When does fiction become religion?
In the Mouth of Madness is the amalgamation of ambitious horror elements—underworld Lovecraftian fiends, Armageddon, epidemic schizophrenic paranoia, violence!
There’s also plenty of recurring bits that is difficult to set apart from iconic horror films such as the shapeshifting crazed female lead (as in Possession, 1981 that also starred Sam Neill) or the axe hacking (as in Stephen King’s The Shining, 1980) or weird kids (as in Village of the Damned that John Carpenter would…
