Funny / In the Mouth of Madness

For its incredibly bleak premise, In the Mouth of Madness has quite a few humorous moments.

Moments subpages are Spoilers Off subpages, as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

• Trent fighting off the two orderlies at the beginning, kicking one in the balls. It helps that this becomes a Running Gag for the next few minutes.
  Trent: Look, I'm sorry about the balls, it was a lucky shot, that's all!
  • And later:
    Dr. Wren: There's a guard with a pair of swollen testicles who swears you wanted out of here.
• Trent declaring that he's not insane, and the inmates (one of them played by John Carpenter) doing likewise.
  Inmate #1: I'm not if he's not!
  Inmate #2: Me neither!
• Although thoroughly defeated by Cane and at his mercy in the confession booth, Trent throws in a defiant insult:
  Trent: Anyway, your books suck!!
• While in the bookstore, Trent runs into a typical Sutter Cane reader who's bleeding from the eyes and speaking in a Creepy Monotone. The fan says, "He sees you." Trent, ever the master of the Dull Surprise at this point in the film, simply responds, "Great. Tell him I say hi."
• After Styles has "lost herself", she approaches Trent with The Un-Smile... and Smash Cut to his getting tossed through the door to their hotel room.
• While trying to escape from Hobbs End, an ax-wielding mutant runs up to Trent, stops for a second, and shouts, "Fuck you!"
• Mutant!Styles punching Trent in the face, and Trent punching back. And for that matter, her jingling Trent's keys while giggling and then swallowing them, much to his horror.
• Anything but That! — The Carpenters.
  • After all, another Carpenter is responsible for everything that happens to Trent.
• During his bus ride home, Sutter suddenly appears to Trent, offering to convince him that You Can't Fight Fate before off-handedly mentioning that his favorite color is blue. Trent then wakes up to the the color blue being everywhere - the seats, the other passengers' clothing, his seat-mate's hair - even the camera filter!
• For some reason, Trent has a bulb horn in his glove compartment, which he uses to wake up Styles for his own amusement. She isn't happy about it and throws an open bag of chips at him.
  Trent: Never, never, never throw chips at a driver.
• A really dark example in the end credits.
  Human interaction was monitored by the Inter Planetary Psychiatric Association. The body count was high, the casualties are heavy.