In the Mouth of Madness – SSP094
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Celebrating the 28th anniversary of it’s release on February 3, 1995, Greg has chosen the John Carpenter film “In the Mouth of Madness” starring Sam Neill for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while enjoying a “Hobb’s End Highball Cocktail“. Greg found the recipe below on 2geekswhoeat.com.
Hobb’s End Highball Cocktail
• 2 oz dry gin
• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 3/4 oz lemon juice
• club soda
Instructions:
- Combine all ingredients (except club soda) in a bar mixing glass with ice.
- Stir.
- Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice.
- Top with club soda.
- Serve.
A Brief Synopsis: When horror novelist Sutter Cane goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow, and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascertain the writer’s whereabouts. Accompanied by the novelist’s editor, Linda Styles, and disturbed by nightmares from reading Cane’s other novels, Trent makes an eerie nighttime trek to a supernatural town in New Hampshire.
Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:
- Greg makes a reference to comedian Heywood Banks.
- Greg quotes the Beatles song “Revolution 9”.
- Karen teaches us all about Dobermann Pinschers.
- Karen also tells us all about the history of the typewriter.
- Greg makes several references to H. P. Lovecraft.
Our rating of the film:
This movie was pretty good. It only took us 2 cocktails to get through it.
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