Scary Spyglass
A portal is opened that allows people to peer into the confounding aspects of darkness and evil.
In modern media, there are various images of darkness and 'lords of evil.' While various works of literature throughout history have explored villainy as a theme/concept, modern art seems to focus purely on the intellectual curiosity about darkness itself, perhaps because the modern age is marked by libertine dialogue as it is exemplified in consumerism-convenience culture (i.e., Facebook).
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For example:
1. In Danny Boyle's "The Beach" (2000), the main character Richard delves into the dark corners of the human mind and discovers instincts towards isolationism and alienation and in doing so reveals himself to be a philosophical messenger of darkness (perhaps a metaphoric prince of darkness) and in a way, the opposite of the exploratory-optimistic J.M. Barrie character of Peter Pan.
2. In one episode of the currently-running vigilantism-fantasy Batman (DC Comics) adapted television show "Gotham" (Fox TV, 2014-present), a strange red-mask wearing street-band called the Red Hood Gang begins to perform daring, dangerous, and diabolical bank robberies and in doing so, reveals the dark frailties of a brooding (fictional) Gotham City seething with criminality.
3. In the cult-favorite horror film "Puppetmaster" (1989), inquisitive people discover bizarre and deranged puppets equipped with deadly weapons and coming to life with a sort of eerie 'muscular malice.'
4. In the cult-favorite Hollywood (USA) horror film "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974), a maniacal cannibalistic serial killer called Leatherface terrorizes wayward American travelers with a chainsaw and creates pure terror on Earth.
5. In the Anne Rice adapted film "Queen of the Damned" (2002), an eerie queen of bloodsucking vampires named Akasha is raised to life to create a pure dominion of evil and anarchy.
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These images of darkness and evil and lords of mischief in modern media/art/tv/movies reveal why a movie such as "Prince of Darkness" (1987) represents a modern age 'villainy voyeurism.'
My favorite feature of this John Carpenter project is the appearance of the great Donald Pleasance, best known for his role as the worried Dr. Loomis chasing the psychotic masked serial killer Michael Myers (a creepy stalker who pursues innocents during the symbolic self-disguise festival of Halloween) in the Halloween film franchise beginning with John Carpenter's original masterpiece fright-film "Halloween" (1978).
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Akasha:
http://vampirechronicles.wikia.com/wiki/Akasha
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