![]() ![]() ![]() You’re expecting a boogeyman, but all he finds is a purple praying mantis. ![]() One of my favorite scenes is when the younger kid Jack ( Julian Hilliard) is beckoned to the family well by the unknown invader. The scariest moments in Color Out of Space involve color. ![]() Color Out of Space can be a little overt at times, but it can also be genuinely unsettling.īut can a color be scary, right? If Junji Ito made spirals terrifying, I don’t see why a color couldn’t make you shit your pants. The million dollar question: what color is the titular color out of space? It’s difficult to say (which I believe was the point), an indistinguishable mix of purple and pink? The other million question regarding this H.P Lovecraft adaptation is: is it actually scary? Outside of deliberately lo-fi Re-Animator, the cosmic horror pioneer was never really treated to a successful adaptation. It should’ve been the end of it, but that rock brought something vicious from the sky. Unfortunately, their existence is thrown out of wack by a meteorite crashing on their property. That’s where he meets the Gardner family, who recently left the city for a quieter life in the countryside. He’s just weird enough to be imperceptibly unlikable in a movie where everything’s fucking weird, inherently scary and off-putting.Ĭolor Out of Space tells the story of Ward Phillips ( Elliot Knight), a scientist tasked by the city of surveying the water near the city of Arkham for an eventual dam project. In Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H.P Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space, Cage’s tattered reputation is almost imperceptible. Disgraced by one generation, Cage embraced the irony attached to his name and bounced back with weird, bombastic performances only he could come up with. Starting over with straight-to-video crap, Cage worked his way back up the food chain and low-key started turning heads again with his performance in Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy. The Nicolas Cage renaissance has quietly been one of the most interesting pop culture storylines in recent years. ![]()
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