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Prince Of Darkness
1987
Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks loose within the church. Some of .. Read more
| Starring | Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Genres | Horror |
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Prince Of Darkness
Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks loose within the church. Some of the students are turned into skinless zombies while others receive warnings from the future sent in the form of hazy dreams. The warnings tell of the rise of Satan and the ensuing destruction of humanity. The students must stop the evil from being released, even at the cost of their lives and souls. Carpenter pulls together a solid ensemble cast and builds a heavy mood of impending doom around them. There are many truly terrifying moments, with the climax of the film being one of the most visually brilliant and disturbing in the horror genre. Rock star Alice Cooper provides a fun cameo appearance as a minion of Satan. PRINCE OF DARKNESS was the first production in a three-film deal Carpenter signed with a small Hollywood studio in the 1980s and is one of the great films of the director's canon. The other two films in that deal were THEY LIVE and MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN.
| Starring | Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, Anne Howard, Susan Blanchard |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1987 |
| Format | DVD |
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Director John Carpenter here takes one of his sporadic delves into Nigel Kneale sci-fi/horror territory (he even wrote the script as Martin Quatermass!) with tedious results. It's old superstitions versus the computer age in an awkward yarn about a weird container full of green liquid in an LA church that contains pure evil. Zombies, squirt-gun vomit theatrics, gore galore and metaphysical ramblings are overused to keep a mechanical plot moving relentlessly in what is virtually a supernatural remake of Carpenter's own Assault on Precinct 13.
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Carpenter's first low-budget horror pic for some time. Summoned to an abandoned church by a frightened priest... read more on Time Out
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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful
I wouldn't reccomend late-night viewing - especially if you're alone!!
Had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up! In my opinion one of Carpenter's best - if not his very best.
Frightening and thought-provoking especially in this world of incresing disbulieve in a living God. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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Oldy but a Goody
Several uni students uncover an ancient relic which posses the means to bring satan to earth. they all go into a church to investigate this object and one by one they are possesed and one even becomes an unwilling mother to the demon.
Dark forboding atmosphere is the way in this film with very good acting and good effects for its time, the film does show its age but holds up with a stunning atmosphere to keep the film worth a watch.
Also worth a mention is donal pleasence eho is stunning as always -
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Prince Of Darkness
Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks ...
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