This movie does what so many wannabe-Lovecraft writers wish they could do. They break down the world in front of the main character, and let him know that once the credits roll, he’ll cease to exist.
I was never really a fan of Sutter, I always found it weird how he made a 20-page long orgy scene with the underage cast, I mean, would that really kill a monster? Jokes aside, this is a pretty fun movie.
Iirc it was not 20 pages long, but still uncomfortably long. I have no interest in re-reading it since Stephen King gives me extreme pedo vibes.@@g.g.moquete
*_"A good mystery always trumps a lousy answer."_* *_I do not remember where I read that, but it fits Cosmic Horror to a tee. It also explains why effective film adaptations of Lovecraft are so few and far between. Thanks, Loli, for bringing a few more eyeballs to one of those few._*
I wish Frictional Games understood this. The first Amnesia game gave us just enough hints about other worlds to be interesting. Then the later games starts to show and explain the world. I feel like that level of familiarity and understanding of a Lovecraftian universe is doubly bad.
@@frankfrankerson782 What's more, further familiarity and understanding of the Cosmos is supposed to serve to further damn a mere human, at least. Where, in new installments, the protagonist that you play (new or old) should start out a deranged lunatic, where death is truly one of the better outcomes. Ah well, Sequel Syndrome can affect any type of entertainment, games especially.
@@frankfrankerson782 Eh, I felt Alexander was already human enough that his alien origin never really felt Lovecraftian, so exploring more of his world just seemed like worldbuilding to me. The Lovecraftian aspects came from The Shadow and the Orbs it guards, which are still completely unexplained, while the Other World that Alexander came from was an incredibly advanced civilization that tapped into these Lovecraftian powers. Regardless, the Bunker seems to imply the series will be going back to keeping the Other World stuff in the background while telling each game's individual story, so they probably won't delve much deeper into the Other World anyway.
Ive always felt like in the mouth of madness really showed off how good of a creative John carpenter is. I dont really think any other director could pull off something like it.
Funnily enough, this video (along with the Bloodborne soundtrack backing it throughout) actually made me completely rethink what my favorite ending of Bloodborne the game itself is. Previously it was the ending where the hunter you play as becomes an elder god himself. But now? The ending where you simply wake up out of the nightmare seems so much more fitting for the Lovecraftian setting. You don't master the mysteries and become an eldritch being to reshape the world and possibly make everything better through your newfound power. Instead, you just BARELY survive it and live to make things only slightly better, as the rest of the world still ultimately remains under degradation and manipulation of things far, far beyond humanity. All you truly did to effect it all was just survive long enough to slowly realize just a glimpse of how things really are. But maybe with that knowledge, you can make enough difference to change things in the "real" waking world enough to lessen the influence these cosmic beings have over humanity, or at the very least prepare others to better survive it all. Nerd rant aside, great vid.
Pretty sure Yharnam is only affected by the hunt and the rest of the world is ignorant of the truth and just sees Yharnam as a bunch of crazy people. Also in the escape the dream ending everyone in Yharnam is insane or dead and you’re the only survivor and the hunt is doomed to happen again probably elsewhere in the world.
You know how your forget the dream you just had a few minutes ago? Since it was experienced as a dream, the hunter will soon forget it too. This can either be a blessing, as the hunter remain ignorant of the cosmic horror around him, or a curse, as the hunter will be forever stuck on a loop of entering the dream and forgetting it.
I think both endings are good but I prefer the turning into a God one because the idea that the player character has risen beyond comprehension so much that the p-layer himself can't understand him is way deeper to me than your other interpretation.
The bus scene is such a dark yet almost comedic thing. An elder god shows off it’s powers, not by destroying the earth with a marvel sky laser™️, just making everything B L U E. 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek!🇭🇰🇺🇸
Given the similarities between the plot of this film and Alan Wake, this is a refreshing trip down memory lane to wash out the bad taste I got after finishing Alan Wake II.
