In the Mouth of Madness

But I do have a costume.

It's Sam Neill from In the Mouth of Madness.

Cool.

So early and late in the framing device, where you see him in the hospital scrubs in the insane asylum.

It is book-themed.

He is just an author, I think.

Well, he is looking for an author in the mouth of madness.

I haven't seen that in forever.

John Carpenter has a trilogy of films that he calls the Apocalypse Trilogy.

You may not be familiar with them by that, because they were not marketed that way, but it includes The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness.

I'm a huge fan of the first two.

I saw Prince of Darkness in the theater.

It ruined me.

That is a super scary film to see at the time in the theater.

In the Mouth of Madness, I...

I think I saw that on videotape around whenever it came out in the mid 90s and I was not a fan.

So I want to hear, that was my number 11.

What's your number 10? My number 10 is In the Mouth of Madness.

That's also my number 10.

This is a great cap of the film, but I can feel the turn in his aesthetic happening around this time.

It becomes unreal very, very quickly.

Yeah, and there's some great special effects in this, but there's a really eerie, proper creepy sequence where he's driving along a darkened road and he keeps passing this kid on a bicycle until he gets up close to him.

And that... really weirded me out and I saw this film I would say in the year 2000 so it was like it was one of those films that I bought do you remember when you could buy ex-rental VHS tapes I sure do yes and I bought that and I think I still have it somewhere VHS of In the Mouth of Madness but there's an incredible special effect in it where All the monsters from the books are traveling down a corridor towards him.

And it's just this wall of monstrosities charging him.

have a good time.

And then over at Patreon, patreon.com slash worst people, your mental health episode this month is In the Mouth of Madness, also directed by John Carpenter with Mr. Sam Neill and Juergen Prochnow.

And at the $5 level of Patreon, Latchkey Vids, we're talking about Tales from the Crypt, None but the Lonely Heart.

I'm not even going to try it because Jack can do it much better than I can.

And I'll go through what we're going to do.

We're going to do Color Out of Space, which I've never seen, In the Mouth of Madness, which I've never seen, Lighthouse, which you've never seen, and Stalker, which I've never seen, and then Event Horizon.

Have you not seen any of these movies? Cool.

I've only seen two of them, so I'm excited to watch those.

It is Halloween 2026.

Tonight on the Lowdown Podcast, we catch up with Angela Glaves from Heavy Metal Therapy and talk about five more classic horror films.

This is the Lowdown Podcast.

This is the Lowdown Podcast.

Yeah, yeah, it took a lot of pressure off us really because she's a good laugh, got a lot of good stories and she's definitely an expert in horror.

Oh, yeah.

Excited for another step on our education because we have been total wusses with horror films in the past, apart from watching, I think you catch the odd one as a kid or as a teenager, don't you? Yeah, yeah.

But it's never a genre I've previously sort of dabbled in, other than, like I say, the odd thing where you're at a mate's house and they've got it on.

Scott in The Exorcist 3 this Halloween.

And one of my top five, John Carpenter teamed up with Sam Neill in the nifty In the Mouth of Madness from 1994.

Sam Neill plays an insurance investigator investigating, I guess that's what investigators do, the missing horror writer Sutter Cain.

And Sutter Cain is memorably played by, wait for it, Jürgen Pratznau.

Totally butchered his name, probably.

This dude is still kicking it at 85 years old.

And In the Mouth of Madness is so good.

I mean, I would watch John Carpenter direct Traffic.

Yeah.

He's the same dude from In the Mouth of Madness, the chief editor.

Yeah.

Always breathing through his teeth a lot.