In the Mouth of Madness Reviews
One wonders how In the Mouth of Madness might have turned out if the script had contained even a little more wit and ambition.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Uninvolving, abysmally scripted horror picture.
Cheesy horror celebrating the power of cheesy horror, while pretending to be appalled.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Goatdog's Movies
Carpenter can't establish the kind of welling dread that Lovecraft conjured, so he shifts to makeup and pyrotechnics.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Not Carpenter's worst, but it tries.
| Original Score: 2/5
Cinematter
Limp performances and ludicrous special effects remove this study of reality from any sense of it.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Eventually falls apart because of its erratic plot and gaps in logic.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
After awhile, the redundancies begin to hamper the narrative, and it becomes rather tiresome.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
Lessons of Darkness
Finely attuned to the disquieting realm of the irrational.
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| Original Score: B
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| Original Score: +1 out of -4..+4

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