“The Colour Out of Space” (the short story) hews more toward Algernon Blackwood’s mounting environmental dread than the sweep of Lovecraft’s Old Gods a copy of “The Willows” even makes a cameo.
It’s a formula that worked perfectly for Mandy and might work even better here, where Cage has a solid supporting cast of sympathetic family members to protect and, ultimately, terrorize. Freed from the purple color of Lovecraft’s prose, the story has room to stretch its tentacles and revel in all manner of chaotic evil while giving Nicholas Cage plenty of gory scenery to chew as the Gardener family patriarch, Nathan. No flesh shall be spared in this psychedelic Lovecraft adaptation from iconic goth-shaman director Richard Stanley and the producers of 2018’s similarly lurid horror hit, Mandy.Ī relatively straightforward science fiction-horror hybrid, Color Out of Space centers on the Gardener family, caught in the dangerous alien light of a meteor that crashes into their farm.
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