Prince Of Darkness. 1987
John Carpenter delivers the atmosphere, tension and suspense with the fear factor in this and combining science and religion together. Made before The Church, a place of worship is supposed to be a safe sanctuary, here he is able to turn it around and make it a place of evil dwelling with outsiders that look like they are suffering schizophrenia.
Donald Pleasance delivers everything from being petrified with the first sight of the mysterious container then believing the dark green form is evil and how to try and stop it. Victor Wong is the chief scientist who doesn't believe in matters that science has already proven and nothing else to prove until he is face to face with something he can't answer.
Right from the start to a elderly priest and could have been confessing his sins, did he die naturally or was the secret he was about to confess kill him...who knows. There is a brilliant but slow character build up of the students and what their study/PhD degrees are. Carpenter returned to the independent circuit with this and certainly knew how to create horror and shows Robert Grasmere falling to bits.
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