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In the Mouth of Madness [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actors: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, David Warner, John Glover
  • Directors: John Carpenter
  • Writers: Michael De Luca
  • Producers: Artist W. Robinson, Michael De Luca, Sandy King
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: New Line Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Feb 2000
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 078062856X
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,356 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The mind-bending worlds of author H P Lovecraft have long interested horror directors but the films have rarely successfully captured his nightmarish mix of madness and mythology. John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is not directly based on Lovecraft's work but screenwriter Michael De Luca draws his inspiration from Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology and then adds his own ingenious twists. John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance investigator recently fitted for a straightjacket, tells his story to a psychiatrist. Hired to track down the missing pop-horror phenomenon Sutter Cane, a Stephen King-like author whose fans are literally mad for his books, Trent finds the supposedly fictional Hobb's End. He watches the town collapse into madness, murder and monstrous transformations: the fantastic horrors of Cane's novels played out in front of his eyes. "Reality isn't what it used to be", deadpans one zombie-like towns person. In fact, it is how Cane writes it--but is he Devil, dark oracle or simply a preacher in the service of an evil that grows stronger with every soul his books convert? The script never quite gets a grip on the blurry relationship between fact and fiction but those details fade in the face of Carpenter's demented imagery, shiver-inducing twists and dark wit. It's more eerie mind game than straight-out horror, a portrait of a world gone mad, and Carpenter relishes every hallucinatory moment. --Sean Axmaker

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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraftian horror at its best, 24 Oct 2000
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This review is from: In The Mouth Of Madness [VHS] [1995] (VHS Tape)
John Carpenter may have made a few films which we can all hope he is ashamed of but this film like Halloween is a movie which will send shivers up and down your spine. With a friendly nod towards Stephen King, and a huge debt of graditute to H.P.Lovecraft - Carpenter here directs the viewer deep into a surreal and ugly world of the most pungeant gothic terror.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bizzarely Compelling, 21 Jan 2004
By James Cameron "Artist / Filmmaker / Nerd" (a world of my own) - See all my reviews
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John Carpenter movies are always a hit or miss affair...But In the mouth of madness is a definate hit!
Sam Neil plays an insurance fraud investigator on the trail of Sutter Cane, an imfamous horror writter who has disappeared just as his new book is supposed to come to print.
It's a slow start and the whole film has a slightly drawn out feel, but if your looking for old skool chills & thrills, this is a wonderfull "What lies beyond/Is this the real world or not" movie that will have you screaming for more.
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9 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars film in 16:9+4:3, English only, trailer, commentary, 16 Mar 2004
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This is a DVD review only, and not another film review without technical informations. The dual layer DVD (SSDL, DVD9, 7.9 GByte used, CSS copy protected) "In the Mouth of Madness", published by New Line Home Video in 2000 (product code N4907), has little extras, but the main features are good: 2 format versions (anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1, fullscreen 4:3); English language in Dolby Digital 5.1, and Dolby Surround; subtitles in English; theatrical trailer (1m 48s, anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1, English only, no subtitles); feature length audio commentary by director John Carpenter, cast and crew filmographies. To view this DVD, you need a codefree DVD player with NTSC compatible display.
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