It pains me to say it but it has to be 'In The Mouth Of Madness'. I'm a big John Carpenter fan, I used to read Stephen King, I like Lovecraftian weirdness, I like Sam Neil. It has a great premise: the nightmarish events depicted in a writer's best-selling horror novels coming true. It sounds great. But. But...I felt let down when it came out and I've never been able to get into it since. It's too hammy, too meandering and just too badly executed. Not funny enough, not scary enough, not weird enough. It's where the rot set in for JC's career but to be honest I'd even take 'Ghosts of Mars' over this any day.
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