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Prince of Darkness

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Prince of Darkness (1987) is John Carpenter's second film in his "Apocalypse Trilogy", after The Thing (1982) and before In the Mouth of Madness (1994). It's a slow-paced, atmospheric, creepy and Mind Screw-y little film that isn't mentioned very often but is nevertheless an important piece of Carpenter's filmography.A Catholic priest dies and a strange canister with a green, swirling liquid in it is found in the basement of an abandoned church. Another priest (Donald Pleasence) asks an old acquaintance, quantum physicist Professor Birack (Victor Wong), to investigate the mystery of the canister. The priest claims that the liquid in the canister is in fact the corporeal form of an ancient evil, which is starting to reawaken and influence the world around itself. He wants for Birack to prove this scientifically, so that they can warn the world. To this end, Birack brings several of his students and fellow scientists of various fields to the church to study the canister, and they discover that it is seven million years old and can be opened only from the inside.However, when the green liquid starts to come out of the canister and possess the various scientists, and crazed homeless people surround the church and kill everyone who tries to leave, not only do Birack and company have to run for their lives, but also to try to avoid the oncoming apocalypse.Not to be confused with that other prince of darkness (although he is, in a way, the main character). Or that other one. Or that other one. Or that other one. Or that one Dracula film.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: Lisa writes one of these on a computer after being possessed. I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live! I live!
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Technically-Living Zombie
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Technically Living Zombie: A horde of violent mindless homeless people with Alice Cooper as their frontman and the students and researchers infected and controlled by the evil from the tank.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song / "The Villain Sucks" Song: Alice Cooper (who plays the Street Schizo) composed a song for the film called Prince of Darkness (which can be heard faintly in Etchinson's headphones right before he's killed by Cooper's Street Schizo character). It tells of the titular Prince Of Darkness (the central antagonist of the movie) and his monstrous evil, retelling his story from Biblical times.
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All There in the Script
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All There in the Script: The priest is unnamed in the film, but is named "Father Loomis" in the script.
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Widescreen Shot
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Widescreen Shot: It's John Carpenter. The movie is full of them.
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Porn Stache
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Porn Stache: Brian has an epic◊ example.
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Scary Black Man
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Scary Black Man: Calder after being possessed. He has a very unnerving evil giggle.
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Recurring Dreams
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Recurring Dreams: Everyone involved with the Brotherhood of Sleep and/or the canister experiences the same eerie dream about a mysterious cloaked figure standing in front of the church... except it is not a dream, but a broadcast from the future that uses brain waves as a signal to be transmitted and may or may not be a warning from Alien Jesus about the risks of letting the evil escape.
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Girl on Girl Is Hot
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Presented but quickly averted; after being infected by liquid Satan, Susan bodily confronts Lisa on a cot. Lisa is squicked out, at which point Susan vomits on her, allowing her mind to be controlled.
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The World Is Not Ready
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The World Is Not Ready: The Church's justification for hiding the truth about their origins.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: Calder is the largest and most muscular of the students, and is a friendly, earnest guy before being possessed.
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Bedmate Reveal
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Bedmate Reveal: Right before the ending, luckily it was All Just a Dream (...probably).
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Leaking Can of Evil
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Leaking Can of Evil: Satan is trapped inside a glass cylinder inside a church. It sprays a liquid at one of the people researching it and takes control of them, then has that person spit the liquid at other people to possess them as well. It also uses Mind Control on street people who live near the church to surround it and trap the researchers inside.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Our heroes are successful in preventing the Anti-God from escaping its prison, thus stopping the inevitable apocalypse had he escaped, but in the process many innocent lives were lost in order for it to be sealed back up. Plus it’s implied that the Anti-God may escape again in 1999. To add more insult to injury, Cathrine is trapped inside the Anti-God’s prison and is the new vessel for it.
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Broken Smile
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Broken Smile: Calder smiles while possessed, through tears and while clearly devastated.
