Prince of Darkness Review: Welcome to Hell
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- It's time to talk about the Apocalypse Trilogy by the great John Carpenter. We're starting off with probably the weakest chapter, though it can still be a lot of fun.
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John Carpenter: The man who’s career had so much going against it he’s outright happy to get any work or check he gets. The man who turned an alright stephen king book pre release into a love drama between a man and a 57 fury’s tailpipe. The man who just needed a moticum of budget and freedom that speilberg got to go down as an all time great.
Ummm ACKSHUALLY it’s a 58, SIR
@@tailfin6595 he’s a little short cause he’s the shortbushero, partner. But he’s right in every other regard.
All of that may be so, but PoD is one of his worst movies.
It doesn't know what it wants to be (Sci-Fi, Zombie, Magic) and since it's spread so thin it ends up doing all three poorly.
If it weren't for Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong I would recommend missing it entirely.
It has similarities to Ghostbusters 2.
"It's about quantum physicists that end up fighting the devil."
Never should've trusted The Science.
I still think The Thing is John’s best movie out of the Apocalypse trilogy.
That's a safe pick. Maybe his best movie ever.
The Thing used to be my favorite Carpenter movie but I prefer the metaphysics of Prince of Darkness. It's like an exaggerated version of what's happening today where you can't even trust people who were your friends because they suddenly got taken over by a profound darkness or a mind virus of ;Current Thing' syndrome. They Live & Prince of Darkness are both useful metaphors that describe our modern reality quite well.
@@Rensune Escape from New York is another good one. It's a damn work of art. It was like an Action Horror flick, kinda funny because the sequel was a pure blown B-movie & felt like a live action Metal Gear Solid, including the hokeyness of MGS.
John Carpenter is one of the most underrated horror director's honestly even though he is infamous cause of halloween.
And The Thing
@@trumpflavourednugget9325Which one came out first?
@@aldokurti3272 irrelevant. The thing is just as prevalent a part of his legacy.
@@aldokurti3272 as if a directors first movie is always their most infamous? I really don't see that correlation but ok.
@@trumpflavourednugget9325 More like which one was the movie that gave him his infamous reputation.
Shout out to carpenter brut’s escape from Midwich Valley for perfectly incorporating the broadcast into their song. Unforgettably good. If you haven’t heard it give it a listen after the video
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Hell yeah. Saw them open for friggin GOBLIN a few years back on Halloween in Philadelphia. Easily on of the best concerts I’ve ever attended
Carpenter's got this "feel" to him, and his movies. Very high on the list of my favorite film directors.
A very distinct style that you almost can't find anywhere else. Even if the ideas don't connect too well at times.
Even a subpar John Carpenter movie is worth checking out at least once.
I will say that the scene which had a real impact on me wasn't the pregnant woman's makeup
It was the nurse trapped in the mirror
That slow mo, distorted shot of her desperately stretching out a hand as she disappears into the darkness... that hit hard
John Carpenter has to be one of the best directors out there. "The Thing" is one of my favorite horror movies period. I just love the attention to detail in his movies.
The transmission from the future concept with video clip was genius and the one part I remember from the film after all this time.
The best director in my honest opinion.
Prince of Darkness is such an underrated movie. Definitely my second favorite JC movie, after The Thing.
The Thing, Lovecraft definitely would've been a fan.
OH SHIT, I did not expect this one. I like the ideas in this one. The use of science jargon and spiritualism really melds well, imo.
Now I'm imagining a modern remake selling itself on killing off Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I remember watching this on TV and thinking it was a very interesting idea about a bunch of egg heads, tapping into something they have no idea about, but they were in the middle of a major city, which was very odd.
Middling, but still worth a watch.
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Fun fact: the refection of the mirror was mercury
Prince of darkness has a killer score and a killer premise, movie may be mid to some people but it is an amazing story to watch if u ask me.
