You now realise Sam Neil is the first and greatest lovecraftian actor. In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, Posession... hell, even Jurassic Park deals with humanity facing giant ancient beings that ruled the Earth before humans.
Serious question: Has a literal film interpretation of Lovecraft (and I mean a full length film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness or The Dunwich Horror) not occurred for legal reasons or for the most obvious problem of Lovecraft's racism? People blatantly reference Lovecraft in almost every modern horror film. Even the Halloween and Friday 13th series have a cosmic horror element to them. It's just odd to me that no one, from my limited knowledge, has tried to capture a Lovecraf novel in it's entirety for film.
@@CorrosiveColin , there have been some films more explicitly based on Lovecraft, but I think a lot of his stories would be hard to directly adapt for a variety of reasons. There is a decent black and white silent film of "Call of Cthulhu" made several years ago, though.
@@CorrosiveColin If I recall correctly, Lovecraft's work is public domain, so it's not about copyrights. It's not the racism either, since most Lovecraft fans are passionate about the horror and don't reallt give a shit about that stuff. I mean, Stephen King or John Carpenter or Neil Gaiman never felt the need to distance themselves from LvCft's racism. I think it's really about how hard it is to work with cosmic horror in a visual medium.
„Vigo the carpathian“ was actually a pro boxer. That’s why he looks like an „ancient being“ that thick noseridge wasn’t made by nature but by many sculptors hands
The idea of John Carpenter scooping cigarettes in a bag like candy, while the clerk says "You're my favorite customer" ala The Room, made me laugh harder than I have in awhile. XD
@gatheringoflight You would like the laugh at the end of FROM BEYOND, another lovecraftian movie. you owe it to yourself to look it up! "It ate him! jajaja
When he mentioned the "new mummy movie," I thought he was talking about the Brendan Fraser movie from the late 90s. I forgot the Tom Cruise one existed, too.
That's because Tom's Cruise The Mummy can pretty much pass as just another Tom Cruise action movie and not a The Mummy movie. If you go watch the trailers, aside from a couple of seconds in them, you'll swear you are watching the trailer for a new Mission Impossible movie, not The Mummy.
This movie has one of my favorite endings. Carpenter knows how to end horror movies well; Halloween, the Thing, Prince of Darkness, and this one all have amazing endings.
I think they could make a "remake" of Prince of darkness in the vein of the Susperia remake. BUT reveal that actually it is a sequel and the events have been altered by the time travel dream and have it become a strange time loop
what do you mean spot on? To me that part always sticks out, in a bad way, because it's obviously dubbed and sounds like the 1990s "coming soon to theaters" preview voice-over guy.
The first time I saw this movie, I was 10 years old. I woke up at 2AM and couldn't fall asleep so I went into the living room and turned on the TV and it showed the R rating. Then the movie began and let me tell you, I don't even remember how I got to sleep after watching it. My mind was blown and terrified, and from that movie on, I've always looked at well-done horror with a special awe.
i saw it at around the same age and it really fucked me up..... especially the part where they pass that spooky old lady walking along the highway at night..... lol. Freakin big brothers, i tell ya. Still, good memories.
I saw a late night showing in the theater when it first came out. The theater was almost empty and it felt creepy when I saw the final scene with Sam Neil sitting in the theater laughing and then I walked out into a dark parking lot.
My dad was a car salesman in Toronto during the time and sold a couple cars to the production. There's a couple grey Olds at the end that came from his dealership. It broke new ground.
I love this kind of Lovecraft-stuff. Rational main character stumbles upon a mystery, tries to solve it, and it's just a slow descent into madness. I give it 4 out of 5 Cthulhus - Would summon ancient old ones again.
I think the title is literal, and mental like we get eaten by the mouth of madness if we don’t stop areselves from losing it, but it’s still all in your head, but i imagine it feels like being swallowed up in insanity.
Event Horizon is one of those distressing movies where we'll never get to see the full thing as intended, cuz it got cut up by the studio and then they lost most of the footage (Same thing happened to 1986 Stallone flick, Cobra) :/
I've met De Luca a couple of times at events hosted through my university. He actually hates this movie pretty intensely and said it was the thing that proved to him that he shouldn't be a writer and should go into producing. I only found this out after saying how much I gushed about this film right when I met him. Needless to say, he avoided me like the plague every time I would see him after.
Let's be honest, this is the closest thing ever to a Lovecraftian movie we will ever get. John Carpenter did a good job adapting this to the screen. I liked it
HOLY SHIT 24:32 this was the movie i've been looking for since my childhood!!! i've been trying to remember this movie for 20+ years all I ever knew was this corridor scene, and this creepy man saying my favorite color is blue(and i think him killing protester for some book?) that's all I had to base my guess from. Thank you redlettermedia so much.
Nice. Nothing like randomly finding that obscure thing that you saw/heard/smelt as a kid. I'm still trying to find out that smell I got from my grandparents home. it's driving me insane!
