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Die Mächte des Wahnsinns

Originaltitel: In the Mouth of Madness
  • 1994
  • 18
  • 1 Std. 35 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,1/10
84.387
IHRE BEWERTUNG
BELIEBTHEIT
3.492
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Die Mächte des Wahnsinns (1994)
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Ein Versicherungsermittler beginnt zu entdecken, dass die Auswirkungen der Bücher eines Horrorautors auf seine Fans mehr als inspirierend sind.Ein Versicherungsermittler beginnt zu entdecken, dass die Auswirkungen der Bücher eines Horrorautors auf seine Fans mehr als inspirierend sind.Ein Versicherungsermittler beginnt zu entdecken, dass die Auswirkungen der Bücher eines Horrorautors auf seine Fans mehr als inspirierend sind.

  • Regie
    • John Carpenter
  • Drehbuch
    • Michael De Luca
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Sam Neill
    • Jürgen Prochnow
    • Julie Carmen
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    7,1/10
    84.387
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    BELIEBTHEIT
    3.492
    380
    • Regie
      • John Carpenter
    • Drehbuch
      • Michael De Luca
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Sam Neill
      • Jürgen Prochnow
      • Julie Carmen
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    • 162Kritische Rezensionen
    • 53Metascore
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    • Auszeichnungen
      • 1 Gewinn & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Sam Neill
    Sam Neill
    • John Trent
    Jürgen Prochnow
    Jürgen Prochnow
    • Sutter Cane
    • (as Jurgen Prochnow)
    Julie Carmen
    Julie Carmen
    • Linda Styles
    David Warner
    David Warner
    • Dr. Wrenn
    John Glover
    John Glover
    • Saperstein
    Bernie Casey
    Bernie Casey
    • Robinson
    Peter Jason
    Peter Jason
    • Mr. Paul
    Charlton Heston
    Charlton Heston
    • Jackson Harglow
    Frances Bay
    Frances Bay
    • Mrs. Pickman
    Wilhelm von Homburg
    Wilhelm von Homburg
    • Simon
    Kevin Rushton
    Kevin Rushton
    • Guard #1
    Gene Mack
    • Guard #2
    Conrad Bergschneider
    Conrad Bergschneider
    • Axe Maniac
    Marvin Scott
    Marvin Scott
    • Reporter
    Katherine Ashby
    • Receptionist
    Ben Gilbert
    • Young Teen
    Dennis O'Connor
    Dennis O'Connor
    • Cop
    Paul Brogren
    • Scrawny Teen
    • Regie
      • John Carpenter
    • Drehbuch
      • Michael De Luca
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    7DustinRahksi

    One of Carpenters best.

    This film is by far one of the best horror movies I've watched in a couple of months, and I watched a lot. This film succeeds in suspense and thrills, I actually jumped a couple of times. The plot was really good, there was an in-pending sense of doom.

    The film moved along fast, and I wished it was a little longer, I didn't want it to end. Sam Neil is the most notable character, and I enjoy most of his work. The rest of the cast didn't have much to do. I loved the inclusion of monsters, even if they had a small part.

    I think this film is severely underrated, and deserves a bigger fan base. Check this film out, it's worth your time and money.
    zmaturin

    John Carpenter delivers again.

    "In The Mouth of Madness" is one of John Carpenter's better flicks. It features the usually bland Sam Neill in a surprisingly good and likable performance, and is packed with oodles of intriguing concepts and spiffy details. The music is good (it was cowritten by Carpenter) and the movie has a great look. There are also lots and lots of ginchy make-up effects, and while some are better than others (the kid who turns into an old man looks like a kid wearing a Spencer's Gifts Old Man mask and fright wig), but the sheer abundance of them make this unique.

    Neill plays John Trent, a no-nonsense insurance investigator who loves his job and has disdain for most of humanity- but with a sense of humor. He's sent to find a missing mega-selling author Sutter Caine (Jurgen Prochnow, in a role that would have been kick-ass if played by Stephen King), whose books are a nation-wide craze. Trent ends up in Hobb's End, a town right out of Caine's books (literally) where the morbid tales of fiction are becoming reality.

    The movie, although muddled in places, too repetitive (on purpose), and too reliant on flash forwards, has lots of things to say about the perception of reality and it interesting and entertaining.

    The supporting cast is good: John Glover and David Warner are psychiatrists, a subdued Charleton Heston is a publisher, and Bernie "Revenge of the Nerds" Casey is Trent's boss, but the highlight is Frances Bay as the sweet Mrs. Pickman. She provides the film's high points and ends up looking like something from the director's "The Thing". The weak link in the cast is the leading lady, Julie Carmen, who delivers every line like she just chugged a case of Nyquil. In addition to her lousy acting, she's dressed in ugly outfits and has a kind of "in-your-face" ugliness. In one scene there is a special effects dummy head in place of Carmen's and the dummy head out-acts her.

    This is not as great as "The Thing" but better than "They Live" as far as John Carpenter's paranoid, reality-bending flicks go, and is worth checking out.
    8thekarmicnomad

    Assaults your mind not your giblets.

    I found this film terrifying. Sure there is no man in a stripy jumper coming to 'stab you up' and no one is tied to a chair and worked on with an angle grinder.

