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In the Mouth of Madness

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In the Mouth of Madness	comment	The third installment of John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" (preceded by The Thing and Prince of Darkness), In the Mouth of Madness (1994) explores reality, fiction, and the thin, horrific line that separates the two.John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance fraud investigator, has just been placed in an insane asylum. Months earlier, he was hired to find bestselling horror writer Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow). Cane has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but his publisher Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston) thinks it might just be a stunt to drum up support for his next book, In the Mouth of Madness.When Trent finds that the covers of Cane's books seem to become a map to the supposedly fictional town of Hobb's End, he and Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), who works for the publisher, decide to go there and find Cane. What they find, however, is something much worse.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_11a74598	type	Became Their Own Antithesis
In the Mouth of Madness / int_11a74598	comment	Became Their Own Antithesis: Trent starts out as a cool and collected insurance investigator who prides himself on being the Only Sane Man. By the end of his stay in Hob’s End, he’s a deranged, paranoid wreck of a man.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_11dc879d	type	Reading Ahead in the Script
In the Mouth of Madness / int_11dc879d	comment	Reading Ahead in the Script: When Linda Styles realizes that Sutter Cane's latest novel is in fact their own reality, she reads ahead to see the ending for herself. The revelation turns her into one of Cane's minions, and she's later retconned out of the story.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1282bf4f	comment	Sutter Cane is basically a fictional version of Stephen King, though with quite a few elements from H. P. Lovecraft. It's likely not a coincidence that characters being successful authors themselves is another King staple. Cujo also makes a cameo.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_13945ede	type	IAmAHumanitarian
In the Mouth of Madness / int_13945ede	comment	I Am a Humanitarian: In Trent's nightmare, one of the monster people eats part of a person they just axed to death.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
In the Mouth of Madness / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: A lot of the film is a metaphor for writing (much like the book Misery). For example, Linda being written out is akin to an author deciding a character isn't working.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
In the Mouth of Madness / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: An Insurance Fraud scam is found out when a guy claims a warehouse full of fur coats was supposedly destroyed, but he kept the coats, giving some to his wife, who ratted on him when it turned out he gave some to his mistress.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Having read Cane's books, the characters know what to expect. Whether they choose to believe that the books correspond to reality is another matter.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Is the entire world the product of an Unreliable Narrator?
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
In the Mouth of Madness / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The movie title is that of Sutter Cane's latest novel. It's title dropped by Sutter Cane when he finishes the novel's manuscript for Trent to return it to the real world. Also earlier by a newscaster:
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Peter Jason as a fraudster Trent catches in the act at the beginning of the film.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: All of Cane's books, most notably In the Mouth of Madness.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue?" Every character's eyes are blue in closeup, whether or not the actor/actress actually has blue eyes. Not to mention that there's a certain sickly shade of blue that seems to occur everywhere in the film, once you start noticing it.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: In a Nightmare Sequence, a character gets his fingers cut off.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
In the Mouth of Madness / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The final note of the film is very ambiguous about what exactly is real and what's not. Is all of this Trent's mind finally snapping or is he part of Cane's fictional universe? Was he always part of said universe or was he overtaken by it? Is he watching the adaptation of In the Mouth of Madness or is he in the adaptation (or both, somehow)? Did reality ever exist at all, given we know we're watching a fictional movie? And most importantly, are we part of it?.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Trent is a Hardboiled Detective straight out of a Film Noir who has stumbled straight into a Cosmic Horror Story, and refuses to believe that he isn’t in a Film Noir anymore. He made a point of reading some of Sutter Cane's stories and he still gets blind-sided by all of the horrors straight out of the books that come roaring out of the dark.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Cane sics several of them on Simon and his cohorts as they try to confront him at the church. They're surprisingly effective considering the men are angry and toting rifles or maybe not, considering Cane literally wrote into reality what would happen.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
In the Mouth of Madness / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Trent insists that he knows what reality is, and to hell with what anyone else says. He gives up the pretense at the end. Although he really is the only sane man, because that's how Cane wrote him. Discussed by Cane: "Always looking for the con... even now you're trying to rationalize." Arguably deconstructed, since the film examines how lonely it would be to be the only bastion of sanity, especially if everyone else had gone around the bend. Trent’s Final Fate is to be the only (somewhat) normal person left in a world gone mad.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
In the Mouth of Madness / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The film begins with Trent's commitment to the mental asylum, as he relays How We Got Here to Wren.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
