More John Carpenter? Don't mind if I do!
Science or Religion? When an old priest dies, he bequets the key to Donald Pleasence (who is just called Priest), and said Priest then gets in a scientist to study a large vat of green liquid. The scientist decides to get a whole slew of students in, and they practice good science like not actually observing the item of interest, and talking about things instead of looking. However, that does allow various people to get possessed, and soon Father shall be here.
This reminded me of The Stone Tapes, of science trying to tackle the supernatural and not being able to cope (I need to rewatch that). It is extremely watchable, slowly drawing you in, but then the idiocy of the students does make it not at all surprising that the Prince is winning.
Aside from Donald Pleasence, we have Victor Wong, and other actors who have not done anything to make me recognise them, and a cameo by Alice Cooper! The vat, and other, effects are hard core, done by playing film in reverse, and the main prosthetic is the skin one of the students ends up wearing. Simple, but good.
I'm gonna say a hot take here: John Carpenter made good movies!
1 comment:
You can't have seen this, they're broadcasting from the far flung future of 1999!
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