In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Directed by John Carpenter
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
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Opening with a captivating prologue, "In the Mouth of Madness" gets off to a decidedly film noirish start with Neill cast as a crack insurance investigator, a cynical guy De Luca has compared to Fred MacMurray's character in "Double Indemnity."
Carpenter has never really lived up to the potential he promised in those early years, when he established his reputation with "Assault on Precinct 13," and then followed it up with the first "Halloween."
Though it doesn't manage to become the masterpiece we would expect from the creator of Halloween and The Thing, at least John Carpenter's loving tribute to the mystery of Lovecraft manages to convey "the horror of what might be lurking beyond that door, just outside our universe."
Will Carpenter ever again make a film as scary as "Halloween"?
Over the years, John Carpenter has had hits ("Halloween," "Starman") and flops ("Memoirs of an Invisible Man," "Big Trouble in Little China") and he's had moderate successes that have turned into cult favorites ("The Thing," "Escape from New York," "They Live").
From his landmark Halloween (whose unforgettable final moments offer up a chill that is pure cinema) through such underrated strokes as the paranoiac's bedtime story The Thing, the anti-Reaganite They Live, and the sublimely creepy Prince of Darkness, Carpenter's films have been smartly crafted with a real story to tell.
Watch “Halloween”, “The Fog”, “Vampires”, “The Thing”, just to name a few and you will witness his true aptitude for capturing horror in its true essence, and what he manages to do in “In the Mouth of Madness” is capture it in all its pure unrestrained essence onto the cells of this film.
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Though it doesn't manage to become the masterpiece we would expect from the creator of Halloween and The Thing, at least John Carpenter's loving tribute to the mystery of Lovecraft manages to convey "the horror of what might be lurking beyond that door, just outside our universe."
Over the years, John Carpenter has had hits ("Halloween," "Starman") and flops ("Memoirs of an Invisible Man," "Big Trouble in Little China") and he's had moderate successes that have turned into cult favorites ("The Thing," "Escape from New York," "They Live").
From his landmark Halloween (whose unforgettable final moments offer up a chill that is pure cinema) through such underrated strokes as the paranoiac's bedtime story The Thing, the anti-Reaganite They Live, and the sublimely creepy Prince of Darkness, Carpenter's films have been smartly crafted with a real story to tell.
Watch “Halloween”, “The Fog”, “Vampires”, “The Thing”, just to name a few and you will witness his true aptitude for capturing horror in its true essence, and what he manages to do in “In the Mouth of Madness” is capture it in all its pure unrestrained essence onto the cells of this film.
Stephen King has a lot of fun playing with the line between reality and fiction - his " Misery " was the story of a fan who takes a horror writer's work a little too seriously - and now here is a movie to turn the tables on King.