Le prince des ténèbres

Titre original : Prince of Darkness

1987
R
1h 42m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

52 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

4 338

426

Liretrailer1 min 51 s

3 vidéos

99+ photos

Horror

Une équipe de chercheurs trouve un mystérieux cylindre dans une église abandonnée. S'il est ouvert, cela pourrait signifier la fin du monde.Une équipe de chercheurs trouve un mystérieux cylindre dans une église abandonnée. S'il est ouvert, cela pourrait signifier la fin du monde.Une équipe de chercheurs trouve un mystérieux cylindre dans une église abandonnée. S'il est ouvert, cela pourrait signifier la fin du monde.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

52 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

4 338

426

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 victoire et 2 nominations au total

Vidéos3

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Photos168

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Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

Modifier

Anecdotes
Alice Cooper used the bike impalement trick in his stage shows prior to this movie. The bike he uses was his own personal prop.

Gaffes
(at around 1h 29 mins) After Walter crawls through the hole in the closet with "possessed" Lisa in tow, they're both in the other room with Prof. Birak, all standing up. You can see the obvious doubling of "short Lisa" by a stuntman - she's suddenly much bigger and taller than the two other men.

Citations
Voice: This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.

Générique farfelu
The opening credits last for nine minutes.

Autres versions
Television version is slightly reedited, suggesting that all that takes place in the film is just a dream that Jameson Parker's having:
after the opening credits there a new shot showing Parker's house from the outside (the theatrical version opens with a shot of Parker trying to perform a card trick).
at the beginning, after Parker watches on TV a program reporting the discovery of a new supernova, the narration goes on talking about the death of a millionaire and the discovery of a religious book in his library
all mentions of the dead priest, member of the Brotherhood of Sleep who took care of the church where the evil liquid is kept hidden, are deleted;
during the whole film, there are new inserted sequences showing Parker sleeping/dreaming in his bed

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Sicilian/Prince of Darkness/No Man's Land/The Glass Menagerie/The Whales of August (1987)

Bandes originales
Prince of Darkness
Written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts
Performed by Alice Cooper
Produced by Michael Wagener
Courtesy of MCA Records
(C) 1987 Ensign Music Corporation, Ezra Music Inc.
Screen Gems Music - EMI Music Inc.

Commentaires des utilisateurs341

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Commentaire en vedette

8/10

slow, good, creepy quasi-intellectual horror

I know more than one person who watched this film, claimed immediately after that it wasn't very scary and then called me a few hours later telling me that they were freaked out.

Highlight: For me, the best concept in the film is the video-feed dream sequence. Oh man! It's creepy and exceedingly ominous and the shaky-cam newsreel quality gives it an extra punch.

The plot: You don't have to be a genius to understand what is going on in this film, but you do need to pay attention. The supernatural physics is a little nonsensical, of the "Popular science" variety, but the basic premise is explained in layman terms.

The characters: Actually, while the "science" is hocus-pocus, I really liked that the film's characters were mostly grad students. The actors do a great job of portraying annoyed, skeptical science grad students. Horror flicks are filled with numbskull undergrads, and it is nice to see the hidden sector of college life revealed in its nerdy glory.

The skinny: I'd describe it as a Biblical/Lovecraft horror film. It's got the whole "evil universe" theme running alongside an effective "Hell breaks loose" plot.

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Budget
- 3 000 000 $ US (estimation)
Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 14 182 492 $ US
Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 4 657 401 $ US
- 25 oct. 1987
Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 14 182 579 $ US