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The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical comedy drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991 play The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89. Two text panels at the end of the film note that the colour of the King's urine suggests that he was suffering from porphyria, adding that the disease is "periodic, unpredictable and hereditary."
In the Mouth of Madness is a 1994 American supernatural horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca. It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels, and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur. Informally, the film is the third installment in what Carpenter refers to as his "Apocalypse Trilogy", preceded by The Thing (1982) and Prince of Darkness (1987).
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- ↑ "John Carpenter Hasn't Talked to Dwayne Johnson About 'Big Trouble in Little China' – Speakeasy – WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. June 11, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
- ↑ "Sandy King Carpenter |JATG #21 - Johnny And The Greg Podcast". iHeart.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ↑ Calia, Michael (June 11, 2015). "John Carpenter Hasn't Talked to Dwayne Johnson About 'Big Trouble in Little China'". WSJ.
- ↑ Womanthology: Space. IDW Publishing. 2013. p. 139.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (April 28, 1995). "Village of the Damned". Variety.com.
- ↑ Gelder, Lawrence Van (October 30, 1998). "FILM REVIEW; Dad Was Out for Blood; Now the Son's a Regular Drip". The New York Times .
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