John Trent
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Sep 24, 2026
JamesHOST
Hell yeah.
GaryHOST
Recanting his tale from an insane asylum, insurance investigator John Trent tells the story of his search for horror author Sutter Cain.
GaryHOST
John is hired by Cain's publisher to find the author who has gone missing on the eve of his next novel.
GaryHOST
Diving into Kane's work, John discovers that he has a hidden map to Hobbs End, New Hampshire, a fictional town that used to be called Derry, Maine.
27 MINS LATER
GaryHOST
You know how Hutz loves movies, James?
JamesHOST
Who's that?
GaryHOST
John Trent, the star of this movie.
GaryHOST
John Trent fucking
RaeHOST
Yep, yep.
RaeHOST
Um, and this is exactly what happens to our protagonist in this movie, John Trent.
WeenHOST
Sam Neill.
RaeHOST
Yeah.
16 MINS LATER
RaeHOST
... by the end of the movie.
WeenHOST
There are several times when, you know...
WeenHOST
So John Trent is set up to be this, he's a, an in- an insurance fraud investigator.
WeenHOST
He's an inherent skeptic.
SharlaHOST
Um, the only difference is this one was a little bit more guitar, rocky, and he's really known for, uh, synth music, so.
SharlaHOST
We meet John Trent, played by Sam Neill, who is being delivered by ambulance to a psychiatric hospital.
AndreaHOST
Mm.
SharlaHOST
And this guy is not doing well.
SharlaHOST
Right.
SharlaHOST
We get, actually at this point, we do get one of the movie's, like, kind of weirdly funny scenes where an orderly turns on We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters over the hospital loudspeaker, and then all [laughs] of the patients start singing along.
SharlaHOST
And John Trent, Sam Neill's character, just kinda shakes his head and is like, "Oh, no," like, "Not The Carpenters." And me and Marty were kinda joking, and he brought up, he was like, "Do you think that may be kind of, like, an in joke about this movie being directed by John Carpenter?" And I was like, "Oh, you know what? Maybe so.
SharlaHOST
I don't know."
NightHOST
Okay, at number nine, this one is, uh, kinda out of the box as well, but I love this movie and I love this character.
NightHOST
And it is from In the Mouth of Madness, John Trent, portrayed by Sam Neill, who in my opinion is such a great actor.
NightHOST
He's done so many great roles over the course of his career, and he's done a lot of horror, which is cool too.
NightHOST
So but John Trent in this film, he's an interesting character because he's not, like, super likable in the beginning other than the first couple of scenes where you see that he's being kept in an insane asylum.
NightHOST
So you're kinda like, "Well, what's going on?" And the story unfolds, you know, f- beforehand, and you, you kinda understand where he's coming from as the film goes on and on.
NightHOST
And you know, he's an insurance investigator, a fraud investigator, so you can see why he's very cynical.
Jesse McAnallyHOST
it.
Jesse McAnallyHOST
My question is, does Sam Neill's character, I believe his name is John Trent, and did John and Linda ever exist as real people, or are they only creations from Sutter Cain's books?
Liz EstenHOST
Okay, from what I can gauge being like this, my second viewing and actually thinking about this, John is not real.
Liz EstenHOST
John is a creation of Sutter Cain.
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - 02 - with Briar Sovereign
Sep 14 · 15 Mentions
SedaHOST
Maybe even you have three, maybe you have an always, a sometime, and a never, and all of them are about adding exceptions, which one of the things I'm curious about that too, specifically with is if you have an always that could be a positive development.
SedaHOST
Like I'm thinking of Trent, you have Trent basically saying, I always see the bad in people.
Jess LevineHOST
Hmm.
SedaHOST
And then you could have, like, I always see the bad in people unless something like this.
Jess LevineHOST
And how exactly we set that.
Jess LevineHOST
the horrors up, how do we still have a
Briar SovereignGUEST
feeling of, like, inevitable descent? I mean, I think the movie hands us this one, right? Like, the movie starts with Trent in a really bad situation.
Briar SovereignGUEST
We already know where he ends up.
Matt WallHOST
Yeah.
Matt WallHOST
coming soon is in the mouth of madness and all of these people are going mad because the book isn't out yet okay yes so much so that as sam neill aka john trent aka john the baptist just kidding, we'll get to that later, is sitting there at a table in a restaurant being pitched this idea of trying to find Sutter Cain.
Matt WallHOST
A maniac with an axe comes through the window and says, do you read Sutter Cain? Exactly.
Matt WallHOST
And then the cops shoot him.