You now realise Sam Neil is the first and greatest lovecraftian actor. In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, Posession... hell, even Jurassic Park deals with humanity facing giant ancient beings that ruled the Earth before humans.
Serious question: Has a literal film interpretation of Lovecraft (and I mean a full length film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness or The Dunwich Horror) not occurred for legal reasons or for the most obvious problem of Lovecraft's racism? People blatantly reference Lovecraft in almost every modern horror film. Even the Halloween and Friday 13th series have a cosmic horror element to them. It's just odd to me that no one, from my limited knowledge, has tried to capture a Lovecraf novel in it's entirety for film.
@@CorrosiveColin , there have been some films more explicitly based on Lovecraft, but I think a lot of his stories would be hard to directly adapt for a variety of reasons. There is a decent black and white silent film of "Call of Cthulhu" made several years ago, though.
@@CorrosiveColin If I recall correctly, Lovecraft's work is public domain, so it's not about copyrights. It's not the racism either, since most Lovecraft fans are passionate about the horror and don't reallt give a shit about that stuff. I mean, Stephen King or John Carpenter or Neil Gaiman never felt the need to distance themselves from LvCft's racism. I think it's really about how hard it is to work with cosmic horror in a visual medium.
„Vigo the carpathian“ was actually a pro boxer. That’s why he looks like an „ancient being“ that thick noseridge wasn’t made by nature but by many sculptors hands
The idea of John Carpenter scooping cigarettes in a bag like candy, while the clerk says "You're my favorite customer" ala The Room, made me laugh harder than I have in awhile. XD
@gatheringoflight You would like the laugh at the end of FROM BEYOND, another lovecraftian movie. you owe it to yourself to look it up! "It ate him! jajaja
My dad was a car salesman in Toronto during the time and sold a couple cars to the production. There's a couple grey Olds at the end that came from his dealership. It broke new ground.
When he mentioned the "new mummy movie," I thought he was talking about the Brendan Fraser movie from the late 90s. I forgot the Tom Cruise one existed, too.
That's because Tom's Cruise The Mummy can pretty much pass as just another Tom Cruise action movie and not a The Mummy movie. If you go watch the trailers, aside from a couple of seconds in them, you'll swear you are watching the trailer for a new Mission Impossible movie, not The Mummy.
what do you mean spot on? To me that part always sticks out, in a bad way, because it's obviously dubbed and sounds like the 1990s "coming soon to theaters" preview voice-over guy.
The first time I saw this movie, I was 10 years old. I woke up at 2AM and couldn't fall asleep so I went into the living room and turned on the TV and it showed the R rating. Then the movie began and let me tell you, I don't even remember how I got to sleep after watching it. My mind was blown and terrified, and from that movie on, I've always looked at well-done horror with a special awe.
i saw it at around the same age and it really fucked me up..... especially the part where they pass that spooky old lady walking along the highway at night..... lol. Freakin big brothers, i tell ya. Still, good memories.
I saw a late night showing in the theater when it first came out. The theater was almost empty and it felt creepy when I saw the final scene with Sam Neil sitting in the theater laughing and then I walked out into a dark parking lot.
This movie has one of my favorite endings. Carpenter knows how to end horror movies well; Halloween, the Thing, Prince of Darkness, and this one all have amazing endings.
I think they could make a "remake" of Prince of darkness in the vein of the Susperia remake. BUT reveal that actually it is a sequel and the events have been altered by the time travel dream and have it become a strange time loop
I love this kind of Lovecraft-stuff. Rational main character stumbles upon a mystery, tries to solve it, and it's just a slow descent into madness. I give it 4 out of 5 Cthulhus - Would summon ancient old ones again.
I think the title is literal, and mental like we get eaten by the mouth of madness if we don’t stop areselves from losing it, but it’s still all in your head, but i imagine it feels like being swallowed up in insanity.
I've met De Luca a couple of times at events hosted through my university. He actually hates this movie pretty intensely and said it was the thing that proved to him that he shouldn't be a writer and should go into producing. I only found this out after saying how much I gushed about this film right when I met him. Needless to say, he avoided me like the plague every time I would see him after.
HOLY SHIT 24:32 this was the movie i've been looking for since my childhood!!! i've been trying to remember this movie for 20+ years all I ever knew was this corridor scene, and this creepy man saying my favorite color is blue(and i think him killing protester for some book?) that's all I had to base my guess from. Thank you redlettermedia so much.
Nice. Nothing like randomly finding that obscure thing that you saw/heard/smelt as a kid. I'm still trying to find out that smell I got from my grandparents home. it's driving me insane!
@@ceresta1732 what type of smell? A food or The General smell of The home? Could be smoking. Lots of elder folks used too smoke inside making The scent sitt in The rug, drapes exetera.
So, funny thing about the RC Harris water treatment plant where some of this was filmed. I had just moved to Toronto and stumbled onto the plant while I was exploring the city. The whole building looks empty and derelict, it covers a huuuge plot of land overlooking the lake. Had no idea was it was, but it was one of the most ominous things ever. Just finding this place and walking along the grounds on a foggy afternoon. No wonder so many things are filmed there.
