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22nd May '13 1:39:59 AM skbc1p4res

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* MindScrew: Generally most of his films are pretty straight forward in their delivery. A partial exception would be ''Film/TheThing1982'', which despite having a narrative that's more or less easy to follow really leaves out a lot of crucial details that the audience is left to fill in. To this day fans of the movie still debate on [[spoiler: who got to the blood, whether Blair was infected before or after he was locked up (which depending on how you look at it can provide wholly different interpretations of his actions over the course of the film), how Fuchs ended up being burned to death outside, and most of all whether the Thing really was defeated, or if perhaps one, both, or neither of the survivors have been assimilated]]. 
** This is nothing when you look at the final instalment of the "Apocalypse Trilogy", ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness''. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness There's a reason why it's a former trope namer]]. It starts off with the character being brought into a mental institution, and his story starts off straight forward- a simple investigation into the disappearance of a horror writer due to release the titular novel. Then things get weird when it becomes clear that the books have a weird impact on readers, and he stumbles across a town that shouldn't exist and the writer tells him [[spoiler: he's a fictional character created for his novel, and then his partner is literally written out of the story]]. By the end of the movie, you can't quite tell for certain one way or another who's sane, who's insane, what's real and what's fictional. [[spoiler: Is the protagonist real, or is he merely a figment of a writer's imagination? Was the world really destroyed by Lovecraftian monsters or was it something else? Did the entire story even happen or is it all in his head?]]. To make things even more baffling, the final scene has Sam Neil's character walking into a movie theatre to watch the film adaptation of the book the entire movie has been centred around. [[spoiler: It turns out TheFilmOfTheBook is actually the movie we've just finished watching]].

15th May '13 1:08:12 AM Mdumas43073

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8th May '13 7:17:16 AM Morgenthaler

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24th Apr '13 4:26:04 AM Morgenthaler

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20th Apr '13 3:47:22 AM Morgenthaler

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20th Apr '13 3:30:16 AM Morgenthaler

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Crosswicking.

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* CosmicHorrorStory: The "apocalypse trilogy" (''Film/TheThing1982'', ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' and ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'') is an escalation of the trope over the 3 movies: first, a [[ShapeShifting protean]], [[TheVirus invasive lifeform threatening to subsume in itself every living thing on the planet]] in [[MysteriousAntarctica a desolate antarctic setting]] reminiscent of Creator/HPLovecraft's ''At The Mountains Of Madness''; then a liquid [[TheCorruption corruption]] that turns out to be {{Satan}}, and whose goal is to bring to our world its ''true'' father, [[UltimateEvil the Anti-God]], in an old church being investigated by academics from an establishment similar to Miskatonic University; and finally, [[EldritchAbomination ineffable, unreal horrors]] attempting to find purchase in our reality through the writings of a MadArtist and his previously-fictitious TownWithADarkSecret in the middle of LovecraftCountry, all the while [[MindScrew screwing over the protagonist]] in such a way that it was formerly the TropeNamer for ThroughTheEyesOfMadness.

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8th Mar '13 11:06:48 AM Morgenthaler

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