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Another Carpenter's Mess

posted 15 years ago by dude_everhard
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I expected moody horror, from this interesting premise but it fell really fast in childish and easy fantasy. I sat through it and it gets so absurd and easy so fast, that I couldn't keep my laughs. The only "scary stuff" are the cheap scares that music combined with a hand grabbing a character's shoulder, or the girl leaping in Trent's arms back at the hotel. Only missing is a cat jumping in the face of the guy.TVish. THERE'S NOTHING near intelligent horror. And the ending in the movie theater!! COME OOOOOON!!!

Carpenter let us down after They Live. Now, he only seems interested in making money by selling out remake's rights. Combining is lethargic talent with amateur screenwriter Mike DeLuca did nothing good here.

And imitating Metalicca's Enter Sandman's intro is not cool.

[–] cybopath 10 years ago

It's a seriously under rated horror film. Has a very Lovecraft feel to it. I really don't know what you were expecting exactly.

[–] ghostly_host 10 years ago

I like this film more than Halloween. Just sayin'. Read some HP Lovecraft, you'll get it.

[–] ma_marcil 10 years ago

I totally disagree with the OP. I loved In The Mouth of Madness the first time I saw it at 10 years old and I have been a fan ever since. I actually think it is one of his best movies, with The Thing and Halloween naturally (for me at least). Sam Neil was on top form in this one, and the whole concept was something I had never quite see before. Even today, I think the movie still stands quite well. Some parts still creep me out big time, even though I must have seen this movie about 25 times by now.

Bill Foster: I'm the bad guy?...How did that happen?

[–] king_of_bob 10 years ago

There's more to this movie than you think. There is a very good reason the dialog is so hokey before they get to Hobbs End.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

[–] truheart_1 10 years ago

Great movie, I don't even understand how any horror fan could hate it. It's like a Stephen King book that Stephen King never wrote

[–] fierypoeticgirl 10 years ago

I love intellectual movies too, but IMO, this was crap. Perhaps the book is better. Some stories just have no business on screen.

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[–] utahman1971 10 years ago

No reason to fight. Just people out there don't know a good movie if it hit them in the face. Most of the movies on this site are rated backwards, but this one is rated right, besides the others. I rather see this one rated up to the 8+ though. This is one of my favorites.

What bugs me is people say they are horror fans, but they like the dumbest PG-13 horror crap that does not even scare. They also claim these no scary movies are scarier than the ones that are scary. I bet the people that think The Conjuring is scarier than The Exorcist or this kind of movie. The Conjuring did nothing through the whole movie except some throw them across the rooms of the house, and a cheap ending, and you know when they were thrown across the rooms, it was just a string around them being pulled to make it look the way it did.

I could not stand The Conjuring, that it was so unbelievable to watch, and very boring. "One Time That's All" is for The Conjuring. I wish I never saw it even once. It should be taken off the shelves and burned. They fans of The Conjuring can hate me all they want, but it sucked badly. No comparison from this one. Even The House Of The Devil was better than The Conjuring.

I am a gore watching freak!!!

If it don't have it, it isn't worth the watch.

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[–] JellyFish19 9 years ago

Could have been a better tribute to lovecraftian horror, I mean the premise sounds good, but somewhere, perhaps during that first church scene, it becomes too goofy way too fast. The rock music at the beginning and end doesn't seem fitting as well.

[–] trifocal_skink 9 years ago

Just watched it for the first time and it was awesome. A real mind *beep*

[–] fyfytj 8 years ago

Only missing is a cat jumping in the face of the guy.TVish.

That's exactly what I thought when rewatching it today. It feels like a cheap TV movie's interpretation of Lovecraftian horror, which only even turned into Lovecraftian horror in the last half hour or so; the first hour was mostly just random creepy occurrences. Two things that did creep me out though:

1. The bicycle rider that kept passing the car during their nighttime drive to Hobb's End.

2. Trent's remark about the fall of humanity at the hands of Sutter Cane's books, ending with (paraphrasing here) "...ten years from now, the human race will be nothing but a bedtime story told to the children of whatever succeeds us. A myth."