    This film makes excellent use of those iconic every day objects that become scary in the correct context. (E.G Clowns, mannequins, Victorian prams or a child's ball bouncing down a stair case.) People who have seen this will know what I mean when I say the word bicycle.

    Rather than physical peril this film uses assaults on your grasp of reality. mine obviously isn't that great as I find this movie petrifying.

    The production of the film isn't great and there are more exciting films out there. But if you have some imagination, are a little romantic and like being scared without having to sit through some poor soul forced to spectate live at their own autopsy, then this deserves every one of its eight stars.
    Dethcharm

    The Town At The End Of The World...

    The stories of H.P. Lovecraft can be summarized in a simple equation: Mankind + Ancient, Inescapable Horrors = Utter Doom. With IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, Director John Carpenter uses the dread-filled atmospherics of Lovecraft, in order to pay homage to the writer.

    Insurance fraud investigator, John Trent (Sam Neill) is sent to discover what happened to a pulp horror writer named Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow), who seems to have vanished without a trace. Trent, a normal, rational man, soon finds himself entangled in a web of incredible, unexplainable occurrences upon finding the mysterious town of Hobb's End. Here, his skeptical / logical mind is tested beyond its limit.

    Like Lovecraft, Carpenter gives us small glimpses of immense things that defy description. Reality bends in on itself, until we, along with Trent, can no longer discern fact from fiction. From the ax-wielding, mutant maniacs, to the unspeakable black church, Hobb's End is a place existing only in nightmare. A very satisfying, apocalyptic horror film...
    7claudio_carvalho

    Changing the Reality

    The efficient and skeptical freelance insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) is hired by the publisher Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston) to find where the famous writer Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) might be. After writing a series of best-sellers in the horror genre, affecting the reason and causing disorientation, memory loss and paranoia in the readers, Sutter has simply vanished near the release of his new novel, "Horror in Hobb's End". There is a mass hysteria of his anxious fans waiting for the new release, and John believes that his disappearance is a strategy of marketing. John follows his instincts and travels with Cane's editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), to New Hampshire seeking for the apparently fictional town of Hobb's End. While driving along the night, Linda reaches the Hobb's End, and John discloses that Sutter Cane has unleashed a powerful evil force in the black church of the mysterious town, and his twisted imagination is changing the reality and perception of those that read his novels.

    "In the Mouth of Madness" is a journey to fear and madness through the darkness of a twisted mind of a writer. This story follows the style of "Twilight Zone" and actually shows how a writer with the support of the media is able to manipulate hearts and minds. Further, there is a certain criticism in the values and standards of the society where those who think differently or have a different behavior are outcast or even considered crazy. John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors and Sam Neil is perfect in the role of a skeptical man, used to find schemes and con everywhere, having difficulties to accept what is happening. The conclusion is very dark and without perspective to mankind. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "À Beira da Loucura" ("On the Edge of Madness")

    Note: On 23 June 2015 I saw this movie again.

    Note: On 20 September 2020 I saw this movie again.

    Note: On 03 March 2025 I saw this movie again.

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    • Wissenswertes
      In the film, the works of Sutter Cane are occasionally quoted. Most if not all of these quotes are actually taken directly from several H.P. Lovecraft short stories with some adaptations to fit them into the film story. Most notably, in the scene where Styles reads to Trent as he gazes into the abyss--her speech lifts much of its description, including such elements as "the illimitable gulf of the unknown" from the last few paragraphs of Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls." In an earlier scene as well, Trent reads a line verbatim from Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark," in reference to the black church being "the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe."
    • Patzer
      It is highly unlikely that Trent could draw on his padded cell wall's with all the crosses with a single crayon and no ladder.
    • Zitate

      John Trent: This shit really sells doesn't it?

      Linda Styles: More than you'd think. Surprised?

      John Trent: Lady, nothing surprises me anymore. We fucked up the air, the water, we fucked up each other. Why don't we just finish the job by flushing our brains down the toilet?

    • Crazy Credits
      Animal action was monitored by the American Humane Association with on set supervision by the Toronto Humane Society. No animal was harmed in the making of this film.

      Human interaction was monitored by the Inter Planetary Psychiatric Association. The body count was high, the casualties are heavy.
    • Alternative Versionen
      The original theatrical release had the 1987-1994 New Line Cinema logo at the opening. The 2013 Blu-ray from Warner Bros. plasters it with the modern New Line logo. But the 2018 Blu-ray release from Shout! Factory restores the original logo.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      We've Only Just Begun
      Written by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams

      Performed by The Carpenters

      Published by Irving Music Inc. (BMI)

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    Details

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 23. Februar 1995 (Deutschland)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigte Staaten
      • Kanada
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • En la boca del terror
    • Drehorte
      • Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Markham, Ontario, Kanada(the black church - exterior)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • New Line Cinema
      • Panavision (Canada)
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    • Budget
      • 8.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 8.924.549 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 3.441.807 $
      • 5. Feb. 1995
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 8.926.413 $
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    • Laufzeit
      1 Stunde 35 Minuten
    • Farbe
      • Color
    • Sound-Mix
      • Dolby SR
      • DTS
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