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Prince of Darkness [Blu-ray] [4K UHD]

Donald Pleasence (Actor), Lisa Blount (Actor), John Carpenter (Director) Rated:
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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,934 ratings
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Genre Horror
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Contributor Victor Wong, Alice Cooper, Jameson Parker, Donald Pleasence, Martin Quatermass, Dennis Dun, Lisa Blount, John Carpenter, Dirk Blocker, Peter Jason, Larry Franco See more
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Runtime 1 hour and 42 minutes
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For almost 20 years, Shout! Factory has redefined what it means to be an entertainment company for fans, by fans. Through its beginnings lovingly releasing and reviving beloved cult films and classic TV series, Shout! cultivated an uncanny ability to rediscover great content and applied these skills to producing and distributing fan-driven new releases that set the bar for independent entertainment. Shout! Factory's extensive experience in a diverse array of genres has led to the launch of several well-respected properties, including Shout! Studios, Scream Factory, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Shout Kids, Shout Select and the streaming service Shout! Factory TV. Capitalizing on both traditional and emerging digital platforms, Shout! Factory is a media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture.

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It is evil…it has awakened. Master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this terrifying battle between mankind and the ultimate evil. A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable horror of them all. Terror mounts as the team must fight to save the world from a devilish fury that has been contained for over seven million years.


Bonus Content:

  • Features Dolby Vision for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
  • Audio Commentary with Writer/Director John Carpenter and Actor Peter Jason
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Sympathy for The Devil – Interview with Writer/Director John Carpenter
  • Alice at the Apocalypse – Interview with Actor Alice Cooper
  • The Messenger – Interview with Actor & Special Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Grasmere
  • Hell on Earth – A Look at the Film's Score with Co-Composer Alan Howarth
  • Horror's Hallowed Grounds with Host Sean Clark
  • Alternate Opening from the TV Version
  • Radio Spots
  • Still Gallery
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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.02 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ BR86513039
  • Director ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled, 4K
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 42 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 19, 2021
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Dirk Blocker
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Larry Franco
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ SHOUT! FACTORY
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GNTX417
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Martin Quatermass
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,934 ratings

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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3,934 global ratings
Maybe he's anti-god, bringing darkness instead of light.
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Maybe he's anti-god, bringing darkness instead of light.
For all his accolades John Carpenter is still the most underrated director of all time. He is a master and by far my favorite filmmaker of all time and I think this is his masterpiece.Prince is a sci-fi, apocalyptic horror film that transcends all known reality. It's premise is not a simple one but is put together in way that the higher concepts can be more easily understood by those with only a passing knowledge of quantum physics. It's not a simple film, it contains many nuances and sub-levels that repeated viewings can unlock. It's horror elements are diverse, creative and really help accept the idea of evil as an actual, physical entity with a telepathic link to humans and the ability to control them.The characters are well fleshed out and believable. They are , for the most part, the epitome of good and that truly helps one see this as a true battle against evil. Donald Pleasence rules the roost as always giving depth to his character and dramatic presence to everything he does. I also enjoyed Victor Wong who did a brilliant job as a counterpart to Pleasence both being the ultimate spokesperson for Science Vs Religion.The new special edition is exquisite. The colors are vibrant and the sound is crisp with a special nod going to the spinning-devil-goo which has a a most lustrous shade of darkish green and low hum that was not as easily heard in earlier editions. The interviews are top notch. I learned things about story, effects and characters that I really had no clue about and I've been very vigilant from an early age in reading everything I could about the making of this masterpiece .In closing if you have never seen this triumph of moviemaking there is no better time than now to grab a copy and if you have enjoyed this film before please give this spectacular new edition a try...you will not be disappointed.
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Denise H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Most terrifying horror movie I've ever seen!
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019
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First, put aside any notions about the plot or acting...just focus on the imagery that John Carpenter brings in this film. The image of the green, swirling mass in the decaying container is horrifying. Now imagine it's in the sub-sub basement of an abandoned church....down in a part dating back to the 1500's. And imagine a secret sect of priests charged with containing this swirling mass within the vessel. Pretty intense.
The visuals that John Carpenter created in this movie are without question, the most memorable, horrifying and chilling images that I've ever seen on screen. I've never had another movie that gave me literal chills like this--and purely from the imagery alone. I saw it ages ago when I was really too young--someone got a video at some point after it had been out, and I was terrified by the movie then--and remember the scary images to this day! I bought a streaming version recently and re-watched it--It's just as chilling as it was when I was little. The abandoned church, the swirling mass of green/evil, and the most horrifying part--the dream that kept recurring throughout the film....absolutely spine tingling!!!!
As much as I've tried to convince myself the swirling mass of green looks oddly like a Star Trek swirl-type warpcore, I simply can't...the visual of that swirling container, in the church basement, surrounded by thousands of crucifixes--it's horrific and beautiful at the same time. Cinematic fabulousness! And the dream that everyone kept having--chilling! There are snippets of voices in the dream sequence, and you can feel the sense of terror building as you slowly begin to process what the voices are saying, as the camera pans closer and closer to a doorway where something shadowy and evil is about to step foot out into the world... It's done incredibly well, and relies on human fear-instinct and dream terror to evoke a tremendous sense of dread as the camera pans towards the figure. It's reminiscent of The Fog, with the slowly creeping fog, and the hook that invariably appears as you feel goosebumps rising. Very John Carpenter.
Now, the not-so-great. The movie is rather dated. The dream sequence, while still terrifying, has a very 80's quality about it....smoke machine, fan, figure standing in a doorway--I could be watching a Bonnie Tyler video if I didn't know better--or any number of other 80's videos/movies. It seemed the smoke machine/fan/shadowy figure was a requirement of the 80's video production. While that aspect is logically very mundane and dull, Carpenter has been able to include the buildup of terror as the camera pans, so it becomes more than an 80's music video and instead becomes this looming horror. Very well done for a trope that could be dated and trite.
As an 80's flick, the characters interactions seem very foreign to what we're used to now. For example, Brian's initial interest in Catherine on campus, seems more like scary-stalker-guy than average college guy in love/lust. Not having seen the movie in ages and having been traumatized by it, I probably forgot that there was the whole love affair between the two characters that developed(quickly). Seeing it now, in today's context, he seems creepy and needs a good spray of mace. Only in the 80's would his weird obsessive brooding be considered 'courting'or whatever...today I'd call it 'stalking'. Just saying....
Now the plot. There's alot of plot that happens fast so it's confusing and weird. There's time travel involved, messages from the future, old-time religion, good vs. evil, Satan vs. God, etc. Basically they try to intertwine religion and science(time travel and quantum mechanics). It gets tiresome quickly. I think it would be a better movie to stick with maybe good vs. evil or satan vs. god... Trying to tie metaphysics to science is tricky and takes away from the chill factor.
Alice Cooper. Yes who doesn't love Alice? But I found him to be a distracting factor. It was like, "Look! We got a rock star to appear in our movie--gonna come see it now?!!!" His role wasn't super complicated...any day-player could have done the role, so again, using Alice Cooper's celebrity to 'lure' viewers is kinda sketchy. It's like they didn't think the movie could stand on it's own merit, but that's totally not the case.
Donald Pleasence as the priest...didn't work for me. I think this came out in '87 or so, so he'd already done at least a few horror movies and was the one with a gun chasing down the killer. Seeing him cowering behind a boiler seemed so odd and out of place. His character didn't work for me either. When he took charge of supervising the green slime container after it's original priest died, he seemed like he was afraid(rightfully so) but never seemed confident or caring enough to try to stop the evil from being released. I won't spoil anything, just saying he does't seem like he would put up a fight to keep the container closed....the priests from The Exorcist seemed like they'd put up a pretty good fight, while this one seemed to say oh well end of the world, whatcha gonna do....
Overall this movie is as terrifying as it was to me years ago. It's creepy, scary and terrifying in all the right ways. There are plot holes and character issues, but the cinematography make it all worthwhile. Still one of, if not the, most terrifying films I've ever seen. Def recommend!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Prince of Darkness
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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MonsterZeroNJ
5.0 out of 5 stars A Carpenter cult classic in a beautiful new transfer!
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014
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Prince of Darkness is a strange movie written by Carpenter and combining religion and theoretical quantum physics. It sounds like a contradictory combination but, it works better then you might expect. The story opens with the death of a priest who presided over a small inner city parish. Enter Donald Pleasance as another priest... who's name is never given... who discovers that the deceased priest was part of a secret society within the church called The Brotherhood Of Sleep. And this sect have been protecting a dark secret that may challenge the very core of what we have come to believe both scientifically and religiously. A team of college students, led by Professor Birack (Victor Wong from Big Trouble In Little China) and including Brian Marsh (Jameson Parker) and Catherine Danforth (Lisa Blount), are brought to the parish to investigate a strange cylinder filled with a pulsating green liquid in a locked chamber in the basement, as well as, the scriptures that come with it. They discover that the liquid is a form of the Anti-Christ and it seeks release in order to bring it's father, the Anti-God into our world. And as members of the team start to fall under it's powerful thrall and they all become plagued by the same strange dreams, it's terrifyingly obvious that the remaining team members are in a fight against an ancient evil that their science may not be able to contain.

Carpenter delivers a very odd but, effectively creepy film. It's has an atmosphere of dread from the start to the finish and presents a very chilling scenario that there may be things in existence that neither our religion or science may be able to handle. And as these are two things people most put their faith in, it is a disturbing concept. It also presents an interesting idea that Bible prophecies may have actually been warnings sent from the future as the dream effecting all our college science students appears to be exactly that. Carpenter also presents the possibility that certain Bible stories were put in place to cover more disturbing truths as the scientific knowledge to explain or understand the reality of it was not available. Basically we were told things in fable form because the science wasn't there to properly explain it and we weren't advanced enough to understand it. As someone who was born and raised Christian yet has always had an interest in science, I actually have had this thought myself occasionally and it was interesting to see the master filmmaker weave this theory into his plot. Carpenter also uses his low budget well and keeps the story, for the most part contained in the church. Again working with the fear of isolation as a horde of homicidal homeless people keep our besieged team members inside. Gary B. Kibbe provides the atmospheric cinematography and would collaborate with Carpenter on 7 more projects and he gives Prince a very unsettling look yet, rich with color. This is a strange film that may not appeal to everyone, it took me a few years and repeat viewings before I fully appreciated it and it's grown on me since I first saw it in 87 and wasn't quite sold on it then. The film has it's flaws, some of the make-up FX are cheesy and some of the violent death scenes, especially those perpetrated by the army of homeless people surrounding the church, lead by Alice Cooper, seem a little out of place in a film that starts out working in subtlety. But, since it does switch gears and become more of a traditional horror film in it's second half, as the possessed students try to kill or possess the others who are fighting against their former friends to stay alive, so, in the overall scheme they work fine. Some may not have patience for some of the science heavy dialog but, I though Carpenter's script does a good job of giving scientific explanations for some of the more supernatural elements of the religious scripture presented in his story.

Regardless of your beliefs, Carpenter poses some interesting questions and the film is really creepy throughout. And adding to the effectiveness is one of Carpenter's spookiest scores to date composed with frequent collaborator Alan Howarth. Overall, Prince Of Darkness is perhaps Carpenter's oddest and most daring film, in some respects but, yet another that wasn't all that well accepted at first and now has gained a following over the years and rightfully so. This flick may not be for everyone and it's mix of science and religion may not work for some but, I think it's an interesting and thoroughly creepy movie that not only presents some well executed traditional horror elements but, poses some interesting questions and theories about what we believe in as well. Also stars another Big Trouble In Little China, Dennis Dun in a fun role as a skeptical student. The film is now available in this beautiful new transfer from Scream Factory!
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Angelo
5.0 out of 5 stars Le migliori edizioni in blu-ray dei classici di Carpenter!
Reviewed in Italy on April 12, 2024
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Regista, compositore, maestro del cinema, è stato definito in molti modi nel corso della sua lunga carriera. Di sicuro John Carpenter, nell'arco di 20 anni, ha contribuito a rifondare temi e stilemi del cinema horror e non, regalandoci cult, opere seminali e veri e propri capolavori come quelli ripubblicati in queste edizioni blu-ray doppio disco a dir poco straordinarie. Qualità video e audio al top e contenuti extra a go go! Manca il doppiaggio in italiano ma in questo caso ne faccio volentieri a meno.. Straconsigliato a tutti i veri fan!
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5.0 out of 5 stars JOHN CARPENTER’S 6 STAR MUSING ON THE NATURE OF EVIL.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2023
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This is a review of the 1987 supernatural horror film ‘Prince of Darkness’. We watched it on the very inexpensive 2018 Region B2 Blu-ray from StudioCanal. This is a newly restored version. It plays in 1.78:1, Standard HD 1080p, with 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio. It looks and sounds really good, with a lovely clean, bright, picture, and sharp sound. There are some extras. This is great value.

