Prince of Darkness

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1987

1h 42m

English

Horror

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A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.

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Prince of Darkness

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1987

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Horror

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Cast

Father Loomis

Catherine Danforth

Prof. Howard Birack

Brian Marsh

Walter

Kelly

Susan Cabot

Lisa

Lomax

Mullins

Jessie Lawrence Ferguson

Calder

Dr. Paul Leahy

Frank Wyndham

Etchinson

Bag Lady

Street Schizo

Nun

Directed By: John Carpenter

Written By: John Carpenter (Screenplay)

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Saint Pauly says...

3 years ago

It's films this bad that make me wonder how people can prefer John Carpenter over Rob Zombie when it comes to horror. Yes, Carpenter had made a couple of classics, but nothing Zombie has made comes even close to the directing disasters of Prince of Darkness or The Ward. Is it one of those "so bad it's good" deals? Because everything about this movie -- the directing, the script, the acting, everything -- screams amateur.

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11 years ago

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Mr. Sackamano says...

3 years ago

Fun to finally see the 3rd film in his apocalypse trilogy after all these years but no replay value for me on this one boys

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Whitsbrain says...

3 months ago

Another fun John Carpenter movie. It's not really scary, it's just entertaining. The story is relatively simple and the ancient evil that's been kept a secret for 2000 years is certainly ominous. However, the apocalyptic potential of the green goo lacked any real world wide scale sort of threat. I fail to understand how the mirrors managed to provide a portal into Hell. They seemed like they existed only to show off a cool visual effect. There are several minor gory moments including a pretty disturbing sequence where a dead man falls apart after being held together by cockroaches. Victor Wong was great as Professor Birack but Donald Pleasence as the Priest was mostly corny and overdone. The porn-stache on Jameson Parker was distracting. Dennis Dun was great as usual.

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drqshadow

5/10 3 months ago

Quantum mechanics meet demonic possession in John Carpenter’s independently-released return to horror, following a brief flirtation with other genres. In _Prince of Darkness_, he depicts a class of university physics students who enter a boarded-up church to observe the jar of swirling, simmering More

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

When an elderly priest passes away, one of his colleague discovers a mysterious green liquid hidden in a cylinder deep beneath a long-abandoned church. Rather misguidedly, as it turns out, he invites a group of enthusiastic students to come and investigate it's properties. Big mistake! It was hidden More

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John Chard

6 years ago

Then it really is Old Scratch knocking at the door.

Something of the forgotten John Carpenter movie, Prince of Darkness shows both the good and bad side of the supremely talented director.

The story is a beaut, a bit skew-whiff, but unmistakably Carpenter territory as Satan exists in some sort More

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