Prince of Darkness [SteelBook] (Blu-ray) R
Before man walked the earth...it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker & Victor Wong | |
Performer: | Dirk Blocker, Dennis Dun, Susan Blanchard, Peter Jason & Alice Cooper | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Edited by | Steve Mirkovich | |
Screenwriting by | John Carpenter | |
Composition by | John Carpenter & Alan Howarth | |
Produced by | Larry J. Franco | |
Director of Photography: | Gary B. Kibbe |
Entertainment Reviews:
''Prince of Darkness'' is a real tour de force, and a welcome return.
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Chicago Tribune
It's deeply strange, awash in good ideas and filled with scene chewing performances from the likes of Donald Pleasence that still today seem more iconic than silly.
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PopMatters
The claustrophobic terror generated by fluid camerawork and striking angles is reinforced by a narrative which builds slowly but surely towards a heart-racing climax.
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Time Out
None of the performances are super, though Alice Cooper, the one-time rock star, makes an arresting cameo appearance as a mean-spirited zombie who stands outside the church, intimidating anyone who looks through the window.
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New York Times
Carpenter spends so much time turning the screws on the next scare that he completely forsakes his actors, who are already stranded with a shoddy script.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Carpenter cria uma atmosfera de tensão palpável, merecendo créditos também pela ambição de tentar combinar o puro terror com um elemento curioso de ficção científica.
Cinema em Cena
It all feels so small and inconsequential; words that definitely should not apply to a film seemingly about the End of the World.
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Product Description:
Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks loose within the church. Some of the students are turned into skinless zombies while others receive warnings from the future sent in the form of hazy dreams. The warnings tell of the rise of Satan and the ensuing destruction of humanity. The students must stop the evil from being released, even at the cost of their lives and souls. Carpenter pulls together a solid ensemble cast and builds a heavy mood of impending doom around them. There are many truly terrifying moments, with the climax of the film being one of the most visually brilliant and disturbing in the horror genre. Rock star Alice Cooper provides a fun cameo appearance as a minion of Satan. PRINCE OF DARKNESS was the first production in a three-film deal Carpenter signed with a small Hollywood studio in the 1980s and is one of the great films of the director's canon. The other two films in that deal were THEY LIVE and MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN.