#67 PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)
SATAN IN THE
SHADOWS
With
John Carpenter's more well known scare classics like Halloween and
The Thing getting most of the notoriety, 1987's Prince of Darkness
is often overlooked. Parts of the film are certainly mediocre, but
there's a mind bending sequence where you see what may be Satan
himself through some grainy static laced film footage that just does
the spook job proper. With white noise drowning out the sound, a
figure slowly emerges from a shadowy doorway in super grainy black
and white footage, some sort of voice is heard, but it's barely
audible. The whole scene looks exactly what it would look like if
someone accidentally caught The Devil on a camcorder.
-Robert Berry
rberry@retrocrush.com
