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Name: Prince of Darkness
Released: 1987-10-23
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun

Prince of Darkness

R
1h 41m
1987

62%

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Master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this terrifying battle between humankind and ultimate evil. A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable of horrors, Satan himself, thus paving the way for the return of his father - the all-powerful anti-God. Terror mounts as the last two members of the team must fight to save an innocent world from a devilish fury that has festered for over seven million years.

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

Larry Franco

Writer:

Martin Quatermass

Cast:

Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Dirk Blocker, Peter Jason

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

62%

Critics Consensus: Prince of Darkness has a handful of chillingly clever ideas, but they aren't enough to put John Carpenter's return to horror at the same level as his classic earlier outings.

Reviews

Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying

Kristy Strouse

This take on demonic horror is truly a strange bit of cinema, but a welcoming addition to a long list of talented work. Come for Carpenter, stay for the weird.

[John Carpenter's] images are superb but his ideas are even more unnerving.

I love the immediate sense of ominous dread that Carpenter effectively builds from the elaborate opening credits itself, beginning with John Carpenter and Alan Howarth’s atmospheric minimalist score setting the tone of the movie.

All in all, Prince of Darkness isn't in the top echelon of Carpenter films, but it's still a taut, terrifying affair anchored by a tour de force performance from Donald Pleasence.

Expect the unexpected from Prince of Darkness.

November 22, 2018

FULL REVIEW