Prince of Darkness (1987)

Strong and Moving!

hyped garbage

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Prince of Darkness does not belong among Carpenter's best movies. The main problem lies to the screenplay which is rambling and has a pretentious seriousness, not convincing at all. Even so, Prince of Darkness rewards the viewers since direction and cinematography are almost perfect offering some genuine shocks without being cheap. The atmosphere is convincingly claustrophobic and disturbing, Carpenter is the master of that. The music score, without being the best produced by Carpenter, is creepy and effective. 7/10

I've never seen this movie until a few days ago for the first time. Man I overlooked this one way to late into my adult life. I've seen plenty of John Carpenter films growing up, and I loved everything than mans done. His style and tone just speaks to me when it comes to horror and concepts. How was the movie?Different. I think John was on a mission when he made this movie. The idea of Science explaining an ancient evil is rarely done in horror movies since the concept of horror works best with the supernatural. But in this case, it was a nice touch up of change and I welcomed it.The script was well paced. The plot wasn't convoluted, and the score was AMAZING(if you love synth music). The use of practical effects can't be overlooked, especially the use of water effects in the scenes taking place during the possessions(cool stuff). And that last scene is horrifying as hell!The characters are a bit stiff. Typical class of characters brought together for an experiment, yadda, yadda. But in the end, they do their part not tripping over one another. I'm glad I finally seen this piece of work from John Carpenter. And I will watch the final in his apocalypse trilogy to make myself complete in viewing the works from a great filmmaker. 8/10

Prince of Darkness has a lot of the usual John Carpenter elements that his fans came to expect and enjoy over the years, but they somehow add up to a less than spectacular outcome in this movie. It's got a decent setup- a group of physicists travel to an old church where they discover the physical embodiment of evil that's been kept captive for millennia. Not surprisingly, members of the team become possessed, and the survivors have to figure out how stop them before the Devil finally breaks loose into our mortal realm. There are some familiar faces in this one, including a bunch who've worked for Carpenter before. Donald Pleasance has top billing as the Catholic Priest. Dennis Dun and Victor Wong from Big Trouble in Little China have big parts as well. Look for Alice Cooper who has a cool part as a street schizo who impales a man with a bicycle. Not all the casting is perfect, though. Jameson Parker is miles off course from his usual TV thing, and it's hard to figure out how he got here. He didn't pop up in this sort of thing very often. They set him up with a macho man Robert Redford mustache to give him more of that hero look, but he just doesn't come across well as the male lead in this. The problem might be that they didn't know where to position this movie. It's not as funny as Big Trouble in Little China, and there's no heroic star power in the lead. It also lacks the impact of something like Halloween or The Thing, so it kind of gets stuck in the middle. It's thirty years old now, so it looks good as an example of '80s horror with some cast members everybody likes. You can enjoy it for that if nothing else.

This Movie will end and you will have one of two opinions 1. It's one of the great movies ever or 2. It's just boring Seriously it's that simple it's not for everyone that's for sure It goes like this okay In a run down cellar in a church, a priest (Donald Pleasence) finds a weird vial That is filled with slime. Confused and frightened the priest Makes a call and brings his discovery to a circle of top scholars and scientists, who eventually learn the secret of the strange liquid and hell is unleashed But can they survive to tell the tale The cast is great carpenter really nails another movie with his directing It has a real classic feel to it I loved it try it