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 In the Mouth of Madness (DVD)
Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fantasy / Theatrical Release: 1995 / Director: John Carpenter / Actors: Sam Neill, ... more  In the Mouth of Madness (DVD) ... Julie Carmen ... / DVD released 08 February, 2000 at New Line Home Video / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC / The mind-bending worlds of author H P Lovecraft have long interested horror directors but the films have rarely successfully captured his nightmarish mix of madness and mythology. John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is not directly based on Lovecraft's work but screenwriter Michael De Luca draws his inspiration from Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology and then adds his own ingenious twists. John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance investigator recently fitted for a straightjacket, tells his story to a psychiatrist. Hired to track down the missing pop-horror phenomenon Sutter Cane, a Stephen King-like author whose fans are literally mad for his books, Trent finds the supposedly fictional Hobb's End. He watches the town collapse into madness, murder and monstrous transformations: the fantastic horrors of Cane's novels played out in front of his eyes. "Reality isn't what it used to be", deadpans one zombie-like towns person. In fact, it is how Cane writes it--but is he Devil, dark oracle or simply a preacher in the service of an evil that grows stronger with every soul his books convert? The script never quite gets a grip on the blurry relationship between fact and fiction but those details fade in the face of Carpenter's demented imagery, shiver-inducing twists and dark wit. It's more eerie mind game than straight-out horror, a portrait of a world gone mad, and Carpenter relishes every hallucinatory moment. --Sean AxmakerNewest Review: ... scribblings of a horror writer turned God, a fictional character living out his fictional world or a combination of all three ... more ... wrapped up in a blanket of something else entirely. Separating the fact from the fiction is impossible as delusions and realities collide and become as one or neither or perhaps existing as both at the same time. The idea of watching a movie which references itself as reality at some stage is certainly nothing new, but watching it reference itself as an unreality inside its own reality of delusionality is erm...interesting! Confused? Yeah me too and it's easy to argue that Carpenter tries to be far too ...more |
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In the Mouth of Madness (DVD): John Carpenter's: Last Attempt To Film Something Half De ... (1580 words)
by wampyrii - written on 09.01.03 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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I'm not really a fan of John Carpenter's movies although I do tend to watch most of them in the hope that one day he may stop spinning out trash for cash and return to the times when he gave us Halloween and the excellent remake of the sci-fi classic The Thing. In reality though, it doesn't look like he is going to and is more content to give us nonsense with his name attached and as many references to himself as possible within the running length. Shame, but there ya go, Wes Craven has taken a mooch down the same road of course leaving the horror genre somewhat devoid of decent directorial talent. If you take a wander back into the back catalogues of either ...
Madness has never been so good (325 words)
by Silent Bob - written on 16.08.00 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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A very underrated good film from John Carpenter, who has been on a downwades slide every since Halloween, mind you he has made some very good films such as The Thing and Assault on Precinct 13. In the Mouth of Madness is one of his good films which is strange because its quite new, In Carpenter we have a director which Hollywood spoiled, He was good in his low budget Indie films but in trying to break into Hollywood his level of film making declined. Here he seems to return to form giving us a horror/thriller with lots of twiests and turns and you never quite nknow what is going on. The story follows a very succesful Insurance Investigator Trent(played very well ...
In the Mouth of Madness (DVD): Careful what you read... (254 words)
by Rumblefish - written on 08.07.00 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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Imagine a horror novel coming out that was such powerful reading that it drove everyone who read it violently insane. That is the premise for IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS: As the world awaits the latest novel by bestselling horror writer Sutter Kane (do those initials remind you of a real-life bestselling horror writer?), an investigator (played by Sam Neill) is hired by Kane's publisher to track him down and deliver the final manuscript for publication. However when he finds Kane, he discovers that the author's writing is now being guided by an evil force. This is a cracking horror movie, not least because it creates a world entirely constructed from ...