American film director, screenwriter and auteur, John Carpenter, is a hugely influential figure, particularly regarding mid-20th Century Horror and Sci-Fi. His iconic version of ‘The Thing’(1982); his wicked space comedy ‘Dark Star’(1974); his magnificent alien romance ‘Starman’(1984); showcase his inspirational style. Many of his films have acquired a cult following over the years. But several were not especially well-received by critics upon release, and some continue to be derided, or damned with faint praise, even as Carpenter’s fans laud his achievements.

That is emphatically the case with this film. My usually reliable ‘Radio Times Guide to Films’ huffs that this is an “awkward yarn”, that yields “tedious results”. Richard Harrington, of the august ‘Washington Post’, harrumphs that “‘The Prince of Darkness’ stinks.” Having watched this apparently ‘tedious’ and ‘odiferous’ movie, I can only conclude that this is sheer affectation, and that such comments denote movie snobbery. Several times during our viewing last night, I found myself shouting at the screen, and clenching and unclenching my hands, in absorbed reaction to events on-screen. I never react like that if I am bored, do you?!!

Carpenter wrote the screenplay, under the alias of Martin Quatermass, as a tribute to British Sci-Fi writer Nigel Kneale. It presents as a glorious mash-up of quantum physics, theology and ancient literary texts, with some tantalising bits of Sci-Fi hokum, and a lot of gore, thrown in. It has a certain feel of ‘The Omen’(1976), but also almost refers forwards to ‘The Da Vinci Code’(2006). I was reminded of both films. It has also been suggested that Carpenter references his own ‘Assault on Precinct 13’(1976). And yet another suggestion is that the film is entirely an allegory about the spread of HIV-Aids. You pays yer money….!

The film is without doubt, relentlessly creepy, in very best Carpenter tradition. Several rich horror veins are mined here. And the action, and shocks, are constant. Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong, both returning to work with Carpenter, lead a relatively young and unknown cast, who give excellent value, but never get carried away or descend into incoherence and hysteria, a regular failing of unabated horror tales.

The exterior setting, a dilapidated church, was the Japanese Union Church, a 1920s brick building in the Classical Revival style, standing in downtown LA’s Little Tokyo. Much of the interior filming was in the eighteenth century Mission San Fernando Rey in LA’s Mission Hills. A scruffy, uninhabited feel abounds. The look of the film ~ the masses of scientific equipment; the appearance of the mysterious container; the superb makeup ~ is outstanding.

So, a ‘tedious’ film? Absolutely not! A ‘stinker’? Heavens, no! Clearly a 1980s film, but not displeasingly so, this is a seriously chilling, atmospheric, edge-of-the-seat ride, a no-holds-barred scare-fest, from start to finish. Carpenter succeeds in melding physics and metaphysics, into a 6 Star musing on the nature of evil.
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Fred De Maurin
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraftien
Reviewed in France on August 27, 2022
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Superbe film d’épouvante par le maître du genre , Blue ray 4K exellent
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Bernat Lleonart Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Edición muy cuidada
Reviewed in Spain on September 12, 2018
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Edición espectacular, con un arte increíble repleto de detalles en la parte frontal y en el reverso. Ningún problema con el envío. Lleó perfectamente y sin ningún rasguño. Compra recomendada sobretodo para fans de Carpenter.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 字幕はないけど画質と音響は最高！
Reviewed in Japan on March 4, 2021
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今回このアメリカ版ブルーレイセットは今までのスタジオ・カナル版DVDのマスターとは全く異なる高画質です！通常のブルーレイしか持っていないのでUHDの画質は確認出来ないのが残念です。それでも通常ブルーレイでも4Kマスターの様なのでとても良いです。WOWOWで放送された5.1サラウンドが貧弱な音だったのに比べ、今回の商品はどちらのディスクもドルビーアトモス収録されており音楽もパワーアップ！特典映像は2013年に発売されたアメリカ版ブルーレイとほぼ同じ様ですが、それでも日本版ブルーレイよりは多い筈。日本語字幕はないけど綺麗な映像と低音の響きを楽しめるのは今の所この商品だけです！カ－ペンタ－ファンの皆様はお見逃しなく。
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