Event Horizon is one of those distressing movies where we'll never get to see the full thing as intended, cuz it got cut up by the studio and then they lost most of the footage (Same thing happened to 1986 Stallone flick, Cobra) :/
Let's be honest, this is the closest thing ever to a Lovecraftian movie we will ever get. John Carpenter did a good job adapting this to the screen. I liked it
I saw that in a cinema containing only one other person, who I did not know. I resented his presence thoroughout the film. It was the best way to watch it.
Fun nerdy ass fact(s) time! The cheesy lead guitar work in the intro (which I have always had a huge soft spot for) was performed by Dave Davies from The Kinks. Further to that, Dave's son, Daniel, actually plays lead guitar in Carpenter's live band these days (he also had a stint fronting CKY after Deron Miller left).
Oof, all good choices! I dunno why, but John Carpenters Vampires always sticks out for me. Its like a poor mans From Dusk Til Dawn, but that doesn't stop it from being fun!
I truly wish the missing scenes were found and put back into the film. It can't be impossible. EXORCIST 3 had the missing scenes found (I believe in the salt mines archives) and re-released by the "SHOUT! Factory" as LEGION.
i think that "liberate vos ex (insert RML reference here)" could become the ultimate comment section meme. Which is probably why they're not doing it...
Man, i would love if they someday re:view Event Horizon. Its genuinely creepy and somewhat schlocky at the same time (which is no surprise given that its directed by glorious Schlock master Paul W.S. Anderson, the man who did Mortal Kombat, The Three Musketeers and the Resident Evil movies), has a great cast AND, on top of it all, its a better DOOM movie than the actual Doom movie itself, in my opinion.
It's definitely a underrated film. Doesn't seem to be shown on TV much, and has largely slipped out of the public consciousness. I suppose people don't really count it as a "proper" John Carpenter film because, as Michael Allred said, it's one of his "director for hire" movies - he didn't write it, or do the music, just directed it for the studio. Nevertheless, it has his style on it, and (IMHO) underlines the fact that he's actually seriously underrated as a director of comedy. "Dark Star" is hilarious (IMHO) and the hair-loss segment of "Body Bags" has some proper laugh-out-loud moments. For a director who's mostly rated for his horror and genre output, he's a dab hand at comedy when he wants to be :)
Was motivated to watch In The Mouth of Madness after seeing this thumbnail pop up in my subs box. The title was familiar and I'm pretty sure I'd heard it talked about in the same conversations as other movies like Jacob's Ladder and maybe The Matrix but for some reason I just never sat down and watched it. I didn't remember it was a John Carpenter movie until the credits started. Holy shit, thank you so much for bringing me into this story. Incredible film - the ending is so funny and so scary at the same time, I was clapping alone in my room saying "That was crazy," to myself for several minutes as the finale played out and the credits rolled. Holy shitballs... excited to hear what you guys thought of the movie and am already looking forward to a few months down the road when I inevitably rewatch this movie and lose my shit all over again.
I've had one of those episodes where I've driven and felt like the road disappeared. I was driving to my parents, and it was late and raining. I was a good couple of hours into the drive when I came to a stretch of newly paved road. Pitch black newly tarred asphalt with newly painted white lines. Suddenly the rain got really intense and I turned the wipers on max but it was still a bit hard to see and then... Then I hit a stretch of the road that was so freshly paved that the lines weren't even painted yet. I saw nothing. There was nothing but darkness ahead, and somewhere the sky just started. There were some grayish outlines of clouds, but sky behind was also black with the occasional star. It was like someone just deleted the horizon and everything blended together... Really trippy
I love this movie so much. The blue bus scene is printed in my mind forever. Also I randomly start to say Johnny! Johnny boy! sometimes and it makes me laugh.
People like to throw shade on “Escape from LA” I’m not saying it’s perfect but there is a scene where Snake Pliskin, Pam Grier and Steve Buscemi hang glide into Disney World machine guns blazin’ and I like that idea
Aww.. they forgot to mention the creepy ass painting in the old lady's lobby. The one in which the couple pictured in it keep mutating further every time Sam Neill looks at it. The things they turn into reminds me of an even creepier looking "Engineers" mummified space suit in the movie Alien. With rotten brown tentacles.
I just wish they hadnt done the bit where it moves while linda is looking at. I feel like it would have been better if it was just different every time they see it
Dave Davies of The Kinks co-wrote and plays lead guitar on the opening theme music. His son (Daniel) currently plays in Carpenter’s band and collaborated with him on last year’s Halloween soundtrack.
Yesssss! _Do you read Sutter Cane?_ I love this movie so much! Definitely my favorite Carpenter movie and also my favorite movie with a Cosmic Horror/Lovecraftian theme.
KNB effects is still existing as is and is operating out of Atlanta, primarily working on the Walking Dead, and Robert Kurtzmann FX is in the area as well, completely separate but still kicking ass. He just got the nomination for best prosthetic makeup for Haunting of Hill House I believe. A friend of mine who was on it with him says he’s a major hardass but still the best makeup artist he’s ever worked with.
It's not about perception; it's about the author/artist being a conduit for these otherworldly forces. This is THE definitive Lovecraftian movie. Everyone should watch it.
As a Torontonian that knows people who worked on this movie, it'll always have a special place in my heart. One of Carpenter's best, and definitely my favourite Sam Neill performance.
