31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Prince of Darkness’

“Prince of Darkness” (1987) – John Carpenter’s  biggest films are “Halloween” (1978) and “The Thing” (1982), but he’s delivered many more frightening flicks than his grandest tentpole movies.  “Prince of Darkness” is one of them, as he combines religious themes with an apocalypse scenario reminiscent of Romero’s zombie movies.  Carpenter favorite Donald Pleasance plays a Los Angeles priest who invites a professor (Victor Wong) and his students to a monastery to examine a sizable can of bizarre, swirling green liquid.  Well, the green goo drips some clues that it has…