Released: 1987
Horror
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker
Running Time: 102 minutes
Rated: R
The breakdown: Inside an old abandoned church lives pure evil in green liquid form.
An old priest dies with a box containing a key to an old empty church. A new priest investigates and finds in the basement of this abandoned church a vat of swirling green liquid which he thinks might be the devil. He hires a bunch of physics students and their teacher to investigate what they can find out without opening the vat. Through research they find ancient texts saying the liquid is Satan himself and if released he will try to bring his father, an Anti-God into our plane, presumably ruining the world. Problem is, as they discover more info, liquid starts to escape without anyone noticing and people start acting very strange.
I thought this was a really interesting idea for a movie. It's original, well paced, and interesting to watch.
With that said, it looks pretty dated and some of the effects look pretty goofy.
Some of the scenes came off kinda' silly, but I'll forgive that since I enjoyed the story.
If you like horror movies, I'd recommend it with the caveat that some of it comes off a bit silly or goofy.
3 out of 5 for being a great idea, if not a great execution.
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