John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness - Opening Titles

[KobaltThoriumG]

One of the greatest Carpenter-Movies,and a great soundtrack! In 1987 I went to the cinema with my girlfriend.After the movie,on our way home,there came a man around a corner...my girlfriend screamed!!! A bird was flying along...my girlfriend screamed!!! I said "boooh!"...my girlfriend screamed!!! :D I've got the complete soundtrack!

[SuperSpiritguy]

Alan Howarth and John Carpenter understand horror music.Their music must send shivers down people's spines.Those two certainly know how to scare.Wes Craven hasn't really influenced me.Carpenter's vision is much darker and disturbing.Love Howarth and Carpenter.Love their music.I could talk to these guys for hours;gotta love their doomy,gloomy music.

[Soundtrack1000]

Hate this new channel!!!!

[TheAtheistSwede]

I love this soundtrack. One of Carpenter's best.

Oh, and that face on the poster (or is it a DVD (or VHS) cover?) is Alice Cooper hehe.

[PullMyPeeper]

radiologist...glasses

[PullMyPeeper]

I liked this movie. it was out there but for some reason I got into it and it creeped me out at the time. The whole mirror thing and the dark figure emerging from the church in the future.

[Soundtrack1000]

@PullMyPeeper ???

[MrBastilleDay]

This is not a dream, repeat this is not a dream...the music you are hearing is an actual occurence, you are receiving this broadcast from year 1999..our technology is now powerful enough thatwe can rach your sunconciousness...

[DIGITALSCREAMS]

I've just bought a factory sealed vinyl of this soundtrack. One day i will open it, with a glass of wine and have an epic day of popcorn, john carpenter films and soundtrack music. I look forward to this day.

[thebryman]

@DIGITALSCREAMS what a day that will be!

[Yapostadodat]

For some reason the combination of the different races, kinda like Star Trek, makes the plot MORE believable because you're getting multiple different cultural takes on ONE reality and it is agreed upon. Donald Pleasance has the classical western Christian take on it and the old Asian guy has his Zen perception of it and the Scientists have their analysis of it. Cool stuff.

[smjjohnson]

Where did you find this?

[N89K]

@smjjohnson I don't know:D If you want I can send it to your e-mail

[secretsociety86]

@N89K can you send it to my mail?

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[N89K]

@secretsociety86 yes I can! :-D

[ebuz218]

this movie could have been great if it had stayed with the science/religion storyline. once people started turning into zombie's it got silly. still...there is a certain creepy quality that gets under my skin every time i watch it, and thats what i love about it. john carpenter had a way with doing that with his early films.

[HbGoth]

lol! In the german version the girl and the mother aren`t jewish... ^^

[pejb83]

A Jewish mother goes to the airport to meet her daughter, the girl steps of the plane with an 8 foot tall Zulu warrior with a bone through his nose, the mother yells "You fool!!! I said a rich doctor!!!!"

[MrBastilleDay]

@pejb83 funny line

[zedizdeadbaby]

Maybe the darkest horror atmosphere in the movie history. An underrated masterpiece.

[boingokky]

Don't forget to give some credit to Alan Howarth on this score, as well! He is listed in the opening credits as co-composing the score with John Carpenter!!!

[DepressedSod]

lol I was listening to this in the background (doing some writing for school) when I realised I got totally freaked out by the music. Prince if probably my favourite Carpenter.

[HbGoth]

Prince of Darkness - My favourite Carpenter movie. The storyline is pure nerdpower, the actors are so fucking strange and the soundtrack is the best in electronic music i`ve ever heard in the 80s... or in this days.

I´ve found the CD in a nice little Roleplaying-Shop and I was so fucking happy! Yay for John Carpenter.

[FogyMyst]

@reelyshamcat

They are just entertaining...nothing serious...healthy comedy =(^.~)=

[FogyMyst]

@Quark130

my favourite movie, after years of pondering, is definitely They Live...but being honest, i like everything this man produced..even Big Trouble in Little China..Grins

[MikeAM78]

@Quark130 My most favorite Carpenter film is "The Fog." This is definitely a terrific little horror film, though.

