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Before man walked the earth...it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Prince of Darkness
1987 Directed by John Carpenter
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Michael Hilkene David J. Hudson Mel Metcalfe Terry Porter Joan Rowe Jerry Trent Val Kuklowsky Eric Lindemann Greg Curda Frank Howard Thomas Causey Jeremy J. Gordon Bruce Bell
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John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, Príncipe das Sombras, El señor del mal, John Carpenter's Paradigm, パラダイム, Принцът на мрака, El príncep de les tenebres, Vládce temnot, I en kælder sort som kul, Die Fürsten der Dunkelheit, El príncipe de las tinieblas, El Príncipe de las Tinieblas, Pimeyden valtias, Prince des ténèbres, נסיך החושך, A sötétség fejedelme, Il signore del male, 프린스 오브 다크니스, Tamsos princas, Książę ciemności, O Príncipe das Trevas, Prințul întunericului, Князь тьмы, Mörkrets Furste, Karanlıklar Prensi, Князь темряви, 天魔回魂, 沉睡百萬年
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Faith and religion Monsters, aliens, sci-fi and the apocalypse scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten zombies, undead, horror, gory or flesh horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic horror, gory, scary, killing or gruesome horror, creepy, eerie, frighten or chilling Show All…
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John Carpenter's Ultimate Achievement. Contains an intellectual affect of Halloween's abstraction of Evil, an interior distortion of the exterior sieges in Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, and Ghosts of Mars, and an unquantifiable visual model for the broken parameters surrounding our existence. In Prince of Darkness, The Shape is not just omnipresent and conscious like he is in Haddonfield, donning a white mask, but ancient and rooted in the unknown reality of the world, swirling and cascading against the physical structures in which it easily surmounts. What we fear and what we question - mirrors, sex, death, the emotional discontinuity of our bodies in relation to each other, the possibility of life beyond - is effortlessly conquered by…
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NEVER GO TO GRAD SCHOOL!!!!
A group of grad students team up with the Catholic Church to investigate a jar of Nikelodeon's Gak which is housed in an ancient church in downtown Los Angeles that looks like a set from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." The Gak contains the "Anti-God" and ends up jizzing all over them.
Carpenter's scariest movie imo. One of his goofiest in a lot of ways, but scariest score, and definitely the most gruesome and terrifying images he's ever put to film. I especially like when that one guy gets consumed by beetles and then their writhing chitinous mass reconstitute his body and wears his skin so he can deliver a message to his fellow co-eds: "I've got a message for you and you're not going to like it: PRAY FOR DEATH."
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Not Carpenter’s best, but maybe his best idea: a stripped-down vision of the battle between theoretical science and spiritual evil, rendered by the ignored homeless schizophrenics of Los Angeles, a swarm of bugs, and a bunch of yuppie intellectuals who become fodder for Satanic possession. (The metaphors aren’t shaded.) The swirling green cylinder is one of the most striking images in Carpenter’s career, one part EC Comics ooky horror, one part mystery box, one part punk rock talisman. With a dash of quantum mechanics. There are long stretches of mostly wide shots animating the pure terror of slow industrial death, two figures far apart in the frame, separated by wealth or belief or something more cosmic and uncontrollable. Like Fritz…
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I'm shaking! I was shrieking! This movie is perfection!!!
The way the editing rhythms so perfectly capture the feeling of dreaming, with symbols and characters drifting in and out of focus without being grounded or established, just free-floating elements that are impossible to plant your feet in. Or how shocking the imagery of the final act is (the mirror world!!!) Or the fucking dream sequences that look like shitty VHS tapes! That's Esther! That's Esther Movie!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glowing with joy. Incredible movie. Outstanding. Ten million stars.
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I've seen Prince of Darkness before but last night is the first time I really felt it. The sense of true dread and heaviness that these scholars can't fully measure. It's safe to say that the collective SOV dream they all have from 1999 is the scariest thing to ever be filmed, and I physically respond to it everytime. I'm actually watching a transmission from the apocalypse, but it's worse than the "apocalypse". Apocalypse is just a word and it can't begin to describe what reality is like under the Anti-God. An eternal dark age, magnetic buzzing that you can feel in your head. A real, physical, gravitational discomfort. I imagine that in this reflection of reality our bodies don't…
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divine revelation is inscribed in unicode; angels speak through the language of differential equations. prophetic nightmares are recorded in shaky videotape and disseminated through disbelieved dreams. Carpenter unearths the sublime gothic excess beneath the stultifying beige of urban sprawl, and, in doing so, reveals the secret evil kept in the flesh of men. insects work away at the edges of the world, tiny extant forms of decay amassing into something terrifying and cataclysmic. a man is nothing more than a pile of cockroaches in a suit, and even that collapses as if it were nothing. a virgin birth occurs where there is no virgin and where nothing is born. he plays (in an almost Lynchian fashion) with mirror images and…
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for the first half, I was like, this isn’t even scary, and then for the entire second half, I was like, oh so this is one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen…
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On the Scream Factory blu release it is mentioned that John Carpenter first met Alice Cooper at Wrestlemania III.
I just thought y'all would like to know.
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Perhaps as a result of growing up in a religious household, the only horror things that actually scare me involve demons, Satan and the occult. Which is to say that Prince of Darkness freaked me in a way that no other Carpenter film has, so far. My understanding is that this isn’t as popular or well-regarded as some of his earlier work, but I think it is terrific — Assault on Precinct 13 plus The Thing plus The Exorcist. It’s well-paced, dynamic, and interested enough in the characters that you feel bad for the group when all hell literally breaks loose.
It should come as no surprise to learn that the standout performance is from Donald Pleasence as The Priest, but Victor Wong is also great as the theoretical physicist brought in to help understand the situation.
Anyway, this movie is good! It’ll give you the heebee jeebies! It’s a great time and you should check it out.
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