Another one of all-time favorite movies, “In the Mouth of
Madness” is a wonderful tribute to horror great H.P. Lovecraft by John
Carpenter. While it doesn’t play on any particular Lovecraft story, the feeling
of the film and the themes it explores are mistakenly Lovecraft in nature and
style. It is also without a doubt a John Carpenter movie and is currently his
last great film as a director.
Sutter Cane is missing and John Trent is hired to figure out
where he is. Cane is a huge writer, more popular that Stephen King, and his
publishers are waiting anxiously for his newest book, “In the Mouth of Madness”.
Trent isn’t a big fan of horror, but as he begins to read Kane’s previous
works, Trent starts to have dreams within dreams about the type of characters
found in the stories. By luck, Trent discovers that the book covers are pieces
of a map and when they are carefully pieced together, it shows where the
fictional town of Hobb’s End is, the town that is in all of Cane’s stories.
Trent and Cane’s editor, Linda Styles, go for a road trip to see if Hobb’s End
exists, at least under a different name. They find the town and realize that
they know all of the little details about it from the stories that Cane has
written. Trent is under the impression that this is all a huge publicity stunt even
though Styles swears that it isn’t. But the longer that they stay in Hobb’s
End, the more reality seems to be bending at the seams and everyone in town,
including Styles, begin to fall under the influence of Sutter Cane. Eventually
Trent admits that something is wrong and that he is playing a part in the apocalypse
of the world as we know it.
Favorite moment – It’s impossible to pick one moment in this
film that is my favorite. Nothing stands out more than the rest because the
film, in my opinion, is running on all cylinders the entire time.
Perhaps John Trent is beginning to believe? Or not.
John Trent missed the apocalypse!
Sutter Cane's agent wants lunch too!
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