Prince of Darkness

Certainly an ambitious little project from the great John Carpenter. He continues his exploration of technology as a vessel of evil, mixing computation and metaphysics to come up with some interesting conclusions. Donald Pleasence is here as Father Loomis ( a in joke on the character he played in the Halloween series) who takes over the BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEP after the death of an elder. In doing so, he discovers the essence of the devil (which happens to be that green luminous crap in camping lightrods which is a catch-all evil thing for films like this) who we find out was a space alien, as was Jesus Christ, and the tank in which this dastardly stuff is being held happens to spring a leak and the proverbial shit starts to fly. Hard to tell if Carpenter was heavy into Scientology or simply watching news on the Russian nuclear power system. By no means his best work PRINCE OF DARKNESS will at least get you thinking which seems to be Carpenter's point here. There are some good jumps to be had as well as some mighty spooky atmosphere. Watch out for Alice Cooper's interesting cameo.