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Summary: Great scary movie!
Review: I really liked this movie, it was very intense. My heart was pumping like crazy from start to finnish. I don't think i've seen a more scary movie; although i am new to the horror genre. My brother recommended this movie to me, so i went out and bought it for him, then one for me. I took it home, and i think it may be one of my favorites. It had a very dark atmosphere in the movie, and Sam Neill has to be one of the best horror movie actors out there, his presents in this movie is very erie. My paragraph so far is a little dodgy, but that's because i dont want to give anything away. Sam Niell in this movie plays a sceptical insurrance guy trying to find this author that disappeared. He plays being the sceptic very very well. There always has to be a good explaination for the stuff that is happening to people.
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Summary: My favorite color is blue.
Review: CARPENTER. This little gem is arguably one of his best flicks and most certainly his last best (as of this review). The plot goes something like this; insurance investigator SAM NEILL goes on a road trip with the chick from FRIGHT NIGHT 2 to a New England chalet called HOBB'S END to find a missing horror writer named SUTTER CANE (great name) and encounter all kinds of weird s@#t including greasy monsters from beyond and HAPPY GILMORE's grandma going hog wild on her handcuffed husband with a meat cleaver. This is a great flick. SAM NEILL is superb as always and CARPENTER is at the top of his game, weaving an intricate puzzle of a film, leaving you to decide what really went down. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS has some great creepy-crawly moments that are rolled into a solid horror film for thinking movie watchers. Excellently twisted.
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Summary: True madness...
Review: This film always makes my mind whirl. It still makes me dizzy to think that the book within the movie is the movie itself...it creates an indefinate and madenning loop. It's so madenning, I should see it again right now!!!!! Excuse me... This film is certainly worthy of mention. John Carpenter's usual style is evident in this movie, along with his usual amount of gore (not as bad as "The Thing", though). There's a more modern twist to the style, with numerous fast-cut images. In addition, I love the music that John Carpenter created for this film, especially the rock and roll title song. It sets a good mood. The film's premise simply deals with the idea of slurring reality and fantasy. The two worlds blend together at Hobb's End, and are completely united when the door of monsters is opened. A whole army of unnatural beasts usher forth from an abyssal tear in reality and consume the whole world in madness, while madness itself makes people into monsters. There's little to be said about the characters. The author Sutter Cane is the most interesting, as he represents the demonic character to usher in doom. Trent is a stubborn fraud investigator who doesn't believe what he sees is real (further blurring the distinction between reality and fantasy). There's little else to be said about it. It's simply a fascinating and engaging journey through madness, exemplified by the union of reality and fantasy. What could be more madenning than not knowing if anything is real or not?
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Summary: Horror film? THIS IS IT!
Review: Horror is my genre; Carpenter is my director and Mouth is the most spine tingling movie in the past 20 years. This is the most under-rated of all Carpenter classics and is not well heard of by the general public. This film starts with a great story and John Carpenter takes it to the level only his fans can appreciate. Mouth begs to be seen by anyone who likes a scare, but thrives on us horror freaks. If you haven't seen this film you are out of the loop. I have heard many renowned film "critics" say that not only is this Carpenter's best work ,but also it is the best of the over looked films. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.Trust me.
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Summary: Shiver-Inducing Carpenter Chills
Review: In the Mouth of Madness was one of our favorite movies to watch in college. Never had I seen so many guys in their 20s tremble like babies in the same room (not including finals week). I watched this with my brother who jumped three or four times, insisted he thought it wasn't that scary, and forced us to immediately watch Deuce Bigalow after the movie was over. This is probably Carpenter's scariest movie since The Thing. It's a great tribute to the work of H.P. Lovecraft (as many reviewers have already pointed out), and Carpenter seems to have a ball playing with Lovecraft's sense of nightmarish reality (or rather unreality?). What's real, and what isn't? What's fact, and what's fiction? These are the themes that Carpenter hits upon, but to be honest, I didn't feel that they were fully addressed. But the movie's more about chills and thrills than anything else, and Carpenter has some great moments in the film: a creepy old man on a bicycle, a painting on the wall that seems to change appearance, the sweet old lady who runs the hotel... actually, she's not that scary... (gulp!) Sam Neil puts in a good performance. He's not all that sympathetic, but I don't think he's supposed to be (at least, not at first). He goes through most of the movie insisting "this isn't real!" and while that gets to be tiring after a while, I realize that anyone who went through the kind of insane voodoo that this character goes through... well, they would probably be in a state of denial as well. One problem: Carpenter has said that he felt the first cut of this film ran flat. There are several montages in the film, where Carpenter uses bits and pieces of scenes from the film over-and-over again. I can't help but wonder if these montages are what he used to spice up the film. I found them distracting, and I didn't like it. Overall, a great creepy movie. Carpenter fans, Lovecraft fans, and fans of good horror will probably approve. The DVD also includes a Carpenter commentary track.