@@theOriginalRudeDude I would say so. My verdict on the DLC remains to be seen, but the base game was just a massive letdown. It was off to a bad start when I learned Remedy sought the consultation services of Sweet Baby Inc. to make their story and characters more in line with woke values, despite already spending money hard-earned across different projects to buy the IP rights to Alan Wake from Microsoft. They could have retained complete creative control, but this demonstrated a loss of integrity that I didn't see coming. Regardless, as for the game itself, the storytelling, character, pacing, and combat are a world apart from its prequel: the story is told in a very dragged out and convoluted fashion, much of the characters have diminished personality from their initial appearances or are just there, with Saga Anderson faring the worst, being a shallow, girlboss template with next to no emotional range, suffering much the same fate as Jesse Faden from Remedy's previous outing, Control. The graphical fidelity and atmosphere at least pull their weight impressively, even without hardware ray-tracing, though performance issues on PC left much to be desired. The mechanics themselves are a lot less precise than the first game or American Nightmare, leaning more into deliberately clunky movement to facilitate detailed animations and/or intensifying the horror, neither of which I believe benefits the fun factor, especially when the dodge mechanic doesn't work out more than half the time. The choice to separate Saga and Alan's campaigns with the option to switch between was neat in theory, but it results in a less cohesive progression in an already frustratingly fragmented narrative. The atmosphere and sound design can induce great tension, but the game relies far too heavily on jumpscares to the point where it becomes annoying to play. Finally, the ending just blows and is a blatant setup for a sequel that doesn't resolve much of anything that occurred beforehand. I will give credit to the one showcase sequence in Alan's campaign (you'll know it when you see it), and one particular video entry of Alice Wake's project that was particularly disturbing. Ultimately, I wouldn't want to play through it all again, as it took me nearly 30 hours to finish on normal difficulty without going out of my way to 100% it, and the game doesn't need to be that long.
@@kodybuffettwilson my estimations of Alan Wake 2 as a great sequel just frikken plummeted. The first one felt like such an experience, I loved the arcady gameplay and the story and the characters. I named one of my dogs Barry bro. And I was looking forward to the Sam Lake detective dude. Oh, and thanks for not spoiling btw.
I love how much of a parodial jab this movie is towards the Stephen King craze while also being an honest to goodness exceptional lovecraftian nightmare, only John Carpenter everybody
"Hobb's End" is un undoubted reference to "Hob's Lane", which was featured in Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale. Neale's works are heavily Lovecraft-inspired, albeit with a sci-fi bent.
Despite what people say about John Carpenter's work in the 90s, there were still some good hits that he made despite his supposed decline in filmmaking.
90s Carpenter still had some amount of talent within him, but after seeing "The Ward", I knew he had nothing left (on the filmmaking side) - that was truly a terrible experience ^^
Sam Neill, going from a 'Doubting Thomas' character to losing his mind and eventually giving up, is wonderful. One of the best Lovecraft-inspired movies out there. Really fits that style of cosmic horror.
Hey guys, in the time I'm writing this comment you can watch In the Mouth of Madness for free on UA-cam. So, if you haven't seen it and don't want it spoiled, you can watch the movie first and then watch this well-made review.
Cool personal fact, I cut the hair of the guy who did all of the special effects for the monsters in the darkness. His name is Sean Sansom and he's a rad guy.
I discovered this movie through the intro to Mr. Metokour series internet insanity watched it and now it’s one of my favorite horror movies.(just got further into the video and you brought it up )
This movie was his biopic when you think about it. Once an average dude that made a rantsona because everyone was doing it, managed to bump uglies with some of the wickedest people thanks to Gamergate, and before he got to the bottom of it he's dying/died of a mysterious illness that not even doctors can figure out. RIP, may the powers that be never scrub us of his memory.
Just realised that the garment with all the black crosses is akin to the garments worn by those about to be burnt alive during the Spanish inquisition.
I think scenes were bigger part of monsters than monsters themselves. Like in the driving scene, when at some point he drives over endless void. >best Lovecraft story is when you given just enough. I disagree. While he himself said that fear is the most important, the curiosity almost always is the main driver of the story. Stories are interesting, and you want to know more, which is exactly what a lot of Lovecraft protagonists feel. But in case of this movie, I totally agree, it revealed just as much as it needed, and monstrous creatures were never the main point.
I watched it shortly after you announced youd be covering it so i could properly go in blind and goddamn its great. I think the only way carpenter could have improved the ending is to actually end it with Trent laughing at himself laughing on the movie screen, with him facing himself breaking down. But regardless, still a wonderfully unnerving movie.
Despite the Apocalypse Trilogy not being narratively connected, I noticed elements from the previous films that were in In The Mouth Of Madness, tentacled monstrosities (The Thing), homicidal homeless people, an evil contained in a Church and a God opening a portal to unleash evil onto the world (Prince Of Darkness), In The Mouth Madness even used the same exact jumpscare from the end of Prince Of Darkness.
The one movie I've always wanted to see but never got around Love Eldrich horror, and The Thing is my favorite movie of all times I actually had no idea John Carpenter made it, that was the final push! Definitely will watch it now!
I thank you for covering my favorite Cosmic Horror movie. Like you, I didn't find it scary as much as I found it existentially unnerving, but I loved it, even the campy bits. It felt like a 2 hour _Goosebumps_ episode written for adults and I'm all for it. If you want a story that illicits similar sensations, I recommend Charles Stross' cold war-era, Lovecraftian novelette *_A Colder War._* You can't find it in independent print anymore but, there is a free and decent audio reading here on UA-cam by Ken Hunt under the same title.
