Monday, February 12, 2007

Let Your Harglow Show

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
directed by John Carpenter
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

Carpenter's rural New Hampshire highways at night - yellow lines, Oz-like creeps on bicycles, red-lit faces in the rearview mirror - make me really want to set up that David Lynch roundtable I've been talking about ("When The Great Eight Ate With Nate," other participants to follow). Feels like a B-movie where "They Live" and "Prince of Darkness" just seem cheap, maybe because a good sense of humor goes a long, blue-haired way.