Color Out of Space 2020
Directed by Richard Stanley
- Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- 111 min
- R
It will consume you.
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
- Body horror
- Animal harm
- Bleak ending
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20246/10
The "Gardner" family hope to escape the rat-race by moving to a rural New England farm where they can settle and enjoy the peace and quiet. Ha, not for long though. A giant meteorite crash lands into their garden and before long it seems to be exuding a menacing glow that is corrupting all it touches. "Nathan" (Nicolas Cage) and "Theresa" (Joely Richardson) are initially more perplexed than anything else, but gradually he starts to lose his grip on reality and what ensues becomes more dangerous for just about everyone as the alien entity encroaches with a clear desire to take over the place - if not the entire world. There are some fun moments in this, not least from the hammy Cage who just let's run with his character and from the young "Jack" (Julian Hilliard) who obsesses about his pal in the well whilst his mother carelessly amputates a few of her fingers! It looks ike it might be down to their ageing hippie neighbour "Ezra" (the scene stealing Tommy Chong) and to the visiting "Ward" (Elliot Knight) who seems to be able to keep a clear head - he also fancies the daughter, to rescue them from a fate worse than death. The visual effects are basic and rely heavily on colour, splod
Read the whole review on TMDB - eQuilibriumon TMDB · Oct 20218/10
" _**The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown**_ " -H.P.Lovecraft It is very difficult to make a film adaptation of any H.P.Lovecraft short story. When an author aims to paint an image of the Unknown through poetic mastery it makes the task immensely difficult for any Director who refuses to alter the story itself. It was truly an incomprehensible mystery which ultimately ends and I wondered what was it that I had just watched? Then I realized I felt the same way when I read his short story years ago. I loved both. It was intriguing, eerie, unpredictable and disturbing. Watch it for the art of the images as well as for the beauty behind the complexity of the writer who has a level of Linguistic Intelligence very few will ever understand. Including myself. Being able to make someone feel disturbed without using any violence or excess of violence is what I feel is pure Horror. Which is what H.P. Lovecraft believed and excelled at. That being said the Director did an amazing work of art. It was beautiful to look at, the images were fantastic and it gets a solid 8.5/10 from me. _Parental Advisory_: **16+** Thi
Read the whole review on TMDB - Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Nov 20197/10
**_A solid adaptation, albeit with a bit too much alpaca-based comedy_** >_This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. It was just a colour out of space – a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes._ - H.P. Lovecraft; "The Colour Out of Space"; _Amazing Stories_ (September, 1927) Much of the work of H.P. Lovecraft takes place in a vast shared universe, which would, by its very nature, seem to lend itself to the current vogue for cinematic long-form narratives. However, considering the size of his _oeuvre_, very little of it has been adapted for the screen, and Lovecraft in general has proved a difficult author to film (although Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna would probably beg to differ). And so we have _Colour Out of Space_, written and directed by Richard Stanley (his first film in 25 years, after he was famously fired
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Cast
- Nicolas CageNathan Gardner
- Joely RichardsonTheresa Gardner
- Madeleine ArthurLavinia Gardner
- Elliot KnightWard Phillips
- Tommy ChongEzra
- Brendan MeyerBenny Gardner
- Julian HilliardJack Gardner
- Josh C. WallerSheriff Pierce
- Q'orianka KilcherMayor Tooma
- Melissa NearmanReporter
Crew
- Richard StanleyDirector
- Richard StanleyScreenplay
- Scarlett AmarisScreenplay
- Steve AnnisDirector of Photography
- Colin StetsonOriginal Music Composer
- Brett W. BachmanEditor
- Daryl TuckerProducer
- Josh C. WallerProducer
- Lisa WhalenProducer
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