FilmSupernatural Demonic & Possession Gothic

Doctor Faustus1967

Name: Doctor Faustus
Genre: Supernatural, Demonic & Possession, Gothic
Released: 1967-10-10
Rating: 5

“The story of a scientist who sells his soul to the devil”

Directed by Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill

5.0

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IMDb 5.4Rotten Tomatoes 9%TMDB 5.3

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Year

1967

Runtime

93 min

The premise

Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

Horror Vault's take

A brilliant scholar's boundless hunger for knowledge and dominion drives him beyond the limits of mortal study into the darkest arts. By summoning the demon Mephistopheles from the depths of hell, he enters a fateful pact — his immortal soul exchanged for decades of supernatural servitude. This adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's classic stage work leans into its theatrical roots, rendering the tale of Faustus as a visually stylised descent into damnation. Whether the price of limitless power is ever worth paying haunts every frame.

Content: Occult And Demonic Imagery, Depictions Of Necromancy And Soul-Selling Rituals