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In the Mouth of Madness (1995) Rank 5 Reviews
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Bloody-Distgusting
"Do you read Sutter ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Bloody-Distgusting
Mutant Reviewers From Hell
"Justin," you say. "What is your favorite horror movie of the 90's? Is it Scream, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, or even Leprechaun 4: In Space?"
I will turn to you, before the police drag your body to the awaiting cell, and gently reply, "No, ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Appreciating Great Trash
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
San Francisco Examiner (David Armstrong)
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
John Carpenter was one of the genre greats of the 1970s and early 1980s. He became a cult name on the basis of Dark Star (1974) and Halloween (1978) and went onto deliver other fine works like Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing (1982). ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
ToxicUniverse.com (Jeremiah Kipp)
Bottom line, it's first class comic book entertainment, and a reminder that if he kept his nose to the grindstone instead of degenerating into a lazy hack (see his follow-up, Village of the Damned, or don't), John ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Jeremiah Kipp)
Austin Chronicle (Joey O'Bryan)
DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
DVD Verdict (Patrick Naugle)
Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Curious recursive horror movie, in which mild-mannered Sam Neill is sent to investigate the disappearance of a massively famous horror author (Jürgen Prochnow). Turns out Prochnow's Sutter Cane is living in his own horrific imagination, and anyone that ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Popcorn Pictures Review
Digital Retribution
Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Tucson Weekly (Zachary Woodruff)
John Carpenter's latest creepfest is a wonderfully playful mind-bender chock full of paranoid fears about mass hysteria and the death of reality. Working from a screenplay by Michael De Luca, the movie gives horror a good name, holding back on ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Tucson Weekly (Zachary Woodruff)
Movie Vault (Goatdog)
Movieprop.com: Review and Plot Summary
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Austin Chronicle (Joey O'Bryan)
Scifilm ("Dr. Mality")
BBC Films (Almar Haflidason)
CultureDose.net (Jeremiah Kipp)
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
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filmdeculte.com (Yannick Vély)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
So, why doesn't it work? Well, it relies a little too much on shock techniques, including rapid shots of prosthetic monsters to establish a nightmare quality that doesn't really take hold. Carpenter can't establish the kind of welling dread that ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Dragan Antulov
There are many great novels by Stephen King that turned into major disappointments on the big screen. It seems that even the film that tries to approach Stephen King through the parody of his work can't escape such curse. Instead of comedy we are ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Dragan Antulov
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Horror helmer John Carpenter is behind this painfully slow story of a hard-boiled insurance investigator (Sam Neill) trying to track down a missing Stephen King-sort (Jurgen Prochnow). The I.I. believes the disappearance to be a publicity stunt, until ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Admittedly, an intellectual horror story is infinitely preferable to a gory slasher flick, but In the
Mouth of Madness falls a step short of being a worthy entry. The final, missing ingredient --
whether it's a hero we can really root ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Stephen King has a lot of fun playing with the line between reality and fiction - his "Misery" was the story of a fan who takes a horror writer's work a little too seriously - and now ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The commercials for In the Mouth of Madness remind us that John Carpenter is the man behind arguably the best modern horror film, Halloween. However, despite what the marketeers might wish us to believe, the pictures have little in common except for a few ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
An unusual horror film which ponders what is truly real. However limp performances and ludicrous special effects remove this study of reality from any sense of it. Click here to add a comment. - - - - ...read the complete In the Mouth of Madness movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
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