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In the Mouth of Madness
1994
· Movie
· 95 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2260
- IMDb #1980
- Rotten Tomatoes #2665
- Metacritic #2628
- Letterboxd #1083
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3284
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2334
- Metacritic Critics #3156
- Metacritic Audience #1600
- Criticker #980
- Douban #840
- Kinopoisk #2700
- AlloCiné #1807
- Trakt #2133
Every rating
53–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 53, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 57, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writer
- Michael De Luca
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
- Released
- 3 February 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $8.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 3 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (42) →
Awards & nominations
See all 4 →1 win from 4 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 22nd Saturn Awards 1994 | Best Horror Film | In the Mouth of Madness | Nominee |
| 22nd Saturn Awards 1994 | Best Make-Up | (K.N.B. EFX Group Inc.) | Nominee |
| Fantasporto 1994 | Critics' Award | John Carpenter | Winner |
| Fantasporto 1994 | Best Film | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Fantasporto
2 nominations, 1 won
| Critics' Award | John Carpenter | Winner |
| Best Film | Nominee |
22nd Saturn Awards
2 nominations
| Best Horror Film | In the Mouth of Madness | Nominee |
| Best Make-Up | (K.N.B. EFX Group Inc.) | Nominee |