10 Most Underrated 90s Horror Movies
8. In The Mouth Of Madness
John Carpenter is obviously renowned for his work on The Thing and Halloween, with a whole host of movies before and after that cemented his role as a legend of the horror genre. One that often slips by unsuspecting fans, however, is In The Mouth Of Madness, a homage to the late and great Lovecraft in its execution as all sorts of monstrous hell breaks loose on our earthly plane.
When horror writer Sutter Cane mysteriously vanishes, an insurance investigator attempts to find clues in Cane's texts, ending up in a strange town that bears an eerie resemblance to the recurring setting of the author's work. Stuck somewhere between reality and Cane's imagination, the film is full of supernatural surprises that reveal the pen to be far mightier than the sword - especially in the hands of such a twisted individual as Cane.
Drawing on inspiration from the ongoing legacy of Stephen King too, In The Mouth Of Madness is a love letter to the spooky guys that built the written foundations that horror movies crawl up from now.