Faust (Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage) (1926)

Murnau’s most baroque work - an instance of the director working both within maximalism and in examination of maximalism as well. It's opening and closing moments are Murnau at his most melodramatic - but everything in between is him at his most inquisitive. It's…

Neil Bahadur

Every moment in this film offers some of the most breathtaking shots I've ever seen. The scale and use of light and shadow are simply jaw-dropping throughout, and not just for the time period in which it was released, but for cinematography that would be outstanding now. A…

Sethsreviews

started out really cool with some extremely nightmarish visuals that i'd expect to see in today's evelvated horror, but about halfway through, it turned into more of a weird romance and that's not what i came here for

haley

There are not many works of silent cinema that have managed to condense, with such visual virulence and symbolic sophistication, the metaphysical dilemmas that underpin the human condition. From the first frames, of liturgical brilliance, the spectator is immersed in a…

noen

"Don't touch me you whore...your lover has murdered me!" is something I've had to say on more than one occasion, unfortunately.

Timcop

It's honestly pretty good, but after a while it stops being a cool german expressionist horror and spends way too much time being a weird, almost comedic romance, before finally going back to dark german expressionism in the last thirty minutes. It's a classic, I get it,…

Felipe F.

Speaking of special effects in old films, this is a masterpiece of double exposure, miniature/oversized scale effects, costuming, shadows, and props/sets. From the archangel with its white costume, great sword, and heavenly backdrop to the Bald Mountain sequence to the…

Sally Jane Black

This review may contain spoilers. German expressionism pioneer F.W. Murnau’s Faust is so far amongst the strongest of the early movement that I have seen because the vision is striking and the end result is an epic piece of cinematic art. The production design is…

Rocky Ibarra

F.W. Murnau's "Faust" is often labeled one of the greatest horror films of the silent, if not any, era. "Faust," however, is more than a horror film, and categorizing the film in one genre box may sell it short. The film combines primitive horror conventions with those of…

Travis Lytle