In the Mouth of Madness / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Readers of the books of hack horror writer Sutter Cane go insane and develop strange physical afflictions, like a second pupil in their iris or bleeding from their eyes. And berserk homicidal tendencies, of course. Over the time, these minor afflictions develop into serious bodily mutations, including tentacles, distended jaws, and reversible joints. Cane himself has one, in the form of a monster on the back of his head that's only shown once, possibly placed there to hint at his true nature.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
In the Mouth of Madness / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The fates of Dr. Wren, Saperstein, and Harglow are left unclear at the end, though it’s likely Saperstein died during the attack on the asylum.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
In the Mouth of Madness / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Trent startles awake from his alleyway nightmare. In fact, the movie features nesting Catapult Nightmares.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
In the Mouth of Madness / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Literally. Some characters just pick up an ax and start swinging after reading Cane's book.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_31898188	type	Recurring Dreams
In the Mouth of Madness / int_31898188	comment	Recurring Dreams: Trent begins to suffer from these. Turned out Cane was just writing a little Foreshadowing into proceedings.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
In the Mouth of Madness / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Quite literally. Our introduction to the terrifying children of Hobb's End shows them running after a dog. The next time we see them, the dog has had one of its legs ripped off and is limping around forlornly.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
In the Mouth of Madness / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Sam Neill's real accent occasionally slips through, particularly when he's arguing with Julie Carmen.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
In the Mouth of Madness / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: Trent somehow manages to fall asleep through a series of noticeably supernatural events, including the road disappearing and the car flying through some weird clouds, then hitting a surface that ends up being the bridge at the entrance of Hobb's End, and it's broad daylight when they come out of the bridge. Only then does Trent wake up, and Linda is too terrified to explain what just happened.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_3848c28a	type	Name of Cain
In the Mouth of Madness / int_3848c28a	comment	Name of Cain: Sutter Cane.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_3a3489f	type	Fourth-Wall Observer
In the Mouth of Madness / int_3a3489f	comment	Fourth-Wall Observer: In-Universe, Simon seems to be the only character to realize that he's a character in Cane's new book.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
In the Mouth of Madness / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: An in-universe example that breaks through two fourth walls. At the end, Trent views the film you are watching, only disjointed and cut up.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
In the Mouth of Madness / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: Sutter Cane becomes so powerful that he can alter reality to suit his whims. According to Word of God, Cane only has the same powers that any other writer has over their creation. The entire film is taking place inside one of his books.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_3ce2cf4f	type	Hassle-Free Hotwire
In the Mouth of Madness / int_3ce2cf4f	comment	Hassle-Free Hotwire: When Trent tries to leave Hobb's End, his brainwashed partner swallows his car keys as they're being surrounded by a mob of ax-wielding townspeople. He uses a screwdriver to dig into the base of the steering wheel and activate his car that way.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
In the Mouth of Madness / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: A guy burned down a warehouse of fur coats to collect the insurance. He was caught when it turned out he kept the coats safe and gave some to his wife...and his mistress.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: Or Eldritch Abomination, in this case.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_45db8ec6	type	Cry Laughing
In the Mouth of Madness / int_45db8ec6	comment	Cry Laughing: See Laughing Mad below.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4930959c	type	Bigger Than Jesus
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4930959c	comment	Bigger Than Jesus: Cane says more people believe in his novels than in The Bible.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
In the Mouth of Madness / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Sutter Cane is the most popular (horror) writer who ever lived and he's the villain no less. At its core, the film looks at what the awesome power of writing means to the characters who occupy the novels themselves.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Dr. Wren asks what will happen to those who don't read (and therefore won't read Cane's book), Trent answers: "There's a movie!" He's not kidding, and that link is extremely appropriate; the movie happens to be the one you're watching.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4a44d616	type	Death of the Author
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4a44d616	comment	Death of the Author: Played with as one of the themes. For example, is it possible for a character to act independently of the author even while the book is still being written? (Stranger Than Fiction explored this idea as well.) invoked
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Trent at the end of the film when he stumbles upon a movie theater playing John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (yes, the film he is inside of) and promptly snaps. It devolves into pained sobs before the credits roll.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: Right after the "No animal was harmed during the making of this film" blurb, they have a slightly different report on the humans.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Sutter Cane states clearly that this is how he gained the power to alter reality. While he at one point says that it's the Eldritch Abominations behind the door in the church that guided him, it's more implied that it was the belief in Cane's books that made the monsters real in the first place.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
In the Mouth of Madness / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The film ends with the Apocalypse, as the entire world is attacked by Lovecraftian horrors and a large chunk of the population falls into insanity. Of course, if reality is relative anyway, then does this ending even matter/happen?