Prince of Darkness is the only film that really causes me fear. I’ve had too many nightmares similar to the broadcast from the future
John Carpenter's voice over work for Gunship's Tech Noir songs are worth checking out.
One of my absolute favorite Carpenter films up there with The Fog and the Thing. I remember as a kid seeing Calder at the end of the film gave me nightmares, that damn smile scared me shitless.
This seems interesting, but I can’t wait for your review of The Thing. That movie is fucking legendary. There’s a reason *that* movie got a video game, some comics, and a shitty remake.
8:27 They said the same thing about Hellraiser with the whole "pain and pleasure indivisible" thing.
Another classic from John Carpenter.
I watched Army of Darkness after this and was incredibly confused.
As sequels go, it's not!
Carpenter did a great job of mashing science and religion together here, all the while mixing cosmic horror and science fiction as well with neither of all contradicting one another. The part that Jesus was humanoid extraterrestrial was pretty interesting. That idea has been a part of ufology and I think it's kind of silly, but John here did a good job of making it seem credibility and would be an interesting movie onto its self with all ideas this movie presented being explored as be well.
Randy covered in Satan goo is hilarious
The Thing, like Tombstone, are both movies I can watch religiously. Oddly enough they both have Kurt Russell in them.
I always found prince of darkness underrated. But I'd agree ITMOM and the thing are better films.
Great job on the video as usual. I’ve never really been that big of a carpenter fan. Not that there bad just not much interest. Ive only really watched The Thing and it has been a while since I’ve seen it. But since this video came out I have a renewed interest it. Anyway again great job and I’ll see you on tonight’s stream
"Combine quantum physics and demons" usually results in "rip and tear until it is done."
I only saw John carpenter’s the thing, and boy was it amazing, but I need to start looking more into the more underrated ones.
Where this movie shines is in the atmosphere it creates. It's perhaps my favorite horror movie. That scene with the rotting chick, doing the zombie sit-up, turning her head around towards the screaming guy in the closet, made me s#it my pants as a kid.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
I really need to watch this movie one of these days
Hold up. I'm gonna watch it first. That last flick you talked about was spot on and The Thing is simply art
I need to correct you, Donald Pleasance did work with John in between Halloween and Bug Trouble, USA President in Escape From NY
In the mouth of madness came out in '94 man.
One of my top favorite carpenter films
This is one my favorites this is before Ive watched the review
Can you make a video on pulp characters like Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Conan and Solomon Kane?
A great underrated Carpenter classic that deserves way more love. In addition to the theme of impending global doom, the 'apocalypse trilogy' also shares a general Lovecraftian theme of cosmic horror beyond our comprehension. But this one takes a unique science/religion view I've yet to see tackled anywhere else.
The weakest of his movies??..This one is probably one of the most underrated that Carpenter has done, an absolute horror movie with the mesh of the scientific with the religious undergirding to spell out the new apocalypse to come. Real creepy and crazy this film was, a total sleeper..dark and horrifying.. Alice Cooper doing his thing and adding some bodies to the body count was pretty cool too.
I saw this movie as a kid and could only remember the woman behind the mirror, and a church surrounded by homeless people. I had no idea what it was called, or even what it was really about. During Covid it got in my head and I tried several Google searches vaguely describing it. I eventually landed on Prince of Darkness and it blew my mind it was a Carpenter film. The film I had wandered about for decades was made by the same guy who made one of my top two films ever Big Trouble in Little China (The Thing is top 5, I just grew up watching BTiLC). It isn't as good as I had built up in my head but, like you said, it has some really good ideas.
Thank goodness Im not the only one going into November
To be quite honest I rather watch Army of darkness evil dead trilogy then Prince of darkness.
Love this movie, so underrated. I subbed just because you did a video on this one.
>The Void did it better
lol, let's not get crazy here. I can't think of a single thing in The Void that wasn't done better somewhere else.
