It’s always a pleasure to find Donald Pleasence hiding away in some forgotten Italian horror film from the 80s, which is very much the case with Specters (Italian: Spettri). A supernatural horror that has some style, plenty of class, feels suitably 80s (and Italian), but has nothing of note elsewhere.
Jennifer arrives at a boarding school, where someone is kidnapping and murdering girls. After her roommate Sophie is killed, Jennifer uses her telepathic connection to insects to find the killer.
A schoolteacher descends into madness after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia at Christmas.
Prince of Darkness is the second instalment in what John Carpenter calls his “Apocalypse Trilogy”, which began with The Thing (1982) and concludes with In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
Halloween is one of the best horror movies I have ever seen, I would be in my top 10 horror
