The By the 1980s the satanic horror movie that had been so prevalent through the

60s and 70s began to disappear. Instead audiences were enjoying stories that were somewhat less spiritual and more visceral.

Slashes, monster movies, and body horror had become the dominating trend of the era.

However, horror filmmaker John Carpenter had other ideas,

and despite actually pioneering the slasher sub-genre with Halloween, Carpenter then turned to older, more classic horror formats.

In 1987, he made Prince of Darkness, a film which brought the devil back to horror cinema,

but also threw in a bit of classic Nigel Neil-Ske 50s sci-fi. Then a few years later Carpenter drew on an even older tradition in

horror with his existential mind-fuck in the mouth of madness, a film clearly inspired by the works of

HP Lovecraft.

At the time, both Prince of Darkness and in the mouth of Madness were financial flops and both movies

disappointed this slasher-hungry mainstream audiences of the time.

It's only after some time has passed that both films are being reassessed as horror classics

and the last two truly great horror movies that John Carpenter ever made. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the occult and we discuss John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and

in the mouth of Madness.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

If you're listening for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and

dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre

by looking at particular sub-jomras one season at a time. We are currently in the middle of our

occult series in which we look back at the history of satanic witchy occulty horror movies

and we're now on part 13 in which as the intro suggested we're going to be looking

at two back-to-back John Carpenter horror, Prince of Darkness and in the mouth of

madness. These will both be spoiler-ific discussions. If you haven't seen these movies, I would

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