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Prince of Darkness

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Prince of Darkness (1987)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 8

Rotten:10

Average Rating: 5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinley scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered... Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinley 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. [More]

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, Alice Cooper, Dennis Dun, Susan Blanchard, Ann Marie Howard, Ann Yen, Ken Wright, Dirk Blocker, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Peter Jason, Robert Grasmere, Thom Bray, Joanna Merlin, Betty Ramey, Jessie Ferguson, Helen Kelly

Director: John Carpenter

Director: John Carpenter

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03/26/09
Variety
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Crossing the boundary at the outer reaches of the physical world where science meets superstition and reason collides with the irrational, it tells a tale as miraculous as the Bible and as dry as any technical text.

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10/05/08
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film
N/R

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08/18/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

No review available.

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Time Out

No review available.

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08/02/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Reasonably chilling.

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06/29/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

The setup is great; the payoff leaves you more than a little bit disappointed.

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01/24/05
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

One of John Carpenter's most underrated films, gory, grim and good.

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01/14/05
Blake Davis
KFOR Channel 4 News

it's NEW and IMPROVED LIQUID SATAN!!!

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09/04/04
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

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08/20/04
Nicolas Lacroix
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01/24/04
Spence D.
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No review available.

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01/15/04
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

The last superlative Carpenter film. Moment of silence, please.

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09/08/03
Widgett Walls
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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
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01/28/03
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Among Carpenter's worst and that's saying something.

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11/25/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

An okay rental. Didn't even come close to living up to its potential.

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08/28/02
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

A minor Carpenter entry, to be sure, but still weird and freaky enough to make for solid B-horror viewing.

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07/26/02
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

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01/01/00
Mark R. Leeper
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