prince of darkness best scene

[@JohannVF]

Best part of the scene (and the creepiest part of the movie) is that the card actually disappears. The Thing Downstairs is screwing around with the laws of physics to the point that magic actually works.

[@OrangePale]

yep. exactly why i love this scene

[@meryatathagres1998]

Does it actually disappear?

[@simondaniel4028]

Long time fan of this film. Yet, never picked up on the idea that the card actually disappeared! WOW!

[@MystikWizard]

@Wytchfinde No. He drops the card and is simply demonstrating his point. If it actually disappeared, he would look more in bewilderment than he did.

[@MystikWizard]

@@simondaniel4028 It didn't disappear.

[@thedaiglerreviews9460]

Carpenters most underrated film by far!

[@mattdubya1037]

on par with the Thing 🔥

[@03cobra4]

Very true. Usually ranks out in the middle to lower half of his work. I have it among the top few. Huge fan. If you allow your self to get fully engrossed in the movie (no distractions, large screen, night viewing, etc.), it really gives you that feeling of dread and impending doom throughout. This, of course, is enabled/enhanced by the score, which is understated but enormously effective.

[@alyzu4755]

​@@03cobra4 Agree. I saw it when I was in college, in the late 80's, with a bunch of friends who were all film majors. They rented the video and created the perfect atmosphere. It scared the you-know-what out of me, but I fell in love with it.

[@necromech_]

it's a good movie, but definitely has some slow pacing issues, and the ending is both super underwhelming and kinda awesome with the shot of the hand going through the mirror. it has alot of standout moments, but overall its nowhere near as tightly produced as The Thing and Mouth of Madness. still far better than any recent horror movie i've seen.

[@Saint3188]

I love this film I didn't understand it as a teenager but as an adult I loved it.

[@trumpeteer211]

The dream of the thing coming from the church always freaked me out

[@stealth865]

Same here!!

[@sitaroartworks]

That's why I have no mirrors in my bedroom. No way.

[@TANKTREAD]

My favorite John Carpenter film. Way ahead of it's time like "Altered States" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". All 3 films contain the same formula: Religion, Science and Horror. I still have trouble watching this movie. So underrated and so damn good.

[@simondaniel4028]

Altered States is so damn good. I've been on a Carpenter kick lately. And musing around KZbin has led to a lot of bleedover between JC and Altered States. AS kicks ass.

[@mrneutral8423]

I keep meaning to watch 'altered states'. Thanks for reminding me.

[@TANKTREAD]

@@mrneutral8423 Glad to help, my friend. Enjoy the movie, it's good stuff.

[@Namco_]

and Event Horizon

[@TheIndependentLens]

And it has Alice Cooper in it!

[@johnstitt2615]

This movie had daytime scenes that were scary just because of the music

[@thedaiglerreviews9460]

King Carpenter the one and only:)

[@ryanc2927]

This wasn’t one of them whatsoever. Was hoping it was.

[@Saint3188]

One of his best soundtracks regarding his movies.

[@martincarlos3759]

That whole Film is a best scene! I can randomly pick anyone. Let's see ... "Hello, Hello, I have got a Message for you, but you are not going to like it ...".

[@23Revan84]

(Grumbles) great another Jehovah’s Witness. (Slams window shut.)

[@brianmoney410]

One of my 3-4 bundle of favorite movies. Never get tired of watching it or listening to the score (which I have on vinyl). The feeling of dread and foreboding that builds and carries throughout this movie is unmatched.

[@snavs420]

Woefully underappreciated.

[@JB-1138]

The bits of science in this are great.

[@D00m0g]

I like that he points out something that always bugged me about time travel in fiction, is that the earth and the planets are always moving in space and you have to precisely calculate (or "unmove" back/forward in a fixed empty isolated spot in space then fly back) not just where but where IN SPACE you want to be.

[@yggdrasil757]

D00m0g you’re not moving. The moving part is the science fiction

[@nikolademitri731]

Yggdrasil Huh???

[@yggdrasil757]

Nikola Demitri there is no experiment which can be performed on the surface of the earth which can prove we are moving. If you don’t believe that, look into it. I’ve looked, if you find something I’d love to hear about it.

[@nikolademitri731]

Yggdrasil Oh, okay. I didn’t know what you meant. It’s not exactly a huge interest to me, so I probably won’t look into it anytime in the immediate future, but thanks for the reply. Honestly, I’m guessing anything I’d find would basically all be heavily based in complicated math related to physics, shit like trigonometry and calculus, and there’s a reason why I stopped at algebra 2 and geometry in high school, and opted to take practical math courses and statistics courses to fulfill my high school and college required math credits... Point is, no matter what I find, I’m only going to be able to comprehend it “indirectly” or second hand, like basically anyone else who doesn’t understand all that complicated mathematics.. Yuck. 😅

[@meryatathagres1998]

@@yggdrasil757 flatearther?