Another youtuber made an adequate assessment of the "feel" these 3 movies in order (thing; prince; madness;). essentially: A sliding scale of the kind of horror and scope you're looking for, - 1: a purely physical threat from space, that could pose a danger if not isolated and destroyed; 2: Science & faith on the nature of an evil that may already be right under our noses (execution not withstanding); 3: Pure existential crisis - It's THE END. No sense, no hope. Only thing left to ask.. Do read Sutter Kane?
Didn't quite like this movie back when it first came out except for the great effects from those days that just has this timeless feel. But that's because it was hard to appreciate cosmic horror in a single title. As the horror genre had tons of cosmic horror titles in those days it didn't feel special at the time. Also wanst a fan of the strange horror dream randomness that some movies went into including In the Mouth of Madness. But reading and watching more Lovecraftian specific works, and more modern movies being watered down PG13 bs. It certainly aged well and I love the movie for what it is today.
Liked & subscribed. It may not be what Carpenter intended, but I think a valid alternate plot is that everything between Trent being admitted to the asylum & him being back in it near the end simply reflects the fever dream delusions of a mentally disturbed man.
Man I've dipped into more horror in the last week than in my entire life. First your Fear and Hunger stream sends me down that rabbit hole, then you drop this fourth-wall fuckery
I’m a big fan of John Carpenter movies and I was surprised this movie never got mentioned. I only found out through Mr Metokur. One of his best in my opinion.
I have officially begun reading In the Mountains of Madness. My journey into the world of H.P. Lovecraft has begun... ...wait, is that where R.L. Stine got HIS pen name? Was Goosebumps a Lovecraft series for kids this whole time??? 🗡️ Sed Tantum Dic Verbo! ✝️ 🇺🇸
Not much of a Carpenter fan, except Halloween. But In The Mouth Of Madness is really awesome. When they have Happy Gilmore's grandma as a crazy Lovecraftian monster was great
Exactly. It fits so well, since literally everything else in the film is a creation of Cane's, why wouldn't Trent be? Now, why would Cane do that? Because he's a spiteful man with godly powers over what he writes and he's getting amusement out of tormenting an idealized version of the exact kind of person Cane despises. Even just with the "Blue" scene it shows how devious Cane is and why I 100% believe he'd do this. He can wipe people from existence, yet he decides to screw with this guy's mind just for kicks. Destroying him is too easy for him he wants Trent to see it all, he wants a person like Trent to go crazy and despair as they realize their entire understanding of reality is false. Makes you wonder who did Cane encounter in reality that made him so mad to be this spiteful towards a figment of his creation?
God, I love the concept of this movie. The effects have aged but it is a Goldie in my books. I remember the first time seeing the spider walk as a boy and has always stuck with me.
It is truly cold cosmic irony that TAL:s comment "The Prince of Darkness didn't really scare me, it had cool ideas but it didn't live up to other trilogies movies" is exactly reverse for me. The Prince of Darkness got succesfully under my skin and gave me nice existential shutters. It had plenty personal horror by placing normal people against (kinda) unknown cosmic horror in a chaotic and claustrophobic place, with a good sense of rising tension and stakes. Especially those messages from the future were very memoarable for me. Sure it's not perfect but it's easily my second favourite Carpenter (or maybe I like the Esc from Ny better, can't really say). But the ItMoM just doesn't really have the same effect for me. The is just an underline of pulpy cheesiness that I can't get over with. Sure there is thematical point in it, as our main character is experiencing such novel play out in front of his eyes and there is much more going on under the surface level of horrors. But with out counting quite few exelent scenes, the movies just doesn't get a grip and molest my fragile psyche, but left me untouched and disapointed. With is shame beacause I still like it quite a lot. It has enormous potential which it couldn't fullfill, atleast not in my eyes.
Just a reminder for how stupid Rotten Tomatoes can be.... In the Mouth of Madness has a 58% score from critics. A failing score for this masterpiece of a movie. That or the failing state of mainstream film critics.... you decide everyone!
They don't want you to know that every main modern day event is preplanned, prefabricated and designed specifically to harvest spiritual energy to bring negative things into existence in the physical world that require mass attention from humanity
One of my favorite horror films and easily one of Carpenters best films I remember revisiting it and recommendeding it especially when those awful Twilight Books and movie were hugely popular because if how on point it was.
