In the Mouth of Madness is about Sam Neill as an insurance investigator trying to locate a missing author named Sutter Cane. The movie starts with a bang as an ax wielding maniac attacks Neill, only to be gunned down by police. It turns out the maniac was Cane's agent, who went insane reading Cane's books. Neill's character (Trent) becomes convinced he should search for Cane in a fictional town called Hobb's End, New Hampshire. Accompanied by Cane's editor, Trent goes on a mission to find a real man in a fake town. From there, time bends, people lose their minds and portals to other dimensions appear from people's faces.
As the third part of John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy (which started with The Thing and continued in Prince of Darkness) it is also the least of them. Although I saw this movie fairly recently, nothing stands out about it in my mind. There are no great set pieces except for some interesting reality twisting towards the very end that I won't give away. The scares must not have been very scary and, if I remember correctly, the effects are kind of dated now. The movie keeps going a good bit after what you would think is the final showdown, but that's just another odd component to an odd little film.
I can't really recommend it but i could have been in a weird place while watching it. Usually, even late period Carpenter has something to recommend it.
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