@@ContinuumSpanner If you are asking about the song, "Insane in the membrane" if you are talking about the intro that used both the song and the scenes from the movie, "internet insanity"
Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" again on Blu-ray recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it - maybe even more than I did when I first saw it. Didn't realize, until the end-credits rolled, that the kid on the pushbike was a young Hayden Christensen ... but I suppose that name didn't mean anything to me the last time I saw this film :)
This and Prince of Darkness share Quatermass references as Hobbs End is in Quatermass and the Pit, while Prince of Darkness is credited to 'Martin Quatermass'. Quatermass was created by Nigel Kneale who wrote the original script to Halloween III.
I know want an edit where someone inserts Rich Evans laugh into that laughing scene. Similar in style to the "J.Jonah Jameson, but it's Rich Evans" video. Make. It. Happen. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I love it when you guys talk Carpenter! You must do Prince of Darkness next, its a terrific movie. And Jay continues to be stupendously handsome. S'all good!
Love Sam Neil. Why does nobody remember he was grown up Damien in Omen 3? That was the first I remember seeing him, and it's been a long time, but I remember him being good in that.
@@coyotefever105 He tries to come off as charming in Omen 3 and doesn't quite work, but maybe that was the point? He is the devil after all. The scenes where he really goes for it monologuing are great though, the sheer outrage he shows. It's kind of a bold detail i didn't think much about before with The Final Conflict, but that's some next level hatred with the antichrist keeping a giant life-size crucified Jesus sculpture in his attic to mock and yell at every night.
I have a very passionate opinion that if you slapped Kubrick's name on Videodrome, and changed literally nothing else, people would ride that movie's dick raw.
Critical Nobody I was just watching a “History of Splinter Cell” video and I saw your comment on it. I went right from that vid to this one and here you are! Isn’t Chaos Theory the best? And isn’t RLM the single greatest TH-cam channel? Loved your SC vid.
@@brandonthomas6602 Double Agent version 1 is the best.... didn't know that until this past year when i found out that there are actually two versions of double agent...
@@Pingaheimer I played Double Agent version 1 through the xbox one back compat and it is good, it great, even, but it doesn't beat Chao Theory for me, not even close. Chaos Theory has, to me, more cohesion, more consistency, and this amazing blend of atmosphere and incredibly slow stealth gameplay that puts it ahead for me. I don't disagree entirely with your opinion tho.
You two touched on every key moment in the movie except the very very very last scene with him watching himself in the theatre!! Come ooonn! Great review though, one of my favorite movies. Thanks
4:50 Actually, while the long hallway shots were interior shots of the Palace of Purification, the individual cells and the hallway that contained them were filmed on a set. (I listened to Carpenter's director's commentary for this literally last week.)
It seems wrong, doesn't it? When the water treatment plant reaches obsolescence, CAMH should buy the building and convert it into the spooky asylum everyone intuitively feels it should be.
Oh please PLEASE *PLEEEASE* do a re:View on Zulawski's Possession. Arguably one of the greatest horror films ever created.. At the very least, it's still masterpiece of subtlety and quiet horror. That film is like almost just completely carried by Sam Neill's & Isabelle Adjani's *FLAWLESS* performances. A 10/10 -film for me definitely.
hey Colin, i was at that Toronto show too. Danforth Music Hall, what a great time. caught this movie on basically Canada's HBO when I was 11 or 12, and it never left my mind since.When I saw the Scream Factory bluray it was an immediate buy. I kinda wish more people knew about this so i could quote it publicly.
I loved this movie! So...Lovecraftian. Also, as a Kiwi, I like watching Sam Neill in movies, Alan Grant was one of my heroes as a kid during my obsession with Jurassic Park/dinosaur phase. But It's extra funny for me because Sam Neill just can't keep up an American accent to save his life, if one did a drinking game where one has to take a drink every time Sam Neill slips back into his New Zealand accent, you'd die from alcohol poisoning about halfway through, it's sorta endearing lol
The idea of not knowing what a bulk barn is makes that whole exchange so much funnier to me, trying to imagine what the words coming out of his mouth really mean when you have never been in one. I love bulk barn.
You now realise Sam Neil is the first and greatest lovecraftian actor. In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, Posession... hell, even Jurassic Park deals with humanity facing giant ancient beings that ruled the Earth before humans.
Dude you just blew my mind.
Damiaaaaaaaan made him the ultimate lovecraftian actor
Serious question: Has a literal film interpretation of Lovecraft (and I mean a full length film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness or The Dunwich Horror) not occurred for legal reasons or for the most obvious problem of Lovecraft's racism?
People blatantly reference Lovecraft in almost every modern horror film. Even the Halloween and Friday 13th series have a cosmic horror element to them. It's just odd to me that no one, from my limited knowledge, has tried to capture a Lovecraf novel in it's entirety for film.
@@CorrosiveColin , there have been some films more explicitly based on Lovecraft, but I think a lot of his stories would be hard to directly adapt for a variety of reasons. There is a decent black and white silent film of "Call of Cthulhu" made several years ago, though.
@@CorrosiveColin If I recall correctly, Lovecraft's work is public domain, so it's not about copyrights. It's not the racism either, since most Lovecraft fans are passionate about the horror and don't reallt give a shit about that stuff. I mean, Stephen King or John Carpenter or Neil Gaiman never felt the need to distance themselves from LvCft's racism.