I can certainly understand why this may not have grabbed you or some others, to me this is my favorite Carpenter movie. I like the other entries in the trilogy, they're plenty fun and scary, but this one actually gives me chills. It really encapsulates what I feel is that looming sensation of fear and despair that is existential dread.
Alice Cooper is a cool dude
Big Trouble in Little China is so much fun
I actually really love Starman and I feel like no one really talks about it sadly. I would love to see someone cover it.
Though it is a bit of a dissapointment that it mainly toils around as a "possessed hoard" movie for a good chunk of it's execution,
but a theme of the movie that i wish was more of the focus was two opposing worldviews discussing nature of evil itself,
eventually coming to notions that bring a haunting chill in the air to both of them (even literally so).
Like a bit of that one scene with the lead doctor and the preacher character talking with each other.
I can see an alternate version where this movie took more of the "slow-burn" approach,
- something many of Lovecraft's stories excelled at. That said, for a movie it something like that might be less viable than say, a novel.
- also the soundtrack is sick. Carpenter scores knows how to set an eerie mood, even outside of their films.
The Thing, In the Mouth of Madness, and They Live are my top three John Carpenter favorites.
Certainly an interesting idea
Saw this recommended and decided last minute to watch the movie for halloween and was not disappointed! The ending definitely held up the remainder of the film but that doesn't mean the rest wasn't bad. It was a slow build up to the climax that maybe needed more time in the oven with focus on its ideas/themes and characters but was fun and drenched with Carpenter's distinct style which I love.
Carpenter made The Ward?!...Thats the most shocking thing I've heard this spooky month.
Ghosts of Mars was my favorite as a teen. Watching it now, it's meh, but i absolutely loved it back then
Holy shit I saw this on tv as a kid and I did not know John Carpenter was behind this!
“I mean it’s alright like-“
Loli, you haven't talk about Grunbeld's novel, will you make a video about the novel someday?
This movie was not donald pleasence's first movie with carpenter since halloween. Pleasence played the president in escape from new york.
6:54 i spotted it 🤣
Ghosts of Mars is a masterpiece
Nice new vid
I was planning to watch is tonight. Get out of my head
I really liked this movie, I think it left a better overall impression than Mouth of Madness. Something about it is just very comfy cozy, kind of like The Thing actually. They're both good movies to huddle up in a blanket with.
I didn't not understand what was going on.
Just watched this for the first time recently and fully agree that it was a middling experience, I already didn't expect much of it considering how people often deride it as the weakest of the Apocalypse Trilogy. Fair play to Carpenter though, the memorable visuals were spot on and the concept was ace, but I wish it could have been more engaging.
Looks like a movie more interesting In concept than execution
"Goo of Darkness"
I feel like most movies tend to be associated with turning your brain off and just enjoying as much as possible.
It is a rare movie where you WANT to turn your brain on and try to understand what is going on.
One of my favorite movies of his. It's not the best movie of his I know, but I can't help but enjoy this movie.
Neat.
I really love this movie. However it definitely suffers from its obvious low budget.
Wish you talked more about those "future broadcast" sequences, where the protagonists experience a dream that is actually a transmission from the future warning them of the terrestrial manifestation of Satan. Very cool bit of cinema where it cuts to like a found footage-like sequence of future scientists warning about the future, with the sequence playing several times over the course of the film and more and more of the sequence being expanded upon with each iteration.
Y’know what the story reminds me of and might’ve been a reference to this film? Franken-Fran chapter 41 Sea Specter
Scientists and religious leaders are trying to figure out and quell this goo or mass which claims to be the devil. Although Franken Fran is a horror comedy, it took a more camp approach to the story and ending
the body horror is good to the point of beeing remembered to this day, but let's face it, the miror ending, it's not as explicit as the other one in the trilogy, it crawl in your brain and you get the whole point when you think back about it; and no, the priest didn' save anyone by breaking it.
I need more berserk now!!!!!!!
