In the Mouth of Madness Movie Download

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Hobb’s Lane
Films like In The Mouth Of Madness are admittedly not my cup of tea. Still when a writer of horror lives in a place like Hobb’s Lane in New Hampshire, that’s an open invitation to stay away.

Noted Stephen King like horror story writer Jurgen Prochnow has disappeared and he’s a guy who’s even more secretive than J.D. Salinger in his quest for privacy. But he’s missed a deadline and he’s got a load of fans out there who are actually rioting because they are salivating over a new novel.

Concerned about his contract, the advance they’ve given, the general investment they have in Prochnow, Charlton Heston, Prochnow’s publisher has hired insurance investigator Sam Neill to locate this guy who they can’t find. They used to communicate with him through his agent, but almost at the film’s beginning the agent goes berserk and starts taking an ax to people and is shot down.

Protecting his investment further, Heston sends Julie Carmen his girl Friday along with Neill where they discover Hobb’s Lane, New Hampshire. Remember this is New England, host of the Salem Witch Trials back in the day, and they know Satan and his works when they see it. These people keep clear of a place like Hobb’s Lane, but Neill and Carmen go blundering in and meet up with Prochnow and it’s an experience to put it mildly.

The ending is one pessimistic one for the human race, but I’ve got a theological question worth pondering. If reading works like this from the mind of Satan himself affect people so powerfully as described here, why doesn’t reading the Bible, or C.S. Lewis, or Lloyd C. Douglas, or G.K. Chesterton have a similar affect?

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