{"id":38152,"date":"2025-01-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38152"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:30:41","slug":"prince-of-darkness-1987-written-directed-by-john-carpenter-starring-donald-pleasence-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38152","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prince of Darkness&#8221; (1987) written &amp; directed by John Carpenter; starring Donald Pleasence \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z011125zview_princedarkness.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Prince of Darkness <\/i>(1987)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>John Carpenter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Carpenter <\/strong>as<strong> Martin Quatermass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Susan Blanchard, Anne Marie Howard, Dirk Blocker, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Peter Jason, Thom Bray, Joanna Merlin<\/strong> and <strong>Alice Cooper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Before man walked the earth&#8230; it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A priest (Pleasence) discovers a large cylinder of green bubbling liquid hidden in a church.\u00a0 The priest can sense that the container holds something evil.\u00a0 In an effort to discover exactly what the substance is, the priest brings in Professor Howard Birack (Wong) and several of his best students.\u00a0 The team begins running tests to determine the age, make-up and other properties of the green liquid.\u00a0 At the same time others work to decipher the ancient manuscripts found with the cylinder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unknown substance is at least 7 million years old, made of pre-biotic material and is quickly evolving.\u00a0 The priest feels the increasing power of the substance and fears that it may be Satan or some other ancient god.\u00a0 Soon homeless people begin showing up outside the church.\u00a0 They stand a stare as if waiting for something.\u00a0 Then the team members begin to experience the same dream &#8211; a menacing dark figure coming towards them.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the team will know the truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a John Carpenter fan, but I feel that <em>Prince of Darkness<\/em> falls far short of Carpenter&#8217;s best work.\u00a0 As always, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Prince of Darkness <\/i>(1987) <\/em><\/strong>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z011125zview_princedarkness2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince of Darkness (1987) Director: \u00a0John Carpenter Screenplay: John Carpenter as Martin Quatermass Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38153,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38152\/revisions\/38153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}