Prince of Darkness: Now this is one of the greats. Prince of Darkness was made in 1987 and was written and directed by John Carpenter. It was made one year after his masterpiece Big Trouble in Little China and has a few of the same people in it. The movie is severely creepy and chances are alot of you havn't seen this one either so here's a quick overview. A priest dies and leaves behind a book and a key. Another priest, the old crotchety guy with the overcoat from Halloween, finds it and discovers that the key unlocks a secret room in the basement of an abandoned church in the slums of L.A.. There is a cylinder in the room that contains this glowing green liquid that turns out to be the essence of Satan. The priest enlists the help of a team of physics students from UCLA, why physics students i have no idea, to help investigate. Well the stuff gets out and people start dying and getting possesed, becoming the drooling slaves of Satan. They try to escape but there is an army of the homeless surrounding the church. That's right. Your suspicions are confirmed. The homeless are secretly the army of evil, i knew it. They run around for a little while and soon find out that Satan has possesed one of the ladies and is planning to free his father, some sort of Anti-God. This movie never fails to give me nightmares, no shit, every time I see it i have nightmares, which makes it a very successful horror movie in my book. This movie was one that every film maker who dabbles mainly in horror must make. This is a religious horror movie. Now, you've got your big names like Exorcist and The Omen, or Rosmary's Baby and they are all good movies, very creepy. The thing that made this movie different from the other devil movies was that all the blockbusters where not what you would call eye candy. They relied more on atmosphere and the implied story rather than the obviouse one. They also all seem to dwell on creepy little kids killing there nannys or puking on people. Prince of Darkness slapped you in the face with it's imagery. It was outlandish both in story and in presentation. It put a new face on religious horror. People went from going, Man, that evil little kid really doesn't want to go to church, to, Man that lady's sucking all that green liquid off the cieling with her eyeballs. This movie scared me worse than any other Devil movie I have seen so far. You should watch it, it'll probably have the same effect on you, either that or I'm hust a huge weeny.

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i've never seen this movie so i don't really know what to say about it... but i like you're review, it's long so i guess this movie really DOES freak you out. plus i remember you telling me about the dream it gave you. anyway, so this is a pretty long comment, i'll go ahead and stop now. love you!!
» Chloefoxx on 2004-10-29 03:42:34

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