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In the Mouth of Madness

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In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:14

Rotten:15

Average Rating:5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is John Carpenter's foray into the world of H.P. Lovecraft and surreal horror. An insurance investigator (Sam Neill) is sent to find a missing author, Sutter Cane (Jurgen... IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is John Carpenter's foray into the world of H.P. Lovecraft and surreal horror. An insurance investigator (Sam Neill) is sent to find a missing author, Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow). As he comes closer to finding the author, things start to change around him, and soon nothing is what it seems. Madness seems to be the normal state of things, while reason and sanity have no place in this new world created by the mind of Sutter Cane. Carpenter plays with changing perspective, making the audience aware thay they too are part of the story, and maybe, just maybe, this is not just make believe. The story is very ambitious in its attempt to put a whammy on the viewer's imagination, but the direction is steady and thoughtful enough to pull it off. Sam Neill is superb in the lead role of the only sane man left on Earth, incredulous to the destruction of reality as he knows it. It is his controlled performance that makes the bizarre events in the film threatening and scary. Jurgen Prochnow is deeply creepy as author and madman Sutter Cane, who's imagination is so vivid it is spilling out of his head into the real world. John Carpenter is known for his scary movies, and he does not fail to deliver with IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS. [More]

Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, John Glover

Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, John Glover, Charlton Heston, Frances Bay

Director: John Carpenter

Director: John Carpenter

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04/07/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

best of the post-cold war carpenter movies

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04/03/06
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
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07/26/05
Emanuel Levy
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10/30/04
Jake Euker
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10/17/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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08/25/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Not Carpenter's worst, but it tries.

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07/08/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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08/27/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Too all over the place to be effectively scary. I suppose it's an accurate portrait of insanity, but too hard to follow.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
About.com
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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Kind of scary return to form for Carpenter.

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03/04/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/12/02
Globe and Mail

Carpenter can't establish the kind of welling dread that Lovecraft conjured, so he shifts to makeup and pyrotechnics.

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02/28/02
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

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01/27/02
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
ToxicUniverse.com

This is terror at its most delicious.

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07/25/01
Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC

A thinking person's horror picture that dares to be as cerebral as it is visceral.

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02/13/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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02/13/01
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
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Horrormeister John Carpenter (of Halloween fame) is back in fine form as a master of suspense and ghoulish fantasy.

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01/01/00
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
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