Prince of Darkness
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
- Director:John Carpenter
- Genre:Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Runtime:102 minutes
Cast
Donald Pleasence: Priest
Jameson Parker : Brian Marsh
Victor Wong : Prof. Howard Birack
Lisa Blount : Catherine Danforth
Dennis Dun : Walter
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A priest (Donald Pleasence) invites Professor Howard Birack (Victor Wong) and a group of academics and students to investigate a mysterious cylinder in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church. The cylinder contains a constantly swirling, green liquid. Among these people is a teacher in metaphysics, Brian Marsh (Jameson Parker).
After researching the text found next to the cylinder, it is discovered that the liquid is actually the Anti-Christ, the son of an even more powerful force of evil, an Anti-God, who is trapped in another dimension. The liquid itself appears sentient, producing increasingly complex data that is revealed by computer decoding to include differential equations.
Over the period of two days, small jets of liquid escape the cylinder and possess the group one by one, to use them against the remaining survivors. Their attempts to escape the building are prevented by a mass of possessed street people surrounding it, who kill two of the group. The survivors also find themselves sharing a recurring dream, apparently a tachyon transmission sent as a warning from the future year of 1999, showing a shaky video sequence of a shadowy figure emerging from the front of the church. The transmission and the shadowy figure shown seem to change slightly with each occurrence of the dream. The narration of the transmission each time instructs the ‘dreamer’ that they are witnessing an actual broadcast from the future and they must alter the course of events to prevent this occurence.
Eventually, the cylinder opens fully and the entire remaining liquid is absorbed into the body of one of the students who becomes the corporeal vessel for the Antichrist: A gruesomely disfigured being, with powers of telekinesis and regeneration, who attempts to bring the Anti-God through a dimensional portal using a mirror (initially failing because the mirror is too small). At the climax of the film, the Antichrist finds a larger wall mirror, and begins to draw the Father’s hand through it as most of the group are immobilised in fights with the other possessed members. Read more
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