{"id":162658625,"date":"2026-07-13T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658625"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:10:14","slug":"23-filmrec-in-the-mouth-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658625","title":{"rendered":"#23 FILMREC: IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We lost a real one today and so I gotta recommend In The Mouth Of Madness<\/strong><\/em>(1994), directed by John Carpenter and starring Sam Neill. The film is a cosmic horror film that tells the story of an insurance investigator who is hired by a publisher to track down a horror author. I’m not going to go further than that, but feel free to read the synopsis on Wikipedia<\/a> and tell me you don’t want to watch that story. Shit is wild.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I would not say this is a movie for the casual horror viewer, but it’s not too extreme either. It is very surreal and disorienting, with all the charm of a quality Carpenter film and a truly incredible performance by Neill. It’s a frame story, so you know exactly where the character is going to end up, but the journey there and beyond is continually surprising and fun. I personally think this is one of John Carpenter’s very best films and the story does the “author’s fiction blending with reality” trope better than any I have ever seen. Eat shit, Cellar Dweller<\/a><\/em>! Stephen King wishes he wrote this shit, but instead he made The Dark Half<\/a><\/em>, which is just okay.

I’m not one to mourn people I don’t actually know, but Sam Neill really was a special actor. I know I am going to explore more of his filmography and I hope you check this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We lost a real one today and so I gotta recommend In The Mouth Of Madness(1994), directed by John Carpenter and starring Sam Neill. The film is a cosmic horror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162658625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-nothingness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162658625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162658628,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658625\/revisions\/162658628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162658625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162658625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162658625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}