In the Mouth of Madness
Year: | 1994 |
Director: | John Carpenter |
Cast: | Sam Neill, Charlton Heston, Bernie Casey, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, John Glover |
A fairly cool, neat little horror movie about an insurance investigator (Neill) on the trail of a horror writer's work that leads him to a small town where all is not what it seems, and he and the publisher travelling with him and drawn into a mysterious web.
It's all told in flashbacks by the guy as he sits covered in crosses in a nuthouse (one of the most striking visuals of the film), and while I remember little about the details, it's all very well done.
Heavily drawing on the work and life of H P Lovecraft, it has a classic twist in the vein of The Others, and Haunted, where your attention is diverted everywhere from what's right in front of you the whole time.
It's all told in flashbacks by the guy as he sits covered in crosses in a nuthouse (one of the most striking visuals of the film), and while I remember little about the details, it's all very well done.
Heavily drawing on the work and life of H P Lovecraft, it has a classic twist in the vein of The Others, and Haunted, where your attention is diverted everywhere from what's right in front of you the whole time.