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This film is, surprising, a fantastic, enjoyable thrill-ride that's loads of fun, well-made, gory, and has very good art-direction and acting. I really wasn't expecting much from this, and I received a film 5 times better than I had ever expected.
I have to agree this was a tight little film made by a horror legend. The director has been linked to some serious horror. Faust is a cool flick. Just watch it.
I saw this movie years back, for the ridiculous reasoning of 'hey, cool metal soundtrack'. So me and my buddy take it home and start to real dig it for the first 20-30 min or so, then it gets completely ridiculous. The hero turns into some Batman-Wolverine-Spawn mixture and everything that follows is extremely corny and weird. At the time (many years ago) I wasn't having any of this. With about 30 min remaining, we fast-forwarded to the end and were done with it.
From that point on I credited it as one of the dumbest movies I'd ever seen and never looked back.
So yesterday I was in a used record store and started browsing the old VHS section. When I came across this for $5 I thought 'what the hell, my tastes have changed, and the corny stuff is great fun now'.
I was exactly right to pick this up. If you put your preconceptions of a 'good movie' aside and just enjoy the ridiculous ride this takes you on, it's a fuckin' blast. I warned my girlfriend before hand stating 'ok, i saw this years ago, and it's probably awful, just warning ya'. Needless to say, the first time the hero shows up in his beyond-the-grave costume she exclaimed 'What the Hell??', as I'm sure I did the first time. It's a very funny and entertaining moment, as well as the beginning of an entirely different tone than the 1st act of the movie sets up.
Like I said, the film has an excellent metal soundtrack and makes actual use of it in the film, unlike most horror soundtrack offerings
(I'm looking at you, Saw sequels). Just be prepared to hear the same Machine Head and Sepultura tunes repeated during fights.
What else can I say...?
The special effects, for the most part, are awesome for a direct-to-video movie (excluding a scene near the end involving a giant snake-monster thing). But even when this film faults I'm pretty sure it's intentional. It's campy as hell, and incredibly violent. Just be sure to get the real version of the film, my vhs copy was absolutely the edited-for-violence cut (LAAAMMMEE!!!).
Tons of fun. Jeffery Combs. Lots of tits. Metal! \_/
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