Love Of The Damned
Forget about Gretchen! This Faust sells his soul for a set of Wolverine claws and the silliest cape in the history of superhero capes. Directed by Brian Yuzna with Jeffrey Combs in a supporting role. 98min imdb
Recap:
John Jaspers sells his soul to M(ephisto) to take revenge for the murder of his girlfriend. Of course he later regrets it, so M buries him alive but is dumb enough to toss Jaspers’ Wolverine claws into the open grave. In hell, Jaspers uses these to slay a demon and returns to earth. He now is Faust, some kind of “deconstructed” superhero much like the Dark Knight or Spawn, wearing an extremely silly cape that resembles bat wings, probably because proper demon wings were too expensive.
M wants to use Jade de Kamp, a shrink and Faust’s love interest, in a ritual at Walpurgisnacht to summon a Homunkulus. However he is too full of himself to realize that with Faust he has created his nemesis.
Okay, so usually a Homunkulus is a small, manmade human, but in this one he is a boss monster posing as a cosmic horror, but why not? This movie is based on a comic book that as I hear was popular in the late 80s. It borrows a few ideas like Faust’s deal with the devil and turns them into, well yes, into what? This movie is chocolate for the eyes with nudity and sex and violence and blood and special effects. When you watch something like this you just lean back and enjoy. If you start asking for rhymes and reasons you are so totally done for. This movie is dumb. It’s intellectual value equals the nutritional value of a Big Mac, and it tastes similar: it’s not a thrilling sensation, not a beneficial experience, but it’s yummy. I don’t know about you, but I like Big Mac.
Movie 96min
Trailer
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