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Prince of Darkness
Before Man Walked The Earth...It Slept For Centuries. It Is Evil. It Is Real. It Is Awakening
( Horror )


Prince of Darkness Poster



US Runtime: 102 min

Premiere Date:
Oct 23, 1987   [USA]
 
Director: John Carpenter
 
Writer: John Carpenter
 
Producers: Andre Blay   [Executive Producer]
Shep Gordon   [Executive Producer]
Larry J. Franco   [Producer]
 
Music by John Carpenter
Alan Howarth
 
Cinematography: Gary B. Kibbe
 
Edited by: Steve Mirkovich
 
Production Companys: Alive Films
Universal Pictures
 


Cast:

Donald Pleasence
Father Loomis
Jameson Parker
Brian Marsh
Victor Wong
Professor Howard Birack
Lisa Blount
Catherine
Dennis Dun
Walter
Susan Blanchard
Kelly
Anne Marie Howard
Susan
Ann Yen
Lisa
Ken Wright
Lomax
 
Dirk Blocker
Mullins
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Calder
Peter Jason
Dr. Paul Leahy
Robert Grasmere
Wyndham
Thom Bray
Etchinson
Joanna Merlin
Bag Lady
Alice Cooper
Street Schizo
Betty Ramey
Nun
Jessie Ferguson
Dark Figure
 
 

Crew:

Timothy Alverson
first assistant editor
Kevin Arnold
electrician
Kirk Bales
dolly grip
Mike Berro
computer programmer
Danny Falkengren
grip
Phronsie Franco
photographic doubling
Gary Gero
bug wrangler
Bess Gilbert
extras casting
Casey Hotchkiss
second camera first assistant
Kent H. Johnson
production associate
Jud Kehl
camera operator
Sandy King
script supervisor
Steven R. Kutcher
bug wrangler
Ken Lavet
location manager
Robert McCarthy
best boy electric
 
Steve Patino
supervisor
Steve Patino
operator
Ron Peebles
best boy grip
Mark Peterson
costumer
Douglas A. Raine
production associate
Charles Saldana
key grip
Deahdra Scarano
costume supervisor
Mario Simon
transportation captain
Craig Talmy
prop shop consultant
Joseph E. Thibo
first assistant camera
James E. Vargas
transportation captain
Eddie Lee Voelker
transportation coordinator
Frederick Wardell
assistant editor
Gordon Wiles II
driver
 

Special Effects:

Effects Associates Ltd.
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$3,000,000 (USA)
Color Info:
Color (DeLuxe)
Laboratory:
DeLuxe
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Panavision
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • Walter: Why is everybody looking at me that way?
    Brian: Because you're being asshole-ish.
    Walter: Well, it's asshole-ish of you to say so!
     
  • [Wyndham is being consumed by beetles.]
    Wyndham: I've got a message for you, and you're not going to like it. "Pray for death."
     
  • [Walter is studying quantum physics.]
    Walter: Why do I want a Ph.D. in this?
    Catherine: Particle beam weapons, research grants...
    Walter: A millionaire when I'm forty! Now I remember!
     
  • [Birack teaches a class on quantum physics.]
    Professor Edward Birack: From Job's friends insisting that the good are rewarded and the wicked punished, to the scientists of the 1930's proving to their horror the theorem that not everything can be proved, we've sought to impose order on the universe. But we've discovered something very surprising: while order DOES exist in the universe, it is not at all what we had in mind!
     
  • [Birack teaches a class on quantum physics.]
    Professor Edward Birack: Let's talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time a direction. There is truth in flesh and the solid ground. The wind may be invisible, but it's real. Smoke, fire, water, light -- they're different! Not as to stone or steel, but they're tangible. And we assume time is narrow because it is as a clock -- one second is one second for everyone! Cause precedes effect -- fruit rots, water flows downstream. We're born, we age, we die. The reverse NEVER happens. ...None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality, because our logic collapses on the subatomic level ... into ghosts and shadows.
     

Trivia:

  • Screenwriter John Carpenter is credited as "Martin Quatermass". The pseudonym is a homage to Professor Bernard Quatermass, the lead character of The Quatermass Experiment and several subsequent TV series and film versions.
     
  • Donald Pleasence's character, Father Loomis, is named after the character he played in the Halloween movies.
     

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