[@winternow2242]

Great scene in a great movie, but 2 scenes, off the top of my head, surpass it. When it first possesses Susan (I think she's the one with the glasses) it's amazing because accompanied by this great soundtrack sequence, with this choir singing backup, and the room is surprisingly well lit. Even in plain sight, the monster is scary. Also the translation scene, where Lisa explains the history behind the capsule - it's chillingly effective for me because it makes clear that the history of evil is actually a story that's still unfolding.

[@jackaction7077]

You have no idea how much truth this movie contains..Pure entertainment?..I think not!

[@BlckJohnnyQuest]

Why? What's he really saying?!

[@guillermobermudez4258]

The music, topic and environment of this movie are brillant! Love it!

[@Lobodiablo44]

when walter said what do you DUCKING WANT?? was the best scene lol

[@deshipe]

Note he mentions having to calculate the position of the earth in the past. The earth revolves around the sun, the sun around the galactic center, and the galaxy through space. Most time travel movies don't consider that. The time machine often maintains it's relative position to the earth, and yet no one questions if the earth moved.

[@mrrictus]

Right before the scene ends it cuts to Childs: Blair do you believe any of this voodoo bull shit?

[@richardgonzales4815]

One of half of “ Simon and Simon” … If Rick had showed up … oh , man ! AJ’s finest role … Rocking His Brothers mustache.

[@playarick9172]

I’m here NOW!!!!

[@richardgonzales4815]

Playa Rick 👍🏻❗️❗️❗️❗️

[@holden6104]

One of my favorite scenes as well. The exposition here is mind bending.

[@stevenmitchell2996]

John Carpenter the genius, the horror maestro.

[@mattsharkey8437]

What's also brilliant about this film, is that it all transpires within a few days. That's not easy for a story that combines Religion, Quantum Mechanics and the other branches of Science and Mathematics. God bless!

[@303Smilezzz]

this is carpenters most underrated film. had this been released in the 50's it would be an all time classic. The pacing is flawless, and the end is gloriously vague. A nice slow burn on a summers night.

[@taissafarmiga6682]

Underrated movie

[@michadabrowski3120]

"This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation."

[@goldta70schick24]

Wow...and I NEVER caught this!!

[@thedaiglerreviews9460]

Carpenter was ahead of his time:)

[@yernarshambayev5246]

Very underrated film!

[@zak22wolftheultramanzenith35]

It’s neat how the background music is the theme song for Christine.

[@timreardon4973]

Catherine was a time traveler

[@Olliebear38]

The creeping dread in this movie is palpable.

[@HealthHorror]

The creepiest part to me is when the asian woman is possessed and typing, then types the threat very quickly. That just shows you the frustration of the Devil and that these people are screwed.

[@bold810]

Wouldn't this be ironic if this is actually the way we're eventually contacted by a/our/their future(s)?

[@the1tigglet]

One of the things they didn't talk about is how to make the particles vibrate at a frequency that the human brain could interpret, and how much power this signal would require, I'd imagine the further back in time this event goes it would require more and more power in order to send the signal simply because of the distance traveled by the earth through space as it travels into the future away from the event. It's way more difficult an equation than they let on of course.

[@AngelCintiaRockgirl]

They were right about the recording quality of a 1999, personal camcorder. Still 640 × 480 pixel resolution.

[@jackaction7077]

This movie contains more truth than the average person realizes.

[@harrihiltunen1244]

one best horror movie...

[@kentallard8852]

Sending messages through a tachyon beam into the past is lifted from Gregory Benfolds Timescape, although in that they could be detected by normal radio telescopes and not in dreams.

[@RokkitGrrl]

I just assumed that the messages were being transmitted from those same extra-terrestrial humans that Jesus was supposed to have been. Even looking back to when this film was released, no one would have assumed that we could have come up with tachyon transmission technology by 1999, much less the ability to transmit that information to where Earth was in the universe while this was unfolding.

[@mariusholst5537]

The mirror is true oh yeah! The dark MIRROR

[@boxfox2945]

What it reflects

[@scottmunro6984]

Wow,

[@dameinoferrall2400]

what a great film

[@andrewbrown2888]

Danny Dillard was in that plexiglass cylinder....

[@Grizzlied555]

Great Movie

[@michaelroberts7648]

Whoaaaaaaaa

[@boxfox2945]

Boltzmann brain, (jinn') - truth is stranger than fiction.

