"I'm losing me!"

I can't even begin to tally up the amount of times I have seen In the Mouth of Madness over the past 20 years, but I can tell you that it's so much that I am actually a slimy, deformed, hideous monster transformed from the lurking evil within the mind of Sutter Cane, he's my god now.

The first few times I watched this movie was probably back in 1995-1996, making me no more than 12 or 13 years old at the time and it scared the living hell out of me (but not enough to keep me from coming back to it over and over again). From the early scenes of Sam Neill covered in drawn-on…

Sometimes it just seems a director is given one film in which all his unique talents come together. For Carpenter In the Mouth of Madness seems to be that film.

I feel that Carpenter is masterful at two things. Creating suspense and giving his viewer great physical gorey effects. He perfected the first in Halloween and the second in the Thing. In the Mouth of Madness is an almost perfect amalgamation of the two.

The story feels like the bizarre love child of Stephen King and Lovecraft. It deals with Lovecraftian madness and monsters, told in a narrative that seems to come straight out of a King novel. And weaving through this all is the deft hand of one of…

Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #21

I still remember the first time I ever picked up a Stephen King novel. I was twelve years old and I was at my local library. I was scanning the shelves when I came across this title that glared out at me with a strange allure, Pet Semetery. My curiosity was piqued. I pulled it down and flipped it open. Right there in the middle of the page was the word, "Fuck". I was dumb struck, I quickly obscured the word by half closing the book. I then looked around surreptitiously to make sure no one was looking, as though it would be patently clear to everyone within a hundred metre radius that…

Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt - August 2018

20. based on the writing of h.p. lovecraft 

Listen. This movie is about as 5 stars as it gets for me. It was that way the first time I watched it and every subsequent rewatch it just stays right at that spot because it never loses anything and it gains some serious nostalgia points for me. I was watching this in my room back in high school and my stepdad walked in and the man was a general complete waste of space, but he took one look at the tv screen and was entirely sucked into this movie so I guess for that I can say he’s not a total idiot?

I love…

In the Mouth of Madness reminded me a lot of the episode John Carpenter directed for Masters of Horror called Cigarette Burns. Both films focus on artistic artifacts that cause people to go mad, with the main difference being that In the Mouth of Madness has books while Cigarette Burns has a film.

With In the Mouth of Madness, Carpenter succeeds in blurring the lines between reality and fiction, sanity and madness. The film starts with a man called John Trent being admitted into a psychiatric hospital. Although he claims he is not insane, he draws crosses all over the walls and his own face. As he recounts his story to the visiting doctor, we learn that Trent was an…