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In the Mouth of Madness
Why this pick
Carpenter’s closest companion piece: an investigator’s search becomes a hallucinatory descent, with cosmic dread, corrupted art, and reality fraying at the edges.
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MOVIE2005 0h 59m USA
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Colin Foo
Fung
Zara Taylor
Annie
Gary Hetherington
Walter
Julius Chapple
Henri Cotillard
Taras Kostyuk
Kaspar
Brad Kelly
Horst
Douglas Arthurs
Dalibor
Brahm Taylor
Protagonist