John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness

[toys2cool]

Just watched it for the first time and I gotta say I enjoyed a lot, wish there would've been a sequel....anyone else like it? I know it was cheesy but what 80's movie wasn't?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I haven't seen it since it hit video, but it scared the beejeezus out of me. One of the first horror films I watched by myself, and it really messed with my head for a few days. I was only 12-14 or so.

Chris

[megoapesnut]

D, I friggin love this movie. I honestly think it has the CREEPIEST ending to any movie ever made. That ending sent MAJOR chills down my spine. And I mean literally, not just a figure of speech. A chill ran down my neck and I broke out in goosebumps. It might be cheesy, but that ending makes the movie, IMO.

[Obibob]

A co-worker loaned me a copy on DVD and I just watched this for the first time last Saturday night. I thought it was pretty good, but ended waaaaay too abruptly. Sort of like "Race with the Devil" - I wish there was a sequel, or at least another 30 minutes tacked on to the first one!

[MysteryWho]

It's an interesting movie. I really don't think it works but it's still lots of fun. It reminds me of something John Boorman said on the commentary for Zardoz. "It's a film full of ideas. Too many perhaps." In particular, I thought the transmissions to their dreams didn't fit. But, like I said, it was still pretty neat. Watch In the Mouth of Madness next if you haven't already. It was Carpenter's last good feature and it will give you the creeps. It is the third part of his Apocalypse trilogy, the other two being Prince of Darkness and the Thing.

[toys2cool]

I gotta admit a few parts freaked me out..the ending was really unexpected and really good

[artskull]

It's an interesting movie. I really don't think it works but it's still lots of fun. It reminds me of something John Boorman said on the commentary for Zardoz. "It's a film full of ideas. Too many perhaps." In particular, I thought the transmissions to their dreams didn't fit. But, like I said, it was still pretty neat. Watch In the Mouth of Madness next if you haven't already. It was Carpenter's last good feature and it will give you the creeps. It is the third part of his Apocalypse trilogy, the other two being Prince of Darkness and the Thing.

If you enjoyed Prince of Darkness, it is definitely worth your time to watch In the Mouth of Madness. Carpenter was great when he was running on all cylinders…

[toys2cool]

I would love to watch it but it's not streaming on netflix

[johnmiic]

That was a good film. I can't believe the actress passed away tho.

[samurainoir]

Haven't seen it since back in the day, but it was tres creepy to me when I saw it as a teen.

[babycyclops]

This is one Carpenter film that I haven't watched in a long time.

[Gorn Captain]

Haven't seen it in decades, but I liked it. It was unsettling.
Too bad we haven't seen all that much of Carpenter in the last 10-15 years.
Read somewhere that he's not in the best of health.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I liked it a lot. Still do. It starts like a well done but kinda typical gorror film, and then it gets weirder and weirder.... and then the end.

>but ended waaaaay too abruptly.

It doesn't end, it stops. Which I thnought was pretty good 'cos it REALLY cheeses you off! You don't find out what's going on until the last.... oh.... twenty seconds of the film, and then it's done. So you don't know what happened. Which I thought was cool 'cos it makes the future in the film still creepy.

Don C.

[babycyclops]

'Cigarette Burns', Carpenter's episode of 'Masters of Horror' was made in 2005, and I found it pretty scary.

[Gorn Captain]

'Cigarette Burns', Carpenter's episode of 'Masters of Horror' was made in 2005, and I found it pretty scary.

That episode was the best one in Masters of Horrors. It's one of the few in the series that I kept on DVD. At least Carpenter IS a master of horror, some of the directors just haven't earned that title yet...