Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: not for carpenter's fans

I give it one star for a simple reason: the film lacks all the things that make a Carpenter film distinctive; the atmospheric music, the menacing atmosphere, the way he turns a western into sci-fi. In the Mouth of Madness is basically a Lovecraftian story in the big screen, and although Lovecraft's tales work on the printed page (and in the imagination) they don't work when you show it on screen. Carpenter adapted Lovecraft's ideas brilliantly in The Fog, but in that movie, we never see the face of the monsters. Here he shows too much and it doesn't work.I don't blame Carpenter for trying something different, but even Ghosts of Mars or Vampires are better than this.The worst Carpenter movie of all.0 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Obviously these are people who think this "John Carpenter" is, in fact, a carpenter, and builds tables. lol