Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Language, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
A man goes to hell and back to avenge the death of the woman he loves in this over-the-top horror story. Troubled artist Jaspers (
Mark Frost) is depressed and considering suicide after his girlfriend, an illegal alien, is killed by thugs. Before he can go through with it, Jaspers is visited by a mysterious man calling himself M (
Andrew Divoff). M, which is short for Mephistopheles, is an earthly emissary of the Devil, and along with sexy Claire (
Monica Van Campen) and devious Dr. Yanamoto (
Junix Inocian), he leads a Satanic cult called the Hand. M and his companions persuade Jaspers to join the Hand, and soon Jaspers and other members of the Hand wreak vengeance by staging a mass murder against the men responsible for the death of Jaspers' lover. But Jaspers finds he quite likes ritual murder, and his enthusiasm leads to sloppiness that gets him arrested; he also becomes involved with Claire, which makes him very unpopular with M. As police detective Margolies (
Jeffrey Combs) and psychiatrist Jade de Camp (
Isabel Brook) try to get some answers about Jaspers' strange and deadly behavior, Jaspers begins to transform himself into a demonic beast in a desperate battle to defeat M before M can kill him.
Faust, Love of the Damned was the first feature from the production company
Fantastic Factory, formed by American filmmaker
Brian Yunza and Spanish financier
Julio Fernandez; the film was shot in Spain with an English-speaking cast.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide