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Synopsis
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) follows an insurance investigator hired to locate a bestselling horror novelist who has vanished ahead of a major publication. As he traces clues embedded in the author’s work and travels toward a fictional town made real, he encounters violent incidents and shifting realities that mirror the novels themselves. This supernatural horror film develops mounting dread, with metafiction, authorship, and perception destabilizing identity.
Selected disc options for In the Mouth of Madness
| Extras | Arrow BD-ALL 4K/US 2025 | Scream Factory BD-A/US 2018 | New Line BD-A/US 2013 | New Line DVD-1/US/OOP 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Commentary by Director John Carpenter and Director of Photography Gary B. Kibbe | has extra | has extra | has extra | has extra |
| Audio Commentary by Director John Carpenter and Producer Sandy King Carpenter | has extra | has extra | ||
| Audio Commentary by Elric Kane and Rebekah McKendry | has extra | |||
| Horror’s Hallowed Grounds: “In the Mouth of Madness” - With Sean Clark | has extra | has extra | ||
| Home Movies from Hobb’s End - Behind-the-Scenes Footage | has extra | has extra | ||
| The Making of “In the Mouth of Madness” - Vintage Featurette | has extra | has extra | ||
| We Are What He Writes: In Praise of John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness” | has extra | |||
| Do You Read Sutter Cane? - Interview with Actor Jürgen Prochnow | has extra | |||
| Greg Nicotero’s Things in the Basement - Interview with Special Effects Artist Greg Nicotero | has extra | has extra | ||
| Making Madness - Interview with Producer Sandy King Carpenter | has extra | |||
| Reality is Not What it Used to Be: Fact, Fiction, and “In the Mouth of Madness” - Interview with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | has extra | |||
| The Whisperer of the Dark - Interview with Actress Julie Carman | has extra | has extra | ||
| Stills Gallery | has extra | |||
| Biographies | has extra | |||
| Theatrical Trailer | has extra | has extra | has extra | has extra |
| TV Spots | has extra | has extra | ||
| Easter Egg: Trailer for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | has extra |
Notes
- Arrow’s “Limited Edition” 4K UHD includes a 60-page booklet with writing by Richard Kadrey (“John Carpenter’s ‘In the Mouth of Madness’: The Poetics of Oblivion”), Alexandra West (“It’s the End of the World as We Know it: The Conclusion of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy”), Josh Hurrado (“Once More Unto the Breach: The Many Misshapen Adventures of Sam Neil”), Guy Adams (“If Life Was Like the Movies: Writers on Screen”), Willow Carelyn Maclay (“‘In the Mouth of Madness’: A Self-Induced Hallucination”) and George Daniel Lea (“God is Not a Hack Horror Writer”), and a double-sided foldout poster.
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