That was what I was thinking by the end of it. Does Trent actually exist? The answer: I don't think so. Perhaps Cane encountered people like Trent as inspiration, but I don't believe Trent himself existed. Cane made him to exist because he is the epitome of everything Cane is not, an idea in complete contrast to him, and he wants that idealized version of an opponent of his to suffer as they realize they cannot do anything to stop him and that his entire existence is dictated by Cane. Which also gives more depth to how spiteful Cane is with the God-like power he has, he created a person he obviously despises, JUST so that he could amuse himself to screw with him and drive him mad. (Or at least, I assume that's the purpose, because why else would Cane bother? Because he's laughing watching Trent go crazy.) Cane could have wiped Trent from existence at ANY time, that's how insignificant he is, but no he WANTS Trent to see everything, he WANTS Trent to dig deeper, and ultimately realize the total futility of everything he's done and all he thinks he knows.
i remember watching this as a 5 year old kid, then having an intense nightmare that night. i dreamt running through that same tunnel being chased by those monsters and woke up sweating profusely. i just remembered this movie through some short nap time and had so much trouble looking for the title, just remembering the part where i had a nightmare. super great movie. greatly appreciated my mom for being a horror fan and making me watch shit scary movies like this.
A day after this vid dropped I was at my local nerd store and I saw a bluray of this, had to get it after watching this and randomly spotting it, why is this the thing the universe insists on lol?
One of the best Lovecraft films that Lovecraft never wrote. Sam Neill carries this one and does it very well. Love this film. Oh! You should review Possession with Sam Neill, if you never have. Complete bonkers film
My take is that he is a servant of the Elder Gods, perhaps even fabricated by them, and that by spreading the corruption through his stories he manages to open the door to our dimension for them.
In the Mouth of Madness? Well, get him out of there, we don’t tolerate vore here.
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The furries have taken John Carpenter too…
THEY CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
@@shortbushero nooo
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AVENGE ME BROTHER
gross
This movie does what so many wannabe-Lovecraft writers wish they could do. They break down the world in front of the main character, and let him know that once the credits roll, he’ll cease to exist.
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Blankman?
‘Time is a flat circle. ‘ Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again. -True Detective
Even better because there isn't any scary squid face
@@fnot804 sounds like something dr manhattan would do
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This movie proves that John Carpenter can make a better Metallica song than Metallica.
Man their last album was so boring, i actually almost fall asleep listening to it😭
@@mycity7590 What's it called? "12 Tingle Triggers Guaranteed to Put You to Sleep"? Maybe it's serving its purpose...
Damn, I forgot that this dude did all of his OSTs as well, what a talent.
I thought that WAS Metallica at first
I was never really a fan of Sutter, I always found it weird how he made a 20-page long orgy scene with the underage cast, I mean, would that really kill a monster?
Jokes aside, this is a pretty fun movie.
For those who don't get the joke, Steven King's IT. In some ways, his brain was fried even before he caught TDS.
I'll take the elder-god worshipping l0 0n, over the self important, non c3y com mi3, any day of the week ^^
I haven't read IT in a while. Was it really 20 pages long?
Iirc it was not 20 pages long, but still uncomfortably long. I have no interest in re-reading it since Stephen King gives me extreme pedo vibes.@@g.g.moquete
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Yes.
"WHO YOU TRYIN'A GET CRAZY WITH, ESE...? DON'TCHU KNOW I'M LOCO???"
I appreciate you
*_"A good mystery always trumps a lousy answer."_*
*_I do not remember where I read that, but it fits Cosmic Horror to a tee. It also explains why effective film adaptations of Lovecraft are so few and far between. Thanks, Loli, for bringing a few more eyeballs to one of those few._*
I wish Frictional Games understood this. The first Amnesia game gave us just enough hints about other worlds to be interesting. Then the later games starts to show and explain the world. I feel like that level of familiarity and understanding of a Lovecraftian universe is doubly bad.
@@frankfrankerson782 What's more, further familiarity and understanding of the Cosmos is supposed to serve to further damn a mere human, at least. Where, in new installments, the protagonist that you play (new or old) should start out a deranged lunatic, where death is truly one of the better outcomes.
Ah well, Sequel Syndrome can affect any type of entertainment, games especially.
@@frankfrankerson782 Eh, I felt Alexander was already human enough that his alien origin never really felt Lovecraftian, so exploring more of his world just seemed like worldbuilding to me. The Lovecraftian aspects came from The Shadow and the Orbs it guards, which are still completely unexplained, while the Other World that Alexander came from was an incredibly advanced civilization that tapped into these Lovecraftian powers.
Regardless, the Bunker seems to imply the series will be going back to keeping the Other World stuff in the background while telling each game's individual story, so they probably won't delve much deeper into the Other World anyway.
This is one of the few movies that actually manages to get the feel of a Lovecraft story
In spirit
Ive always felt like in the mouth of madness really showed off how good of a creative John carpenter is. I dont really think any other director could pull off something like it.
Funnily enough, this video (along with the Bloodborne soundtrack backing it throughout) actually made me completely rethink what my favorite ending of Bloodborne the game itself is. Previously it was the ending where the hunter you play as becomes an elder god himself.
