ridiculousness well for the most part and is pretty comfortable with its over the top comic book roots. Effects by Japanese gore-maestro Screaming Mad George deserve a special mention, going against the early 2000's trend of appalling CGI. The story is pure corn syrup (often literally) but still kinda workable. Pretty much what the Spawn movie should have been with some moderately misjudged creative flair.

Points for some costume-, makeup- and practical effects (TnA-blob in particular) and machine fucking head. The cross-eyed protagonist's overacting is good for some laughs, too. Andrew "the voice" divoff is more or less wasted here.

A struggling artist makes a deal with a demon to exchange his immortal soul for the ability to morph into an invulnerable, cackling amalgamation of Wolverine and Freddy Krueger. It's a cheesetastic adaptation of David Quinn's gory adult comic series that famously took 25 years to publish 15 issues. Not surprisingly, Brian Yuzna goes over the top with the goofy splatter, and there's plenty of fun Satanic chanting. The music is all mixed WAY too loud though.

One ridiculously over-the-top cheesy gory metal mayhem extravaganza. Although I honestly kinda lost the "plot" of the movie at some point, it all eventually makes enough sense, in its nonsense, to still enjoy all the strange dark satanic "superhero" fun.

It does try to be as graphic as I remember the 90's comics being, but I also remember the story being compelling. That's not the case here. This script (w/ several false endings) would require great actors to work, but almost everyone here except for the doctor is bad. A lead who can play profound despair would have helped alot, esp bc we have little sense of his personality changing. It also never seems to have a point for all the sex & violence & so it feels like a 15 year-old's idea of cool.

Not *quite* bad enough to be good.

Its No Society

Very guilty pleasure of mine, I truly believe it's underappreciated and under-rated. Be prepared for a violent and comic book style of flick. Yuzna weaves together quite the hellish tale here with all his graphic glory, and one of the best soundtracks ever.

Worst piece of shit I ever sat through. WHY did I watch the whole thing. Rather hammer nails into my face than see this again.

Goofy. Not good, but not bad, and not mediocre. At least interesting.

What a disgusting piece of shit.

Trash multiplicator: 2

Finally, a Deadpool movie for myself and fellow intellectualists.