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Ambiguous Ending
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Ambiguous Ending: Whether the heroes truly succeeded in sealing the evil in another realm is left unclear. Was the final dream really just a dream this time? Or did they merely change the future to something just as vaguely apocalyptic? Even the final shot is ambiguous — is anything going to happen when he touches the mirror?
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Tricked Out Time
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Tricked Out Time: What the broadcast is intending ("You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.")
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Amazing Freaking Grace
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Amazing Freaking Grace: Sung by the possessed Calder.
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Sealed Evil in a Can
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Sealed Evil in a Can: One of the most literal examples.
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Fling a Light into the Future
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Fling A Light Into The Past / Ominous Message from the Future: Scientists from the year 1999 use a tachyon signal to warn everyone who sleeps in the church of the disaster awaiting them.
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Laughing Mad
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Laughing Mad: Calder's unnerving laughing after being possessed veers between maniacal giggles and piteous sobbing.
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Mirror Universe
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Mirror Universe: The Devil wants to summon his father the Anti-God from the other side of a mirror. We only get to see a big ugly hand, though.
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Temporal Paradox
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Temporal Paradox: The tachyon emission states near the end that it is proof against causality, meaning it'll remain the same even if the future is altered. Granted, the full message is only heard in Brian's dream at the end, so it could just be a subconscious, not real, message.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: The Chosen One, Kelly, appears more and more rotten and decayed as time goes by.
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Magic Versus Science
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Magic Versus Science: Averted. The priest seeks the aid of science to understand and combat the malevolent supernatural force in the Church's basement. The scientists' individual reactions vary from denial (presented as individual and irrational, not scientific at all) to unquestioning acceptance, but on the whole they simply accept that something weird is going on and try to figure it out, even incorporating such unusual data as strange dreams and feelings and impossible test results.
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Just Think of the Potential!
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Just Think of the Potential!: After the translated text has some of the others disbelieving or freaked out, Calder (and to a lesser extent Lomax) want to stay, feeling that they're "on the brink of the ultimate truth."
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Corrupt Church
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Corrupt Church: The Brotherhood of Sleep.
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Magical Homeless Person
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Magical Homeless Person: The homeless are controlled by the devil, indicating they're at least more susceptible to the supernatural.
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Unexpectedly Real Magic
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Unexpectedly Real Magic: Brian, an amateur magician who is constantly practicing a "make the card disappear behind the magician's hand" sleight of hand trick, suddenly, and quite accidentally makes the card disappear for real.
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Bugs Herald Evil
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Bugs Herald Evil: One of the first signs that things are starting to go to hell is vermin showing up in the windows, crawling all around the area and even taking up the shape of the recently deceased Wyndham to deliver a warning. It's revealed to be Satan exerting some psychic influence outside of his prison as he starts breaking out.
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No Such Thing as Space Jesus
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No Such Thing as Space Jesus: Inverted: The book of prophecies pretty much says that Jesus was an alien who fought the Devil, also an alien.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Anti-God.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: When the Chosen One, possessed by the Antichrist, is about to summon the Anti-God from the other side of a mirror, Catherine pushes the Chosen One inside the mirror, falling into it herself, and the priest is finally able to shatter the mirror with an axe and to trap the evil in the other dimension forever: along with Catherine.
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Fighting from the Inside
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Fighting from the Inside: Calder, after being possessed, desperately struggles against Satan’s control. However, he can’t do anything, and is mainly reduced to alternating between pained sobs and deranged laughter.
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Dying as Yourself
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Dying as Yourself: Horrifically and tragically averted. Calder cuts his own throat after being infected with the liquid to prevent coming under full possession. It doesn't work and his corpse reanimates with him still left Fighting From the Inside.
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Cosmic Horror Story
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Cosmic Horror Story: More so than Religious Horror, despite the overtones.
