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Asbury Park PressSaturday, October 24, 1 987 D5 1 MOVIES 1 Carpenter movie full of gook V.C mm stunt mm art "DIRTY DANCING" (po-13) Ketm Cosfner NO WAY OUT UiiLJ I VP Lli I 1 MP HI MM fil fir Jameson Parker explores an abandoned church in "Prince of Darkness." Movie Review PRINCE OF DARKNESS, starring Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount and Victor Wong, opens at area theaters today. John Carpenter directed. Martin Quatermass wrote the screenplay. Rated for violence, language. Universal Pictures release.

By ELEANOR O'SULLIVAN Press Movie Writer The funniest movie of the year? Forget about "Outrageous Fortune," "The Witches of Eastwick" and "Dragnet." At this date, honors must go to John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness." The wrinkle is: Did Carpenter intend that? Well, consider these lines, written by Martin Quatermass, a former physicist: "No prison can hold him now;" Question: "How did you know what you thought I'd say?" Answer "Because if you didn't, I don't want to know." Wait, there's more: "There's something downstairs." "It's becoming something; what?" and "We're on the brink of the ultimate truth." Actually, the ultimate truth about this movie, that is is that it's self-consciously camp and self-important but it's so dopey, you can't hate it or help laughing. However, if Carpenter's music (writ- 3 General Cinema Bargain AtaHrttMt 3M Man. Bargain Night '3 aSisS" CLIFTON 171 .747 97.7 NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS Tri4h-if Hl i0 MAKEW000 761 1100 LOEWS CASTLE TWW StCAuCUS866 6161 IRVINCTON372 3419 MOVIE CITY flVEPlFJ CINtMi SERVICES UST BRUNSWICK CENTER 257 S5SS SfrSl" MOVIE CITY FIVEPIU WOO06RIDGE IS? 5555 CINEMA SERVICES ClUMAIOSimU III MOVIES SUCCASUNNA 584 M60 MIOOLE10WN NATHAN StVINPLEI CINEMI I PIAM FIVEPLEX "IOOLETOWN 671 1020 ciMffmpux SdlCHTOWN 4SB 507? LOEWS CtNfPlfl OOCON EA' ON TOWN W2-4200 4,7 7W CtNfm.fi ODFOM GENERAL CINEMA CRANfORD TWt RUUERS PlAiA CRANrOftO 276 9120 CINEMA SIX fRANKLIN TOWNSHtf LOt W5 mini DOVER mtN SSSmwm EUlUEIVErtE, SSSB" PATERSON 742 4800 GENERAL CINEMA cinema services SONSRVIllE CIRCLE EIW POINTS TWIN CINEMA TRIPLEX UNION 94 9633 RARITAN LOEWS FREEHOLD CINEMA Sin nathan FREEHOLD 462 0600 SW1 TWIN TRIANGLE "9 5710 HAWTHORNE QUAD HAWTHORNE 427 282B jrifl QUAD AMC JERSEY CITY 653 5200 MORRISIOWN292 0606 wStll WIPLII HOBOKEN TWIN Washington township HOBOHEN 663 2202 666 0020 LOEWS LOEWS INTERSTATE TWIN SUPLEI RAMSEY 177 0153 W4TNE 690 OSOS ten with help from Alan Howarth) wasn't so insistent, persistent and loud, you could probably fall asleep. That is because after the principal characters (played by Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong and Jameson Parker) have determined a swirling mass of green gook is actually Satan's son, nothing much happens. Carpenter simply steps up the mayhem against a backdrop of brilliant Ph.D.

candidates turning into zombies by dint of the green gook. The production notes say Quatermass says this about his screenplay: "He assures that all the physical principles used in the story, including the ability of subatomic particles to travel backward in time, are true." If you wind up at this movie, you may wish you too could travel back in Continuous Showings Sun. Holidays MON. IS DATE NIGHT 477-666 BRICK BLVO At HOOPER AVE BRICKTOWN SUSPECT 'NIGHT FLYER: LRJ 'DANCERS' iP0-Mi 'NO MAN'S LAND' jr) 'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME' (rj 'FATAL BEAUTY' PREVIEW SAT. NIGHT I 458-5077 LAUREL TON CIHCI HHICK IOWN TRINCE OF DARKNESS' iri 'KILLING TIME'' TRINCESS BRIDE' ipg PROM NIGHT 2' LIKE FATHER LIKE SON' ipgi 477-34001 AT ROUTES '0 649 BRICKTOWN JFATAL irj 'BABY BOOM' pg) 244-5454 HI 37 At HI 166 TOMS RIVER 'SUSPECT iRj 'PRINCE OF DARKNESS' R) 269-5100: RT 9 BAYVILll man's land; NIUHI rLTtn (R) 462-060(1 FIT 9 1 Mill ol ERFEHOID CIRCLE FREEHOID 'BABY BOOM' 'DIRTY DANCING' ipg J3j 'FATAL ATTRACTION irj 'KILLING TIME' ir) 'PRINCE OF DARKNESS' irj SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME' TATU BEAUTT PREVIEW ST.

HITE ONLY RI 9 AT POND HOAO EHf FHOIO 'NO MAN'S LAND' iri PRINCESS BRIDEJ Lpgj 'SUSPECT' iri 'LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON' pg, 364-4544 RT 9 1 Mil ES OF 19b HOWFt 'I AKFWOOO JDIRTY DANCING' ipG-i3j 'KILLING TIME' irj 1N0 MAN'S LAND' iri 'NIGHT FLYER' iri 542-4200 AT JUNCTION ROUTES 35 36 EATONTOWN 'PRINCE OF DARKNESS' iri 747-033: WHITE ST 1 Bl OCK OFF RT 35 RED BANK 'N0 MAN'S LAND' RJ 'DANCERS' (pg-i3 870-2700: OCEAN AVE AT WFST END -LONG BRANCH JRIML HIIKAtllUN JRJ 'BABY BOOM' (pg) 493-2277 RT 35 AND DEAL ROAD-OAKHURST 'DIRTY DANCING' (pg i3j 'LIKE FATHER LIKE SON' (pgi time, to the point where you said, "Hey, honey, let's see a movie tonight." The notes also say "Carpenter guides us through a journey of terror: to a world where classical reality is turned upside down and the wrath of Satan is unleashed upon the innocent a fury that has been pent up for seven million years, waiting to explode." Carpenter doesn't explode anybody in "Prince of Darkness," but roughly half of the characters are mashed, slashed or hacked to death. This in the name of a story about good versus evil. The special effects aren't particularly clever, the mashings, slashings and hackings are undeniably gross, and the acting and lines are hysterical. Who's this movie aimed at? Youngsters, of course. Further evidence that the gook is gaining.

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