[@andrewbrown2888]

It wasnt Satan in that tupperware blendee.It was Mr. Belvedere.

[@andrewbrown2888]

The guy in the white dress shirt,tie and vest looks like Danny dillard

[@andrewbrown2888]

It was like a big ole puree blender.....oh,say 7,eight feet or so.....m8xin satan up like a smoothie....

[@boxfox2945]

And people think smoothies are good for you. 😅

[@snickle1980]

Wait a minute...isn't that old man from Tremors? Maybe... big trouble in little china as well?

[@afroman255]

Yeah he's in both movies. Victor Wong

[@jimhuffman9434]

@@afroman255 Poor guy gets eaten by the creatures he named in Tremors *Graboids!*

[@arseventeen7741]

Tachyonic transmitter in Astroboy Atlas and Prince of Darkness and book of Eric Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods.

[@henripentant1120]

The best scene is where the heavy guy scatboxes over a sandwich nobody can tell me different

[@tmattmat1641]

i think that one of my favourite scenes and its often passed by is the one when they are translating the text and it talks about the creation of the human race by aliens and more interesting subjects, i think Carpenter could have made a whole franchise out from this movie if he wanted, and it would have been a good one. that scene alone creates so much stories and lore for this movie and even the ending creates a good idea for a sequel.

[@nickogabionza5882]

You have a full movie of bordello??

[@spikeep6141]

*Jack Parsons/Captain Marvel/ Jor-El :* Could be *A Warning* -- To show Us *What's Going to Happen.* A sort of... *remote camera view of The Future....* So that *We can CHANGE it.* Someone Has FINALLY *Shown-up* to *Tell Us* : I Think it's Time *We Stood Up* for *What We ARE.*

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

I think that time has come and gone. Nobody stood up.

[@tristancaver4836]

How about this smarty pants: Future scientist doesn't exist.

[@trickq5883]

Actually the future scientist is the guy explaining how a future scientist could send a message back in time. He sent the message.

[@James-uc5io]

Ok they got Three Ninjas, Big Trouble in Little China, and even Haloween; but you couldn't get Chuck Norris, Tim Allen or Jodie Foster?

[@bold810]

So whatever happened to mr. thirst trap not named Parker Stevenson?

[@derrickselinka3410]

Cern

[@daviddench6643]

Was that really the best scene?

[@antbanks1261]

As a kid I thought this was a sequel to Big Trouble IN Little China...

[@boxfox2945]

Or the golden child,😆

[@envsf03]

I thought the best scene was the singing hotdog.

[@elektrozil9728]

What 6G will bring

[@4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944]

Infinitely superior to Halloween, yet little discussed.

[@thomasmowslawns8138]

I wish Carpenter would have made a sequel, about that message, in 1999

[@bigpond2607]

Subfu

[@susanprice1528]

FoxNews tachions

[@billyhawkins29]

Naaah....its the story of what it,Satan, is n Jesus was an alien....physical beings....more believable

[@probablynotmyname8521]

And the faster than light tachyons (yeah, nah) magically turn into “electrical signals” when they arrive. This is swiss cheese plotting of the worst kind, even wesley crusher would cringe at this bullshit technobabble.

[@jackburton7483]

Yes, this movie about a green goo antichrist and messages from the future is unrealistic.

[@probablynotmyname8521]

@@jackburton7483 thats the problem though, you can have fantasy weirdness but you cant then mix in science fantasy because you have a suspension of disbelief problem. Its a common flaw in fantasy movies, the audience can go along with so much but when you start making up science to fit your narrative it can fall apart. A good example of a film getting this mostly right is event horizon, which used fantasy science from the edges of what we know, i.e other dimensions, a ship that has moved outside of our universe. Prince of darkness however shoves in the technobabble at the end to get to an ending they wanted but couldnt justify, it would have been better that the images just magically appeared for no explained reason.

[@michaelwilson4621]

@@probablynotmyname8521 gee, what i really love is when alumni from the Google post graduate physics program start to turn their attention to movie reviews.

[@probablynotmyname8521]

@@michaelwilson4621 trouble is i have a degree in electrical engineering. However if you can provide a viable mechanism for how these magical tachyons can turn into TV signals then i would happily change my mind. You might have been blown away by this piece of plot insulation but i wasnt since i actually have some formal training in these concepts.

[@Shatamx]

Its because Brian(guy with the nice mustache) makes the technology they are discussing here. And makes the video of Catherine re appearing in 1999. He clearly starts work on this technology non stop after he wakes up from the ending of the dream/transmission.

[@dmitrymedvedd]

Underrated movie