In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
Synopsis:
An insurance investigator employed by a publishing firm to trace the whereabouts of its best-selling cult horror author, finds himself in a New Hampshire village of the latter's devising in which all the inhabitants behave as in the novel and where Lovecraftian monsters writhe just the other side of perception. Might he himself be a character created by the theocratic Sutter Kane?
Review:
The premise is familiar from other such circular classics as Dr Caligari and Dead of Night, the village of no escape a popular horror trope (e.g. The Monster Club). Unfortunately, the game is given away rather too early here, and interest for characters wholly at the mercy of some whimsical creator/filmmaker swiftly wanes. The director revisits his own filmic past with his lumbering mob wielding axes and unleashing designer gore, but does achieve one chilling effect, the simple aural/visual one of a mysterious cyclist riding at night with cards/banknotes(?) clipped to his spokes.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
Synopsis:
An insurance investigator employed by a publishing firm to trace the whereabouts of its best-selling cult horror author, finds himself in a New Hampshire village of the latter's devising in which all the inhabitants behave as in the novel and where Lovecraftian monsters writhe just the other side of perception. Might he himself be a character created by the theocratic Sutter Kane?
Review:
The premise is familiar from other such circular classics as Dr Caligari and Dead of Night, the village of no escape a popular horror trope (e.g. The Monster Club). Unfortunately, the game is given away rather too early here, and interest for characters wholly at the mercy of some whimsical creator/filmmaker swiftly wanes. The director revisits his own filmic past with his lumbering mob wielding axes and unleashing designer gore, but does achieve one chilling effect, the simple aural/visual one of a mysterious cyclist riding at night with cards/banknotes(?) clipped to his spokes.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
Synopsis:
An insurance investigator employed by a publishing firm to trace the whereabouts of its best-selling cult horror author, finds himself in a New Hampshire village of the latter's devising in which all the inhabitants behave as in the novel and where Lovecraftian monsters writhe just the other side of perception. Might he himself be a character created by the theocratic Sutter Kane?
Review:
The premise is familiar from other such circular classics as Dr Caligari and Dead of Night, the village of no escape a popular horror trope (e.g. The Monster Club). Unfortunately, the game is given away rather too early here, and interest for characters wholly at the mercy of some whimsical creator/filmmaker swiftly wanes. The director revisits his own filmic past with his lumbering mob wielding axes and unleashing designer gore, but does achieve one chilling effect, the simple aural/visual one of a mysterious cyclist riding at night with cards/banknotes(?) clipped to his spokes.