Prince of Darkness (1987)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Father Loomis	Donald Pleasence	½
Catherine Danforth	Lisa Blount	-
Brian Marsh	Jameson Parker	-
Prof. Howard Birack	Victor Wong	½
Street Schizo	Alice Cooper	-

Review

John Carpenter returns to horror for the first time since Christine (1983) after more "benign" films such as Starman and Big Trouble in Little China. This entry is severely lacking in original ideas and inspired filmmaking, however. The conventional and predictable story feels like a rush job, and Carpenter tries to circumvent the film's inefficiency with pseudo-scientific babble, which is more annoying than enlightening, to put it mildly. Donald Pleasence is yet again the ostensible voice of reason. But the satanic sub-genre has gradually washed itself out over the course of the last twenty years, and Prince of Darkness may well be the nail in the coffin, so to speak.