In the Mouth of Madness

John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is the best Lovecraftian horror film ever made — a meta-textual nightmare about a horror novelist whose fiction is literally rewriting reality. Sam Neill plays an insurance investigator searching for missing author Sutter Cane (a thinly veiled Stephen King) and finds himself trapped in a small town that exists inside Cane's latest manuscript. Carpenter layers reality and fiction until the audience, like Neill's character, cannot distinguish between them. The film is Carpenter's last great work and a fitting capstone to his 'Apocalypse Trilogy' alongside The Thing and Prince of Darkness.