Jun 10, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 11 segments
Do you read Sutter Cane? We're heading to Hobbs End to start the end of the world as we know it watching this mind bending gem from 1994. You can find us on Social Media Facebook Bluesky…
The movie opens with this heavy metal music, of course, written by John Carpenter, because he always writes the music for his movies.
Didn't know he could write metal.
And it slaps way too fucking hard.
Like, it sounds like
a Sandman.
Over this, we're seeing the credits and we're seeing just this printing machine, these close-ups of this very violent process, it seems like, of printing the covers for this book.
Tidal Trap happens with the book cover in the mouth of madness.
So apparently this is a book and it kind of starts setting the scene.
But then we get jerked right to a very unsettling room, a lobby of an asylum.
It's very sterile and somehow just a little off balance.
It's hard to really say what it is.
I think the guy that plays the head attendant with, like, the bow tie, I feel like his acting is what really sets the, like, unsettling tone.
He's so
sassy.
The scene itself, the design of this place is very art deco.
Everything is kind of flattened by all these flat, undecorated lines.
And so everything just kind of seems artificial, right?
Well, and there's a lot of, in this Kubrick-esque filming, where it's like perfectly symmetrical down the middle.
Yes.
Ah, that's probably why I hated it.
That could be
it.
Yeah, it just feels disjointed.
Well, also, this asylum obviously is very old.
The movie opens with this heavy metal music, of course, written by John Carpenter, because he always writes the music for his movies.
Didn't know he could write metal.
And it slaps way too fucking hard.
Like, it sounds like
a Sandman.
Over this, we're seeing the credits and we're seeing just this printing machine, these close-ups of this very violent process, it seems like, of printing the covers for this book.
Tidal Trap happens with the book cover in the mouth of madness.
So apparently this is a book and it kind of starts setting the scene.
But then we get jerked right to a very unsettling room, a lobby of an asylum.
It's very sterile and somehow just a little off balance.
It's hard to really say what it is.
I think the guy that plays the head attendant with, like, the bow tie, I feel like his acting is what really sets the, like, unsettling tone.
He's so
sassy.
The scene itself, the design of this place is very art deco.
Everything is kind of flattened by all these flat, undecorated lines.
And so everything just kind of seems artificial, right?
Well, and there's a lot of, in this Kubrick-esque filming, where it's like perfectly symmetrical down the middle.
Yes.
Ah, that's probably why I hated it.
That could be
it.
Yeah, it just feels disjointed.
Well, also, this asylum obviously is very old.
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