Here's a great example of how critics don't have a clue about the genre or its roots, or what springs from what. There's a review in today's Daily Variety (Tuesday) of John Carpenter's new film "In the Mouth of Madness," which on every level is an H. P. Lovecraft pastiche, from the structure, the characters, the locales, the names, everything. So what does the reviewer call it 3-4 times? A tribute to Stephen King. jms |
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