John Carpenter
In The Mouth of Madness - Il Seme Della Follia

THE REVIEW

The only solution is madness. 

Could you discern a common thread in the works of Howard Philip Lovecraft?
An absolutely brilliant writer, still innovative today, terribly distressing, who found the source and inspiration for his apocalyptic tales not in artificial paradises dotted with alcohol and opium as Edgar Allan Poe used to do, but in the dark and inscrutable recesses of his insane mind.

John Carpenter's film tries to reproduce, as much as possible, the same Lovecraftian anthem of cosmic terror inextricably linked to madness.

The unsuspecting guinea pig of such an experiment is John Trent (played by Sam Neill), an insurance agent who bases his professional success on uncompromising rationality.
However, Trent's universe, made up of mental patterns and certain rules, gradually crumbles until it finally collapses, when he discovers he is the main puppet of a shocking absurd plot orchestrated by the horror novelist, Sutter Cane, the director and creator.
His life is worthless, he cannot control its movements, everything is already written.
Is there a way to escape from such an endless nightmare populated by horrible human-like creatures, continuous flashbacks that undermine mental stability, the absence of any certainty to cling to, and ultimately, a non-world absolutely real or that seems so...

The only solution is madness.