There’s no denying that “Prince of Darkness” is a film where
you go” huh” several times while watching the movie and several more times
afterwards. It’s an odd, twisted mess of a movie that has too many themes and
elements being thrown against a wall just to see what sticks. There are physic
dream messages from the future, there is Satan-in-a-can, there are the classic
John Carpenter zombie mobs, and several actors who had worked with Carpenter on
previous films who should have known better about being in this movie after
reading the script. But I still enjoyed it, somewhat.
Donald Pleasence (Halloween) is a priest who asks his professor
friend Victor Wong (Big Trouble in Little China) to help figure out what is in
the basement of an old rundown church. Victor takes his class, which includes
Dennis Dun (Big Trouble in Little China) on a field trip to examine a canister
filled with swirling green liquid. Using high tech gadgets from the 1980’s and
a book sitting next to the canister, they figure out that it’s the son of the Anti-god
who just happens to be trapped in the realm of anti-matter. That’s good right?
No! Because the green liquid gets angry and possess people, turns the local
homeless population into a shuffling zombie-like mob that kills, and creeps everybody out. Soon the classmates
begin to have dreams from the future, each new dream slightly adjusted
according to what happens to them while they are awake. Mirrors are found and broken so the Anti-god
can’t cross over and people die. The end?
The Instruction Book of Evil!
The Son of the Anti-God, Green Liquid!
"What's going on? Are we really filming this?"
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