In the Mouth of Madness 4K 1994 Ultra HD 2160p

Sutter Cane's works have broken all popularity records—Stephen King could only dream of such success. The effect on some admirers of Cane's talent is complete disorientation and memory loss, mass outbreaks of violence, and schizophrenics flooding clinics. The author of horror novels, which bring in huge profits for publishers, disappeared two months ago. The publishing house hires insurance agent John Trent to find him, and the search leads him to a city described in the book but not found on the map...

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John Carpenter is a director who has worked with Stephen King on the film adaptation of one of his novels, Christine, and is also a master at making terrifying films (his The Thing alone is proof of that). So it would be strange if he didn't take on a project about the disappearance of the world's most popular writer, whose books drive people crazy.

It is not difficult to draw parallels and notice that the prototype for this writer was none other than Stephen King himself, since Sutter Cane is even called the King of Horror—a loud title that King has held for many years. And even though he served only as a kind of prototype, his name is still mentioned in the film, albeit ironically, when the two writers are compared and the viewer is made to understand that compared to Cain (they even have the same initials, S.K.), King is nothing more than a first-grader next to a university professor.

This immediately makes us realize who Detective John Trait (Sam Neill) will have to deal with when he sets off in search of the missing writer in a town that is not marked on any map. After all, if King's novels make an indelible impression on many, what effect must Kane's books have on the fear-hungry minds of ordinary people? But if the effect proves too great, the line between reality and fiction will be blurred, and madness will ensue, which no one will be able to stop.

But Trait still tries to find the answer to why the writer's books drive people mad. And the answer is very simple: what if each of us is just a figment of the imagination of a certain Sutter Cain? Could such a thing occur to a sane person? So people lose their minds after reading the book and discovering this terrible truth—that they were not created in the image and likeness of God, and that they were wrong to consider themselves free people, believing that no one could control them. Kane became their new God and arbiter of fate, creating a new world on paper that, once you dive into it, easily engulfs the reality that everyone considered to be the only true one. “I am not a puppet in someone else's hands!” shouts Detective Trait, unwilling to believe that everything had long been decided for him, and that this phrase he uttered was also originally conceived by the almighty writer.

Stephen King describes something similar in his novel “The Song of Susannah” from the “Dark Tower” series, when he himself becomes one of the characters in the book and comes face to face with the hero he created, who, albeit with great reluctance, still acknowledges the fact that he is only a figment of another person's imagination. However, there, everything is primarily tied to the intersection of worlds and the possibility of the existence of a great multitude of realities that can be inhabited by the same people, only their fates in each of them will be different. But there is still a similarity with what is presented in Carpenter's film.

Could you accept the idea that you are nothing more than a character in one of some crazy writer's books? Nonsense? Perhaps. Madness? Oh, yes! That's the whole point.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (85.3 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

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#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: FLAC 2.0 (Commentary by director John Carpenter and producer Sandy King Carpenter)
#English: FLAC 2.0 (Commentary by director John Carpenter and cinematographer Gary B. Kibbe)
#English: DTS 2.0 (Commentary by filmmakers Rebekah McKendry and Elric Kane, co-hosts of Colors of the Dark podcast)

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