10 Terrifying Horror Movies Inspired By H.P. Lovecraft

10. In The Mouth Of Madness

The final and strangest instalment in John Carpenter’s Apocalypse trilogy after body-hopping sci-fi horror The Thing and vampire chiller Prince of Darkness, 1990’s meta-horror In the Mouth of Madness is also the flick from the Halloween director which owed the most obvious debt to Lovecraft’s imaginings throughout his lengthy filmography.

Following a man driven to madness (or… is he?) as he searches a remote small town for a missing horror author whose books appear to be coming to life, In the Mouth of Madness features a mysterious, perhaps inhuman cult, a seaside town where everything is all sorts of wrong, and reality bending shenanigans attributed to some toothy, shapeless dark gods who are barely glimpsed onscreen.

Lovecraft could have sued, if he weren’t long dead already (or… is he?).