Prince of darkness (1987)

Who is the Prince of darkness?

Is it this guy?

To obvious

Or this guy?

Could be, sitting in a fancy chair looking like he's had a tough day

Or maybe this guy

The prince can take many forms

 None of the above, it's this err.. green stuff in a glass tube

A secret kept for many years is finally uncovered when a priest involved dies. Another priest, priest Loomis (Donald Pleasence) (mentioning priest to many times already) unlocks a secret chamber hidden beneath a Los Angeles church containing a large vat filled with green liquid.

Gather round, Satan is coming

The priest contacts physics prof. Howard Birack (Victor Wong) who leads a group of students to investigate.  As the green liquid contains some kind of link to satan himself, any contact with the it turns the students into well... possessed type, zombie type things, who for lengths of the movie just stand still. One by one it takes over them and begin to pick each other off. 

In true Carpenter style the movie doesn't really pick up momentum until the last 30 mins or so, like many of his other films he tends to not reveal anything until he really has to.  He also takes charge of his own soundtrack which after about 15 mins begins to drive me insane, it just becomes too repetitive with different variations on the same hook.

But overall it's a nice little movie that does work well, and i think it's one of his more underrated  movies. 

I'm giving Prince of Darkness 3 out of 5 Alice Cooper's