Heaven
Thesis
October is the coolest month. Here we have the best temperatures, the best sunsets, the best moods, and the best holidays (Halloween, Drake's birthday). If all goes according to plan, I'll blog ten (10) times in October.
The horror! The horror!
Horror to me is like the hip-hop of film - the genre most capable of successfully borrowing from other genres. Or maybe I just haven't seen comedy, romance, or drama do horror like horror can do comedy, romance, and drama. Some part of me has long believed that horror movies are the best kind of movies. I think it's the same part of me that cherishes nightmares and delights at being terrified when home alone. Movies that can return me to that same fright are special.
John Carpenter'sIn The Mouth Of Madness
[1994]
A seriously underrated gem from one of the masters of horror. This movie is all kinds of crazy.
Sam Neil plays an insurance investigator who is hired by a publishing company to look into the disappearance of its famous horror writer Sutter Cane (obviously modeled after Stephen King). Cane has gone missing in spooky Hobb's End, the town that inspired his fiction - or is it the other way around?
From there the movie goes all over the place. It cooks up its own mythology and goes for broke on its way to a doomed conclusion. There's a special sort of John Carpenter scary-fun weirdness that hooked me from the beginning. Despite its silly premise and magnificently hammy performance from Sam Neil, In The Mouth Of Madness never loses its edge. The effects work is spotty, but the mood is wicked enough to sell the scares. If you're willing to let the film lead you down its bizarre path, you'll have a hell of a time. One of my favorite horror movies.
It's available on Netflix instant view. Watch it!
Conclusions
I hope your October has been eerie and easy! I'm going for a bike ride. Take care, fam.
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