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Saperstein.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: Trent acts like a collected, snarky Hardboiled Detective, but as he goes through more and more horrific experiences, it becomes clear that he’s really a stubborn man who can’t accept that what’s happening is real due to his firm belief in what reality is.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
In the Mouth of Madness / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Going nuts is one thing, but it's possible that Cane's book can even turn people into Eldritch Abominations.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_51dc66f6	type	Hardboiled Detective
In the Mouth of Madness / int_51dc66f6	comment	Hardboiled Detective: Trent, complete with a chain-smoking addiction.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5b47f992	type	Monochromatic Eyes
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5b47f992	comment	Monochromatic Eyes: Cane's eyes during the mock-confessional.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Well, a radio broadcast, but during the car trip there are two talking heads debating a "disease" that seems to have sprung from Kane's work; the beginnings of the Old Ones' infection, perhaps?
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Played with. The characters have frequent surreal and horrifying visions that they then wake up from, but given that it's in the context of reality and fiction merging and the waking world (insofar as the viewer can distinguish such a thing) getting weirder and weirder, describing them as simply 'bad dreams' seems a dangerous oversimplification.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: The former Trope Namer. In this movie, you're not just in the mouth of madness; you're being chewed.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5db59a03	comment	Following exposure to Cane's eldritch novel, Linda begins to transform like the other readers, though the actual transitions are either obscured or off-camera. In one case, John Trent sees her sprouting unknown appendages through a pane of frosted glass, and catches a brief glimpse of tentacles snaking under the door, but when Linda actually opens it a cut later, she appears normal. Later, after the two of them seemingly manage to escape from Hobb's End, Trent hears crunching sounds from the car and a loud moan from Linda; moments later, Linda herself creeps into view on all fours, her body hideously contorted.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
In the Mouth of Madness / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Stiles, already unhinged and possessed by Cane's influence, tries to seduce Trent in the hotel room to keep him from leaving. He isn't interested.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
In the Mouth of Madness / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Essentially the entire movie is based around this. As Trent gets closer to the truth, holes start to appear in his reality and mundane things become nightmarish. It’s vaguely implied that the reason Cane is helping free the Old Ones is because they had slowly driven him insane over the past few years.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
In the Mouth of Madness / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When John looks through the tear in reality we can see he's actually looking through a tear in the pages. It's actually excerpts from Sutter's previous novel, The Hobb's End Horror. Also, the couple in the Creepy Changing Painting. Them turning their faces towards Linda while she's looking at it isn't the only thing that's off about them...