But now? The ending where you simply wake up out of the nightmare seems so much more fitting for the Lovecraftian setting. You don't master the mysteries and become an eldritch being to reshape the world and possibly make everything better through your newfound power. Instead, you just BARELY survive it and live to make things only slightly better, as the rest of the world still ultimately remains under degradation and manipulation of things far, far beyond humanity. All you truly did to effect it all was just survive long enough to slowly realize just a glimpse of how things really are. But maybe with that knowledge, you can make enough difference to change things in the "real" waking world enough to lessen the influence these cosmic beings have over humanity, or at the very least prepare others to better survive it all.
Nerd rant aside, great vid.
Pretty sure Yharnam is only affected by the hunt and the rest of the world is ignorant of the truth and just sees Yharnam as a bunch of crazy people. Also in the escape the dream ending everyone in Yharnam is insane or dead and you’re the only survivor and the hunt is doomed to happen again probably elsewhere in the world.
@@Vac302 even better. 🤣
You know how your forget the dream you just had a few minutes ago? Since it was experienced as a dream, the hunter will soon forget it too. This can either be a blessing, as the hunter remain ignorant of the cosmic horror around him, or a curse, as the hunter will be forever stuck on a loop of entering the dream and forgetting it.
I think both endings are good but I prefer the turning into a God one because the idea that the player character has risen beyond comprehension so much that the p-layer himself can't understand him is way deeper to me than your other interpretation.
Alan Moore in 2015: I shall make a graphic novel about HP Lovecraft bringing the Elder Gods into our universe
John Carpenter in 1994: That's cute.
The bus scene is such a dark yet almost comedic thing.
An elder god shows off it’s powers, not by destroying the earth with a marvel sky laser™️, just making everything B L U E.
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🐍 no step on Snek!🇭🇰🇺🇸
The old lady and her husband also provides a little dark comedy.
Blue like him, inside and outside.
Chat, would you pet the Shoggoth?
I'll do you one better - I'd smooch the King in Yellow.
I'd recommend checking out "Sucker for Love" ^^
how are we Chat outside of chat
That's a good Shoggy Doggy. Good boy.
I'd breed with a shoggoth.
@@arsenelupin9697 what's that?
Given the similarities between the plot of this film and Alan Wake, this is a refreshing trip down memory lane to wash out the bad taste I got after finishing Alan Wake II.
Oh crap is it bad? Alan Wake 2?
@@theOriginalRudeDude I would say so. My verdict on the DLC remains to be seen, but the base game was just a massive letdown. It was off to a bad start when I learned Remedy sought the consultation services of Sweet Baby Inc. to make their story and characters more in line with woke values, despite already spending money hard-earned across different projects to buy the IP rights to Alan Wake from Microsoft. They could have retained complete creative control, but this demonstrated a loss of integrity that I didn't see coming. Regardless, as for the game itself, the storytelling, character, pacing, and combat are a world apart from its prequel: the story is told in a very dragged out and convoluted fashion, much of the characters have diminished personality from their initial appearances or are just there, with Saga Anderson faring the worst, being a shallow, girlboss template with next to no emotional range, suffering much the same fate as Jesse Faden from Remedy's previous outing, Control. The graphical fidelity and atmosphere at least pull their weight impressively, even without hardware ray-tracing, though performance issues on PC left much to be desired. The mechanics themselves are a lot less precise than the first game or American Nightmare, leaning more into deliberately clunky movement to facilitate detailed animations and/or intensifying the horror, neither of which I believe benefits the fun factor, especially when the dodge mechanic doesn't work out more than half the time. The choice to separate Saga and Alan's campaigns with the option to switch between was neat in theory, but it results in a less cohesive progression in an already frustratingly fragmented narrative. The atmosphere and sound design can induce great tension, but the game relies far too heavily on jumpscares to the point where it becomes annoying to play. Finally, the ending just blows and is a blatant setup for a sequel that doesn't resolve much of anything that occurred beforehand. I will give credit to the one showcase sequence in Alan's campaign (you'll know it when you see it), and one particular video entry of Alice Wake's project that was particularly disturbing. Ultimately, I wouldn't want to play through it all again, as it took me nearly 30 hours to finish on normal difficulty without going out of my way to 100% it, and the game doesn't need to be that long.
@@kodybuffettwilson my estimations of Alan Wake 2 as a great sequel just frikken plummeted.
The first one felt like such an experience, I loved the arcady gameplay and the story and the characters. I named one of my dogs Barry bro.
And I was looking forward to the Sam Lake detective dude.
Oh, and thanks for not spoiling btw.
@@theOriginalRudeDude No problem, dude.
@@theOriginalRudeDude Max Derrat's game of the year, which gives more credence to passing on it.
