Close to a decade's experience in horror pays off, with Carpenter working the audience with jump-scares and revolting demises like an old pro.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2018

John Carpenter seems to be hovering between cold-eyed mechanical fear-making and horror camp.

| Oct 5, 2018

''Prince of Darkness'' is a real tour de force, and a welcome return.

| Oct 5, 2018

Met on its own bonkers terms, Prince Of Darkness proves satisfying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 26, 2013

Carpenter spends so much time turning the screws on the next scare that he completely forsakes his actors, who are already stranded with a shoddy script.

| Mar 26, 2009

The claustrophobic terror generated by fluid camerawork and striking angles is reinforced by a narrative which builds slowly but surely towards a heart-racing climax.

| Jun 24, 2006

Reasonably chilling.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 29, 2005

None of the performances are super, though Alice Cooper, the one-time rock star, makes an arresting cameo appearance as a mean-spirited zombie who stands outside the church, intimidating anyone who looks through the window.

| May 20, 2003

Prince of Darkness contains the ingredients for a much better movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

"The Prince of Darkness' stinks." It too deserves to be shut up in a canister for 7 million years.

| Jan 1, 2000