[wandererlain]

This is the second part of his Apocalypse Trilogy. Chilling as fuck! The Devil is in a container in a basement in this one. In The Thing, it is a frozen shape-shifting alien, in In The Mouth Of Madness, it is an indescribable thing. A mental illness on all Mankind!

[wandererlain]

@IDIGGTHIS2 The God of Electronic Music in Movies. GEMM

[smurftojohn]

I agree. And I searched and searched to find soundtracks and anything similar finally years later lol got a knockoff compilation of jc's themes and ennio morricone 's humanity I think its called..the main theme from the thing. Anyway the fog. halloween .the thing .escape from new York .prince of darkness. Big trouble in little china .they live and christine .remove the soundtrack and they lose the impact that subconsciously creeps in under your skin to make the hairs stand up

[Fckstyre]

WOW this was and are still one masterpiece..

Love the story of the young students that get trapped in the church , and satan are in the green liquid at the basement.. getting them one by one....

[deathrider2006]

A very atmospheric sound which is what made John's films stand out

[wclac]

Horror movies from the 80s are definitely scary than modern ones. 80s all the way!

[BustyGretchen]

@wclac Yeah now it's 90% stupid jump scares with sudden loud noises (The Thing prequel anyone?).

[TheConcertMack]

@BustyGretchen Good point. The difference between the 1982 The Thing and the new one is night and day. No suspense, no character development, no reason to care. Typical modern movie magic.

[smurftojohn]

One of Carpenter's masterworks ,not a bloated overhyped highly polished turd which is the norm today.This is a no nonsense story that has more realistic actions/reactions from the actors in a simple "this is how real it was"type of performance which really adds to the creepy factor. Love this film

[wandererlain]

@smurftojohn Fuck yeah. Loved this in High School and couldn't get enough interest in it at the time. Now there are many fans!

[MikeAM78]

Just watched this again last night. Not my most favorite Carpenter film, but still a great, eerie little movie. I pretty much enjoy his entire filmography.

[nretnalneer]

bad critics, scary anyway

[Hammern28]

The music that constantly goes in the background,and that the fact that there isn't a whole lot of talking going on like in most other movies,makes this a gem of the 80's.I have seen it like 30 times or more,and it is a masterpiece.

It is pure genious,plain and simple.

[jdstooge]

I love 80s movies modern movies aint got shit on them

[siologen]

another great theme for a carpenter film...love that stabbing synth and that eerie wailing, sets the mood perfectly for the middle film of the apocalypse trilogy

[wandererlain]

@siologen It's beautiful.

[Valllick]

oh wow is this a gem i havnt seen yet i hope so

[DRAshley1980]

Oh and Dennis Dun rocked, he was just awesome in Big Trouble in Little China and it was cool to see him as this arrogant metrosexual cry-baby who would have been killed horribly in any other horror film

[DRAshley1980]

@wanderlain The most powerful religion is the one that cannot be proven, witnessed, followed, harnessed or controlled in any way. The idea that the only good in the world is man's ability to act for the greater good is the greater reality of the film. Satan imposing his religion on Earth by force in Prince of Darkness toys with the old concept that true faith is useless without the ability to fight for it. Funny you say Lovecraftian, I agree and there's a huge Quatermass influence in there!

[RossiDelPiero]

I found this movie more disturbing than The Exorcist.

[Hammern28]

@RossiDelPiero Agreed.This movie gives me the chills at times.

[foreverland100]

I love this movie but I always lmfao when the possessed woman speaks to the mirror and says "daddy".

[ArmchairMessiah]

@foreverland100 'father'

[DRAshley1980]

@raggsvettma its about the devil trying to escape his prison in another dimension where Christ put him as the Christian belief begins to lose influence over the world

[wandererlain]

@DRAshley1980 It seems to me that organized religion is taking a more scientific perspective on reality these days judging by what I just read in the news. But this movie is essentially Lovecraftian. All our "perceptions" of God and the Devil are turned upside-down. Paganism, the cycles of the Moon, and Astronomy have a more profound on us than we "know".

