directed by: John Carpenter, year: 1994
actors: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen

An insurance investigator, John Trent (Sam Neill), is hired to locate the missing horror author Sutter Cane. His search leads him to the town of Hobbs End, a place that seems to spring from Cane's own novels. As Trent digs deeper, Cane's fictional horrors leak into reality, warp perception, and threaten his sanity. Carpenter's metafictional nightmare blends cosmic dread with a meditation on authorship, imagination, and the limits of what we deem real.

Lovecraftian Horror, Horror, Psychological Horror, Metafiction, Supernatural