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Faust

Brian Yuzna

Spain2000 98min 35mm color

Synopsis

Brian Yuzna keeps making horror films while his partner, Stuart Gordon got out of filmmaking right after completing < Re-animator >. His new work < Faust > is more intense and stimulating but still one can sense that it's the work of Brian Yuzna. It's a heavy metal horror. You can imagine < Spawn> when you see a monster in a red cloak, also you can imagine < The Crow > when you see a man from the world of the dead with his eyes full of anger. You can even see Freddy Krueger. After all, his horror films are hybrids of all kinds of horrors. You are not going to be able to find Brian's criticism on society anymore whereas you could see in his first feature debut < Society >. Faust is completely stimulating armed with special effects, which will excite the viewer but it doesn? seem to have its uniqueness. Brian doesn't get involved in the Faust philosophy or anguish of Faust? ontology. This movie begins with < Faust> of a revenge incarnate and continues on with < Spawn > and finally ends up with a satanic ceremony of < Indiana Jones > . (SHIM Young-seop)

Diretor

Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna went to Los Angeles in 1984 to make films. He risked his life? savings and borrowed money to make the terror classic, < Re-animator >. As a life-long horror and fantastic film fan, he is proud of his contribution as a scriptwriter, director and producer for some of the modern classics in this genre including < Society > and < The Dentist >.