Prince of Darkness
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List Price: $14.98
Features
• Color
• HiFi Sound
• NTSC
In Theaters : 23 October, 1987
Video Release : 01 March, 1992 |
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Alice Cooper steals the show
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Let me get this straight: Satan takes 1 hour 40 minutes just to attempt an escape from his netherworld entrapment to materialize here on Earth? He can't even manage to overcome the retarded fumbling antics of a dozen college students/researchers, 1 college professor, and 1 man of the cloth?
Of all of the forces on Earth and in the "heavens", this is all it takes to defeat the Prince of Darkness? What the hell are we supposed to be afraid of Satan for then? The old bald guy from Halloween throwing an axe at a mirror is all that is needed to finalize the stop to his return? Michael Meyers was a thousand times more terrifying, and all he had was an old mechanic's jumpsuit and a rubber William Shatner mask.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Satan does indeed actually defeat these powerful college students and materializes out of that vat of Ecto Cooler - what exactly is he going to do to all of us? Make insects present all over the planet? Well then, thankfully the college kids won, because we could have had insects on planet Earth, ending our current 4.5 billion year insect-free run. Or, perhaps Satan would release plagues upon us? Well then, thank goodness we're safe, because we also currently have no diseases either. Floods? War? Famine? What else would this master of all evil unleash upon us were he freed? Britney Spears? Rap music? McDonald's? Too late.
Even though John Carpenter was stellar throughout the late 70s/early 80s, he kind of trips and falls here. The beginning of the movie draws on forever, about 20 minutes of opening/introduction scenes intermingled with cutting to pieces of credits. The whole thing comes off as way too pretentious, like we're supposed to be sitting there going "god, this is going to be the most incredible F'ing movie I've ever seen." I just couldn't find myself doing that, even though I wanted to.
At least the Alice Ocasek/Harry Cooper/Ric Shearer zombie character made it worth the watch. And people spitting up green eviliquid. But check out Carpenter's "They Live" instead, it's much more entertaining overall. Still hammy, but a lot less hammy than this turdburgler. |
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