Not horror, but I’m surprised you haven’t managed to cover “Monster” the Manga/Anime thriller.
Look you say Donald Pleasence's first role since Halloween was this. But you forget he was also in Escape from new York. I expected better of you
Escape From New York is why I think of John Carpenter.
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John Carpenter is probably one of the greatest directors out there that's got my respect. Even if I haven't seen all of his work, what I have seen is nothing short of a talented but humble man. Recently he said in an interview that he just wants to "watch basket ball and play video games". What a legend.
Best Carpenter film. Hands down. Apart from In The Mouth of Madness it had the most Lovecraft references also. And I hate gore. It’s cheap and not frightening. Not showing gore and not showing ‘the entity’ or saving it all for just fugitive glimpses is very much good Lovecraft. One of the best Lovecraft stories is about a vampire that manifests as mold in a basement. Carpenter experimented with Prince of Darkness and was very faithful to Lovecraft. Not mid to me.
Slightly embarrassed to admit I haven't seen any of these three movies, I've definitely seen bits of The Thing but nothing more than 20-30 seconds here or there. As for the other two, I grew up always seeing them around at people's houses either VHS or DVD but nobody ever seemed to watch them or talk about them much, it was always about The Thing if any of those three were even mentioned in the first place.
Might check them out after these videos finish.
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good film.
In The Mouth Of Madness is 1997, not 1992 lol
I love John Carpenter. His movies are the best!😎👍
just saw this at the plaza theatre in atlanta in 35mm, loved it. shit tier take calling it mid, gotta say
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I'm with you entirely on this movie. As a kid/early teen I loved watching horror movies because it took very little scare me so it was aways a thrilling experience... but I seriously forgot I even watched this movie or that it was made by Carpenter, I thought it was just some Z grade schlock I got because there was a special at Blockbuster that week. It is in that unfortunate area of being almost good but then dips down into being just so bland and forgetable.
Big Trouble in Little China was better in all ways... and Satan IS goo, bro. That's factual.
While I loved both The Thing and Mouth of Madness, Prince is DEFINITELY the weakest of the "Trilogy," if not one of Carpender's overall.
I've only seen it 2.5 times, the .5 was cause my family was UTTERLY bored by it halfway thru.
Wasn't stoked on this film; I remeember seeing it and thinking. "why alice cooper, why?" Mouth of Madness started out great, but then lost me as well. He used this sort of strange B-movie extra thing, thats hyper-surreal more so in a fake sorta way, versus Lynch's use where it's more believable. I just kept thinking, why that actor for an extra, none of this looks believable. Versus Assault on precenct 13, which is a 10/10 film, as is the Thing, as is Escape from New York. I just hated the why it was filmed, took me out of it with those extras. Carpenters the man, but not his strongest takes.
Honestly they could’ve come up with something a bit better than homeless people keeping them in the church, they could’ve just made it that every time they try to leave through the mirrors or doors that they’ll always keep returning back inside the church until they complete the ritual.🤔🐱
This is probably the most forgettable of the Apocalypse Trilogy. Whenever people talk about the movies, it's usually just The Thing and occasionally In The Mouth of Madness.
Hot take. This is actually my second favorite of the trilogy lol
100% agree that it is the worst of the 3. They Live should replace it.
Really love John Carpenter but I thought this movie was boring as hell.
You missed the whole point the movie doesn’t work any other way. You’re also comparing to movies loved by all and has nothing to do with it. He wanted to make a different kind of movie which I agree with you on the meh but that’s what you get when you go outside your comfort zone.
Bro. It’s just an opinion.
'Prince of Darkness' is fun enough, but waaaaay too much exposition.
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Oh, it's definitely one of his worst movies: as in, worse than Ghosts of Mars.
I'm actually hard-pressed to find a worse Carpenter movie.
Maybe his last one? I never saw that one.
I always swap "They Live" out with this one for the Apocalypse trilogy.