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Synopsis: A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Satan himself, and they also discover that he will release HIS father - an all-powerful Anti-God! The liquid later comes to life itself, turning some of the students into zombies as the Devil comes forward to release his father. Will these students be able to stop him?
Genre: Horror
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
R
Year:
1987
102 min
1,227 Views


a beautiful church. When?

In the 1950s. My husband's

parents used to come here.

And then for some reason,

it was closed down.

Well!

Yeah.

Hi. I'm, uh, Leahy.

I'm looking for Birack.

Hi. Brian Marsh.

He's over in... There he is.

Ah. Thanks.

Professor Birack.

Yes.

Hi. I'm Paul Leahy.

Oh. Dr. Leahy.

I'm glad you could come. Yes. Well, now, all

I really know about what's goin' on here...

is what one of your students

told me on the telephone.

We're just getting organized. If you have

some equipment, find a spot over there.

All right.

We're making this the central lab.

Sure. Well, what are we

actually doing here?

Well, I gotta cover for Leahy over

the weekend. Extra credit seminar. Wow.

Hi, Frank.

Don't leave.

Excuse me.

I have to set up.

Hi.

Hello.

Frankie, who's that?

Susan Cabot.

Radiologist. Married.

Ah. How married?

Very.

Oh. Hi, Doc.

Hi. I'll be workin' upstairs.

I want you to set up the

basic panel down here. Right.

What are you supposed

to be testing?

I don't know.

Compounds? Basic structures?

When I know, you'll know.

Uh, Leahy.

Great.

Science marches on.

Yeah.

Need any help?

No, I'm okay.

There better be a diploma in my

mailbox when I get home on Monday.

I really can't believe this is

happening. I had a date tonight...

with this beautiful young

trial attorney from Century City.

Where were you taking him?

Please, it isn't funny.

What are they doing?

They're watching us.

They started comin' around when

I got here at 9:
00 this morning.

I'm Calder. Microbiology.

Brian Marsh.

Walter.

Lomax. Engineering.

Nice meeting you.

Hi.

Lomax.

How you doing?

So anybody know what

this whole deal's about yet?

Not a clue.

Nobody's got a clue.

I'm getting my doctorate

in theology.

Analysis of ancient scriptures.

This shouldn't be too difficult,

except for the numbers.

It's so wonderful

what you're doing, Father,

opening the church again.

Are you all right?

We're ready.

He's gaining strength.

I can feel it all around us now.

So what's going on?

Something downstairs.

Yeah? What?

I hate to tell you guys,

but this is real bullshit.

I know there's a reason why

nobody's opened this thing yet, right?

Let me have your pen

for a second.

Is this some kind of

toxic crap? Could be.

Okay, but I still don't understand

why we're not taking direct samples.

I mean, what's the big mystery?

Catherine's entering these equations

upstairs. They're translated from Latin.

Differential equations?

From a book written

We hadn't invented

differential equations... Right.

Professor Birack, I don't think

we have too much to worry about.

The lid on that thing won't open.

Look.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s.Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). He returned to the Halloween franchise as both composer and executive producer for the horror sequel Halloween (2018). Carpenter is also notable for having composed or co-composed most of his films' music; some of them are now well-known, with the main theme of Halloween being considered a part of popular culture. He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). more…

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