I think it's really about how hard it is to work with cosmic horror in a visual medium.
„Vigo the carpathian“ was actually a pro boxer. That’s why he looks like an „ancient being“ that thick noseridge wasn’t made by nature but by many sculptors hands
That last sentence is wonderfully crafted
also ex-pimp - he was considered the king of Reeperbahn (red light district in Hamburg) during the 60's. He's also in Herzog's Strozsek.
By all accounts he was an asshole of colossal proportions.
@@johnrome4657 He is in fricking DIE HARD tho
@Christopher McDonald "Medic!"
The idea of John Carpenter scooping cigarettes in a bag like candy, while the clerk says "You're my favorite customer" ala The Room, made me laugh harder than I have in awhile. XD
24:29 Sam Neill's terrified scream is my favorite scream in all of cinema. Dude WENT for it so damn hard and I love it.
WOW, you had Macaulay Culkin on and now another celebrity, Marshall Mathers.
Really cool.
You're saying Colin looks like Eminem?...
@@seandavis908 That's right, Einstein.
@@ylette but he doesn't.... at all...
And both really like to say "exactly!"
COOOOO LOOCOOCOO CUHCOOCOOOOOOOOOO
Sam Neill laughing in the movie theatre is the .gif that keeps on giving.
Someone needs to edit Rich Evans' laugh into that scene, similar to the "J. Jonah Jameson, but it's Rich Evans" video.
*that keeps on gifing
@gatheringoflight You would like the laugh at the end of FROM BEYOND, another lovecraftian movie. you owe it to yourself to look it up! "It ate him! jajaja
I keep watching this just to hear Colin say "Johnny Bouoiy"
Sometimes I wake up at night hearing johnny boy in colin's voice
Same...I just turned this back on to hear Johnny Boiii and stayed to watch the whole thing
We need a johnny boy timecode
@@theclingyfox7899 I just came back to this video to look for it because I was trying to show it to someone else. The start is 11:13 :)
:) Yes. So entertaining, satisfying, amusing, adorable. "Junny buuuooeeee."
I want a loop of Jay saying "Cost-Co" in the most midwesternly way possible like he did here. That was glorious.
Yeah. Good call. I thought he was saying it as a joke but he can’t hide the Milwaukee in him
@@ohiorealestate Neither his Native American, but only when he's at the Man-Hole.
@@Gustavo_PerezRamirezthe Cost ---- Co.
My dad was a car salesman in Toronto during the time and sold a couple cars to the production. There's a couple grey Olds at the end that came from his dealership. It broke new ground.
Where was the Dealership? My parents lived near the Golden mile (and were Olds obsessed)
When he mentioned the "new mummy movie," I thought he was talking about the Brendan Fraser movie from the late 90s. I forgot the Tom Cruise one existed, too.
That's because Tom's Cruise The Mummy can pretty much pass as just another Tom Cruise action movie and not a The Mummy movie. If you go watch the trailers, aside from a couple of seconds in them, you'll swear you are watching the trailer for a new Mission Impossible movie, not The Mummy.
"I forgot the Tom Cruise one existed"
So did everyone else
We've a tried to forget it existed.
the brendan fraser trilogy the first 2 are my favorites.
@@TaigaGaoo The best thing in it is Sofia Boutella as a hot mummy. And that shot from inside of the falling plane.
I'm surprised no one motions just how spot on the "agent"s voice is with the "Do you read Sutter Cane?" line, it sticks in so many peoples minds
what do you mean spot on? To me that part always sticks out, in a bad way, because it's obviously dubbed and sounds like the 1990s "coming soon to theaters" preview voice-over guy.
@@delta-9969 Serious cheese factor addition which fits in well with the occasionally tongue in cheek/dark humour
The first time I saw this movie, I was 10 years old. I woke up at 2AM and couldn't fall asleep so I went into the living room and turned on the TV and it showed the R rating. Then the movie began and let me tell you, I don't even remember how I got to sleep after watching it. My mind was blown and terrified, and from that movie on, I've always looked at well-done horror with a special awe.
i saw it at around the same age and it really fucked me up..... especially the part where they pass that spooky old lady walking along the highway at night..... lol. Freakin big brothers, i tell ya. Still, good memories.
Had the same thing happen when I saw Killer Klowns from Outer Space when I was like 6. Never been the same since.
I saw a late night showing in the theater when it first came out. The theater was almost empty and it felt creepy when I saw the final scene with Sam Neil sitting in the theater laughing and then I walked out into a dark parking lot.
This movie has one of my favorite endings. Carpenter knows how to end horror movies well; Halloween, the Thing, Prince of Darkness, and this one all have amazing endings.
Escape from L.A, for all its faults, has one of the best endings to a movie ever.
Wasn’t the biggest fan of the thing just getting blown up, although I like the tense “standoff” between the survivors in the end
@@chrisreynolds6204 The idea that none of them know if the other is infected or not. Great stuff.
When Ghosts of Mars ended, it was amazing.
I think they could make a "remake" of Prince of darkness in the vein of the Susperia remake.
BUT reveal that actually it is a sequel and the events have been altered by the time travel dream and have it become a strange time loop
I love this kind of Lovecraft-stuff. Rational main character stumbles upon a mystery, tries to solve it, and it's just a slow descent into madness.
