The Nextlander Watchcast 015: Prince of Darkness (1987)
Added 2022-10-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTCOn this week's Watchcast we take on the John Carpenter film voted on by our patrons, the second film in the director's loose Apocalypse Trilogy, Prince of Darkness. Join us as we watch a bunch of ill-equipped graduate students fall victim to the incredible powers of a liquefied Satan!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:33) - Intro.
(00:02:06) - Our Carpenter for this week: Prince of Darkness!
(00:10:20) - The history of how Prince of Darkness came into the world.
(00:17:00) - Scientists! Assemble!
(00:21:55) - Jesus, the misunderstood space traveler.
(00:26:21) - That sick-ass VHS dream.
(00:30:43) - The first guy goes down, and it's to Alice Cooper's impaling device. Plus all the bug stuff.
(00:33:33) - Liquid Satan, straight in your damn mouth.
(00:40:09) - Nothing scarier in this mortal plane than someone typing weird.
(00:42:58) - Break!
(00:43:16) - We're back, and people keep disappearing! Wonder why that is.
(00:45:45) - This movie might have a few pacing issues.
(00:47:42) - Shout out to Calder for at least trying to avoid possession. Unfortunately, death is no impediment.
(00:50:45) - Sorry Kelly, you're The One.
(00:55:04) - Let's talk about all this mirror stuff.
(00:58:29) - Whoa-oh! Somebody's coming (through the mirror).
(01:02:19) - Things wrap up pretty quickly here.
(01:04:16) - We finally get the full dream vision and--oh, oh no.
(01:09:37) - Our final verdicts, and some talk about Carpenter's music.
(01:16:19) - Outro.
Comments
I watched this just recently because of this podcast, as it was readily available on Peacock and I wanted to be prepared. It definitely has some weird and spooky ideas to it, but definitely could have been tighter.
Brian Streleckis
2022-10-18 19:56:33 +0000 UTCSaw this a long time ago and haven't felt the need to rewatch it either, even though it's not a bad movie. In The Mouth of Madness I *do* feel like rewatching though and I've seen it several times. One of those times when I wish you'd also do a commentary track, just to hear Brand and Vinny react to everything for the first time.
Snek
2022-10-12 12:48:00 +0000 UTC
