In the Mouth of Madness: Difference between revisions

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Doesn't work. {{spoiler|Since at that point, burning the book is like trying to burn the entire world.}}

* [[Laughing Mad]]: {{spoiler|Trent at the very end}}.

* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Have Sutter Cane's books triggered a mass delusion that's causing more and more people to think they're being taken over by monstrous demons? Or are monstrous demons really taking over people who have read Sutter Cane? Characters who haven't read his latest book think the former, those who have read it think the latter, and at one point Linda says it won't really matter either way once the believers outnumber the skeptics.

* [[Mind Screw]]: What's the difference between fiction and reality? According to this movie, nothing, up to and including ''the movie itself''.

* [[Recurring Dreams]]: Trent begins to suffer from these. {{spoiler|Turned out Cane was just writing a little [[Foreshadowing]] into proceedings.}}

* [[Red Right Hand]]: Readers of the books of hack horror writer Sutter Cane go insane and develop strange physical afflictions, like a second pupil in their iris, or bleeding from their eyes. And berserk homicidal tendencies, of course. Over the time, these minor affliction develop into serious bodily mutations- including tentacles, distended jaws, and reversible joints.

* [[Rewriting Reality]]: Hobb's End and {{spoiler|John Trent}} were written into existence by an author called Sutter Cane, who also produces a number of retcons that remove a character from existence and reshuffle an entire sequence of events within the film. By the end of the film, the entire world has apparently been absorbed by Cane's latest novel. It should be noted that once he finishes his novel close to the end of the film, Cane appears to be able to warp reality at will, as demonstrated with the conversations he has with John Trent.

* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Notably, Trent starts out the movie having made his own filled with [[Creepy Cool Crosses|drawn crosses]] with just a single black crayon. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Dr. Wren who thinks that Trent isn't as mad as people think.

{{quote| "The crosses are a nice touch. They'd almost have to keep you in here after seeing these, wouldn't they?"}}

* [[Rule of Scary]]: A rare in-universe example; Hobb's End runs on this {{spoiler|because it's the product of Sutter Cane's imagination.}}

** Lots to [[HP Lovecraft]], including several names, like Mrs. Pickman. And the title is reminiscent of both Lovecraft's novella ''At the Mountains of Madness'', and the town of Innsmouth, mentioned in several of his stories.

** Sutter Crane is basically an [[Expy]] for [[Stephen King]].