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PRINCE OF DARKNESS
1987
Director
John Carpenter
Starring
Donald Pleasence
Lisa Blount
Victor Wong
Jameson Parker
Runtime
101 minutes
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This is how to age gracefully. Like Jack Kirby's Fourth World comic books, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is John Carpenter's pet-project masterwork - a sprawling, Lovecraftian folk epic about demons, science, and unseen evil.
A group of college students and professors camp out in a decrepit church to research the unexplainable charms of Satan. Once there, they're flung into a netherworld that's populated by zombies who hijack souls, Donald Pleasance with an axe, and Alice Cooper as a homicidal hobo. Released ten years after HALLOWEEN, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is John Carpenter stopping to smell the roses. It's heavy on development, but even heavier on violence, dread, and payoff - like Fulci's THE BEYOND if that movie was rooted in the existential angst of late '80s America. As a professor says in the movie's opening minutes, "Say goodbye to classical reality."
A group of college students and professors camp out in a decrepit church to research the unexplainable charms of Satan. Once there, they're flung into a netherworld that's populated by zombies who hijack souls, Donald Pleasance with an axe, and Alice Cooper as a homicidal hobo. Released ten years after HALLOWEEN, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is John Carpenter stopping to smell the roses. It's heavy on development, but even heavier on violence, dread, and payoff - like Fulci's THE BEYOND if that movie was rooted in the existential angst of late '80s America. As a professor says in the movie's opening minutes, "Say goodbye to classical reality."
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