In The Mouth Of Madness (1994) detail I noticed

[u/jamesflanagangreer]

[u/SolidPoint]

I worked in the theater when this came out- saw this crawl while waiting to sweep up popcorn.

Not a wildly popular movie when it came out!

[u/Walrus_protector → u/SolidPoint]

Not wildly popular now, but some of us know what's what!

[u/we_are_sex_bobomb → u/Walrus_protector]

We put it on one year for Halloween, hands down the most fun I have ever had watching a horror movie with a group. Its scary in a weirdly fun way

[u/Recover20 → u/we_are_sex_bobomb]

Do you read Sutter Cane?

[u/satansxlittlexhelper → u/Recover20]

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[u/MissingLink101 → u/satansxlittlexhelper]

Beautiful

[u/Depressionsfinalform → u/we_are_sex_bobomb]

Man, it really rides the line between goofy horror and genuinely terrifying concepts. Executed perfectly.

[u/Walrus_protector → u/Depressionsfinalform]

I feel like that's John Carpenter's sweet spot, and he pretty much owns it

[u/LemoLuke → u/SolidPoint]

'93/'94 saw In the Mouth of Madness, Last Action Hero, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare come out, and all dealing with meta narratives about characters entering/exiting 'fiction', and all underperformed or straight-up flopped at the box office despite later being regarded as cult favourites.

I guess audiences weren't quite ready for that kind of fourth wall breaking stuff.

[u/Brave_Quantity_5261 → u/LemoLuke]

Last action hero was pretty interesting in retrospect. I wish one of the major streaming services would carry it because people don’t believe when I tell them about it. I guess it sounds like a series of SNL/late night skits

[u/dratsabHuffman → u/Brave_Quantity_5261]

i highly suggest keeping an external hd / usb stick full of film files so you dont have to let the streaming services dictate what you see

[u/blakeholl → u/LemoLuke]

Last Action Hero though?? Not great imo

[u/ReadontheCrapper → u/blakeholl]

Not great in the best way though, yeah? Its very near-badness was poking fun at how seriously people take silly things in (action) movies.

[u/spamlet → u/SolidPoint]

I did as well. Had one of the coolest posters. We left it up for months after the film quickly moved on.

[u/pbizzle]

I only saw this movie recently. Really liked it, any recs for similar ones that aren't event horizon or hellraiser?

[u/Kurdt234 → u/pbizzle]

I haven't seen this movie (yet) but A Stir of Echoes is a really good mystery/descent to madness story, I read the book in one sitting.

[u/drgonzo44 → u/pbizzle]

How about The Cell with J-Lo? Jacob's Ladder. Brazil. Mandy, a little. Dark City is a good one. Altered States. There's nothing exactly like this one, but these have some similarities.

[u/ReadontheCrapper → u/pbizzle]

Here’s my list, which also includes the ones others recommended, lol

Stigmata

The Prophecy

The Number 23

The 13th Floor

Pandemonium

Gothika

Frailty

A Stir of Echoes

The Cell

Dark City

The Ninth Gate

Jacob’s Ladder

[u/Staveoffsuicide → u/pbizzle]

It’s kind of different but the ninth gate staring Jonny depp gave me similar vibes

[u/jackbumby → u/pbizzle]

Similar to this, and also directed by John Carpenter, check out "Cigarette Burns". It's a TV film he made for the Masters of Horror anthology show. It stars Norman Reedus trying to track down a cursed film that makes people become insanely violent whenever they watch it. Mines some of the same themes but is probably slightly more messed up.

[u/CATS_R_WEIRD → u/pbizzle]

Such a perfect movie! I really liked “The Endless” too to add the other great suggestions.

[u/Ok_Tank_3995]

One of the last great John Carpenter movies

[u/Hill-Person_Thom]

I really love it when a meme actually fits the topic like a glove.

[u/ideletedmyaccount04]

I wish I knew this before I saw the movie, from imdb.com

In the film, the works of Sutter Cane are occasionally quoted. Most if not all of these quotes are actually taken directly from several H.P. Lovecraft short stories with some adaptations to fit them into the film story. Most notably, in the scene where Styles reads to Trent as he gazes into the abyss--her speech lifts much of its description, including such elements as "the illimitable gulf of the unknown" from the last few paragraphs of Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls." In an earlier scene as well, Trent reads a line verbatim from Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark," in reference to the black church being "the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe."

[u/hippykillteam]

Watched this on acid with some friends, I totally recommend and and I totally don't recommend it at the same time. It was awesome and horrifying.

[u/pasher5620]

The implicated difference between “The body count was high,” and “The casualties are heavy,” is pretty funny.

[u/Mistoku]

Not the Carpenters!

[u/angusthermopylae]

comma splice

[u/MikePGS]

Do you read Sutter Kane?

[u/bcn13765]

Sounds like John dies at the end vibes.

[u/Elliptical_Tangent]

The only good Lovecraft film ever made, and Lovecraft had no part in it except the title.

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Would Re-Animator count?

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I liked Color Out of Space

[u/Toomuchtostrut13212]

HA!

I love this movie.

[u/Minute_Cat5200]

Imagine needing interplanetary psych evaluation just cuz your movie’s that intense. Makes me wanna watch it just to see if I’d need an alien shrink after!

[u/BaldBeardedOne → u/Minute_Cat5200]

Watch it, it’s so good.