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Review title: A maddening dissapointment
Product review: This film represents both the best and the worst of John Carpenter. Initially, the premise is fascinating, combining an original approach to the horror genre with an alomst suffocating sense of paranoia...then come the special effects. The last half of the film degenerates into yet another pointless exercise in the hight-tech gross-out--all at the expense of plot and characterization. Suddenly we are wrenched out of the horrifying realm of primal nightmare that Carpenter crafted so well in films like Halloween and The Fog to the adolescent appeal to special effects that overtook some of his later films (does Christine ring any bells?). Most of the plot of the film is an outright theft of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft--even the title is a rip-off of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. H.P. deserves better than this, and so do fans of the horror genre. Skip it.
