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
Links
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/
- 7.2/10 stars
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mouth_of_Madness
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_mouth_of_madness
- 59% Rotten with a 73% audience score
Our Rating
Satanist Cameron John
Reverend Campbell