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
In the Mouth of Madness / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Literally; Cane might just be an avatar of whatever extra-reality force he has become/is channeling.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
In the Mouth of Madness / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The church. On the outside, it's spooky enough, what with its rural New England location, but inside, it turns into a full-blown Eldritch Location.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
In the Mouth of Madness / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Notably, Trent starts out the movie having made his own filled with drawn crosses with just a single black crayon. It's even lampshaded by Dr. Wren who thinks that Trent isn't as mad as people think.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_698d7dad	type	Lovecraft Country
In the Mouth of Madness / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: Hobb's End, New Hampshire. The film is inspired by, and contains Shout-Out after Shout-Out to H. P. Lovecraft. Hell, a nightmare sequence even has a Continuity Cameo from Cthulhu.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
In the Mouth of Madness / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: In the end, the human race is doomed to be destroyed/mutated into insane playthings of the Old Ones. Maybe.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_6d0b942	type	Unexplained Accent
In the Mouth of Madness / int_6d0b942	comment	Unexplained Accent: Sam Neill, David Warner, and Wilhelm von Homburg all speak in their native accents (New Zealand, England, and Germany, respectively) despite the movie being set in the United States and there are no references to any of them being expats. In von Homburg's case it's especially strange since he's supposed to be a blue-collar Hobb's End local.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
In the Mouth of Madness / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Simon, the man leading the angry mob at the church, blows his own head off.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
In the Mouth of Madness / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: As soon as Trent reads Sutter Cane's books for clues as to his whereabouts, "reality" (if it was ever that) starts to unravel and distort into an increasingly nightmarish and disjointed jumble of vignettes and revelations that are alternately creepy and terrifying, involving madness, mutation and violence, with very little certainty as to whether it's actually happening or all in Trent's increasingly warped mind. Or both at the same time.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
In the Mouth of Madness / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: As Trent walks through an alleyway at night, he catches a cop beating up a homeless man. He leaves it alone, but the cop is ready to dish out some more. He later sees a nightmare of the same scene.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
In the Mouth of Madness / int_7464705c	comment	Dr. Wrenn has this reaction when Saperstein asks him “Do you read Sutter Cane?”, revealing that Trent’s story was possibly true.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
In the Mouth of Madness / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Hobb is an old English word for "devil."
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
In the Mouth of Madness / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: First, Linda Styles tries this, only for Trent to not believe her. Eventually, Trent himself gets plenty of moments like this, particularly near the end.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
In the Mouth of Madness / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: Once Trent has the manuscript, he can't get rid of it. Even when he destroys it, it reappears very quickly.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_7916f22e	type	Creepy Changing Painting
In the Mouth of Madness / int_7916f22e	comment	Also, the couple in the Creepy Changing Painting. Them turning their faces towards Linda while she's looking at it isn't the only thing that's off about them...
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
In the Mouth of Madness / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: Essentially the entire movie. Linda Styles may never even have existed. Trent may only have begun existing when Cane wrote him. Hobb's End seems to become real/unreal purely through Cane's words. Finally, it's even possible that the movie itself may have been written/created by Sutter Cane.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_7fb533de	type	Author Powers
In the Mouth of Madness / int_7fb533de	comment	Author Powers: Cane's powers have become so vast that the entire world is his story.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
In the Mouth of Madness / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Trent’s first chronological scene has him use logical deduction to figure out a guy was pulling an insurance fraud, showing his heavy reliance on logic and his skepticism of everyone around him. Cane’s is him appearing before an angry mob after luring a possessed child into the church, pleasantly smiling at the mob before sticking a pack of Dobermans in them, showing how he is a Faux Affably Evil Humanoid Abomination. Simon’s comes when he screams at Cane to give him back his son, showing how he is keenly aware of his fictional nature and his Papa Wolf tendencies.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
In the Mouth of Madness / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Almost the entire story is told In Medias Res by Trent to a psychiatrist at a mental asylum.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
In the Mouth of Madness / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Simon, the leader of the posse at the church, and Saperstein, one of the head doctors at the mental asylum.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
In the Mouth of Madness / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: A horde of mutated townsfolk block Trent’s car. When his attempts to escape the town by driving in the opposite direction fail, he just drives through them.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
