Overview: Do you read Sutter Cane?

He chilled our blood with The Thing. Brought us face to face with the devil himself in Prince of Darkness. Now master of horror John Carpenter drives us out of our minds with In the Mouth of Madness, the final entry in his Apocalypse Trilogy.

Horror author Sutter Cane is missing. As crowds turn violent waiting for copies of his latest book, Cane’s publishers enlist insurance investigator John Trent to find him. With Cane’s editor, Linda Styles, Trent sets off in search of the elusive author and finds himself trapped in Hobb’s End, a town that should only exist within the author’s books. As fiction and reality blur, Trent begins to realize that between the lines, beyond the page, somewhere out there in the dark, something evil is waiting to break through.

Starring Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Julie Carmen (Fright Night Part 2), and Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot), with a supporting cast that features Charlton Heston (The Omega Man), David Warner (Time Bandits), and John Glover (Gremlins 2), plus sterling special effects from KNB EFX, In the Mouth of Madness makes its debut appearance in glorious 4K Ultra HD, looking deeper, richer, and stranger than ever!

Blu-ray Verdict: Personally, I think that this movie is the best and most faithful to the works of the late cosmic horror author H.P. Lovecraft not just in the appearance of the monsters and the plot ideas, but in the idea that we are all so small and insignificant to the horrible things that we have no knowledge of. There are a few flaws in it, but I don’t let them get in the way of a great movie.

The movie begins with John Trent (Sam Neill) being dragged into an insane asylum in a straitjacket, trying to tell the orderlies that he’s not insane. He is visited by Dr. Wren (David Warner), who is trying to help get him out of there. When asked how he got to the hospital, Trent tells him about his job as a freelance insurance investigator and that it all started with the disappearance of Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow).

At the diner, Robbie (Bernie Casey), who runs the insurance company Trent worked at, is at a diner trying to convince him to start working for him and tells him that there’s a claim that Sutter Cane is missing that cost millions. Suddenly, an axe-wielding maniac smashes the diner window and asks Trent, Do you read Sutter Cane? before he’s shot to death by police.

Later, Trent is told by Linda Styles (Julie Carmen) that Cane’s books have a mentally scarring effect on his less stable readers. He discovers a couple nights later that Hobb’s End, the town from many of Cane’s novels is real, and starts to see the nightmarish truth behind the strange behavior of his readers ... and his own existence.

This is a really creepy movie that deserves to have others similar to it, and a great homage to one of my favorite horror authors. My only complaint is Julie Carmen. I don’t remember much about her in Fright Night Part II, but her acting in this movie was really bad. Still, it doesn’t kill the movie, and towards the end, Trent says something that has haunted me for a long time: Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won’t have a pretty time with it. In ten years, the human race will just be a bedtime story for the children. A myth. Nothing more.

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 and stereo 2.0 audio options
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Archive audio commentary with director John Carpenter and producer Sandy King Carpenter
Archive audio commentary with director John Carpenter and director of photography Gary B. Kibbe
Brand new audio commentary by filmmakers Rebekah McKendry & Elric Kane, co-hosts of Colors of the Dark podcast
Making Madness, a newly filmed interview with producer Sandy King Carpenter Do You Read Sutter Cane?, a newly filmed interview with actor Jürgen Prochnow
The Whisperer of the Dark, an archive interview with actress Julie Carmen Greg Nicotero’s Things in the Basement, an archive interview with special effects artist Greg Nicotero
We Are What He Writes, a new featurette in praise of John Carpenter and In the Mouth of Madness
Reality Is Not What It Used To Be, a new appreciation by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Horror’s Hallowed Grounds, an archive featurette looking at the locations used in the film
Home Movies From Hobb’s End, behind-the-scenes footage
The Making of In the Mouth of Madness, a vintage featurette
Theatrical trailer and TV spots
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Francesco Francavilla
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Francesco Francavilla
Perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing on the film by Guy Adams, Josh Hurtado, Richard Kadrey, George Daniel Lea, Willow Catelyn Maclay, and Alexandra West

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