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Prince Of Darkness [DVD] [1988]

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Donald Pleasence (Actor), Lisa Blount (Actor), John Carpenter (Director, Writer) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
  • Directors: John Carpenter
  • Writers: John Carpenter
  • Producers: Andre Blay, Larry J. Franco, Shep Gordon
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Momentum
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Oct. 2002
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY2Q
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,771 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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A return to low budget horror for John Carpenter after his foray into big budget action pictures with 'Big Trouble in Little China'. Professor Birack (Victor Wong) and a group of scientists discover a mysterious canister in the basement of an abandoned church. Trouble is, the canister can only be opened from the inside. However, when the scientists find an ancient manuscript that refers to the contents of the canister, they realise that it is too late - it contains an evil green fluid which begins to seep out and transform everyone into zombies.

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4.0 out of 5 starsCarpenter's Scariest Movie
By Colonel Decker on 27 Aug. 2012
Format: DVD
John Carpenter is one of my favourite directors, but he hasn't directed anything as creepy as this movie.

Almost the whole film is shot in a disused church, which claims to be holding the son of Satan, or Satan himself.
One by one research students are being possessed.

This is a very effective chilling film with a famailar score from Carpenter.
There are genuine unsettling moments, great character building and a few jump scenes.

An excellent old fashioned scary movie. Don't watch alone.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic presentation on Blu-Ray.
By Mr. K. Arts on 7 Oct. 2013
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*******THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE SCREAM FACTORY BLU-RAY!!!**********

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness is a slow-burning gem of a movie where a group of physics students go to an old derelict church in down town LA at the behest of an unnamed priest to investigate a mysterious canister of green goo that has been kept secret by the church for 2000 years. Soon the students face a desperate race against time to stop an ancient evil from awakening and destroying mankind.

Prince of darkness was written by John Carpenter using the pseudonym Martin Quatermass. This is a pointed reference to the character created by Knigel kneale for British TV and cinema. It also gives a strong hint for those familiar with the character and the stories an idea of how Carpenter is going to approach the material. Perhaps the most famous of the Quatermass tales was Quatermass and the Pit that took the irrational superstitions and folklore of Britain and added modern scientific plausibility. Carpenter takes the same approach with Prince, offering outlandish but well thought through ideas for Judaeo-christian folklore surrounding the oldest of evils, The Devil.

Like a lot of people, I discovered Prince of Darkness on home video in the late eighties. The film was poorly reviewed on release in the states and dropped out of theaters fairly quickly. Fortunately thanks to the huge market for horror on home video the film found it's second wind and has built up a solid fan base who really appreciate this hugely underrated effort from Carpenter. It boasts one of his more impressive scores, plenty of great actors and a wonderful location. Most importantly it has a great script that deals with its ideas intelligently and philosophically.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThen it really is Old Scratch knocking at the door.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 15 Oct. 2015
Format: DVD
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 of parallel universe. How he manifests himself is narratively a bit tricky, but still it makes for good horror, especially as the old religious angle finds Carpenter - in the guise of Donald Pleasence - chortling away to himself in a way that Old Nick has been prone to do.

Cue bugs, green goo, zombies and a centuries old sect determined to keep Satan out of our world. The scares are many, atmosphere bubbling away (in time with another of Carpenter's pulse beat synth musical scores), while the finale has a genuine surprise up its sleeve.

Unfortunately the cast are playing second fiddle to the supernatural strengths, working from a script that doesn't sit at one with the screenplay, rendering the characters as uninvolving fodder. Yet be that as it may, it's still a film of delights, enough in fact to make it a top end entry on Carpenter's CV. 7/10
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3.0 out of 5 starsQuantum Physics,, Zombies & Anti-God: All in Widescreen!
By J. L. Probert on 1 Feb. 2003
Format: DVD
This underrated film is far from perfect, but the concepts are sufficiently ambitious to allow you to forgive their rather garbled presentation. Carpenter's script (attributed, in a nod to Nigel Kneale, to 'Martin Quatermass') is never very clear about exactly what is going on and why, and neither is his accompanying commentary track. The film uses what sounds like a rudimentary grasp of quantum physics (but then I wouldn't know) to explain the existence of Anti-God, whose son is trapped in a container secreted in the bowels of a crumbling Los Angeles church. Only now he's trying to escape so that he can bring his father from his anti-matter universe into our own by using mirrors as a portal. Trying to combine science and the history of religion in this way was never going to be easy, and Carpenter deserves some credit for trying to deal with several complex concepts within the context of what is, essentially, a low-budget siege movie. This film continues to divide the fans, but as the DVD Delirium Guide puts it, this is one of those few horror films that actually becomes scarier the more you think about it.
The Momentum Pictures DVD is the best version available of this film to date. The widescreen transfer is excellent, allowing you to fully appreciate the skill of Carpenter's compositions. This disc also improves over the old Image disc by including a commentary track by Carpenter & actor Peter Jason which, while not illuminating, is probably worth listening to once.
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4.0 out of 5 starsCarpenter's 'forgotten' masterpiece
By Steve G on 26 Jun. 2011
Format: DVD
Okay, maybe 'masterpiece' is an exaggeration - Prince Of Darkness has a fair few rough edges, one or two questionable performances and a slightly daft semi-central premise that would stop it from ever seriously being considered as such. But for me, as someone who can even find some good in Carpenter's clunkers (except Village Of The Damned, obviously), this deserves to be considered as arguably as his best film alongside those titles like Halloween, The Thing and Assault On Precinct 13 which are normally considered in such discussions.

He creates an unnerving atmosphere right from the very start that threatens to be derailed when you see that some canisters of green slime are supposed to be the horrific centre of this film. But they almost end up being beside the point once it really gets started, and it achieves a level of creepiness that very few films have ever managed for me. Throw in the obligatory Carpenter open-ended climax, and this deserves the reappraisal it seems to have received in recent years.
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