I give it 4 out of 5 Cthulhus - Would summon ancient old ones again.
I think the title is literal, and mental like we get eaten by the mouth of madness if we don’t stop areselves from losing it, but it’s still all in your head, but i imagine it feels like being swallowed up in insanity.
I've met De Luca a couple of times at events hosted through my university. He actually hates this movie pretty intensely and said it was the thing that proved to him that he shouldn't be a writer and should go into producing. I only found this out after saying how much I gushed about this film right when I met him.
Needless to say, he avoided me like the plague every time I would see him after.
23:46 Jay not laughing at a joke has to be one of the most disheartening feelings in the world
In the Mouth of Madness: The Mike Stoklasa Story
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Do you watch Harry Plinkett?
HOLY SHIT 24:32 this was the movie i've been looking for since my childhood!!! i've been trying to remember this movie for 20+ years all I ever knew was this corridor scene, and this creepy man saying my favorite color is blue(and i think him killing protester for some book?) that's all I had to base my guess from.
Thank you redlettermedia so much.
Hope you watch it again soon :-)
Saw it a few years ago. Mostly intriged by The lovecraft Theme. Legit though it was a love letter to lovecraft mythomigy up till i saw this video
Nice. Nothing like randomly finding that obscure thing that you saw/heard/smelt as a kid. I'm still trying to find out that smell I got from my grandparents home. it's driving me insane!
@@ceresta1732 what type of smell? A food or The General smell of The home? Could be smoking. Lots of elder folks used too smoke inside making The scent sitt in The rug, drapes exetera.
@@void735 I dunno why but all old peoples places smell like Sunday dinner, even on a Wednesday.
So, funny thing about the RC Harris water treatment plant where some of this was filmed. I had just moved to Toronto and stumbled onto the plant while I was exploring the city. The whole building looks empty and derelict, it covers a huuuge plot of land overlooking the lake. Had no idea was it was, but it was one of the most ominous things ever. Just finding this place and walking along the grounds on a foggy afternoon. No wonder so many things are filmed there.
You can see the exact moment that Colin knows his Phantom Menace joke didn't land with Jay
''Ghosts of Mars'' has Jason Statham with *HAIR!*
That alone makes it worth watching.
I don't ever want to see it now.
@@jsheav3n Are you a hairist? REEEEEEEEEE!!!
@@doublep1980 I'm disgusted with the human body yes.
So does Snatch and that movie is actually good.
"My favorite color is blue" is for sure the scene that stuck with me the most.
Jay being baffled by Bulk Barn is the funniest thing to me
we need an Event Horizon Re:View to further honor Sam Neill
Underrated masterpiece. Amazon Prime is doing a series based on it. No joke, look it up.
Event Horizon is the best Doom movie ever.(more of a prequel but still.)
Event Horizon is one of those distressing movies where we'll never get to see the full thing as intended, cuz it got cut up by the studio and then they lost most of the footage
(Same thing happened to 1986 Stallone flick, Cobra) :/
Agreed. Make it so, Number One.
I imagine they'll do one once the Scream Factory collector's edition comes out.
Backyard Stunting with Randy Butcher callback - shot in Toronto, Randy did stunts for In the Mouth of Madness.
Let's be honest, this is the closest thing ever to a Lovecraftian movie we will ever get. John Carpenter did a good job adapting this to the screen. I liked it
The void wasn't bad
True. Best lvcftian movie to date.
The Thing & The Mist. Benicio Del Toro hopefully someday.
The Thing tho
@@mothmanprophet11 yeah, its based on a series of novels by Jeff Vandermeer
“Johnny! Johnny boy!” That bit gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just coming here to mention that 4 years later, "Johnny Bouioy" still lives rent free in my head.
Laughed out loud at the Bulk Barn bit by Jay. Toronto is such a beautiful city, how can they not love our endless concrete buildings and Bulk Barns.
The image of Carpenter with the shopping cart of smokes is too funny.
I was laughing at Jays reaction to Bulk Barn too. Didn’t know it was a Canadian thing. Reminds me of that meme where it says “is Canada even real?”
Fun? In Toronto?
Get Mike to do a re:Vew of Dark City
I saw that in a cinema containing only one other person, who I did not know. I resented his presence thoroughout the film.
It was the best way to watch it.
FUCK YES! give this man a cookie!
Dark City is one of the most underrated sci-fi movies, I always applaud giving it attention.
yes yes yes yes yes yesy esyesyesy
Yeeeeeeesssssss!
Fun nerdy ass fact(s) time! The cheesy lead guitar work in the intro (which I have always had a huge soft spot for) was performed by Dave Davies from The Kinks. Further to that, Dave's son, Daniel, actually plays lead guitar in Carpenter's live band these days (he also had a stint fronting CKY after Deron Miller left).
Only commenting because Jay asked in the John Carpenter ranking video part 2
You know what else was in Toronto and In The Mouth of Madness?
Randy Butcher, backyard stuntman.
Thank you for the reminder to rewatch Big Trouble In Little China. Love that movie, man.
@@kharnifex and?
I'd love to see a Re:View of Dark City!
Yes!
"Jahhnny Buoyyy!"
In the Mouth of Madness is a demented Truman Show and, it is awesome.
