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In the Mouth of Madness (1995). This is truly one of Carpenter's masterpieces. This lovely little horror entry really caught the feel of Lovecraft and somehow translated it onto film. The sense of humor that was sprinkled about gave this flick a wonderful balance between subtle dread and fun. Sam Neill was awesome as the implacably suspicious insurance investigator looking to root our the perfect scam. Julie Carmen's performance was a little askew for sure, almost as if too stone to know what was going on, but it worked nonetheless. Jurgen Prochnow was awesome as the darkest of villains. The direction of course was splendid. The effects were pretty cool for the time, though for effect they could have been left a little more in the shadows to extract an even more subtle feeling of terror. Overall, this is a sadly overlooked horror extravagance. Mercie beaucoup.
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