
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems.... (Full plot summary below)
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With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems.
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| The Blogging BansheeMolly HeneryIn the Mouth of Madness is another marvelous work of art by John Carpenter, albeit a lesser known work. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA real, honest-to-goodness horror film, not a gore film or a goofy comedy. |
| Austin ChronicleJoey O'BryanAll in all, In the Mouth of Madness is a fun, clever horror picture, full of creepy crawlies, things that go bump in the night, and references to everyone from H.P. Lovecraft to Dario Argento. |
| Bryant Frazer's Deep FocusBryant FrazerGreat fun to watch, with even the requisite cheap shocks doling out a good jolt. |
| TheFrightFile.comDustin PutmanChillingly blurs the lines between truth and fantasy, between logic and the malevolently illogical. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn oddball homage pic to HP Lovecraft, while at the same time spoofing Stephen King. |
| The Film YapNick RogersDespite its otherworldly milieu, "Madness" taps into apocalyptic anxieties about real-world rhetoric - chiefly that it's turning virulent to a point where our collective cultural antibodies can't, or won't, fight off the disease. A fine horror film. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairFilmmaker Carpenter, working from Michael De Luca's screenplay, kicks John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness with a striking (and engrossing) in-media-res opening that immediately captures the viewer's interest and attention... |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillWe've all seen monsters and murders on the screen before, but what's terrifying is not understanding the very nature of the reality that you occupy. |
| IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellIn the Mouth of Madness features some notable special effects and maintains some of its unsettling atmosphere thanks to its subversive, cerebral ideas. |