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Genre | Horror, Suspense |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Dolby, Blu-ray, Widescreen |
Contributor | Charlton Heston, Frances Bay, Michael De Luca, John Glover, Bernie Casey, John Carpenter, Peter Jason, David Warner, Sandy King, Julie Carmen, Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow See more |
Initial release date | 2013-10-15 |
Language | English, French, Spanish |
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In the Mouth of Madness (BD) Imagine a novel so overwhelmingly hypnotic, so tremendously horrifying that it paralyzes its audience with fear and turns even its most sensible readers insane. When the author disappears, an insurance investigator hired to find the writer discovers far more than he could ever imagine in this spellbinding thriller. Starring Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Sam Neill ("Jurassic Park," TV's "Merlin"), Jürgen Prochnow ("The Da Vinci Code," "The English Patient"), Julie Carmen ("Gloria," "The Milagro Beanfield War"), Emmy-winner David Warner ("Titanic," TV's "Masada") and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Charlton Heston ("Ben Hur," "The Ten Commandments"). Directed by John Carpenter (“Escape from New York,” “They Live”).
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : NEWL1000393175BR
- Director : John Carpenter
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Dolby, Blu-ray, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 35 minutes
- Release date : October 15, 2013
- Actors : Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner, John Glover
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Producers : Sandy King, Michael De Luca
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B00DBNLAZW
- Writers : Michael De Luca
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,291 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #778 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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Part 2 according to Carpenter came six years later, with his "heady, post-graduate-minded Einsteinian horror classic," - PRINCE OF DARKNESS, a wonderfully inventive, thoughtful, if not entirely "logical" (well, isn't that the point of the "horror" genre anyway? "Abandon all logic, all haven, all hope for salvation ... Ye who [foolishly] enter here!"). In "Prince," Carpenter once again designs a "modern" world, not unlike "The Thing," only set in sunny, mostly upscale California, with a team of university physicists, radiologists, mathematicians, linguistics scholars, philosophers and a priest (underplayed brilliantly, as usual, by the incomparable, late Donald Pleasance) - pitted against a "secret which can no longer be kept" - namely, "Satan's son," trapped for over 7 million years inside of a weird, metallic cistern, which, creepily enough, "can only be opened from the inside." Triggered by a super nova perhaps (we're never entirely sure), Satan's son, having been buried in the Middle East long ago after his father was somehow, "banished to the darkside," is now awakening, and proceeds to slice, dice, and "water gun" its way through the team of stalwart scientists. Here again we see shades of "The Thing," with the scientists on the short end of the "magic wand" to repel it.
Now enter Part 3 - "In the Mouth of Madness" - the FINALE! Because the end is TRULY nigh. Whereas in parts 1 and 2, the "unspeakable beast" only wreaked "local havoc" (with major caveats), NOW we are, as a race - WHOLLY DAMNED!! And Carpenter makes no ambiguity of our fate. As John Trent (Sam Neill) muses ruefully from the sanctum of his padded cell to his pychiatrist (David Warner): "Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time of it. In ten years, maybe less, humanity will be nothing more than a bedtime story to 'them,' a myth they tell to their children..."
"ITMOM" is a difficult film in that so much of it is ... ostensibly random, "diaboli dictu;" many of the scenes underline incredulity, and the plot is ostensibly, almost irrelevant. What IS relevant is that the world is going to hell, and everyone who reads "Sutter Cane" (a not-so-subtle play on "Stephen King") SPEEDS along the return of "nameless, shambling things; The Old Ones" ala H.P. Lovecraft.
Carpenter piles on "the works" without worry of logic or storytelling coherence, because - as we're told - "reality isn't what it used to be anymore." It sure isn't. As Trent is on a bus back to Manhattan, Sutter Cane mysteriously appears in the seat next to him, and - because Cane is "God" now (self prescribed) - it is axiomatic that he can do anything. So he says to Trent, "Did I ever tell you that my favorite color is blue?" Cut to the next scene, where Trent wakes up, and the entire bus and passengers are gelled in a blue filter. Naturally, Trent screams and is awakened by his fellow passengers, who try to comfort him, "Hey mister, it's okay. You just had a bad dream."
