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Release Date
Oct 23, 1987 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 29, 1998
Budget $3,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country USA
Studio Alive Enterprises, Universal
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Other Titles
• Prince of Darkness
• John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987)
• Die Fürsten der Dunkelheit (1988)
• John Carpenter's Die Fürsten der Dunkelheit (1988)
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Genre: Horror, Zombie, Demonic Possession, Occult, Devil, Monsters, Vampires, Bugs, Demon, Religion
Tagline: Before man walked the earth...it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.
Plot: 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
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 A good underrated John Carpenter movie, but I only recommended if you're not afraid of films that are a little slow and have a lot of story. 7/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
Absolutely wretched fare that's muddled beyond belief, awfully written and boring. A sad day for director Carpenter's fans.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
With its religious concepts, zombie scares, and apocalyptic overtones--all wound up neatly together--Prince of Darkness, or at least the vaguely uncomfortable feeling it generated, stayed with me for days.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
Fed up with Hollywood, John Carpenter decided to go independent once again, producing this—the second worst movie of his entire career. The film shows serious signs of director's burnout.-- (eSplatter.com)
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John Carpenter
Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Fog |
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| Cast |
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 | Alice Cooper
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Attic Expeditions, Mayor of the Sunset Strip |
 | Jameson Parker
White Dog, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, A Small Circle of Friends | Victor Wong
The Last Emperor, Big Trouble in Little China, Tremors | Lisa Blount
An Officer and a Gentleman, Great Balls of Fire!, Box of Moon Light | Dennis Dun
The Last Emperor, Big Trouble in Little China, Year of the Dragon | | |
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| Music By |
John Carpenter
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween, Halloween |
| Alan Howarth
Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, Halloween II |
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A group of scientists and priests have barricaded themselves inside the church and the surrounding building, merely trying to survive against Satan and his slaves.  --boogeyman (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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