A film so in love with its set design and world building that it sometimes forgets to attend to its story, leaving the characters to literally mill about until the plot starts back up again. There are multiple times when the camera will hold on a scene while the characters walk through it, inviting, no, begging you to just take in all the little details. It’s impressive, no doubt, but the last thirty minutes of the movie I did begin…

The biggest compliment you can pay a horror movie is to admit it scared you; once the credits rolled I sat on my couch for ten minutes starring at nothing: In the Mouth of Madness shook me to my core.  

This isn’t the best horror movie John Carpenter has ever made, but it is by far his most terrifying. The end of his “Apocalypse Trilogy”, it follows an insurance investigator named Trent who is sent to track down a missing horror…