Prince of Darkness (1987)
Directed by John Carpenter
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
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Researchers fall, evil keeps taking on new forms, and Carpenter has great fun setting up the scares in scenes that pay homage to Luis Buñuel’s “Un Chien Andalou,” Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus, and other films that created a sense of the otherworldly on a limited budget.
Researchers fall, evil keeps taking on new forms, and Carpenter has great fun setting up the scares in scenes that pay homage to Luis Buñuel’s “Un Chien Andalou,” Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus, and other films that created a sense of the otherworldly on a limited budget.
I was looking for a cross between " The Exorcist " and "The Entity," but then the movie suddenly turned simplistic, and the evil Sleeper turned into a dud.
Didn't they see Carpenter's version of " The Thing " (1982), where the characters made the same mistake?
Set largely in an old church on the fringes of Los Angeles, it surrounds its heroes with a swarm of enemies, à la Assault On Precinct 13, then introduces the threat of a doppelgänger that can hide among them, à la The Thing.