I love how much of a parodial jab this movie is towards the Stephen King craze while also being an honest to goodness exceptional lovecraftian nightmare, only John Carpenter everybody
"Hobb's End" is un undoubted reference to "Hob's Lane", which was featured in Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale. Neale's works are heavily Lovecraft-inspired, albeit with a sci-fi bent.
"THIS IS NOT REALITY, THIS IS NOT REALITY!" A great movie, not the most amazing out there, but pretty great none-the-less.
4:02 RIP King ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Despite what people say about John Carpenter's work in the 90s, there were still some good hits that he made despite his supposed decline in filmmaking.
90s Carpenter still had some amount of talent within him, but after seeing "The Ward", I knew he had nothing left (on the filmmaking side) - that was truly a terrible experience ^^
Sam Neill, going from a 'Doubting Thomas' character to losing his mind and eventually giving up, is wonderful.
One of the best Lovecraft-inspired movies out there. Really fits that style of cosmic horror.
Because of your berserk content I will literally watch anything you upload forevermore
Hey guys, in the time I'm writing this comment you can watch In the Mouth of Madness for free on UA-cam. So, if you haven't seen it and don't want it spoiled, you can watch the movie first and then watch this well-made review.
The bloodborne ost was a perfect touch
Did I ever tell you that my favourite was Blue? - James Cameron.
In the Mouth of Madness is another classic from Carpenter, but I would've liked to have seen what he could've done with a bigger budget.
Cool personal fact, I cut the hair of the guy who did all of the special effects for the monsters in the darkness. His name is Sean Sansom and he's a rad guy.
I discovered this movie through the intro to Mr. Metokour series internet insanity watched it and now it’s one of my favorite horror movies.(just got further into the video and you brought it up )
This movie was his biopic when you think about it. Once an average dude that made a rantsona because everyone was doing it, managed to bump uglies with some of the wickedest people thanks to Gamergate, and before he got to the bottom of it he's dying/died of a mysterious illness that not even doctors can figure out.
RIP, may the powers that be never scrub us of his memory.
the sutter cane actor was in the original dune, das boot and... the house of the dead lol
Jürgen Prochnow is a great actor.
And in The Seventh Sign.
Bloodborne playing through the whole video, right on!
Just realised that the garment with all the black crosses is akin to the garments worn by those about to be burnt alive during the Spanish inquisition.
I think scenes were bigger part of monsters than monsters themselves. Like in the driving scene, when at some point he drives over endless void.
>best Lovecraft story is when you given just enough.
I disagree. While he himself said that fear is the most important, the curiosity almost always is the main driver of the story. Stories are interesting, and you want to know more, which is exactly what a lot of Lovecraft protagonists feel.
But in case of this movie, I totally agree, it revealed just as much as it needed, and monstrous creatures were never the main point.
Curiosity is the main drive but the knowledge drives you insane. The point is being given just enough.
God this movie is such a classic film, it really captures the true terror of cosmic horror.😺
Ooohh the openning with Bloodborne music was just perfect for a lovecraftian movie. Just a perfect tone is set
I just love how unsettling and how otherworldly the tone of In The Mouth of Madness is.
I watched it shortly after you announced youd be covering it so i could properly go in blind and goddamn its great. I think the only way carpenter could have improved the ending is to actually end it with Trent laughing at himself laughing on the movie screen, with him facing himself breaking down. But regardless, still a wonderfully unnerving movie.
THIS IS NOT REALITY. NOT REALITY. NOT REALITY.
This is reality.
~Insane in the membrane. INSANE IN THE BRAIN!~
[Internet Insanity]
Despite the Apocalypse Trilogy not being narratively connected, I noticed elements from the previous films that were in In The Mouth Of Madness, tentacled monstrosities (The Thing), homicidal homeless people, an evil contained in a Church and a God opening a portal to unleash evil onto the world (Prince Of Darkness), In The Mouth Madness even used the same exact jumpscare from the end of Prince Of Darkness.
One of my all time favorite movies! This was an excellent review!
One of my favorite John Carpenter's movies hands down! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The one movie I've always wanted to see but never got around
Love Eldrich horror, and The Thing is my favorite movie of all times
I actually had no idea John Carpenter made it, that was the final push! Definitely will watch it now!
I thank you for covering my favorite Cosmic Horror movie. Like you, I didn't find it scary as much as I found it existentially unnerving, but I loved it, even the campy bits. It felt like a 2 hour _Goosebumps_ episode written for adults and I'm all for it.
If you want a story that illicits similar sensations, I recommend Charles Stross' cold war-era, Lovecraftian novelette *_A Colder War._* You can't find it in independent print anymore but, there is a free and decent audio reading here on UA-cam by Ken Hunt under the same title.
