Review of In the Mouth of Madness (1995) by Sabra E — 22 Jun 2011
With enough elements to "scream" good movie, ItMoM falls a bit short even for a movie made in 1994, which teeters on the meridian of candy flick and serious horror.
Sam Neill plays an insurance investigator who embarks on a road trip with a hot babe book editor to find a missing horror genre author. Soon hallucinations run amuck ranging from grim to grotesque as the gore factor rises, and fiction eclipses reality in a town called Hobb's End.
Spoiler alert: everybody goes crazy...oh wait, that's explained in the title. Awesome alert: this movie is jam packed with stars. Sam Neill, that's a given; whether he's playing a dad (Bicentennial Man) a doc (Jurassic Park) or a jockey (Little Fish) he's all man, and that's more than all right.
Then you have Vigo the Carpathian who makes an appearance as a very helpful, diseased townsperson. The ultra prolific Frances Bay (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet) also makes an appearance as an ax murdering squid beast hotel concierge lady.
Last but not least, and don't blink, a young Hayden Christensen makes an appearance at the end of the movie as a newspaper boy who directs a discombobulated Sam Neill to the highway. Cute as a button tossed into a pile of kittens. On a bed of pink sprinkled cupcakes. Served on a doily crocheted with love.
This review of In the Mouth of Madness (1995) was written by Sabra E on 22 Jun 2011.
In the Mouth of Madness has generally received positive reviews.
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