This Film Is Not A Dream 
Prince of Darkness (Prince Of Darkness, 1987), is the second of the films to which John Carpenter called d e: Apocalyptic Trilogy, the other two are: 
La Cosa (The Thing, and In The Mouth of Madness. John Carpenter came up with the idea of \u200b\u200b"Prince of Darkness" , when I was doing research on physics and atomic theory . On those days, recalled that "
I thought it might be interesting to create a kind of supreme evil and combine it with the notion of matter and antimatter . " This idea, which would eventually be developed in the script of Prince
of Darkness, it would be the first of several films with
Alive Pictures, where Carpenter
would charge three million dollars and would have full creative control.
A recurring dream, an ancient and mysterious cylinder that hides something and brings a text, students of physics, translators, teachers and a priest tried to untangle 
Nar the mystery of the cylinder and may not like what they would find.
Shep Gordon, executive producer, also was the manager of singer Alice Cooper
, and suggested the singer to record a song for the movie, in turn
Carpenter put the musician in film as one of the homeless, and not only that, Cooper
allowed them to use in film to impale the same device he used in one of their shows before the filming of the movie, but the viewer not only will meet with Alice Cooper
, you can also see the familiar faces of
Victor Wong and Donald Pleasence
two actors who had previously worked with Carpenter
. Prince of Darkness
took him to thirty days the only director to film, the film using anamorphic lenses to give each scene a subtle distortion.
As always, Carpenter
achieved
here a very good underwriting year of terror, delivering ominous images, full of mystery and terror, as the lady in the park with the ant in the face, the TV with ants, the scene of Professor Howard Birack
and the priest observing the mysterious cylinder, the homeless, among others;
Carpenter, is slowly building a story in which not only inhabits the horror in turn also coexist religion and science. Truly an awesome movie, and as the footage goes by, the director does not give the viewer time to rest.
As actors, we have the great Donald Pleasence
(
1919 to 1995 ) plays a very convincing to a priest without much faith, then we have to
Victor Wong (
1927 - 2001 ) a scientist who provides assistance to the church;
Jameson Parker (
November 18, 1947 ) plays one of the students entrusted to elucidate why and
s what lies behind the cylinder, the actor during the filming was to rest and I had in an old leg injury that was made while filming the series "Simon & Simon
" between actors is someone who already speak a little ground up, the singer Alice Cooper
( 4
February 1948) shows his acting skills here and leaves no doubt that it does quite well, generating in the viewer a feeling of fear. Concerning subparagraph
technician, one can say that the special effects is very good, and the music composed by John Carpenter
and
Alan Howarth is a soundtrack of ominous perfect partner as a grim story is this. Movie
overwhelming of a cult director who knows how to make your audience have a good fright, so you know, if you want to have a good time of fear, "Prince of Darkness
", plus others from this director is the right choice.
