Dive into the dark and captivating world of John Carpenter with this Prince of Darkness Poster. Chills guaranteed with this masterpiece of horror cinema.
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Description of this Prince of Darkness Poster
Prince of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural horror film written and directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount. The second installment in what Carpenter calls his “Apocalypse Trilogy”—which began with The Thing (1982) and concluded with In the Mouth of Madness (1994)—the film follows a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to help a Catholic priest investigate an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they discover is a sentient liquid incarnation of Satan.
A Catholic priest invites quantum physicist Professor Howard Birack and his students to join him in the basement of a Los Angeles monastery belonging to the “Brotherhood of Sleep,” an ancient order that communicates through dreams. The priest needs their help to investigate a mysterious cylinder containing a swirling green liquid. Among the thirteen academics present are the wise Walter Fong, the quiet Kelly, the highly strung Susan Cabot, and the lovers Brian Marsh and Catherine Danforth.
They decipher an ancient text found next to the cylinder, which describes the liquid as the bodily incarnation of Satan. The team also learns that Jesus Christ was an alien who was executed for heresy after trying to warn the inhabitants of Earth about the existence of the vessel in which Satan was imprisoned. It is then discovered that the liquid is sentient. The academics use a computer to analyze the books surrounding it and discover that they contain differential equations. For two days, small jets of liquid leak from the cylinder. The group members exposed to the liquid are possessed by the entity and attack each other. The first victim is Susan, who begins killing the others one by one, after which they too become possessed. Anyone who attempts to flee the monastery is killed by the growing mass of fascinated homeless people who have surrounded the building.
Professor Birack and the priest theorize that Satan is actually the offspring of the “Anti-God,” an even more powerful evil force tied to the antimatter realm. The survivors find themselves sharing a recurring dream (a tachyon transmission sent as a warning from the future, “year one-nine-nine-nine”) showing a shadowy figure emerging from the front of the church. The misty transmission changes slightly with each occurrence of the dream, gradually revealing more details. The narration of the transmission tells the dreamer each time that they are witnessing a real broadcast from the future.
Walter, locked in a closet, sees the possessed person bring the cylinder to a sleeping Kelly. The cylinder opens and the remaining liquid is transfused into Kelly’s body, transforming her into Satan’s physical vessel: a horribly disfigured being with telekinetic and regenerative powers. Kelly attempts to summon the Anti-God through a dimensional portal using a mirror, but the mirror is too small and the effort fails. While the rest of the team is busy fighting the possessed, Kelly finds a large wall mirror and places the Anti-God’s hand through it. Catherine, the only one who can act, attacks Kelly, causing them both to fall through the portal. The priest then smashes the mirror with an axe, trapping Kelly, the Anti-God, and Catherine in the other world. Catherine briefly appears on the other side of the mirror, reaching for the portal before it closes. Immediately, the possessed die, the people on the street move away, and the survivors (Brian, Walter, Professor Birack, and the priest) are saved.
Brian has another recurring dream and sees that Catherine (apparently possessed) is the figure coming out of the church. Brian wakes up to find Kelly, apparently Satan’s vessel, lying in his bed. It turns out to be another dream, and he wakes up screaming. He gets up and walks over to his bedroom mirror with his hand outstretched, the screen going black just before he touches the mirror.