Prince of Darkness

A religous artifact is discovered, and a group of experts and students hold up in an old building to decifer it's origin and meaning. Soon a bunch of zombiefied homeless people show up and kill anyone who tries to leave. This was writen and directed by John Carpenter, and was towards the end of his glory days. it had kind of a slow start and a bland ending. It wasn't anything spectaculare, but worth a watch. 3 out of 5.

Characters:

• Father Loomis: (Donald Pleasence!) Priest who makes the discovery. Spends most of the movie hiding and reading his Bible.
• Brian: Burley scientist guy who tries to lead the survivors to safety.
• Catherine: Physics expert who is investigating the religous discovery. Throws herself into the portal to hell to save mankind.
• Professor Birack: Short Oriental teacher who brings a group of his students on an extra credit assignment. Getting turned into zombies must be worth a lot.
• Walter: Young Asain cocky guy who is good at tearing down a wall when being chased by zombies.
• Kelly: Student who gets a bruise on her arm that eventually turns her into a human water fountain and then tranforms into some kind of creature.
• Susan: Radiology specialist who gets turned into a zombie early on.

The Totals:

• Body Count: 10
• Weapons Used: A broken bike, a dagger, a chunk of wood, soda, lumber, a pencil, bricks, and an axe.
• Breast Shots: 0
• Moments where characters are mysteriously unable to run from certain death: 0
• Ominous thunderstorms: 0
• Explosions: 0

Random Thoughts and Things Learned

• When trapped by zombies, tell jokes.
• This isn't worth extra credit.
• Zombies are vain.
• Make-up kits can be used as a gate to hell.
• Zombies main weakness is open windows.