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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 03 February, 1995 DVD Release : 08 February, 2000 |
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In the Mouth of Madness description 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 phenomena Sutter Cane, a Stephen King-like author whose fans are literally made 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 zombielike townsperson. 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 Axmaker |
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| A prophet? A devil? An oracle? A preacher? Whoever he is, he outsells every other author with his Lovecraftian style horror books, and now he's turned up missing. John Trent (Sam Neill) begins the film in an insane asylum, telling Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) a fantastical tale.
John, an insurance investigator, was hired to find the missing Sutter Cane (talented Jurgen Prochnow). Tagging along with him is the publisher's assistant Linda Styles (Julie Carmen). Together, after John pieces together a map made from Cane's book covers, they set out to find the fictional New Hampshire town called Hobb's End, featured in Cane's book and supposedly his current hideout. Those allegedly firm lines between reality and insanity begin to slip-slide away when John finds Hobb's End. Styles had warned him that Cane's work had been known to have effects on his less stable readers, resulting in disorientation, memory loss, and severe paranoid delisions. John believes this, having been attacked by a man with an axe, asking him if he read Sutter Cane. But, now that he's found Hobb's End, will John be able to leave? After meeting Sutter Cane, can John handle the tales told to him? Is John factual or fiction? And what lies in wait for him in the black church? Believers, fanatics, followers, all flock toward Sutter Cane's work, which boils down to one question - is it fiction or reality? Look for a great performance by John Glover as Saperstein, plus cameos from Charlton Heston as Jackson Harglow and Bernie Casey as Robby. The acting is good and the atmosphere creepy, but the editing is a bit choppy in places. However, those who love great 'B' horror won't be disappointed in this little lovecraftian-type terror fest. One of John Carpenter's best films outside of 'The Thing'. Enjoy! |
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