Another youtuber made an adequate assessment of the "feel" these 3 movies in order (thing; prince; madness;).
essentially: A sliding scale of the kind of horror and scope you're looking for, - 1: a purely physical threat from space, that could pose a danger if not isolated and destroyed;
2: Science & faith on the nature of an evil that may already be right under our noses (execution not withstanding); 3: Pure existential crisis - It's THE END. No sense, no hope. Only thing left to ask..
Do read Sutter Kane?
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I did my homework this week and watched in the mouth of madness and i absolutely loved it thanks for letting me know about it
Gotta say this was long awaited, I love this movie and your reviews particularly. Keep up the good work man.
Commenting to appease our eldritch go Alģor Ithəm. Good tidying to you, Almighty
Fun fact: "Hobbs' End" is likely a reference to another Lovecraftian film, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT.
Didn't quite like this movie back when it first came out except for the great effects from those days that just has this timeless feel. But that's because it was hard to appreciate cosmic horror in a single title. As the horror genre had tons of cosmic horror titles in those days it didn't feel special at the time. Also wanst a fan of the strange horror dream randomness that some movies went into including In the Mouth of Madness. But reading and watching more Lovecraftian specific works, and more modern movies being watered down PG13 bs. It certainly aged well and I love the movie for what it is today.
Came across this one a while back on UA-cam free movies. In my opinion, the best Lovecraftian style movie out there
Ludwig the holy blade in the background, based
Anyone else feel like uploads have been slow? Like I know he made the berserk video a couple days ago but… I don’t know.
I recognized Ms Bay immediatly as the legandary Grandma Gilmore. Idk what you were talking about.
Liked & subscribed. It may not be what Carpenter intended, but I think a valid alternate plot is that everything between Trent being admitted to the asylum & him being back in it near the end simply reflects the fever dream delusions of a mentally disturbed man.
Saw your review right before bedtime
Proceeded to have horrible, HORRIBLE nightmares
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Thank you!
My head canon is that this whole movie is just happening inside Cane's head and Trent is based on an insurance investigator who screwed him.
15:30 20 years? Nah man... 30 years! The 90s are the new 70's
I like the Bloodborne music throughout.
4:00 a reminder to buy a hat for your hat
In The Mouth Of Madness is far superior to most modern day horror films.
And you even start with bloodborne music.... I come to you for all of the best horror stuff.
Man I've dipped into more horror in the last week than in my entire life. First your Fear and Hunger stream sends me down that rabbit hole, then you drop this fourth-wall fuckery
The concept is like a demonic Neverending Story. Hobbs End is Fantasia and Sutter Cane is the librarian.
I’m a big fan of John Carpenter movies and I was surprised this movie never got mentioned. I only found out through Mr Metokur. One of his best in my opinion.
AlmightyLoli: It's one of the scariest movies since "Halloween"
The thing (1982): OI!
I have officially begun reading In the Mountains of Madness. My journey into the world of H.P. Lovecraft has begun...
...wait, is that where R.L. Stine got HIS pen name? Was Goosebumps a Lovecraft series for kids this whole time???
🗡️ Sed Tantum Dic Verbo! ✝️ 🇺🇸
Not much of a Carpenter fan, except Halloween. But In The Mouth Of Madness is really awesome. When they have Happy Gilmore's grandma as a crazy Lovecraftian monster was great
I hope you make a video talking about James O’Barr comic The Crow
I always thought that Trent himself was a character chreated by Sutter Cane, which would add to the whole theme of existencialism horror
Exactly.
It fits so well, since literally everything else in the film is a creation of Cane's, why wouldn't Trent be?
Now, why would Cane do that? Because he's a spiteful man with godly powers over what he writes and he's getting amusement out of tormenting an idealized version of the exact kind of person Cane despises.
Even just with the "Blue" scene it shows how devious Cane is and why I 100% believe he'd do this. He can wipe people from existence, yet he decides to screw with this guy's mind just for kicks. Destroying him is too easy for him he wants Trent to see it all, he wants a person like Trent to go crazy and despair as they realize their entire understanding of reality is false.
Makes you wonder who did Cane encounter in reality that made him so mad to be this spiteful towards a figment of his creation?
God, I love the concept of this movie. The effects have aged but it is a Goldie in my books. I remember the first time seeing the spider walk as a boy and has always stuck with me.
It is truly cold cosmic irony that TAL:s comment "The Prince of Darkness didn't really scare me, it had cool ideas but it didn't live up to other trilogies movies" is exactly reverse for me. The Prince of Darkness got succesfully under my skin and gave me nice existential shutters. It had plenty personal horror by placing normal people against (kinda) unknown cosmic horror in a chaotic and claustrophobic place, with a good sense of rising tension and stakes. Especially those messages from the future were very memoarable for me. Sure it's not perfect but it's easily my second favourite Carpenter (or maybe I like the Esc from Ny better, can't really say).
