Desperately Need Help With Film
 

SEEN THIS FILM A FEW YEARS AGO, CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT IS CALLED

PLEASE HELP

- film revolves around a reporter and woman in search of famous horror novelist
- they realize the authors novels book covers connect to make a map of some small town in the middle of nowhere
-they go in search of him at night, the car drives on a dirt road in pitch black suddenly they hit a boy on a bicycle, you can constantly hear a clicking on his wheels
- in the small town they go to everything is screwed up, no one can leave
- theres a scene where they are in a hotel and talking to the owner an old lady, she is later revealed to have her husband tied up naked to her ankle under the table, severely beaten
- the church is guarded by someone with a shotgun
- at the end there is a scene with the main character waking up in a prison cell open and people have disappeared but their are noises of monsters everywhere, or something like that

anyone have questions please ask or know the film please let me no this is killing me!!!!

Into the Mouth of Madness

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/

the kid on the bycicle was Hayden Christensen (darth vader)

shot in Toronto and area.

such a good movie. :D

blehhhhhhh



:p

I kinda liked it!



Well, not really.



I liked it a litta bit!

i liked the commenary.


but not being a fan of stephen king - the last thing i wanted to see was a movie that basically tried to make him look like some kind of mysterious mythical lovecraftian magic man.

sam neil + madness and you guys don't like it?!

Bah, it's a good movie Urge, you have a problem with King and need to see a shrink. Maybe you read one of his books a while ago and got a little too scared? :p

not to mention Jergen Prochnow and John Glover ... 3 of my favorite actors ..

i just didnt like the story...

and on a personal point - the majical town is Unionville - just north of Toronto where my ex-wife had a daycare ... no fault of the movie but the familiarity of the surroundings really took me out of that whole part of the movie (as unfair as that is)

Sounds fair enough, it's almost like if somebody were to take a book you've read over and over and slap a cover on it that said something like "Spells and Incantations for the Novice". The cover may look great and people might be intrigued but you know what's inside. Or... maybe not.

well... it's more of a - suspending your belief - kind of thing.

something i normally have no trouble with - but in a film like this ... the town wasnt supposed to exist in reality ...

it's kind of hard to feel that way when there's a pub on the street you had a beer in before someones wedding once.


i felt the same way with Starman - (coincidently - carpenter again) where i thought that it was a real mistake to use Bridges - because he was playing the roll of an alien ... i thought an unknown actor would have been a better choice so i wasnt distracted by knowing who he was and comparring him to his other roles.

(which is why the 1st star wars worked so well for me - unknown actors - working their hearts out)

somehow in fantasy films - unknowns as leads always work better for me.
(look at Romeros early dead films vs Land ... the stars took me right out of Land)

Well, an actor is supposed to play a role so well that you believe them in said role. Of course in any movie you can say that it's just a man or woman pretending. Oh, and there were stars in land? ;) (Just kidding, I gotta give Hopper his due.)

i know it's a silly point of view - in most movies it really doesnt matter .. but then again - in most movies you really dont have to stretch your imagination that far.

for me it's like this ..

if a fantasy (horror/sci-fi) film is handled as if this thing is really happening (in otherwords - they take the premise seriously) then it just works so much better for me with unknowns - or at least unknowns in the leading rolls.

if the movie is an obvious goof on the genre - then i dont care - i just sit back and watch what the actor does with the roll.


i realize that none of this makes any sense at all ..

This movie came on Sci-Fi last night too.

It isn't a silly point of view really, just a little different than mine, I understand it completely though.