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Improbable Weapon User
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Improbable Weapon User: Hobo-Alice Cooper impales Etchinson with a broken bicycle.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: While hiding in a closet, Walter idly sits around snarking for hours while his friends try to bust down the wall and free him, instead of using his large, heavy flashlight to help by knocking the wall out from his end (the MagLite flashlight he's using is shock-resistant and can even function as a billy club, so it could handle the abuse). By the time it does occur to him to try it, his possessed cohorts are within moments of breaking into the closet and grabbing him.
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You Have to Believe Me!
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You Have to Believe Me!: Averted. The priest asks "Don't you feel it?", and the scientists admit that they do. They have no idea what they're feeling, but they immediately set out to find out.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Supernova 1987-A was incorporated into the film, though it has nothing to do with the story save as an ominous portent and its tenuous connection to quantum physics. It’s implied the supernova was caused by Satan, as one of the signs of his awakening.
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: Was it a dream? A new recording from the future? What happened to Catherine anyway?
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Crystal Dragon Jesus
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Crystal Dragon Jesus: Jesus was an alien trying to explain all of this to everyone. The Church basically turned His instructions into a moral code.
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Super Spit
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Super Spit: Zombies can spray the green liquid into the mouths of other humans and turn them into zombies.
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The Anti-God
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The Anti-God: The "Anti-God", a God of Evil/Eldritch Abomination based on the idea of matter/antimatter. It's also the father of Satan (who is apparently also The Antichrist).
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unclear if Lomax, Susan, Lisa and Leahy survive their wounds when the possession is being lifted, or whether the possession itself was fatal.
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Agent Scully
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Agent Scully: Walter and Wyndham.
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Conveniently Precise Translation
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Conveniently Precise Translation: Lisa deciphering the ancient message in the book.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The Anti-God, who is the father of Satan and the god of anti-matter who resides in a mirror universe. "Satan" in this film is pretty Eldritchy himself and mostly takes the form of green liquid.
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The Chosen One
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The Chosen One: A very dark example. Kelly is chosen by Satan to become his primary vessel after being freed, allowing him to free the Anti-God.
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Our Zombies Are Different
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Our Zombies Are Different: A combination of Technically Living Zombies, a corpse filled with a swarm of beetles and bugs that delivers a message before disintegrating, and a demon possessed rotted body that can reassemble itself and regrow limbs.
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Ancient Conspiracy
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Ancient Conspiracy: The Brotherhood of Sleep, an order of Catholic priests who kept the secret of the canister for centuries.
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Demonic Possession
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Demonic Possession: Sort of. More specifically, Satan infects people with smaller particles of himself, and without him, the smaller pieces can't live.
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Greater-Scope Villain: Satan, the quintessential Big Bad turns out to be just The Dragon for the Anti-God
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Double-Meaning Title: "The Prince Of Darkness" is one of Satan's most well-known nicknames. This movie offers a literal explanation as to why: Satan is only the earthbound son of something much more serious, the "Anti-God".
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Orifice Invasion: The green liquid possesses people by jumping into their mouths.
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Nuke 'em
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Nuke 'em: The message "You will not be saved by the god Plutonium" makes it clear that the Anti God cannot be stopped with nuclear weapons.
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Dreaming of Things to Come
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Dreaming of Things to Come: How The Brotherhood of Sleep got its name, thanks to tachyons.
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Fate Worse than Death: "I have a message for you, and you're not going to like it: pray for death."
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The Worm That Walks
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The Worm That Walks: Wyndham is killed by the hobos; later he returns to give his former colleagues a creepy message, and then it's revealed that his dead body is kept together by swarms of black bugs, that then scuttle away, letting the corpse to fall apart. Or they were waiting to the last minute to finish eating him after he delivered his message.
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What Have I Become?
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What Have I Become?: Calder takes a moment while stalking Fr. Loomis to look at himself in the mirror, and his unnerving giggles start to resemble sobs.
