• R, 1 hr. 34 min.
  • Horror
  • Directed By:
    John Carpenter
    In Theaters:
    Feb 3, 1995 Wide
    On DVD:
    Feb 8, 2000
  • New Line Home Entertainment

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In the Mouth of Madness Reviews

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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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One wonders how In the Mouth of Madness might have turned out if the script had contained even a little more wit and ambition.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Original Score: 2/4

January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Confusing, weird, and not very involving.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | Original Score: 2/4

January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Uninvolving, abysmally scripted horror picture.

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January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Cheesy horror celebrating the power of cheesy horror, while pretending to be appalled.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Original Score: 1/4

January 1, 2000
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Original Score: C

September 7, 2011
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

Carpenter can't establish the kind of welling dread that Lovecraft conjured, so he shifts to makeup and pyrotechnics.

Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Original Score: 2.5/5

February 28, 2002
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Original Score: 4/10

January 1, 2000
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

| Original Score: 1/5

August 25, 2004
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

| Original Score: 0/5

October 30, 2004
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

| Original Score: 1/5

October 17, 2004
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Not Carpenter's worst, but it tries.

| Original Score: 2/5

July 8, 2004
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter

Limp performances and ludicrous special effects remove this study of reality from any sense of it.

Full Review Source: Cinematter | Original Score: 1/4

January 1, 2000
Richard Harrington
Washington Post
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Eventually falls apart because of its erratic plot and gaps in logic.

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January 1, 2000
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

After awhile, the redundancies begin to hamper the narrative, and it becomes rather tiresome.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Original Score: 2/4

January 1, 2000
David Armstrong
San Francisco Examiner

The names are big, but the payoff is small.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner

January 1, 2000
Fred Topel
About.com

Too all over the place to be effectively scary. I suppose it's an accurate portrait of insanity, but too hard to follow.

| Original Score: 1/5

July 14, 2003

Entertainment Weekly
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Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Original Score: C

April 4, 2011
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

| Original Score: 4/5

July 26, 2002
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Finely attuned to the disquieting realm of the irrational.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Original Score: B

April 22, 2010
Mark R. Leeper
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Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Original Score: +1 out of -4..+4

January 1, 2000
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
April 7, 2008
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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February 9, 2006
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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