Insurance adjuster John Trent (Sam Neill) is hired by a publishing company to track down their most profitable writer, Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow), after Cane disappeared owing one last completed novel. Trent is ordered to find Cane, or at least retrieve the manuscript, and take Cane's editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), with him. Trent and Styles find the small New Hampshire town that features in Cane's novels. Trent thinks it's because Cane's a hack, but Styles knows that the town is supposed to be fictional. The longer they stay in Hobb's End, the more they begin to believe that Sutter Cane is writing the future.
I love John Carpenter. I've seen all but five of his feature films. They are all great, even the crap ones. There's just something so fun about his movies and this is no exception. Sam Neill is full of swagger, Prochnow is unhinged, Carmen smolders, and Charlton Heston cashes a check. It's wild Lovecraftian horror filled with absolutely gross practical effects. Unfortunately, it is not streaming anywhere so if you want to see it (and you do, trust me) you're going to have to buy or borrow it. It is absolutely worth it, though.
And hey, for a whiplash-inducing double feature, there's a romantic comedy with John Candy that explores a similar concept about a person writing reality called Delirious that I remember being excellent but I also haven't seen it in probably 25 years.
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