Lots of clever tropes infuse "Madness" throughout, although this 3rd installment, by DESIGN, is THE LEAST easy to take of the 3 "apocalypses." Nevertheless, the brilliance of Sam Neill (remember him as grownup Damien from "Omen 3?") more than carries this finale. In fact, "In the Mouth of Madness," or so I have discovered for my own viewing purposes, has a FAR GREATER appeal to me NOW, on DVD, than when I first saw this film back in 1993 at the Theatre. Dark spirits only know why?
But it can't be coincidence that Carpenter laid out his trilogy - very numerologically NEATLY so. Every film, from "The Thing" to "Madness," was made 6 years apart (1981, 1987, 1993) - 666! Or, more correctly, 66... unless Carpenter's oevre up until "The Thing" might be considered his "first 6." Another trope. Another mystery. Another thing to make us go, "hmmmmmm ...".
But to be certain, as Sutter Cane (well rendered by Jurgen Prochnow) tells Trent, "My first books were something. But this next one is going to drive the whole world ABSOLUTELY MAD!" And the addition of late cinematic maven Charlton Heston as Arcane Publisher Jason Harglow, is revealing. Remember Heston's earlier career when he was in such apocalyptic roles as "The Planet of the Apes" could inspire? Coincidence here? In Carpenter's able horror-craft hands, we would do well not to question "The Master."
This one is for PURE HORROR ENJOYMENT strictly! Abandon ALL logic. The scientists and wonks from Parts 1 and 2 are probably all dead by now anyway. "Do YOU read Sutter Cane?"
MADNESS is the story of John Trent (Sam Neill), a cynical insurance investigator who has been hired by a publishing magnate (Charlton Heston) to locate their most profitable author, a reclusive horror-writer named Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow), who has vanished while writing his latest novel. Neill suspects the whole disappearance is a publicity stunt, but after reading Cane's Lovecraft-style novels he begins to be troubled by horrible nightmares, and at one point is even attacked by Cane's agent, who has evidently gone insane. Believing Cane has left him a "map" to his location hidden in the covers of his novels, Trent dutifully proceeds to rural New Hampshire to dig up Kane, accompanied by the magnate's attractive assistant Styles (Julie Carmen), but is shocked when he finds himself in the supposedly fictional town of Hobb's End, where Kane's novels are set. A series of bizarre incidents with the townspeople rattle Trent badly, but he's still convinced everything he's seeing is a show arranged by the publisher to promote sales (the 90s equivalent of "found footage" I suppose)...at least until people begin to die violent deaths right in front of him. Murder, however, is the least of Trent's problems, because it seems as if the terrible nightmares he's been having are actually coming to life. People are turning into monsters, time is shifting out of phase, and reality itself seems to be conforming to the events of Kane's latest novel. But can any of this actually be happening? And if it is, how can he prevent the demented author from "writing" the unhappiest ending of all?
There is a good deal to recommend this movie. Sam Neill is always a joy to watch, the great David Warner makes bookend appearances at the beginning and end of the film, and the writing is full of cynical humor and clever dialogue that messes with your head. It's true that it is occasionally slow and sometimes stumbles under the weight of its own efforts to be bizarre, but IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS Is purely and simply a mindfreak. While it more or less fails as a horror movie per se (aside from a few jumps it isn't really very scary), like EVENT HORIZON or even JACOB'S LADDER it succeeds brilliantly in acting as a disturbing cinematic hallucinogen. Using the imagery and reality-bending story devices pioneered by H.P. Lovecraft, it attacks the viewer at the most basic level by rendering things like sight, memory and a sense of what is and is not possible completely meaningless. When Trent, who is all the more sympathetic because he is so cynical and hard-headed (essentially the voice of "reason" in a film about madness) angrily tells Styles that what Kane writes isn't "real," she replies, "It's not real from your point of view. And right now reality shares your point of view. What scares me about Cane's work might happen if reality shared HIS point of view." And without giving away too much -- this movie is easy to spoil if you over-explain it -- that's what MADNESS is all about. What would happen to the world if reality began to conform to the imagination of a horror writer penning a novel about the end of the world?
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C'est totalement en accord avec les écrits de HP Lovecraft, le créateur de Cthulhu.
C'est sombre, âpre et prenant. On ne sort pas indemne d'un tel film.
Carpenter, une fois encore, montre qu'il est un maître du frisson et de la peur.