Spawn (film)

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Movie
German title spawn
Original title spawn
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mark AZ Dippé
script Mark AZ Dippé,
Alan B. McElroy
production Clint Goldman
music Graeme Revell
camera Guillermo Navarro
cut Todd Busch ,
Michael N. Knue
occupation

Spawn is a film adaptation of the comic strip of the same name by Todd McFarlane and was released in 1997 and directed by Mark AZ Dippé .

action

The secret service agent Al Simmons is betrayed by his boss Jason Wynn, who has Simmons killed. Simmons goes to hell, where the demon Malebolgia offers him a return to earth. For this, Simmons should help the demon to rule the world.

Five years later, Simmons wakes up again in a dark alley, greeted by the dispatched clown of Hell, the Violator. After meeting young Zack and old Cogliostro for the first time, he makes his way home, not knowing that five years have passed and that his wife Wanda has married his best friend Terry and has a daughter, Cyan, with him.

After a few complications, he is finally taken back into the alley by the Violator and learns that he has made a pact with the devil to lead the army of hell against that of heaven so that he can see his wife Wanda again.

But Simmons is still too confused, so Violator shows him his grave in the cemetery. Spawn digs up his own corpse and transforms it from a spawn larva (which he was previously) into a fully developed hell spawn (Hellspawn).

Wynn is now convinced of his new weapon. He had bombs distributed all over the world, which could release the "Heat 16" virus.

Spawn goes to an event to get revenge on Jason Wynn or kill him. His friend Terry is also present. Agent Jessica Priest and her special unit stop Spawn from killing Wynn, but Spawn kills Priest and escapes.

The Violator tells Wynn that the devil Malebolgia wants Wynn to have a sensor built right into his heart that will detonate the Heat 16 bombs should Wynn die. But the Violator provokes Spawn to continue killing Wynn, so that the earth falls into chaos and is delivered to hell.

Spawn makes it clear to the Violator that he won't be working for Hell. A fight breaks out in which the violator shows his true colors. He defeats Spawn but does not kill him. Cogliostro shows up, helps Spawn up and trains him in handling his suit. Spawn then makes his way to Wanda, Terry and Cyan, who are held hostage by Wynn.

Spawn defeats Wynn and refrains from killing him; he also destroys the sensor on Wynn's heart. Now the Violator intervenes and reveals the plan to Wynn, who now feels betrayed. When Cogliostro appears, the clown flees to hell, whereupon Spawn and Cog follow him.

Another battle breaks out in hell. Spawn meets Malebolgia personally, who incites other hordes of spawns on him. After having destroyed some of them, Spawn helps Cogliostro escape from Hell. Back at Wanda's house there is only a brief moment of calm. The Violator shows up and tries to bite off Spawn's head, which is the only way to finally kill beings from Hell. With the help of his suit and mind-controlled chains, Spawn can cut off the Violator's head. The Violator goes to Hell and Wynn goes to jail.

Spawn returns lonely to the alley to fulfill his destiny there.

Reviews

  • John Anderson praised the special effects in the Los Angeles Times . The film contains numerous action scenes and a dubious religious message.
  • Rita Kempley criticized the Washington Post that the plot did not make sense. The director is only interested in the special effects.

"Fast-paced film adaptation of an imaginative but extremely brutal comic series that comes up with some excellent computer animations, but neglects the plot so much that it degenerates into an empty artifact."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

  • Cindy J. Williams was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1998 for make-up .
  • Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo and Theresa Randle were nominated for the 1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Award .
  • The film won the 1997 Sitges of the Catalonian International Film Festival for the special effects. Mark AZ Dippé received an award nomination.

background

With production costs of 40 million US dollars , the film has earned a global import 87,840,042 US dollars again. In Germany alone, 259,222 cinema-goers saw him.

The film opened in German cinemas on October 30, 1997. Since August 24, 2005, the film has been available in Germany as a Director's Cut on DVD , which is around 2 minutes longer and was approved for people aged 18 and over. In August 2020, the age rating of this version was downgraded to 16 years.

Creator and illustrator Todd Mcfarlane can be seen in a supporting role as "Bum".

In the supporting role of the little street boy Zack, the actor Miko Hughes can be seen, who played the boy Gage Creed in the 1989 Stephen King filming Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals , who harassed his family as a dead revenant. Hughes also starred in the 1994 Freddy Krueger horror film Freddy's New Nightmare , which was filmed by the production company New Line Cinema like Spawn .

In the scene in which secret agent Al Simmons falls as a brand-scarred figure into the dark gutter after his death, the song Long Hard Road Out Of Hell by shock rocker Marilyn Manson , which is part of the official film soundtrack of Spawn, can be heard. In the scene in which the little daughter of his wife Wanda is celebrating her birthday with the evil clown Violator, the children are hitting a piñata filled with candy , which is a typical American custom at festivals. When the fat blue clown Violator drops his insidious transformation as Wanda Blake in the living room and kicks Jason Wynn, played by actor Martin Sheen , who is lying on the floor, Violator utters the sentence furiously: “ I counted on Spawn you kills. We would have got your soul and also the apocalypse now. “In the 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now , actor Martin Sheen played a leading role.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los Angeles Times
  2. ^ The Washington Post
  3. ^ Spawn at boxofficemojo.com , accessed November 19, 2011
  4. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1997 on insidekino.de , accessed on November 19, 2011
  5. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7917