When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston), and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and find out the writer’s whereabouts. Accompanied by the novelist’s editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), and disturbed by nightmares from reading Cane’s other novels, Trent makes an eerie nighttime trek to a supernatural town in New Hampshire.
John Carpenter has made some wonderful movies. In the Mouth of Madness (1995) is not one of them. Join us as we discuss the many reasons this third entry into Carpenter’s self-proclaimed “apocalypse trilogy” falls short of his past brilliance. Listen as Johnny Has the Keys travels to the creepy little hamlet of Hobb’s End where, though awful things lurk, there is much more to dread than Lovecraftian monstrosities.
SHOW LINKS:
- In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
- Original trailer
- John Carpenter
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Stephen King
- Hellraiser (1987)
- The Ballad of Dwight Frye by Alice Cooper
- Ken Russell
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- L. Ron Hubbard
- NOS4R2
- The Omen (1976)
- The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
- It Follows (2014)
- The Devil’s Rain (1975)
- The Thing (1982)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Crouch End by Stephen King
- Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
- Robot Monster (1953)
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