Country: USA
Year: 1987
Duration: 101'


When a monk dies, a priest discovers that he was safekeeping a cylinder containing the essence of evil. A group of scientists decides to study it. Strange happenings take place around and inside the deconsecrated church that houses the cylinder. Two students, Brian and Catherine, along with other friends, face the Prince of Darkness.

Biography

film director

John Carpenter

(Carthage, New York, 1948) debuted in 1974 with the science fiction film Dark Star and next made three low budget films, Assault on Precint 13 (1976), Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980), which made him one of the best-known directors of American New Horror. In 1981 he directed Escape from New York and the following year The Thing continuing his study of horror movies and science fiction. He confirms his status among the genre’s best with subsequent works such as Vampires (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), and Ghosts of Mars (2001). Between 2005 and 2006 he directed two episodes of the TV series Masters Of Horror. His last movie is The Ward (2010). In 1999, Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dark Star (id., 1974), Assault on Precint 13 (Distretto 13: le brigate della morte, 1976), Halloween (Halloween: la notte delle streghe, 1978), The Fog (Fog, 1980), Escape from New York (1997: fuga da New York, 1981), The Thing (La cosa, 1982), Christine (Christine, la macchina infernale, 1983), Big Trouble in Little China (Grosso guaio a Chinatown, 1986), Prince of Darkness (Il signore del male, 1987), They Live (Essi vivono, 1988), In the Mouth of Madness (Il seme della follia, 1994), Village of Damned (Villaggio dei dannati, 1995), Escape from L.A. (Fuga da Los Angeles, 1996), Vampires (id., 1998), John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars (Fantasmi da Marte, 2001), Masters of Horror (ep. Cigarette Burns, TV, 2005; ep. Pro-Life, TV, 2006), John Carpenter's The Ward (The Ward - Il reparto, 2010), John Carpenter's Suburban Screams (serie tv, 2023).

Cast

& Credits

Director: John Carpenter.
Screenplay: Martin Quatermass (pseudonimo di John Carpenter).
Director of photography: Gary B. Kibbe.
Special effects: Kevin Quibell.
Costume designer: Deahdra Scarano.
Art director: Daniel Lomino.
Music: John Carpenter in associazione con Alan Howarth.
Editor: Steve Mirkovich.
Cast and characters: Donald Pleasence (il prete), Jameson Parker (Brian), Victor Wong (Birack), Lisa Blount (Catherine), Dennis Dun (Walter), Susan Blanchard (Kelly).
Producer: Larry Franco.
Production company: Alive Films per Universal.
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