Sutter Kane: "Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue?"
American horror movie, released in
1995. Directed by
John Carpenter and written by
Michael De Luca. Starred
Sam Neill as
skeptical investigator John Trent,
Jurgen Prochnow as the
mysterious Sutter Kane,
Julie Carmen as love interest Linda Styles,
Charlton Heston as book publisher Jackson Harglow, and
Frances Bay as
sweet old lady Mrs. Pickman.
It concerns
John Trent, an
insurance investigator, who is assigned to track down
vanished
horror novelist Sutter Kane. Kane's
novels have a
reputation for driving the people who read them
insane, and Trent soon finds himself encountering
places,
people, and
events from Kane's
stories. Too bad his latest
novel is supposed to be about
the end of the world...
This is one of those head-
trippy "
movie- inside-a- movie-inside- a-
book- inside-a-
movie"
movies. Most importantly, it's one of the few movies to actually make a pretty good
stab at adapting
Lovecraftian cosmic horror to the
big screen. It isn't always
successful--some of the scenes are a bit
silly--but it has more than its share of
chilling,
creepy moments. The scene where
the Elder Gods begin to
burst through
the walls of reality is worth the price of the rental all by itself.
John Trent: "Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years, maybe less, the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children. A myth, nothing more."