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Prince of Darkness | |
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Directed by | John Carpenter |
Written by | John Carpenter (as Martin Quatermass) |
Produced by | Larry J. Franco |
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Cinematography | Gary B. Kibbe |
Edited by | Steve Mirkovich |
Music by | John Carpenter Alan Howarth |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
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Budget | $3 million |
Box office | $14.2 million |
Prince of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural horror film, written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount. The second installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy"—which began with The Thing (1982) and concludes with In the Mouth of Madness (1994)[2]—the film follows a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of the son of Satan.