Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness

Brian Marsh

Prof. Howard Birack

Catherine Danforth

Kelly

Susan Cabot

Lisa

Lomax

Mullins

Calder

Dr. Paul Leahy

Frank Wyndham

Etchinson

Bag Lady

Street Schizo

Nun

Dark Figure

The first of two films that John Carpenter made with Alive Films. The second film they made was They Live (1988).

Jameson Parker came up with the idea for the card trick.

Several scenes were shot at the University of Southern California, which John Carpenter attended as a film student.

When Lisa gets into bed, her shoes are off. However, after she becomes possessed and is walking around, her shoes are back on.

In the beginning of the movie the Priest tells Dr. Birack that the Catholic Church containing the demonic fluid, located in Los Angeles, was built in the 1500s by Spanish missionaries. The Spanish did not colonize California with missions until 1769, with the founding of San Diego by the explorer-missionary Fra Junipero Serra. The mission where filming took place, Mission San Fernando Rey de España, was not founded until 1797.

The student radiologist Susan Cabot says she has been "carbon dating the corrosion on the lid" of the cylinder, and "we're talking about 7 million years". Carbon dating is used to determine the age of materials, usually organic, containing carbon, not metal corrosion substances, and is only useful for about 60,000 years.

Father Loomis: Why weren't we told the truth?

Wyndham: [Wyndham looks like a corpse] Hello... Hello... I've got a message for you... and you're not going to like it.

Brian: What happened? You talk numbers, you get romantic. You talk people, you clam up.