In the Mouth of Madness

A truly great Horror film from this decade...

The film is a little confusing, and you'll find yourself picking up little things each time you watch it (I own it...you just have to). The main plot involves a Horror writer who has gone missing, and insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill, one of my favourite actors) is hired to find him. The writer in question, Sutter Cane, writes about a town in which there exists a certain "evil" which slowly begins to take over the inhabitants of the town. His novels were reportedly so powerful that they caused some of his readers to go mad.

Trent and Cane's editor, Linda Styles, go off in search of Cane, and find a town which was thought purely fictional, and only existing in his books. While in the town they encounter countless oddities, eventually leading them to believe that everything Cane wrote about was real, and was coming to pass. In a confrontation between Trent and Cane himself, it is disclosed that the events are coming true because Cane somehow possessed the power to bring to life what he wrote, and not because they were occurring on their own.

In a mad and desperate attempt to leave the town and what he had seen behind them, Trent who was reluctant to believe that Cane's novels were more than fiction, is forced to change his opinion, as everything around him becomes virtually beyond his control.

The movie raises an interesting point: What is "insane" exactly? We are only "sane" because we are the majority. If what we consider to be insane suddenly overwhelmed the sane in numbers, we would find ourselves in quite a different situation...And what would it be like to be the "last one" left thinking rationally in a world gone mad??....This movie is definitely worth the couple of bucks to rent, or even buy it.

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