Dark Arts reviews Devil’s Advocates: In The Mouth of Madness (2018), a 124-page film studies monograph. The book focuses on Lovecraft’s influence on movie-maker John Carpenter, and specifically his under-studied In The Mouth of Madness (1995). The book’s author, the reviewer finds…

… suggests that In the Mouth of Madness is a critical reading of the way in which audiences of horror often treat the genre with the same ardor as followers of religion do. While the religious discussion in the book was fantastic, I thought it was a shame to have not linked it with Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, especially in relation to the dream-like sequences of the film. Nevertheless, the religious argument was highly compelling.