@@ceresta1732 what type of smell? A food or The General smell of The home? Could be smoking. Lots of elder folks used too smoke inside making The scent sitt in The rug, drapes exetera.
So, funny thing about the RC Harris water treatment plant where some of this was filmed. I had just moved to Toronto and stumbled onto the plant while I was exploring the city. The whole building looks empty and derelict, it covers a huuuge plot of land overlooking the lake. Had no idea was it was, but it was one of the most ominous things ever. Just finding this place and walking along the grounds on a foggy afternoon. No wonder so many things are filmed there.
I saw that in a cinema containing only one other person, who I did not know. I resented his presence thoroughout the film. It was the best way to watch it.
Oof, all good choices! I dunno why, but John Carpenters Vampires always sticks out for me. Its like a poor mans From Dusk Til Dawn, but that doesn't stop it from being fun!
Fun nerdy ass fact(s) time! The cheesy lead guitar work in the intro (which I have always had a huge soft spot for) was performed by Dave Davies from The Kinks. Further to that, Dave's son, Daniel, actually plays lead guitar in Carpenter's live band these days (he also had a stint fronting CKY after Deron Miller left).
It's definitely a underrated film. Doesn't seem to be shown on TV much, and has largely slipped out of the public consciousness. I suppose people don't really count it as a "proper" John Carpenter film because, as Michael Allred said, it's one of his "director for hire" movies - he didn't write it, or do the music, just directed it for the studio. Nevertheless, it has his style on it, and (IMHO) underlines the fact that he's actually seriously underrated as a director of comedy. "Dark Star" is hilarious (IMHO) and the hair-loss segment of "Body Bags" has some proper laugh-out-loud moments. For a director who's mostly rated for his horror and genre output, he's a dab hand at comedy when he wants to be :)
People like to throw shade on “Escape from LA” I’m not saying it’s perfect but there is a scene where Snake Pliskin, Pam Grier and Steve Buscemi hang glide into Disney World machine guns blazin’ and I like that idea
I love this movie so much. The blue bus scene is printed in my mind forever. Also I randomly start to say Johnny! Johnny boy! sometimes and it makes me laugh.
I truly wish the missing scenes were found and put back into the film. It can't be impossible. EXORCIST 3 had the missing scenes found (I believe in the salt mines archives) and re-released by the "SHOUT! Factory" as LEGION.
i think that "liberate vos ex (insert RML reference here)" could become the ultimate comment section meme. Which is probably why they're not doing it...
Man, i would love if they someday re:view Event Horizon. Its genuinely creepy and somewhat schlocky at the same time (which is no surprise given that its directed by glorious Schlock master Paul W.S. Anderson, the man who did Mortal Kombat, The Three Musketeers and the Resident Evil movies), has a great cast AND, on top of it all, its a better DOOM movie than the actual Doom movie itself, in my opinion.
Aww.. they forgot to mention the creepy ass painting in the old lady's lobby. The one in which the couple pictured in it keep mutating further every time Sam Neill looks at it. The things they turn into reminds me of an even creepier looking "Engineers" mummified space suit in the movie Alien. With rotten brown tentacles.
I just wish they hadnt done the bit where it moves while linda is looking at. I feel like it would have been better if it was just different every time they see it
KNB effects is still existing as is and is operating out of Atlanta, primarily working on the Walking Dead, and Robert Kurtzmann FX is in the area as well, completely separate but still kicking ass. He just got the nomination for best prosthetic makeup for Haunting of Hill House I believe. A friend of mine who was on it with him says he’s a major hardass but still the best makeup artist he’s ever worked with.
Was motivated to watch In The Mouth of Madness after seeing this thumbnail pop up in my subs box. The title was familiar and I'm pretty sure I'd heard it talked about in the same conversations as other movies like Jacob's Ladder and maybe The Matrix but for some reason I just never sat down and watched it. I didn't remember it was a John Carpenter movie until the credits started. Holy shit, thank you so much for bringing me into this story. Incredible film - the ending is so funny and so scary at the same time, I was clapping alone in my room saying "That was crazy," to myself for several minutes as the finale played out and the credits rolled. Holy shitballs... excited to hear what you guys thought of the movie and am already looking forward to a few months down the road when I inevitably rewatch this movie and lose my shit all over again.
Yesssss! _Do you read Sutter Cane?_ I love this movie so much! Definitely my favorite Carpenter movie and also my favorite movie with a Cosmic Horror/Lovecraftian theme.
I've had one of those episodes where I've driven and felt like the road disappeared. I was driving to my parents, and it was late and raining. I was a good couple of hours into the drive when I came to a stretch of newly paved road. Pitch black newly tarred asphalt with newly painted white lines. Suddenly the rain got really intense and I turned the wipers on max but it was still a bit hard to see and then... Then I hit a stretch of the road that was so freshly paved that the lines weren't even painted yet. I saw nothing. There was nothing but darkness ahead, and somewhere the sky just started. There were some grayish outlines of clouds, but sky behind was also black with the occasional star. It was like someone just deleted the horizon and everything blended together... Really trippy
Dave Davies of The Kinks co-wrote and plays lead guitar on the opening theme music. His son (Daniel) currently plays in Carpenter’s band and collaborated with him on last year’s Halloween soundtrack.