Second favorite Carpenter movie after The Thing. And yeah, his bootleg Metallica+AC/DC title track rocks!
For me it's third, as I consider Escape from NY better than this movie.
Oof, all good choices!
I dunno why, but John Carpenters Vampires always sticks out for me. Its like a poor mans From Dusk Til Dawn, but that doesn't stop it from being fun!
God Damn it... scrap my last comment. I forgot John Carpenter made Big Trouble in Little China..
All bets are off now.
@@zubrhero5270 I prefer it, personally.
Halloween
Seeing Mouth of Madness in theater in 1994 is one of my favourite cinema-going memories.
Can you guys PLEASE do Event Horizon since you're going over Sam Neil movies?
I truly wish the missing scenes were found and put back into the film. It can't be impossible. EXORCIST 3 had the missing scenes found (I believe in the salt mines archives) and re-released by the "SHOUT! Factory" as LEGION.
i think that "liberate vos ex (insert RML reference here)" could become the ultimate comment section meme. Which is probably why they're not doing it...
I might be wrong, but I remember them, Jay and Mike, talking about Event Horizon as a bad movie. But i really wish they give it a chance.
Man, i would love if they someday re:view Event Horizon. Its genuinely creepy and somewhat schlocky at the same time (which is no surprise given that its directed by glorious Schlock master Paul W.S. Anderson, the man who did Mortal Kombat, The Three Musketeers and the Resident Evil movies), has a great cast AND, on top of it all, its a better DOOM movie than the actual Doom movie itself, in my opinion.
Then move on to Omen III: Final Conflict!
I saw Memoirs of an Invisible Man as a kid and loved it, had no idea it was Carpenter.
An underrated film from Carpenter's "direct for hire" filmography. "Memoirs" also gets no credit for it's, at the time, cutting edge special effects.
It's definitely a underrated film. Doesn't seem to be shown on TV much, and has largely slipped out of the public consciousness.
I suppose people don't really count it as a "proper" John Carpenter film because, as Michael Allred said, it's one of his "director for hire" movies - he didn't write it, or do the music, just directed it for the studio.
Nevertheless, it has his style on it, and (IMHO) underlines the fact that he's actually seriously underrated as a director of comedy. "Dark Star" is hilarious (IMHO) and the hair-loss segment of "Body Bags" has some proper laugh-out-loud moments. For a director who's mostly rated for his horror and genre output, he's a dab hand at comedy when he wants to be :)
Re:View is basically Mike and Jay battling to release as many Star Trek and classic horror movie reviews as they can, respectively (not complaining)
Racing actually
And Rich is just stuck in the middle
Was motivated to watch In The Mouth of Madness after seeing this thumbnail pop up in my subs box. The title was familiar and I'm pretty sure I'd heard it talked about in the same conversations as other movies like Jacob's Ladder and maybe The Matrix but for some reason I just never sat down and watched it. I didn't remember it was a John Carpenter movie until the credits started. Holy shit, thank you so much for bringing me into this story. Incredible film - the ending is so funny and so scary at the same time, I was clapping alone in my room saying "That was crazy," to myself for several minutes as the finale played out and the credits rolled. Holy shitballs... excited to hear what you guys thought of the movie and am already looking forward to a few months down the road when I inevitably rewatch this movie and lose my shit all over again.
It is one of the most underrated films of the 90s. Glad it's starting to garner more attention and analysis now.
hearing colin talk about the bulk barn i walk past every day on my way to work is VERY surreal
I keep hoping they’ll review some movie shot in Edmonton so I’ll also have this experience
I've had one of those episodes where I've driven and felt like the road disappeared. I was driving to my parents, and it was late and raining. I was a good couple of hours into the drive when I came to a stretch of newly paved road. Pitch black newly tarred asphalt with newly painted white lines. Suddenly the rain got really intense and I turned the wipers on max but it was still a bit hard to see and then... Then I hit a stretch of the road that was so freshly paved that the lines weren't even painted yet. I saw nothing. There was nothing but darkness ahead, and somewhere the sky just started. There were some grayish outlines of clouds, but sky behind was also black with the occasional star. It was like someone just deleted the horizon and everything blended together... Really trippy
Awesome...thank you for sharing
I love this movie so much. The blue bus scene is printed in my mind forever. Also I randomly start to say Johnny! Johnny boy! sometimes and it makes me laugh.
Finally seeing that scene is amazing, it was a great choice to watch on the last week of October.
Hobb's End was named after a place in the classic 1950's BBC, Quatermass and the Pit.
Interesting. JC's pen name for Prince of Darkness was Martin Quartermass.
People like to throw shade on
“Escape from LA”
I’m not saying it’s perfect but there is a scene where Snake Pliskin, Pam Grier and Steve Buscemi hang glide into Disney World machine guns blazin’
and I like that idea
bruh disney world is in orlando, that's disneyland
Chuck Norris I always get those two mixed up. Which I am aware is a mortal sin in certain circles.
There's *still* a slim chance that we'll get a third!
Escape from LA is an awesome popcorn flick with cool ideas
Sam Neill stated that this was his favourite project ever that he worked on.
I bet that his favorite scene on Jurassic Park is the one where he scares the kids on the electric fence.
You both definitely should review John Carpenter's They Live
Yes. They need to put on the damn sunglasses!
