Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness was the first Carpenter movie I had watched (not including Escape from NY as I was a kid when I watched it and I need to do it again). I enjoyed it and while exploring the director online I discovered that most of his movies are different and imaginative, so here we are with what is considered one of his worst.
Prince of Darkness is nothing but a bunch of cliches and bad development. Group of people that have almost no character are grouped up in a building (in this case church) to get butchered like sheep. Obviously there are hundreds of ideas of how they could easily escape, but well... It is a silly horror movie after all. To be honest it is not even scary, not at all. It bored me to death at certain points, whenever someone texts me during a movie I usually just reply we will talk later or something of that manner, but this time I texted left and right because Prince of Darkness did not manage to pull me in, not even in the slightest.
Dialog is wooden and predictable, simply unrealistic and so is the acting, there are three actors that do well, others are either bad or not in the movie enough to show how bad they are. The premise itself is decant, what if religion is just a science we do not understand, that sounds interesting, but they never touch on it deeply, devil is a fluid, church made us wait until we are capable of understanding and that's it. There is nothing special about this one sadly and I barely made it to the end. There are other Carpenter movies I will be watching (They Live, The Thing...) and hopefully they will impress.
Verdict: 3/10
In the Mouth of Madness was the first Carpenter movie I had watched (not including Escape from NY as I was a kid when I watched it and I need to do it again). I enjoyed it and while exploring the director online I discovered that most of his movies are different and imaginative, so here we are with what is considered one of his worst.
Prince of Darkness is nothing but a bunch of cliches and bad development. Group of people that have almost no character are grouped up in a building (in this case church) to get butchered like sheep. Obviously there are hundreds of ideas of how they could easily escape, but well... It is a silly horror movie after all. To be honest it is not even scary, not at all. It bored me to death at certain points, whenever someone texts me during a movie I usually just reply we will talk later or something of that manner, but this time I texted left and right because Prince of Darkness did not manage to pull me in, not even in the slightest.
Dialog is wooden and predictable, simply unrealistic and so is the acting, there are three actors that do well, others are either bad or not in the movie enough to show how bad they are. The premise itself is decant, what if religion is just a science we do not understand, that sounds interesting, but they never touch on it deeply, devil is a fluid, church made us wait until we are capable of understanding and that's it. There is nothing special about this one sadly and I barely made it to the end. There are other Carpenter movies I will be watching (They Live, The Thing...) and hopefully they will impress.
Verdict: 3/10
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“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”