But the ItMoM just doesn't really have the same effect for me. The is just an underline of pulpy cheesiness that I can't get over with. Sure there is thematical point in it, as our main character is experiencing such novel play out in front of his eyes and there is much more going on under the surface level of horrors. But with out counting quite few exelent scenes, the movies just doesn't get a grip and molest my fragile psyche, but left me untouched and disapointed. With is shame beacause I still like it quite a lot. It has enormous potential which it couldn't fullfill, atleast not in my eyes.
Legitimately my favorite horror movie
Just a reminder for how stupid Rotten Tomatoes can be.... In the Mouth of Madness has a 58% score from critics. A failing score for this masterpiece of a movie. That or the failing state of mainstream film critics.... you decide everyone!
They don't want you to know that every main modern day event is preplanned, prefabricated and designed specifically to harvest spiritual energy to bring negative things into existence in the physical world that require mass attention from humanity
This sounds like an interesting movie I'd like to check out.
One of my favorite horror films and easily one of Carpenters best films I remember revisiting it and recommendeding it especially when those awful Twilight Books and movie were hugely popular because if how on point it was.
The infant on Sutter Caine's back
Didn't Cane write Trent into existence? And that's the twist
That was what I was thinking by the end of it.
Does Trent actually exist?
The answer: I don't think so. Perhaps Cane encountered people like Trent as inspiration, but I don't believe Trent himself existed.
Cane made him to exist because he is the epitome of everything Cane is not, an idea in complete contrast to him, and he wants that idealized version of an opponent of his to suffer as they realize they cannot do anything to stop him and that his entire existence is dictated by Cane.
Which also gives more depth to how spiteful Cane is with the God-like power he has, he created a person he obviously despises, JUST so that he could amuse himself to screw with him and drive him mad. (Or at least, I assume that's the purpose, because why else would Cane bother? Because he's laughing watching Trent go crazy.)
Cane could have wiped Trent from existence at ANY time, that's how insignificant he is, but no he WANTS Trent to see everything, he WANTS Trent to dig deeper, and ultimately realize the total futility of everything he's done and all he thinks he knows.
i remember watching this as a 5 year old kid, then having an intense nightmare that night. i dreamt running through that same tunnel being chased by those monsters and woke up sweating profusely. i just remembered this movie through some short nap time and had so much trouble looking for the title, just remembering the part where i had a nightmare. super great movie. greatly appreciated my mom for being a horror fan and making me watch shit scary movies like this.
You definitely should review Jacob's Ladder! Pretty freaky like mouth of madness and directly inspired the original Silent Hill!
Found this movie for free on UA-cam and was surprised by the fact that it was actually really good
From what I remember cain mentions the crawiling chaos at one point
A day after this vid dropped I was at my local nerd store and I saw a bluray of this, had to get it after watching this and randomly spotting it, why is this the thing the universe insists on lol?
Damn bro i didnt know you make you good videos too!
Sam Neil. Under-rated actor. He's Kiwi btw, not Aussie
"I'M NOT INSANE!, I'M NOT INSAAAAANE!!!"
I love In the Mouth of Madness, one of my favourite movies, but only a contrarian would rank it above the Thing.
All I can say is I'm sorry about the balls!
I watched this on Halloween last year. It’s really a great movie!
The mouth of madness is probably the best lovecraftian horror movies imo.
The thing definitely beats this movie but I really like the effects this movie has
I rewatched it yesterday
To me Carpenter made the best lovecraftian movies..
The void was also good stuff.
But in all seriousness did you like the book?
One of the best Lovecraft films that Lovecraft never wrote. Sam Neill carries this one and does it very well. Love this film.
Oh! You should review Possession with Sam Neill, if you never have. Complete bonkers film
FUK YES!, I friggen love this movie.
Sam Neil’s crazy yelling is hysterical to me.
“The Thing” comics are awesome dude.
He shoulda requested Testing Groups!
Imagine if this is how Mass Effect 3 ended.
Whats the song at the end
The ending should have been the nations of the world nuking elder gods back home
Theres the full movie here in youtube. Its cool. But i view it as dark fantasy instead of horror. Im older now its hard to get scare
I was given nightmare's by this at 20. Not kidding.
Is Sutter Cain the eldritch god? I thought he was just a normal human helping them and is that Vigo the Carpathian!?
My take is that he is a servant of the Elder Gods, perhaps even fabricated by them, and that by spreading the corruption through his stories he manages to open the door to our dimension for them.
With all this Lovecraft talk, I'm anticipating the day a SubcribeStar requests Loli to talk about the Max Payne games.
This is my favorite horror movie ever.