2. Prince of Darkness (1987)
This is another film that falls into the category of an interesting failure. The ideas of messages in dreams from the future, a force capable of controlling people and/or insects and mirrors as gateways to anti-matter universes, with science fictional premises is different from other late-eighties horror. The project is partly a homage to the work of late Nigel Kneale by John Carpenter. One of the problems the film has is that for most of the running time, the threat is just a mass of green goo, but a rewrite could easier replace this with some kind of weird corpse, that scientists have been hired to examine in the hope of getting a wonder drug out of the body . The influence of Lovecraft on the plot could be expanded with scenes of strange behavior in people or insects and shared dreams spreading around the world.