The Thing, Prince Of Darkness, and In The Mouth Of Madness were made several years apart from one another, with various other projects coming to the screen in between, but Carpenter considers them a set. He told the Wall Street Journal, “all three of those movies are, in one way or another, about the end of things, about the end of everything, the world we know, but in different ways. Each of those things is kind of an apocalyptic kind of movie, but a very different take on it.” Together, the three films form a complete picture of the gradual erosion of humanity, at least partially inspired by the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft. In Lovecraft's works, the universe is vast, uncaring and full of monsters, next to which human endeavor is woefully inconsequential. This bleak view of the cosmos is reflected in the experiences that Carpenter puts his characters through, but more importantly, the three distinct apocalypses in these movies all come out of human interference with powers larger than themselves. -DenOfGeek.com
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