The short scene of Catherine getting trapped in the mirror world - especially her expression while reaching towards the flickering light - HAUNTED me when I first saw this movie as a kid.
I hope that John Carpenter fully understands, that despite all of the negative reviews of his work and the Hollywood bullshit, Many of his movies are now absolute classics AND have dramatically influenced multiple generations now of viewers. If I could ever meet him, I would simply say "Thank you." And leave it at that.
@@seanlewis9291 I think they started with the poster and worked backwards, in terms of plotting. Its still a frightening thought, a good person trapped in a hell dimension for eternity with demons we only get a glimpse of.....
So this ending still gets me the most because the ending could be interpreted 3 ways at least to me. 1 is they did change the future and he has ptsd from what happened and he's seeing the girl still. 2 is they changed it but it's still ends up bad with her ending up as the antichrist vessel this time. 3 the one me and probably alot of others bet out money on they changed nothing and this was always what was meant to happen.
I think it is number two. Remember it is not a dream but actual events from the future beamed back as a dream. The reason the image of the person inside the church doors keeps changing is due to them changing the future by what they are doing. The last transmission is of the girl being the vessel, is due to her entering the other realm.
@Johnnie Walker you know, I was actually thinking that yes, a sequel really isn't needed. It would really be a cycle repeating itself and it would just get old and boring. When I spoke about a sequel, I didn't realize that it really would be like history repeating itself...and it would be like unnecessary sequels like Friday the 13th...long past their expiration date.
It was definately a scary movie I remember and now I am gonna find it and watch it. I was scared by the movie THE THING THAT COULD NOT DIE as a child and Prince of Darkness as an adult. I laughed at The thing that could not die later in life, but this movie here...maybe not.\
This is my absolute favorite in the Apocalypse trilogy if not favorite of all time JC film. I'm a huge sucker for stories that takes belief and turns it on it's head. I often wonder if there was any more to the lore Lisa read to the group about The Father burying liquid Satan in the desert and Jesus coming to warn us - so much was intercut with other scenes. Why did the father bury his son in the desert? Was liquid Satan dead in that state? Why was he even in that liquid state? Was he trapped? If so why can the cylinder only be opened from the inside? What were the priests doing to keep him prisoner? Who found the cylinder? What was Jesus warning against the cylinder about? So many questions. Not that that's a bad thing.
I liked this movie. I saw it in the theatre when it first came out. That stupid priest was claiming he had saved the world, when actually it was she who did. That Church was a lot bigger on the inside than it looked on the outside, ha ha ha.
So he's the one sending back the message hoping it gets to him THIS TIME in hopes that she doesn't go through the mirror because he never had the dream? The sect had the dream because it was being beamed back to the spot NOT the year right? Then him seeing the dream and it being her gives him the idea to send it back in the first place? I don't like him touching the mirror...cuz I don't get that part? Thanks...
I think it's worse than that. Before the end of the film the figure in the door was not her, but there was a figure in the door, meaning that the entity would inevitably emerge. Through the actions taken in the movie the host becomes Catherine, but nothing they could have done would have prevented what's to come, just how it happens.
@@AngelCintiaRockgirl I tell myself I won't watch this movie again because it really causes a creepy and unsettling feeling-i.e. spooks the crap out of me, but I just keep torturing myself!! Especially the dream sequences!
@@goldta70schick24 I'd love to watch this movie again. "Walter, the vile fluid is metamorphosed into something unknown, with demonic possessive powers with properties we know nothing about, so don't go near the girls, they've come in contact with this dark spiritual form and may be dangerous." Walter: "I have to go to the bathroom!"
Lisa Kobar John Carpenter wrote some of the best ideologies of my life through Walter. "Those people outside are doiing nothing but just standing there." Walter: "I say with those kinds of problems, let them stand there if they want to." I look at a lot of life, concerning people and ignorance, that way. I laughed at all of Walter's Political incorrectness, alone in a theater sparsely attended. I felt like people around me were thinking, "aw---that's not funny, it's mean!"