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Thrillho:
I lost my shit when I realised he made it. They could not be much more different from each other.

oddtail:
I watched "In the Mouth of Madness". It's honestly weird that it took me this long, because I generally like Carpenter's films a lot.

I mostly knew what the movie was about, and had known some of the specific plot. So the movie was about what I expected. No shocks and only some surprises, sadly.

That being said, it's still a great movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's probably the best Lovecraftian movie that's not an adaptation of an actual story by Lovecraft. And possibly the best Lovecraftian movie ever, period.

Pretty much everything about the movie worked for me. Sam Neill is cast perfectly as the main character, the story is both a bit mind-bendy and makes perfect internal sense, I liked the special effects, the acting, the visuals (especially the lighting), the weirdness... everything. It's just a damn good movie. Critics must've really hated Carpenter, between this movie and the "The Thing" being disliked by them. I honestly don't get that. "In the Mouth of Madness" is perhaps not the perfect movie and maybe not for everyone, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the perfect version of what it's trying to be. It's a horror story that's smart while not putting on airs of importance, which kinda reminds me of Stephen King - the other clear inspiration for the script besides Lovecraft.

Also - stories that include heavy metafiction elements can be tiresome, but in this case, I didn't mind. The movie is not cliché as far as I'm concerned. It's more creepy than scary overall, but it works really well for me.

I do wish I'd gone into it completely blind, but even knowing some of the plot points in advance I didn't feel like my enjoyment was ruined or anything.

Blue Kitty:
Last batch for the Halloween Horror Challenge::

-Fear Street Part One: 1994
-Black Pumpkin
-Dude Bro Party Massacre 3
-The Night Watchmen
-Neon Demon
-Nobody Sleeps in the Woods at Night
-John Carpenter's The Thing

Of this batch The Thing is the best while Black Pumpkin was the worst

Tova:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEdNMev37A

Blue Kitty:
Here's all the movies I watched for the month of October collected together:

(click to show/hide)-The Invisible Man (2020)
-Trick
-Kingdom: Ashin of the North
-Howl
-Black Christmas (2019)
-Funhouse
-#Alive
-Llamageddon
-A Nightmare on Elm Street
-Body at Brighton Rock
-Ernest Scared Stupid
-Blood Red Sky
-Cold Skin
-Freaky
-Children of the Corn
-Creep 2
-Halloween
-Raccoon Valley
-Hunger
-Good Dog
-Hellfest
-Bingo Hell
-The Empty Man
-Willy's Wonderland
-Fear Street Part One: 1994
-Black Pumpkin
-Dude Bro Party Massacre 3
-The Night Watchmen
-Neon Demon
-Nobody Sleeps in the Woods at Night
-John Carpenter's The Thing
The winner for me is The Invisible Man, tense and creepy through out with a great use of CGI. The loser is Neon Demon, nice to look at but there's not much there with the story until the very end where (click to show/hide)the main character is murdered and eaten.It was almost a three way tie with Llamageddon and Black Pumpkin, but Llamageddon was at least fun and Black Pumpkin had an alright horror story and deaths. The surprise under dog for me goes to The Night Watchmen for just being a great premise and pretty good comedy.

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