STORYLINE: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose…literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane’s mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb’s End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane’s twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent’s problems. (IMDb)

   In 1978, John Carpenter scared viewers on Halloween.  In 1981, Kurt Russell would show us how to Escape from New York, in the great John Carpenter feature.  In 1986, the iconic duo would also show cube a goers that there was Big Trouble in Littke China.  However, it wasn’t until 1994, that John Carpenter would take viewers In the Mouth of Madness.

   Tgis past weekend I attended a screening of In the Mouth if Madness, at a festival dedicated to retro horror and science  fiction films.  Joining with The Thing (1982) and Prince of Darkness (1987), In the Mouth of Madness was one of three John Carpenter films to play at this years festival. This being my favorite of the feature from the filmmaker, and the film I most wanted to see I eagerly got in line for a ticket.

    As I witnessed the film on the big screen, I was reminded of the themes of social paranoia and the influence of mass media.  The thoughts raging through my mind were what would this film look like in the age of social media.

   While rewatching In the Mouth if Madness, the H.P. Lovecraft inspiration was on full display.  After rewatching the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation The Whisperer in the Darkness (2011), I felt I got to refresh my baseline for Lovecraft going into the screen ing for In the Mouth of Madness.

   The film has all the traditional jump scares that I have come to love from a John Carpenter feature. 

    It was a pleasure to see this on the big screen for the first time this past weekend.

   Until next time I will see you at the movies!