Charlton Heston, David Warner, John Glover
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
DVD Release Date: February 8, 2000
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November 2, 2009Quite good despise it's flaws. Carpenter's last decent film and proof that you can create creepy material without the need of using buckets of blood, or making all your characters into idiots that give their backs to derranged killers.
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October 15, 2009The idea of such lowbrow horror spawning such madness, is a hard one to go along with. It's also never really clear how serious the film is about it's themes. The story of a man trapped inside a horror novelist's world is a great one for Carpenter. It means he can use all his ski...( read more)
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September 22, 2009As a huge Lovecraft reader, I think the best film versions of his work are movies like these where the script is essentially fantastic fanfic.
This film is hypnotically creepy and I loved every second of it. Mind you, in addition to my Lovecraft love, I am also fascinated with ...( read more) -
May 23, 2008If you haven't seen this yet then you're totally missing out. This is one of John Carpenter's best!
"The story follows private investigator John Trent whose specialty is insurance fraud. He is called in by a publisher to investigate the alleged disappearance of the phenomena...( read more) -
May 20, 2008Great ensemble of b-movie actors, and awesome John Carpenter special effects. Otherwise, it was okay.
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November 6, 2009This movie was better than I expected. An usual Lovecraft history and an ever awesome job by Carpenter. A negative point is the acting by the lead role actress. Some scenes she seems ridiculous.
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October 31, 2009This John Carpenter movie from the mid nineties is said to be his last successful effort before dedicating his career to crap like Ghosts of Mars. I?m not sure I can agree that this is a success, but it does have some good ideas, most of which can probably be attributed to scree...( read more)
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October 25, 2009As an aspiring author seeing this film was something magical and at the same time extremely disturbing. In the Mouth of Madness is not your typical horror, it may look like that from the trailer but let me tell you first hand that this film, as the title suggest, is pure an...( read more)
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October 23, 2009Love it. Not far from the truth about what this world has become in terms of following the new and popular. Every time I'm driving down/driven down a dark empty road in the middle of nowhere, I joke about how messed up it would be to see the boy on the bike in the movie.
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October 19, 2009Yet another gem I've viewed on the Sci-Fi channel lately. I'm so down with John Carpenter, that dude from Jurassic Park and HP Lovecraft. Good stuff. Anybody know if that actor John Glover is related to great Irish actor Danny Glover?
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Cheesy horror celebrating the power of cheesy horror, while pretending to be appalled. full review
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April 24, 2009I think the overall point was to represent Pickman's image. Mrs Pickman was simply a stand-in to catch the viewer's attention. As the painting changed, so did she. Hobbe's End was essentially the typical New England town, but as Sutter Cane's influence became stronger, even the "sweet old bat" had to be molded and changed like the clay that Pickman used to accurately depict the monstrosities that served to inspire him.
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March 10, 2008I TRY NOT FOLLOW OR DELVE INTO HYPE ABOUT MOVIES OR ANYTHING IN GENERAL WHEN I FIRST FOUND THIS I TREATED IT LIKE A BEST KEPT SECRET BACK IN 95' I SEE THERE ARE MIXED OPINIONS HERE I WONT SAY IT IS CARPENTERS GREATEST EFFORT OR IT SUCKS OR THIS AND THAT BUT I WILL SAY THAT THIS MOVIE ALWAYS HOLDS A CORNER OF MY MIND AND WAS SEEMINGLY WAY BETTER THE VERY FIRST TIME I SAW IT THAN ANYTIME SINCE MAYBE BECAUSE OF ALL THAT HAS C0ME TO PASS IN THE LAST 13 YEARS, STILL I LOVE IT.
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December 29, 2007I was wondering if anyone could answer something for me: On this commentary, Carpenter said that the old woman at Hobb's End was taken from Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model". It is a very scary story, but there is nothing like that woman in it. The only thing I could think that would be related is the painting. (Pickman painted certain creatures.
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