![]() Of course, the material is only as good as the actors that bring it to life (or some such bullshit), and here the film succeeds as well because only the organic performance of Nicholas Cage could do this one justice. Now the space-born pseudo-virus that infects the environment in which it finds itself was there from the original text, but Stanley adds layers of witchcraft, channeling, shamanism, and a fractured family dynamic that takes the narrative into straight up “what in the fuck?” territory numerous times, and leads to the entire affair being infinitely as watchable as it is strange. Lovecraft, Stanley, along with co-writer Scarlett Amaris, have taken the material into a whole other dimension of the bizarre. Armed with the original terror tale of the same name by author of nightmares H.P. There is a sublime genius at play in Color Out of Space, and cinematic sorcerer Richard Stanley has conjured another effective and original fright flick to add to his legacy (which includes classics Hardware and Dust Devil). ![]() Anyway, that isn’t going great, but things go even less great when a meteor crashes on Nathan’s property and begins having a negative effect on the land and all who live near it, resulting in an existence akin to a blacklight poster from hell… replete with bodies swirled and mangled into near abstraction! ![]()
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