In the Mouth of Madness [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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cheese slices anyone?

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film in 16:9+4:3, English only, trailer, commentary

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In the Mouth of Madness [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Sam Neill , Julie Carmen , Jürgen Prochnow , David Warner , and John Glover
Director: John Carpenter
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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In the Mouth of Madness

ASIN: 078062856X
Release Date: 2000-02-08

Amazon.co.uk Review

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 Axmaker

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cheese slices anyone?.......2007-06-24

In an ongoing quest to find genuinely unnerving, scary horror films I found this film extremely irritating. Not because it was completely of the mark, but more because the potential of the opening quarter is completely unfulfilled by the latter direction of the film. The earlier scenes suggest `In the mouth of Madness' is going to be a competent albeit rather shallow horror film, based upon the fear of altered perception and the helpless claustrophobia it can induce. However immediately after the best scene in the film (the cyclist trapped for ever in a loop) the sense of fear and the overall atmosphere unravels into a state of comical foolishness. The monster effects have not aged well and just look silly, the acting is terrible and some times laugh-out-loud funny and the author of the insanity inducing novels (Sutta Kane is it?) is so over the top and cliched the horror element just disolves. I bought this film as some reviewers suggested it was Carpenters scariest work to date, in my opinion it is not, in fact to even suggest this film is in the same league as Carpenters `The Thing' is madness (in the mouth of....).

Carpenters best.......2007-04-13

This is my favourite John Carpenter film, possibly equalled by 'The Thing'.

Sam Neill is brilliant as a cynical insurance claims investigator, showing his gradual descent into madness as the normal world becomes consumed by the dark imagination of a highly popular horror author.

Inspiration for this film comes from the world of HP Lovecraft, and is in my opinion the most faithful adaptation of his work I have seen; it gives you that same unsettled feeling you get from reading Lovecraft's work.

This film poses interesting questions about the nature of reality, and is well worth a watch if you are after a horror with a bit more intelligence to it than your average slasher.

film in 16:9+4:3, English only, trailer, commentary.......2004-03-17

This is a DVD review only, and not another film review without technical informations. The dual layer DVD (SSDL, DVD9, 7.9 GByte used, CSS copy protected) "In the Mouth of Madness", published by New Line Home Video in 2000 (product code N4907), has little extras, but the main features are good: 2 format versions (anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1, fullscreen 4:3); English language in Dolby Digital 5.1, and Dolby Surround; subtitles in English; theatrical trailer (1m 48s, anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1, English only, no subtitles); feature length audio commentary by director John Carpenter, cast and crew filmographies. To view this DVD, you need a codefree DVD player with NTSC compatible display.

Bizzarely Compelling.......2004-01-21

John Carpenter movies are always a hit or miss affair...But In the mouth of madness is a definate hit!
Sam Neil plays an insurance fraud investigator on the trail of Sutter Cane, an imfamous horror writter who has disappeared just as his new book is supposed to come to print.
It's a slow start and the whole film has a slightly drawn out feel, but if your looking for old skool chills & thrills, this is a wonderfull "What lies beyond/Is this the real world or not" movie that will have you screaming for more.

A tale worth the wait..............2003-08-19

I have seen this film more than once, and the madness is unreal. frightning to watch in the dark. It's a film with true meaning. What is really captivating is the end. One twist you'll remember. this film is simply mind blowing. it'll glue you to the edge of your seats. If you miss this you'll truelly miss a treat. Watch it with the lights, for a bigger scare.........

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