Blu-ray Film Review

Prince of Darkness (1987) • 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [StudioCanal]

A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world…

Prince of Darkness is an odd film that rests its case on the idea that, on the sub-atomic level, our grasp of reality becomes rather like religious faith. There may be a few mathematicians and physicists who understand quantum mechanics, but even they admit it doesn’t make conventional sense. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman came up with a nickname for a theoretical particle he called ‘The God Particle’. In his 1993 book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, co-written with pop-science author Dick Teresi, he explains his reasoning:

“Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature… and two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one…”