@@ContinuumSpanner If you are asking about the song, "Insane in the membrane" if you are talking about the intro that used both the song and the scenes from the movie, "internet insanity"
I know want an edit where someone inserts Rich Evans laugh into that laughing scene. Similar in style to the "J.Jonah Jameson, but it's Rich Evans" video. Make. It. Happen. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
It's not about perception; it's about the author/artist being a conduit for these otherworldly forces. This is THE definitive Lovecraftian movie. Everyone should watch it.
Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" again on Blu-ray recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it - maybe even more than I did when I first saw it. Didn't realize, until the end-credits rolled, that the kid on the pushbike was a young Hayden Christensen ... but I suppose that name didn't mean anything to me the last time I saw this film :)
Love Sam Neil. Why does nobody remember he was grown up Damien in Omen 3? That was the first I remember seeing him, and it's been a long time, but I remember him being good in that.
@@coyotefever105 He tries to come off as charming in Omen 3 and doesn't quite work, but maybe that was the point? He is the devil after all. The scenes where he really goes for it monologuing are great though, the sheer outrage he shows. It's kind of a bold detail i didn't think much about before with The Final Conflict, but that's some next level hatred with the antichrist keeping a giant life-size crucified Jesus sculpture in his attic to mock and yell at every night.
As a Torontonian that knows people who worked on this movie, it'll always have a special place in my heart. One of Carpenter's best, and definitely my favourite Sam Neill performance.
I loved this movie! So...Lovecraftian. Also, as a Kiwi, I like watching Sam Neill in movies, Alan Grant was one of my heroes as a kid during my obsession with Jurassic Park/dinosaur phase. But It's extra funny for me because Sam Neill just can't keep up an American accent to save his life, if one did a drinking game where one has to take a drink every time Sam Neill slips back into his New Zealand accent, you'd die from alcohol poisoning about halfway through, it's sorta endearing lol
I love it when you guys talk Carpenter! You must do Prince of Darkness next, its a terrific movie. And Jay continues to be stupendously handsome. S'all good!
This and Prince of Darkness share Quatermass references as Hobbs End is in Quatermass and the Pit, while Prince of Darkness is credited to 'Martin Quatermass'. Quatermass was created by Nigel Kneale who wrote the original script to Halloween III.
That sad moment when you realize that you already know all of Colin's interesting trivia about the movie because you're a massive ITMOM/Carpenter fanboy.
I know this feeling. I got the Scream Factory blu-ray just so I could learn about the production and locations. That street in Hobb's End is Main Street Unionville, which is a 10 minute drive from my house. I can see "The Black Church" from the highway every time I drive downtown.
I have a very passionate opinion that if you slapped Kubrick's name on Videodrome, and changed literally nothing else, people would ride that movie's dick raw.
Oh please PLEASE *PLEEEASE* do a re:View on Zulawski's Possession. Arguably one of the greatest horror films ever created.. At the very least, it's still masterpiece of subtlety and quiet horror. That film is like almost just completely carried by Sam Neill's & Isabelle Adjani's *FLAWLESS* performances. A 10/10 -film for me definitely.
Critical Nobody I was just watching a “History of Splinter Cell” video and I saw your comment on it. I went right from that vid to this one and here you are! Isn’t Chaos Theory the best? And isn’t RLM the single greatest RU-vid channel? Loved your SC vid.
@@brandonthomas6602 Double Agent version 1 is the best.... didn't know that until this past year when i found out that there are actually two versions of double agent...
@@Pingaheimer I played Double Agent version 1 through the xbox one back compat and it is good, it great, even, but it doesn't beat Chao Theory for me, not even close. Chaos Theory has, to me, more cohesion, more consistency, and this amazing blend of atmosphere and incredibly slow stealth gameplay that puts it ahead for me. I don't disagree entirely with your opinion tho.
I'm always down for a crazy Carpenter film. When Johnny Boy gets weird with his movies, they're always memorable, for better or worse. In this case, quite for the better
In the Mouth of Madness is actually my favorite horror movie. :) It has everything, you get to watch Sam lose his mind, you have lovecraftian horror, it makes fun of Stephen King...its just good all around with the classic line "Sorry about the balls!" I like this so much more than the other films in the supposed "trilogy" Lord of Darkness (which I could barely stand) and the Thing which I liked but I'm one of the five people who like In the Mouth of Madness better. I highly recommend this movie for horror fans.
You two touched on every key moment in the movie except the very very very last scene with him watching himself in the theatre!! Come ooonn! Great review though, one of my favorite movies. Thanks
