150 Words About . . .In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
by James Newman
John Carpenter was once the undisputed master of horror. Sadly, In the Mouth of Madness was his last great film. This one’s about a horror author whose work drives his fans to commit acts of murder and mayhem (hey, it happens). When said writer goes missing, an insurance investigator — played by genre fave Sam Neil — is hired by the writer’s publisher to find him. Before long, the hunter becomes the hunted, the lines between fiction and reality blur, and it’s the end of the world as we know it. Featuring some of J.C.’s creepiest imagery since a dude’s head sprouted spider legs and scrabbled across the floor of an arctic outpost, ‘Madness is worth a watch if only for the Black Church. Don’t get me started on that sweet old lady (Happy Gilmore’s grandma!) and what she gets up to when no one’s looking . . .
