‘In the Mouth of Madness’ Review

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to travel to Hobb’s End and ask if you’ve read Sutter Cane as we review the 1995 John Carpenter classic “In the Mouth of Madness”…

John Carpenter already built an impressive filmography heading into the 1990s but he realized after making “The Thing” and “Prince of Darkness” that he was unknowingly creating quite a catalog of work based around the end of the world.

When Michael De Luca — a film executive who got his start in horror films — handed over his script, Carpenter wasn’t initially interested but he eventually came back around.

Carpenter added his own flare to the story after growing up in a Christian home reading the Bible and realizing that some of the apocalyptic scenarios in that book were actually quite frightening.

Carpenter was also inspired by his love for famed author H.P. Lovecraft, who often wrote books filled with cosmic horror with indescribable creatures decorating many of his most popular stories.

In Carpenter’s film, the story centers around an insurance investigator named John Trent who is hired to track down a missing horror author, whose books have been known to actually drive people mad.

His latest work was supposed to be his biggest and most disturbing but he’s disappeared and now it’s up to Trent and author Sutter Cane’s editor to track him down and return the work to get published or risk the insurance company being forced to issue a huge payout for the missing book ….

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to travel to Hobb’s End and ask if you’ve read Sutter Cane as we review the 1995 John Carpenter classic “In the Mouth of Madness”…