Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Actor: Antonín Zacpal, Jan Kraus, Jiří Suchý, Petr Čepek, Petr Meissel, Vladimír Kudla
Director: Jan Švankmajer
1. Faust, 1994
With many iterations of Faust, Jan Švankmajer’s own take on the deal with the devil isn't absolutely terrifying, and can feel bizarre, sometimes even goofy, to those unfamiliar with the animation director. However, Lekce Faust is quite creepy, as he brings the legend to modern day Prague with a mysterious map and visually disturbing puppets that brilliantly mixes live action with stop-motion and claymation into folklorish cinematic magic. It's not the most faithful rendition of the classic tale, but it's one of the most inventive, proving that while the deals like this pop up only in past folklore, the devil still lingers in fairly absurd ways.