In The Mouth of Madness

Welcome to Satanists on Cinema. We are your hosts Satanist Cameron John and Reverend Campbell. Satanists on Cinema is a film review and commentary series that is presented through flashbacks from an insane asylum while listening to The Carpenters. WARNING: This episode may cause disorientation, memory loss, severe paranoid reaction, oh and we’re sorry about the balls, it was a lucky shot that’s all. Welcome to our review of In The Mouth of Madness.

Discussion

  • Log Line: An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
  • Released February 3, 1995 
  • Budget $8 million
  • Box office $8.9 million (domestic)
  • the film is the third installment in Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, preceded by The Thing and Prince of Darkness.
  • The film pays tribute to the work of seminal horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, with many references to his stories and themes. Its title is a play on Lovecraft’s novella, At the Mountains of Madness, and insanity plays as great a role in the film as it does in Lovecraft’s fiction.
  • Michael De Luca wrote the script in the late 1980s and one of the first directors he offered it to was John Carpenter,[3] who initially passed on the project.

Cast

  • Directed by John Carpenter
  • Produced by Sandy King
  • Written by Michael De Luca
  • Starring
    • Sam Neill
    • Julie Carmen
    • Jürgen Prochnow
    • Charlton Heston
  • Music by
    • John Carpenter
    • Jim Lang

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Our Rating

Satanist Cameron John

4 Banana Stickers

Reverend Campbell

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