[DRAshley1980]

@vincentpricesnephew it is a really underrated horror with some great suspense and one of Carpenter's greatest casts. i thought of it as a supernatural zombie film when i first saw it but its so psychologically deeper considering it comes across as so simple

[raggsvettma]

Was this movie about the devil or somethin' else from an other dimension? Cuz i want to give it another watch and don't have the urge to travel to wikipedia right now.

[jiudae]

i love this movie but alice cooper's pic on the cover is a bit misleading.he doesn't have that big of a part in it

[DRAshley1980]

i wont accept people always sayin this was the worst Carpenter film, it gave me nightmares as a kid and was one really stylish horror film considering how creepy it was

[vincentpricesnephew]

@DRAshley1980 i love this one. it is def one of my fav john carpenter films

[Stet666]

this is the same tune as christine

[loganachilles1982]

Does the supposed prince of darkness make an appearence in this movie??? If so then I'll watch it. Someone get back to me on this.

[checkpoint45]

@loganachilles1982 kind of

[Xendrius]

@loganachilles1982 It does but only in the start I believe.

[HopllyteAlpha]

Thats why I love all of John Carpenter movies...My Hero is in fact Jack Burton... beside that... I love not only the way he makes his movies.. I also love the fact he also does the music, and completes a very important part of filmmaking. Like Conan The Barbarian... which was more or less a silent film... but the score was the dialoge... you didnt need to hear words to know what was goin on.

[carojeanny]

unbelivelble

[Zackybong1]

Awsome. Similar to "The Thing". Also used to great effect in Adam Curtis' "the power of nightmares".

[jstephenj]

@Zackybong1 That documentary also used samples from Halloween, which John Carpenter also composed.

[koridak]

makes me think of shivers

[xcgg]

LOL!!! The opening credits to this movie have to be one of the longest in movie history. Still a great Carpenter classic and one of my personal favorites of apocalyptic films

[thx291]

@xcgg, the movie is on youtube. The opening credits are almost ten minutes long.

[odraconiandevil79]

Got this on CD and I still find it a haunter of the dark...

[Dave82517]

to be perfectly honest, if you were to watch this in the dark with anyone or just by yourself, you would get chills. Even if you have seen it many times before and know what is going to happen, you find out all these hidden meanings and it is truly scary. One of John's best pieces

[epica9]

@Dave82517 what hidden meanings? 

[wandererlain]

@epica9 Dig, D' Amour. Taste the darkness. It's been waiting for you.

[clarity4clarity]

@Dave82517 thats a definate good post , ive seen it dozens of times , the more i watch it the more i see hidden bits....theres more to movies like this than even the directors/producers notice i think...

[dennys82]

@Dave82517 I totally agree with you! :)

[ruizj2006]

this song makes me paranoid. like if Satan is after me and satanic cults and worshipers are gonna chase me around

[deatharchivers]

@ruizj2006

i c dead peopleeee

[crowers73]

damn they just took this off netflix in demand..now that i wanna watch it..bastards..

[DominusOrbis]

great song, it makes me scare

[stewnta]

and call it what LOL "Johns Song" lol... naw I'm just messin

[SagNoras]

there are so many great composers named John. they should all get together and make the most epic song ever XD

[Saxowolf]

@SagNoras great post man.

[NocturnalTerror]

why is John Harrison and John Carpenter not teaming up

[Suttu666]

Man, I had completely forgotten this song. Awesome, and creepy as hell! Gotta watch this movie again. :)

[stewnta]

Is there any more of the creepy songs from this movie available?

[stealthboy19]

Is there anyway u could send this to me? by email or something, because i really want this theme on my i-tunes!?

[stealthboy19]

Awesome Soundtrack, please put the hole track on!

[TheAjs39]

John Carpenter is the MASTER of horrors, without his music, the concept of the film would not have the same impact.

[DoctorGenome]

I just love this theme, and this movie is my favorite Carpenter flick.

[Schone23666]

Yet another example of John Carpenter's gift with synthesized music. A well orchestrated piece that helps slowly build an atmosphere of brooding, building inevitable menace. Thanks for posting this!