Jan Švankmajer’s Faust 1994 is genuinely one of the weirdest andd darkest films ever made. It slams together live-action, stop-motion, and grotesque puppets into a nightmare retelling of the classic myth. It doesn't feel like a movie.. it feels like being shoved headfirst into someone else’s brilliant, abrasive, and hilarious subconscious. | Cinephile S.

Faust (1994) - An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend. A very free adaptation of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus’, Goethe’s ‘Faust’ and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer’s Faust is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending l