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Prince
Of Darkness
John Carpenter, USA, 1987
Rating: 3.0 |
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Posted: November 20, 2002
Originality goes a long way, and the story line here is pretty original. Donald
Pleasance is a priest carrying around a heavy secret about God, religion, and
the devil, a secret to shake the foundations of every religion and challenge the
faith of the most devout believer. As if this weren't enough, a zombie-fied
Alice Cooper kills a guy with a bicycle, which if I recall correctly, is one of
the signs of the Apocalypse. Need time to catch your breath? Too bad! We've got
the offspring of Satan, in the form of a swirling green liquid hidden away in a
big hi-tech canister in the basement of a church. This stuff defies gravity and
leaks upward onto the ceiling (like all satanic fluids are prone to do). Surely
this is enough for one movie, right? Wrong! Enter stage left: hobo zombies,
grad-student zombies, throat stabbings, and mirrors that you can reach into to
pull Satan into our dimension. Sweeeet! Victor Wong (Big Trouble in Little
China) lends his support as Prof. Birack, leading a group of college
students on a special project to date and decode the canister's markings, which
I believe translate to something along the lines of "Satan's Offspring: Do Not
Fuck With." Needless to say, when canister's contents spill onto the floor, or
in this case the ceiling, chaos ensues. Jameson Parker plays the hero, although
he's far from a dynamic presence. This is not a particularly scary film, but
it's fun and keeps you interested. The plot (concerning the true identity of
Jesus and its ramifications on the world today) is unique enough to overlook
some of the film's other shortcomings and yield moderate entertainment value.
Why so high a rating? If you were a director, would you have had the creativity
to let Alice Cooper kill a guy with a bicycle? All right, then.
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