That and Prince of Darkness, can't wait for those two.
They live. We sleep.
Oh yes, and have them mention the fight scene that South Park did a full length parody of.
Ahhhh, They Live..... probably the best Roddy Piper movie!!
Oh no wait.... he was in Hell comes to Frogtown XD haha
Aww.. they forgot to mention the creepy ass painting in the old lady's lobby.
The one in which the couple pictured in it keep mutating further every time Sam Neill looks at it.
The things they turn into reminds me of an even creepier looking "Engineers" mummified space suit in the movie Alien. With rotten brown tentacles.
I love that painting
I just wish they hadnt done the bit where it moves while linda is looking at. I feel like it would have been better if it was just different every time they see it
That painting is on top of my list of things to find recreated by some artist. I'm thinking of having it commissioned.
Dave Davies of The Kinks co-wrote and plays lead guitar on the opening theme music. His son (Daniel) currently plays in Carpenter’s band and collaborated with him on last year’s Halloween soundtrack.
Holy shit, I didn't know that!
Yesssss! _Do you read Sutter Cane?_ I love this movie so much! Definitely my favorite Carpenter movie and also my favorite movie with a Cosmic Horror/Lovecraftian theme.
Does that dude do voice over work? He sounds like some trailer voice overs.
*I see.*
This is one of my favorite Carpenter films. Its so under appreciated.
KNB effects is still existing as is and is operating out of Atlanta, primarily working on the Walking Dead, and Robert Kurtzmann FX is in the area as well, completely separate but still kicking ass. He just got the nomination for best prosthetic makeup for Haunting of Hill House I believe. A friend of mine who was on it with him says he’s a major hardass but still the best makeup artist he’s ever worked with.
Makes me want to play through Eternal Darkness on Nintendo Gamecube again.
Great game. I want a sequel/remake!
Jay! Talk about twin peaks the return you beautiful bastard
Yeah. Talk about how it's not very good.
My god!! This way one of my favorite when i was a kid, dude on the bike always got me.
Escape From L.A. is the greatest satire of action movies ever made, narrowly edging past Last Action Hero.
Commando wins on that score for me.
The first part of Predator
Halloween, Escape form New York, The Fog, The Thing, Christine and They Live. The man has proved his worth and then some. x
So glad you’re covering this. It’s his last masterpiece, IMO, and by far his most UNDERRATED film! 👍👍👍
This is a terribly underrated movie and I remember seeing it in the theatre with my dad when I was 11
The bikeboy with oldman make up looks like the witch from one of the endings in "Army of Darkness".
It's not about perception; it's about the author/artist being a conduit for these otherworldly forces. This is THE definitive Lovecraftian movie. Everyone should watch it.
YO I LOVED THIS MOVIE. MORE OF THIS. YES. JUST DO ALL OF CARPENTER'S FILMOGRAPHY
I love this movie, always avoided it as a later Carpenter film, when I finally saw it I found it to be absolutely fantastic.
So good to see appreciation for this amazing and underrated movie, thank you for the excellent analysis!
As a Torontonian that knows people who worked on this movie, it'll always have a special place in my heart. One of Carpenter's best, and definitely my favourite Sam Neill performance.
Who you tryin' ta mess with ese?
Don't you know I'm loco?
THIS IS NOT REALITY NOT REALITY! this is reality...
Insane in the membrane.
@@_WhiteMage INSANE IN THE BRAIN
Ok i know exactly what you're referring to but where is this from again? I can't remember the name.
@@ContinuumSpanner If you are asking about the song, "Insane in the membrane" if you are talking about the intro that used both the song and the scenes from the movie, "internet insanity"
“Johnny Boyyyy!” Lmao 😂
Sam Neill in Dead Calm (1989) very good, very underrated, generally unseen film.
That movie was pretty popular in the UK back in the day. Aussie stuff can go down well over here from time to time
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 not with the rubes...
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 thanks for caring.
I’ve been waiting so long for this specific re:view!
All the schlock Jay enjoys but he doesn't like escape from LA
isn't he a big fan of escape from ny?
I thought he's said multiple times in Half in the Bag he loves Escape from New York. CONTINUITY ERROR
@@AltoStratusX1 I think that's exactly why he doesn't like it. It's the same movie but with bad CGI.
I hate to say it but I love Escape From LA.
Can't wait for the Prince of Darkness re:view!
Only if Mike and Rich do it
Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" again on Blu-ray recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it - maybe even more than I did when I first saw it. Didn't realize, until the end-credits rolled, that the kid on the pushbike was a young Hayden Christensen ... but I suppose that name didn't mean anything to me the last time I saw this film :)
what a great discussion. I enjoyed every minute of it. I really like the lighting in your videos.
This and Prince of Darkness share Quatermass references as Hobbs End is in Quatermass and the Pit, while Prince of Darkness is credited to 'Martin Quatermass'. Quatermass was created by Nigel Kneale who wrote the original script to Halloween III.
In POD you see one of the character wear a shirt saying "Kneale University".
Rich Evans would have been perfectly cast for the laughing scene
Make it happen y'all. 👏🏽👏🏽
I know want an edit where someone inserts Rich Evans laugh into that laughing scene. Similar in style to the "J.Jonah Jameson, but it's Rich Evans" video. Make. It. Happen. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I think Jay, would fit better personally.