In the Mouth of Madness / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Mr. Saperstein. It’s heavily implied at the end that, despite his Smug Smiler demeanor, he’s well aware he’s one of Cane’s characters.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
In the Mouth of Madness / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Thunder can be heard during Trent's stay in the mental asylum.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
In the Mouth of Madness / int_851dda8f	comment	During his second appearance in the film, Sutter Cane sprouts a conjoined monster from his back right in the middle of a kiss with a freshly Mind Raped Linda Styles; though we hear the ripping sounds of the transformation, Cane appears normal up until we cut to a shot of him from the back.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_853a0e84	type	Transformation Discretion Shot
In the Mouth of Madness / int_853a0e84	comment	Transformation Discretion Shot: During his second appearance in the film, Sutter Cane sprouts a conjoined monster from his back right in the middle of a kiss with a freshly Mind Raped Linda Styles; though we hear the ripping sounds of the transformation, Cane appears normal up until we cut to a shot of him from the back. Following exposure to Cane's eldritch novel, Linda begins to transform like the other readers, though the actual transitions are either obscured or off-camera. In one case, John Trent sees her sprouting unknown appendages through a pane of frosted glass, and catches a brief glimpse of tentacles snaking under the door, but when Linda actually opens it a cut later, she appears normal. Later, after the two of them seemingly manage to escape from Hobb's End, Trent hears crunching sounds from the car and a loud moan from Linda; moments later, Linda herself creeps into view on all fours, her body hideously contorted.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Trent, at first. Dr. Wren also comes off as one of these, since he dismisses Trent’s story as the ravings of a madman, though he seems to be reconsidering after Saperstein asks him “Do you read Sutter Cane?” when he tells him about Trent’s apparent delusions.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Old Ones. When they enter reality through Sutter Cane's book, they herald the end of humankind.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
In the Mouth of Madness / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: The Movie, from both an in-universe and meta-sense.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
In the Mouth of Madness / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Trent, finally realizing that he was a Sutter Cane character all along. Presumably everyone else driven mad by the book/movie had this same revelation.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8c30c2ac	type	Rewriting Reality
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8c30c2ac	comment	Rewriting Reality: Hobb's End was written into existence by Sutter Cane, who also produces a number of retcons that remove a character from existence and reshuffle an entire sequence of events within the film. By the end of the film, the entire world has apparently been absorbed by Cane's latest novel.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: As Cane’s agent learns, strolling through the street with an axe while covered in blood and taking your sweet time in killing one man will just get you shot by the police.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8e59e4a6	type	Cthulhumanoid
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8e59e4a6	comment	Cthulhumanoid: The figures in the Creepy Changing Painting in Mrs. Pickman's foyer. Though at that point, they barely qualify as humanoid anymore.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_8f0c88f	type	Invincible Villain
In the Mouth of Madness / int_8f0c88f	comment	Invincible Villain: Cane is basically God, at least as far as the other characters are concerned.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
In the Mouth of Madness / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Insane author Sutter Cane discusses the power of faith over reality with Trent while they sit on opposite sides of a confessional.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
In the Mouth of Madness / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Though it's left deliberately vague precisely what's happening, precisely how bad it is, and precisely how real it is.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: Linda Styles, who was apparently written out by Cane.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
In the Mouth of Madness / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Sutter Cane.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: Mrs. Pickman's basement.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: How Linda and Trent missed the 800 foot tall church in Hobb's End.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Hobb's End, but especially the interior of the church.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Trent tries to do this to Cane’s manuscript. Doesn't work.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
In the Mouth of Madness / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the car trip in the first act, Linda foreshadows (or predicts) everything that's going to happen to Trent by the end of the movie. Linda’s love of Cane’s books foreshadows her transformation into another role of Cane’s deranged followers.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Trent insists on this and states it word for word.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_9f88a80a	comment	Nightmare Dreams: Trent has an extensive one that takes place in an alleyway at night.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
