Un grupo de estudiantes de posgrado y científicos descubren un antiguo recipiente en una iglesia abandonada, pero cuando lo abren, liberan sin querer un extraño líquido y una fuerza maligna ... Leer todoUn grupo de estudiantes de posgrado y científicos descubren un antiguo recipiente en una iglesia abandonada, pero cuando lo abren, liberan sin querer un extraño líquido y una fuerza maligna sobre toda la humanidad.Un grupo de estudiantes de posgrado y científicos descubren un antiguo recipiente en una iglesia abandonada, pero cuando lo abren, liberan sin querer un extraño líquido y una fuerza maligna sobre toda la humanidad.
- Premios
- 1 premio y 2 nominaciones
- Susan Cabot
- (as Anne Howard)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesJohn Carpenter's first film that he made independently since 1997: Rescate en Nueva York (1981). Not only because of the box office failure of his previous film Golpe en la pequeña China (1986), but also his frustration with working with the studios.
- PifiasToward the end when Brian jumps out the window and the possessed people outside come towards him, it is clearly dawn and light outside. Shortly after, when the possessed is defeated and the mirror is broken by the priest, you can see them dispersing while it is night outside. Then Walter jumps out to get help and it is night as well. The next scene shows Walter with a blanket around him and is dawn again.
- Citas
Voice: 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.
- Créditos adicionalesThe opening credits last for nine minutes.
- Versiones alternativasTelevision version is slightly reedited, suggesting that all that takes place in the film is just a dream that Jameson Parker's having:
- after the opening credits there a new shot showing Parker's house from the outside (the theatrical version opens with a shot of Parker trying to perform a card trick).
- at the beginning, after Parker watches on TV a program reporting the discovery of a new supernova, the narration goes on talking about the death of a millionaire and the discovery of a religious book in his library
- all mentions of the dead priest, member of the Brotherhood of Sleep who took care of the church where the evil liquid is kept hidden, are deleted;
- during the whole film, there are new inserted sequences showing Parker sleeping/dreaming in his bed
- Banda sonoraPrince of Darkness
Written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts
Performed by Alice Cooper
Produced by Michael Wagener
Courtesy of MCA Records
(C) 1987 Ensign Music Corporation, Ezra Music Inc.
Screen Gems Music - EMI Music Inc.
After a few films in the studio system, most notably "Big Trouble in Little China," which undeservedly flopped, Carpenter returned to his roots in small budgeted horror/thriller films. The result was this and it could have hardly been better. The infamous eerie music makes an especially profound effect in this film, which admittedly starts slow, but when it takes of it takes all of your nerves with it.
Unlike many horror popular films this film focuses very heavily on conversation. Atmosphere is of course put first, but the dialog is very interesting and makes for a film that is frightening on a thinking level. There are a well timed moments of violence, but it is on a intellectual level where this film scares the crap out of you. Carpenter must have done a good amount of research as the characters try to use various scientific concepts and terms to describe what they are slowly falling victim to. The dialog very heavily resembles H.P. Lovecraft's writing, who was unrelenting in providing the rational and thought-out narration of his protagonist. One can bet that it is this element that made it necessary for this film to be made independently. The shock isn't visceral, but no less effective.
The only downside are a few really goofy moments ("I said a rich doctor!"), but they are ultimately forgivable and are not as sorely out of place as you might think. 8/10
Rated R: horror violence
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- El príncep de les tenebres
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresas productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 3.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 14.182.492 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 4.657.401 US$
- 25 oct 1987
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 14.182.579 US$
- Duración1 hora 42 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1