Met John Carpenter at a horror con about 5 years ago. It was a dream come true! My fave director!
I love it when you guys talk Carpenter! You must do Prince of Darkness next, its a terrific movie. And Jay continues to be stupendously handsome. S'all good!
Love Sam Neil. Why does nobody remember he was grown up Damien in Omen 3? That was the first I remember seeing him, and it's been a long time, but I remember him being good in that.
I remember that. I personally found him kind of weak in this movie but I guess I’m used to his performance from Jurassic Park. I don’t know.
@@coyotefever105 He tries to come off as charming in Omen 3 and doesn't quite work, but maybe that was the point? He is the devil after all. The scenes where he really goes for it monologuing are great though, the sheer outrage he shows. It's kind of a bold detail i didn't think much about before with The Final Conflict, but that's some next level hatred with the antichrist keeping a giant life-size crucified Jesus sculpture in his attic to mock and yell at every night.
Which disappointing sequel had the most perplexing basketball scene: Alien Resurrection or Escape from L A.?
More like Air Bud 14: All Dogs Don't Go to Heaven
Alien Resurrection at least gets some credit for Sigourney Weaver doing that over the shoulder shot herself, for real.
Alien Resurrection is way better than Escape from L.A.
Alien resurrection is a fun movie
Cyborg Winona and alien Sugar mama sigourney get it on
Not a sequel necessarily, but Catwoman definitely has the most perplexing basketball scene I've ever witnessed.
One of my favorite movies, thanks for highlighting it!
Your patreon is the best $2 i spend each month
I mean, Its the only auto-payment that doesn’t piss me off .
Surprised they haven't mentioned Hobbs End being a homage to Quatermass and the Pit
Colin saying Johnny boy cracks me up 11:17
Of all places, TH-cam itself is currently streaming this movie for free. Im actually surprised because ive never seen it stream anywhere else
Thanks for finally talking about this movie. I always used to ask about it during PreRec when Jay was on haha
So Jay, how do you feel about Cronenberg? Once you're fished with Carpenter, move on to Videodrome?
I have a very passionate opinion that if you slapped Kubrick's name on Videodrome, and changed literally nothing else, people would ride that movie's dick raw.
“Long Live the New Flesh!!”
Ghosts of Mars is absolutely terrible and I could sit down and watch it anytime
Critical Nobody its totally watchable
Critical Nobody I was just watching a “History of Splinter Cell” video and I saw your comment on it. I went right from that vid to this one and here you are! Isn’t Chaos Theory the best? And isn’t RLM the single greatest TH-cam channel? Loved your SC vid.
@@brandonthomas6602 Double Agent version 1 is the best.... didn't know that until this past year when i found out that there are actually two versions of double agent...
@@Pingaheimer I played Double Agent version 1 through the xbox one back compat and it is good, it great, even, but it doesn't beat Chao Theory for me, not even close. Chaos Theory has, to me, more cohesion, more consistency, and this amazing blend of atmosphere and incredibly slow stealth gameplay that puts it ahead for me. I don't disagree entirely with your opinion tho.
You two touched on every key moment in the movie except the very very very last scene with him watching himself in the theatre!! Come ooonn! Great review though, one of my favorite movies. Thanks
Just watched it for the first time, wonderful film. so good, still holds up!
4:50 Actually, while the long hallway shots were interior shots of the Palace of Purification, the individual cells and the hallway that contained them were filmed on a set. (I listened to Carpenter's director's commentary for this literally last week.)
You're telling me they don't actually have individual holding cells in the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant?
It seems wrong, doesn't it? When the water treatment plant reaches obsolescence, CAMH should buy the building and convert it into the spooky asylum everyone intuitively feels it should be.
@@RochesFan The RC Harris Mental Treatment Plant
The Palace of Rehabilitation
Oh please PLEASE *PLEEEASE* do a re:View on Zulawski's Possession. Arguably one of the greatest horror films ever created.. At the very least, it's still masterpiece of subtlety and quiet horror.
That film is like almost just completely carried by Sam Neill's & Isabelle Adjani's *FLAWLESS* performances. A 10/10 -film for me definitely.
hey Colin, i was at that Toronto show too. Danforth Music Hall, what a great time.
caught this movie on basically Canada's HBO when I was 11 or 12, and it never left my mind since.When I saw the Scream Factory bluray it was an immediate buy. I kinda wish more people knew about this so i could quote it publicly.
In the Mouth of Madness is one of my favorite movies and I legit screamed seeing this on my subscription feed.
Best Lovecraftian movie out there.
I loved this movie! So...Lovecraftian. Also, as a Kiwi, I like watching Sam Neill in movies, Alan Grant was one of my heroes as a kid during my obsession with Jurassic Park/dinosaur phase. But It's extra funny for me because Sam Neill just can't keep up an American accent to save his life, if one did a drinking game where one has to take a drink every time Sam Neill slips back into his New Zealand accent, you'd die from alcohol poisoning about halfway through, it's sorta endearing lol
Seen this so many times, love it!
The idea of not knowing what a bulk barn is makes that whole exchange so much funnier to me, trying to imagine what the words coming out of his mouth really mean when you have never been in one. I love bulk barn.