In the Mouth of Madness1995
“Lived any good books lately?”
Directed by John Carpenter
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🏆 1 win & 4 nominations total
The premise
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
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When a celebrated horror novelist vanishes without a trace, insurance investigator John Trent is dispatched to a remote New England town that may exist only within the pages of the missing man's books. What begins as a routine investigation spirals into a waking nightmare as the line between fiction and terrifying reality dissolves around him. Director John Carpenter crafts a slow-burn descent into cosmic dread that toys relentlessly with perception and sanity. Sam Neill anchors the chaos with a gripping performance as a skeptic whose grip on the world he thought he understood begins to slip.
Content: Disturbing Imagery, Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Jump Scares, Depictions Of Madness And Psychological Breakdown
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