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Michael De Luca (written by)
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Release Date:
3 February 1995 (USA) more
Tagline:
Lived Any Good Books Lately? more
Plot:
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 3 nominations more
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a big favorite of mine more (190 total)

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John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (USA) (complete title)
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95 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | Germany:18 (DVD release) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | USA:R (certificate #32596) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | UK:18
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The silly monster movie that Trent sees on the television was a real movie. The scene was from Phil Tucker's Robot Monster (1953). more
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Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Sutter Cane peels himself away to reveal the abyss, although most of his upper half is no longer "in reality" his shadow on the wall behind him remains perfectly intact. more
Quotes:
Scrawny Teen: I can see.
John Trent: Excuse me?
Scrawny Teen: He sees you.
John Trent: Great, uh... tell him I say hi.
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Referenced in Kammaren (2007) more
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WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN more

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35 out of 44 people found the following comment useful.
a big favorite of mine, 16 October 2004
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

Hey now, Sutter Cane is one of those writers where everybody is reading his stuff. In fact, they're mad about his stuff. So mad they're going absolutely berserk. And it seems he's disappeared, so along comes insurance investigator (Sam Neill) to find out where he's gone. This is one of those "life imitates art" (or something like that) kind of flicks, as whole scenes from Cane's novels seem to be coming true, including the small town of Hobb's End where folks ain't what they seem. This has plenty of weird and creepy stuff, including a bunch of eerie little kids running around, and nasty things tucked away in basements and such. A lot of this is borderline Lovecraft kind of stuff, and the more Trent (Neill) and Styles (Julie Carmen) dig, the more weird this gets. Any scene where a human body moves in an unnatural way gives me the creeps so when Styles walks backwards on her hands and feet with her head turned around it was quite satisfying, in a creepy kind of way, of course. OK, so there may be a plot hole or two, but hey, this is a horror movie, OK? I think this is one of my all time favorite Carpenter flicks, although some may not agree. 8 out of 10 stars, fer shure.

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