In the Mouth of Madness / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: Overlapping with Writers Cannot Do Math. Sutter Cane tries to convince John Trent that his horror books will to all intents and purposes become the new reality because his readers will believe in it, boasting that he has more followers than people who believe in The Bible and that his books have been translated into 18 languages. There are around 2 billion Christians in the world (and around half of the world population if every Abrahamic religion is counted) and the Bible has actually been translated into either hundreds or thousands of languages depending on how you measure it.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Viewers will get a Freeze-Frame Bonus if they examine the poster for the In-Universe version of In the Mouth Of Madness, as it is a New Line Cinema production starring John Trent and Linda Styles.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Everyone in the movie is a work of fiction in Sutter Cane's latest novel, and everything they do is done entirely against their own will, because they have none.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_aaf661fb	comment	Noticing the Fourth Wall: At the end of his stay in Hobb's End, Trent meets with Sutter Cane. Cane reveals that Trent is in fact one of his characters. Trent refuses to accept this, exactly how Cane had written him.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
In the Mouth of Madness / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Harglow reveals that The Film of the Book is coming out next month, Trent jumps out of his chair and backs away. Dr. Wrenn has this reaction when Saperstein asks him “Do you read Sutter Cane?”, revealing that Trent’s story was possibly true.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Trent, at least before the façade starts to slip.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
In the Mouth of Madness / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Linda, after reading In the Mouth of Madness.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Hobb's End, of course, in the tradition of similar locals such as Castle Rock and Derry, along with Innsmouth, Dunwich, and Arkham.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Shades of Neo-Noir, with Trent being the classic Hardboiled Detective (down to a chain-smoking habit) and Linda having elements of a Femme Fatale.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Every single character in the story. That's because they're just characters in Sutter Cane's book.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: When Linda Styles investigates the interior of Sutter Cane's (who is basically an amalgam of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft) evil church in Hobb's End, she opens a door to find a small unoccupied room with a typewriter. After she turns around and opens the door again, it's now a giant room with Cane typing in the far corner.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Trent is in the insane asylum for killing a Sutter Cane fan with an axe, but David Warner's character seems to think he's only pretending to be insane, perhaps to avoid a criminal trial. It's just as likely he's pretending to be insane in order to stay safe inside the asylum.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Trent's reaction on hearing one of the Carpenters songs being played in the insane asylum. Works on two levels, both literally with respect to the pop duo and also as a reference to the film's director John Carpenter.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: When Hobb's End really goes to hell and people start mutating into monsters all around Trent, he decides to get the hell out of dodge and jumps in his car. Each time he tries to leave town, however, the godlike Cane resets Trent to just before he left. The only option left to him is go right through the ax-wielding mob of townspeople.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
In the Mouth of Madness / int_b9af5ef3	comment	When Harglow reveals that The Film of the Book is coming out next month, Trent jumps out of his chair and backs away.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: While Trent is trying to flee Hobb's End, an axe-wielding mutant stops in front of him to yell, "Fuck you!"
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
In the Mouth of Madness / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Either the people of Hobb's End are terrible shots, or they just don't want to shoot Cane's attack dogs.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
In the Mouth of Madness / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: What's the difference between fiction and reality? According to this movie, nothing, up to and including the movie itself.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
In the Mouth of Madness / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Used extensively.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
In the Mouth of Madness / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: At the start of the film, we find Trent locked up in a mental asylum, from which he tells the rest of the story prior to his arrival there to a psychiatrist.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
In the Mouth of Madness / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Lots to H. P. Lovecraft. Mrs. Pickman's name is a reference to the story "Pickman's Model," and the titles of Cane's books resemble those of Lovecraft stories. The movie's own title is vaguely reminiscent of At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. An excerpt read out from the in-Verse manuscript of In The Mouth Of Madness is strongly reminiscent of "The Outsider" and "The Rats in the Walls". Furthermore, an excerpt from Cane's book The Hobb's End Horror directly quotes Lovecraft's final story, "The Haunter of the Dark". Sutter Cane is basically a fictional version of Stephen King, though with quite a few elements from H. P. Lovecraft. It's likely not a coincidence that characters being successful authors themselves is another King staple. Cujo also makes a cameo. Hobb's End is also a reference to Quatermass and the Pit. Saperstein is the name of the Satanist doctor in Rosemary's Baby.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
In the Mouth of Madness / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Have Cane's books triggered a mass delusion that's causing more and more people to think they're being taken over by monstrous demons? Or are monstrous demons really taking over people who have read Sutter Cane?
