Another fun John Carpenter movie. It's not really scary, it's just entertaining. The story is relatively simple and the ancient evil that's been kept a secret for 2000 years is certainly ominous. However, the apocalyptic potential of the green goo lacked any real world wide scale sort of threat. I fail to understand how the mirrors managed to provide a portal into Hell. They seemed like they existed only to show off a cool visual effect. There are several minor gory moments including a pretty disturbing sequence where a dead man falls apart after being held together by cockroaches. Victor Wong was great as Professor Birack but Donald Pleasence as the Priest was mostly corny and overdone. The porn-stache on Jameson Parker was distracting. Dennis Dun was great as usual.

Fun to finally see the 3rd film in his apocalypse trilogy after all these years but no replay value for me on this one boys

It's films this bad that make me wonder how people can prefer John Carpenter over Rob Zombie when it comes to horror. Yes, Carpenter had made a couple of classics, but nothing Zombie has made comes even close to the directing disasters of Prince of Darkness or The Ward. Is it one of those "so bad it's good" deals? Because everything about this movie -- the directing, the script, the acting, everything -- screams amateur.

Definitely one of Carpenter's lesser efforts. Lots of interesting ideas, but not explored very well. Some arresting visuals, but it's all tied together with a clunky exposition-heavy script and dull characters. And the bottom line is - it's just not scary.