I think I like demonic possession movies better when they combine quantum physics and green goo.
Thank goodness John Carpenter knows how to combine them to make Prince of Darkness.
Read all about it! (http://thegreatwhitedope.blogspot.com/2010/12/prince-of-darkness-1987.html)
Great review, thanks GWD! :cheers:
My favourite JC film: I have also never seen a guy in a film get eaten alive by beetles before. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Glad you liked it.
PRINCE OF DARKNESS is probably my favorite John Carpenter film, although probably not his best.
The siren call of quantum physics must have entranced Carpenter at some point. The idea of it is eerie at the most explainable of times, and Carpenter tied it brilliantly to the idea of faith and threw in time travel for the hell of it (pun intended).
There's a philosophical point here, involving science's continual disruption of the basis of reality. Hey, once you start to doubt the reality of the world around you, well, the devil will come sidling in. It's actually pretty heady stuff, if not completely accurate.
"You will not be saved by the God Plutonium."
Of course, those heady ideas get translated to film as evil psychic goo. It's only a movie.
Then again, this movie's got creepy moments to spare.
"I've got a message for you, and you're not going to like it."
Quote from: Mofo Rising on December 17, 2010, 02:56:09 AM
"I've got a message for you, and you're not going to like it."
That is the line that always makes me go :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:.
That, and that weird, weird dream of course.