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Came Back Wrong
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Came Back Wrong: After being killed, Wyndham is revived under the control of Satan, being brought back as a Mouth of Sauron controlled by a swarm of black bugs.
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Plucky Comic Relief
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Plucky Comic Relief: Walter and Professor Leahy serve as the primary source of humor in an otherwise grim movie.
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Happily Married: Susan the radiologist (glasses), apparently.
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Tuneless Song of Madness: Exposed to the liquid, Calder is reduced to singing "Amazing Grace" at the top of his voice, before tearing his throat out.
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Hope Spot: It initially seems as though Etchinson, a minor student, might avoid the supernatural happenings, as it's quickly established that he's only there to help set up the equipment and then will be leaving. Instead, upon leaving, he becomes the first victim, being ambushed by the possessed hobos.
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Nice Guy: Calder, making his fate all the more horrific and tragic.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The film is Carpenter's big homage to the works of Nigel Kneale. References range from the obvious - Brian is a transfer from Kneale College - to the thematic - Kneale's stories often feature traditionally "occult" things being investigated by scientists, especially The Stone Tape, probably this movie's biggest influence. Carpenter even uses Martin Quatermass as a screenwriting alias, and in the original press release actually described "Martin" as the younger brother of Bernard Quatermass. Wyndham is named after John Wyndham of Triffids fame, and Susan Cabot after the titular star of The Wasp Woman. Catherine Danforth is probably named after Danforth from At the Mountains of Madness, as Carpenter often references the Cthulhu Mythos in character and placenames. The famous "You will not be saved" quote is likely an allusion to Stephen Vincent Benet's "Nightmare, with Angels," itself a poem about how technological and philosophical progress will not save humanity from its worst instincts.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Etchinson, with a bicycle, no less!
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No Name Given: Officially, the priest. The fans of the film give him the moniker "Father Loomis." Not just fans; the priest's name is "Father Loomis" in the screenplay and the closed captioning subtitles refer to him as "Father Loomis" as well.
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Antagonist Title
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Antagonist Title: The "Prince of Darkness" aka Satan is a malevolent disembodied presence who starts a zombie plague against the human protagonists. However, it turns out that he is merely the foot soldier of an entity far more terrifying and a threat to reality itself — the Anti-God.
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Nothing Is Scarier: We are never shown more of the Anti-God than its demonic hand and the glimpse of the world it inhabits looks like an underwater black void. The finale is unexplained, possibly a dream sequence, and cuts in a cliffhanger just before Brian touches the mirror.
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The Corruption
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The Corruption: Satan acts something like this.
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Religion Is Right / Religion Is Wrong: Zigzagging Trope between the two. The priest is understandably distraught about the true nature of Christ and Satan; Professor Birack points out that what he believed all along is essentially correct.
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Big Red Devil: It's hard to tell, but when the hand of the Anti-God reaches out, it's bright red with black nails/claws, implying that the Anti-God resembles our traditional image of Satan more than the actual Satan in the film.
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Doomed Contrarian: Zig-zagged. Walter and Wyndham are the only members of the group to vocally and repeatedly express disbelief for the story once Lisa translates it, while Lomax seems undecided but interested in finding out more. Walter survives, Wyndham dies, and Lomax's fate is a bit ambiguous.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Wyndham (although not so much out of fear as out of disbelief in the situation) attempts this, after Calder and Lomax fail to persuade him otherwise. He doesn't get far before the possessed homeless people appear.
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Religious Horror: Again, sort of.
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Expy: The priest is one for Dr. Loomis from Halloween (1978), such that the character's name is "Father Loomis" in the screenplay.
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In this film's mythology, Jesus was a Human Alien and the Catholic Church covered it up.
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Dwindling Party: The number of participant-students lessens as the movie goes along.
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Blob Monster: More of a liquid type than most, but is very amorphous and sapient just the same.
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Running Gag: No one seems to know who Susan is without being prompted "Radiologist, Glasses".
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Asian and Nerdy
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