John Carpenter And Jim Lang – In The Mouth Of Madness (1995)

Composers: John Carpenter And Jim Lang

Tracklist

1. In The Mouth Of Madness 05:28
2. Robby's Office 02:30
3. Axe Man 02:04
4. Bookstore Creep 00:52
5. The Alley Nightmare 00:59
6. Trent Makes The Map 02:14
7. A Boy And His Bike 03:06
8. Don't Look Down 01:16
9. Hobb's End 02:18
10. Pickman Hotel 01:11
11. The Picture Changes 02:20
12. The Black Church 04:50
13. You're Wrong, Trent 01:42
14. Mommy's Day 03:04
15. Do You Like My Ending? 02:05
16. I'm Losing Me 03:09
17. Main Street 04:37
18. Hobb's End Escape 02:23
19. The Portal Opens 03:06
20. The Old Ones Return 02:30
21. The Book Comes Back 04:03
22. Madness Outside 00:34
23. Just A Bedtime Story 03:44

"In The Mouth Of Madness" is a 1994 horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca.
It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.
Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town

while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels,

and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur.
The film is the third installment in what Carpenter refers to as his "Apocalypse Trilogy",

preceded by "The Thing" (1982) and "Prince of Darkness" (1987).
"In The Mouth Of Madness" pays tribute to the works of author H. P. Lovecraft in its exploration of insanity and its title,

the latter being derived from the Lovecraft novella "At The Mountains Of Madness".
The opening scene depicts Trent's confinement to an asylum,

with the bulk of the story told in flashback, a common technique of Lovecraft.

Reference is made to Lovecraftian settings and details (like a character that shares the name of Lovecraft's Pickman family).

Sutter Cane's novels have similar titles to H.P. Lovecraft stories:

"The Whisperer Of The Dark" (The Whisperer In Darkness), "The Thing In The Basement" (The Thing On The Doorstep), "Haunter Out Of Time" (The Haunter Of The Dark/The Shadow Out Of Time),

and "The Hobbs End Horror" (The Dunwich Horror), the latter also referencing Hobbs End underground station

from Nigel Kneale's "Quatermass And The Pit".
The film also referencing Stephen King, who, like Lovecraft, writes horror fiction set in New England hamlets.

In fact, the characters even directly compare King (unfavorably) to Sutter Kane within the film itself.
The soundtrack of the movie was co-written by John Carpenter and Jim Lang.
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor and composer. 

Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action,

and science fiction films of the 70s and 80s while he is recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre.
Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures,

with the notable exceptions of "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Escape From New York" (1981), and "Starman" (1984).

However, many of Carpenter's films have come to be considered as cult classics,

and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker, movies like "Dark Star" (1974),

"Assault On Precinct 13" (1976), "The Thing" (1982), "Christine" (1983), "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986),

"Prince Of Darkness" (1987), "They Live" (1988), and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).
Carpenter composed or co-composed most of his films and has released four studio albums, titled "Lost Themes" (2015),

"Lost Themes II" (2016), "Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998" (2017) and "Lost Themes III: Alive After Death" (2021).
In an interview he stated that it was his father's work as a music teacher, that first sparked an interest in him to make music.

Carpenter was an early adopter of synthesizers, since his film debut "Dark Star", when he used an EMS VCS3 synth.

His soundtracks went on to influence electronic artists who followed, but Carpenter himself admitted 

he had no particular interest in synthesizers other than that they provided a means to "sound big with just a keyboard".

For many years he worked in partnership with musician Alan Howarth, who would realize his vision

by working on the more technical aspects of recording, allowing Carpenter to focus on writing the music.
Carpenter is also narrator on the 2019 documentary film "The Rise Of The Synths" which explores the origins and growth

of the synthwave genre, and features numerous interviews with synthwave artists who cite Carpenter 

(alongside other early pioneers such as Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Tangerine Dream) as a significant influence.
James Volker Langknecht (born November 22, 1950), better known as Jim Lang, is an American composer

that worked with John Carpenter on the soundtracks of the films "Body Bags" (1993) and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).

He is mostly known for scoring the Nickelodeon series "Hey Arnold!" (1996–2004),

its feature film, "Hey Arnold!: The Movie" (2002), and the television film, "Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie" (2017).

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