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Summary: Frosted insanity-flavored goodness
Review: I love this movie. Why? Because it's cool. It's Lovecraftian; it's got slimy, pulsating monsters. It's got that guy from Event Horizon (that guy rules), and it's the only movie in history where a chick eats a set of keys. Much like a Lovecraft story, it starts off in a mental hospital, where John Trent, insurance fraud investigator, has just been committed. Purely in the interest of topping off the fruity pebbles surreal-o-meter, they're playing the Carpenters on the intercom. (Whoh boy.) On the outside, the world is complete chaos, and a guy, ostensibly some figure of authority, comes in to get Trent's story. The whole thing begins with the disappearance of the writer Sutter Cane, a horror pulp messiah with droves of crazed fans. Cane's publishing house files an insurance claim over the disappearance, and Trent is called in to debunk it. Almost immediately, he's attacked by a bloody-eyed axe-carrying lunatic that turns out to be Cane's literary agent. Trent talks to the people at the publishing house, and decides the fix is in. He buys all of Cane's books, falls backwards into a couple of nasty nightmares, and then discerns the scheme at work. Taking all of the book cover illustrations, cutting and puzzle-piecing them together, he gets a map leading to a fictional place, Hobb's End, the location of one of Cane's stories. Joined by Cane's editor, this chick named Linda (it's that vampire from Fright Night 2), he sets out to find Hobb's End---believing the whole thing to be a cleverly disguised book promotion the whole time. The way to Hobb's End crosses a dimensional boundry, and the town is just like the one from the story. Trent, a diehard Flat-Earther, rooted in reality, remains unmoved while ghoulish things begin happening. And you know, despite every other thing, it was watching that chick eat his car keys that really turned him upside down. Eventually, he meets Cane, who's fallen in league with a noxious race of entities not unlike the Old Ones---creatures that had once populated the world before being banished to an abyss. It's the crazed psychic force of the readers, the believers, that will enable the monsters to reenter the earthly sphere. This madness strikes like a contagion, drawing in both the mind and body, encorporating its sufferers into one gigantic story manipulated by Cane---at the behest of his "new publishers", a bunch of slimy monsters like drinking buddies to Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. Trent tries running, but he's now part of the story too, and there's nowhere for him to run. When he finally makes it back, he discovers, to his horror, that reality is much less substantial than he remembered. At that point, I guess you'd say, he's welcomed into the mouth of madness. This movie rules. I mean, Carpenter has done some cool ones, like Halloween and the Fog, but this is my favorite one. Monsters, baby, monsters. I keep this one on my shelf alongside The Dunwich Horror and Dagon. Two big fat thumbs up from me.
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Summary: ENOUGH WITH THE LIGHTS!
Review: Okay, you don't need me to tell you how good this movie is. Eiher you know that now, or the other reviews will help you see that. But somebody HAD to tell the world: The commentary on this DVD is AWFUL. It's the most boring, pointless commentary I've ever seen. In it, Carpenter talks to the dude who did the lights through the whole movie and ALL they talk about the whole time is the lighting. It's truly truly bad. Buy this if you love the movie, but NOT for the commentary.
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Summary: I love this film!
Review: John Carpenter, Sam Neill, Charlton Heston, what more could you as for!
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Summary: Why John Carpenter rules!
Review: Sam Neil plays an insurance agent sent into a mystical town that only exists in stories...until now. Watch the horror unfold as he and his partner discover the true meaning of fear and evil.
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Summary: In the Mouth of Madness...
Review: ?ยช??articular terrible tale of fright, the nightmare world of a novelist becomes reality, & it is up to the publisher to find the missing author, that the horrors may be contained. But in order to accomplish this, he must submerge himself into the very horrors of the stories themselves. He encounters many wickedly confusing & uncanny situations. The only map out of this hell, are the books, & the key becomes his wits & daring. Wit the help of a devious companion planted by the book company, they both go through a maze of contorted existence, spawned by the evil genius of the Horror writer, who, incidently, becomes possessed by Lovecraftian demons. This is the second recent movie to come out about the omnipotence of the writer. For it is he, of this most noble of professions, that that create worlds & residents thereof. Philosophers lay down the stablizing foundation for others to persue their aspirations. Writers create those precious evocations that is reflected back upon. The fact that these themed movies are coming out more often, tells Me that they are finally getting it! At last, a return to the appreciation of Godflesh! The proles in the audience were speachless, scared out of their wits, & taking any consolation from the possible truth by laughing raucously at the jokes cracked by the characters, from time to time. From The Mouth of Madness is the top masterpiece by the great John Carpenter, who brought us such shocking epics like Halloween I & II. Nowadays, he is concentrating more on psychological-horror, rather than slasher flicks. Which is a brilliant move, since the eustress of mere entertainment crosses over into the space of the viewer, & creates a bit of distress. The impression one derives from this newest cinematic assault, id the pervasive possibility of all. What if it were true? It SEEMS completely plausible, & how do you know that this life is not just the imagination-child of a writer? How can you tell that you are not just a character invented to act in a story? In any case, xians seem to think so. Their invisible friend, "jesus", & their castles in the sky..... I would rename this type of movie, a Parapsychological-Thriller, because of its supernatural facts. It is a reflection of the Microcosm upon the sphere of one's personal universe. {Microcosm=Universe / Macrocosm=Omniverse}. The major morale of the story, Satanically speaking, is that Man is God. Whatever a Superior Mind can invoke, can & does become manifest. The scale of the creation depending upon the multifusion of believers. This therefore, produces a dimension, which can be tapped into by emotionally-charged output; intigration of belief. For those who are easily susceptible to suggestion, go see this movie! For those of you who enjoy a marvellously stimulating night out, there it is. From The Mouth Of Madness is a valuable gem of parapsychologic knowledge to those who can recognize it.
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