Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
- research
- dreams
- obsession
- secret society
- time travel
- satan
- anti-christ
- artifact
- priest
- los angeles
- california
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Donald Pleasence
Priest
Lisa Blount
Catherine Danforth
Victor Wong
Prof. Howard Birack
Jameson Parker
Brian Marsh
- Dennis Dun — Walter
- Susan Blanchard — Kelly
- Anne Marie Howard — Susan Cabot
- Ann Yen — Lisa
- Ken Wright — Lomax
- Dirk Blocker — Mullins
- Jessie Lawrence Ferguson — Calder
- Peter Jason — Dr. Paul Leahy
- Robert Grasmere — Frank Wyndham
- Thom Bray — Etchinson
- Joanna Merlin — Bag Lady
- Directed
- John Carpenter
- Written
- John Carpenter
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 1,180 ratings
- Studio
- Alive Films, Larry Franco Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