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_ccc73c34	type	Spooky Painting
In the Mouth of Madness / int_ccc73c34	comment	Spooky Painting: Mrs. Pickman's hotel lounge is adorned by a painting of a couple standing besides a lake. Every time Trent takes a look at it again, the couple transform more and more into shrieking human/tree hybrids.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
In the Mouth of Madness / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Cane's ultimate reveal is just a black void.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
In the Mouth of Madness / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Simon’s introduction has him bellow at the top of his lungs for Cane to give him back his son.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
In the Mouth of Madness / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: The barrier between the film's fictional universe, the Show Within a Show and our actual reality are repeatedly tested and in the end, apparently broken.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_d1f4d528	type	Treasure Map
In the Mouth of Madness / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: Trent "discovers" the secret location of (the supposedly fictional) Hobb's End by piecing together a jigsaw map made from secret shapes hidden in the cover art of Cane's novels.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
In the Mouth of Madness / int_d54f84cb	comment	Dream Within a Dream: The protagonist dreams of witnessing a cop beating a graffiti artist in a dark alley, an event he witnessed earlier that night, but now the cop is a deformed monster. He wakes up... and sees the monster-cop sitting next to him, and wakes up again.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
In the Mouth of Madness / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: Enforced. The Old Ones operate on Clap Your Hands If You Believe rules, so making a sufficiently large number of people insane enough to accept their existence is basically their form of colonisation. Cane and his writings are simply their main vehicle for this.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
In the Mouth of Madness / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Sutter Cane's last book on Hobb's End prominently featured the end of the world as people turned into monsters and reality became host to otherworldly horrors. It turns out that he used Trent to spread this disease throughout the real world by retrieving his book. Society is well on its way to total collapse by the end.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
In the Mouth of Madness / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Zig-Zagged with Sutter Cane. In this case, he may very well be, as his writings have granted him the ability to re-cast the entirety of reality through his novels. On the other hand, it's hinted he might be actually in service to a host of Lovecraftion terrors that are slowly invading the world, or maybe he created them. It's a very confusing film.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
In the Mouth of Madness / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: Mrs. Pickman's hotel. No guests (apparently) were murdered, but she becomes possessed before mutating into a monster and murdering her husband.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_de02e808	type	Mistaken for Disease
In the Mouth of Madness / int_de02e808	comment	Mistaken for Disease: By the end of the film, the outbreaks of violence and madness across the world have yet to be explained by health officials, as none of them believe John Trent's warning that the books of popular horror novelist Sutter Cane are driving readers insane. Even when readers begin to suffer hideous mutations, the Old Ones return to rule the world, and society itself collapses into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, authorities are still calling it an epidemic and advising people to distance themselves to prevent the spread of infection. Needless to say, it doesn't work: the film ends with Cane victorious and the human race completely overtaken by his masterpiece.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
In the Mouth of Madness / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: See Breaking the Fourth Wall.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: It's Trent's job to investigate cases of this, and it's the first thing (outside the opening scene) we see him doing: A guy burns down his warehouse of fur coats, but it turns out he just stashed them away and gave one to his wife... and another to his mistress. Catching both those ladies in their coats gave the guy away.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e06e9909	type	Going in Circles
In the Mouth of Madness / int_e06e9909	comment	Going in Circles: On the way to Hobbe's End, Styles passes the same boy on a bike multiple times. Later on, Trent tries to drive out of town repeatedly but ends up right where he he started.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
In the Mouth of Madness / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: It is not a coincidence that the title of this film is also the title of Cane's insidious book and of its film adaptation.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
In the Mouth of Madness / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Cane gives one to Trent about the nature of creation, and how belief fuels the existence of his works. Trent, ever the skeptic, will have none of it.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: A piece of fiction inspired by eldritch abominations, written by a madman, and merely reading or witnessing a performance drives people mad, kills them, or turns them into monsters? This is the central premise of The King in Yellow.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Sutter Cane is H. P. Lovecraft with the mass readership of Stephen King.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Wielded by the corrupted inhabitants of Hobb's End as Trent is trying to leave with Styles.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Sutter Cane, a godlike horror writer who uses his works to spread chaos and insanity, emanates light during his conversation with Trent about the power of belief in the Confessional.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: Cane is clearly heavily based on Stephen King yet King is also mentioned as existing in this universe (in fact, Cane became even more popular than him).
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_ebaaf931	comment	Giving Up on Logic: A dark example happens to Trent at the end, who snaps and gives up any pretense of being anything other than fictional.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The children of Hobb's End are slowly turning into homicidal monsters and mutilate a dog.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_f769e261	comment	Anything but That!: "Oh, no. Not the Carpenters, too." Also a more subtle bit of Self-Deprecation, considering the director of this movie is John Carpenter.
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In the Mouth of Madness / int_fb72ee2e	comment	Swallow the Key: Trent tries to leave town after the people turn into monsters and take Styles (who has been corrupted by Cane by then) with him, but she swallows his car keys. Trent punches her out and hotwires the car.
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