Color out of Space (2019)
Genre: Horror / Scifi
Duration: 111 minuten
Country:
United States / Malaysia / Portugal
Directed by: Richard Stanley
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson and Madeleine Arthur
IMDb score:
6,1 (64.344)
Releasedate: 7 September 2019
Color out of Space plot
"It will consume you."
Nathan Gardner retires to the countryside with his family. When a meteorite crashes into the garden, their peaceful family life is disrupted. The environment turns into a prison when an alien organism infests the farm.
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Nathan Gardner
Theresa Gardner
Lavinia Gardner
Ward Phillips
Ezra
Benny Gardner
Jack Gardner
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leatherhead
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- 3556 messages
- 1813 votes
''The car is not happening'' 
Very nice movie, although I was secretly hoping for something more. Richard Stanley directing a neon-drenched Lovecraft film adaptation with Nicholas Cage sounds a bit nicer on paper than it really is. Especially the run-up is very long, it takes more than an hour before things get up to speed a bit. Fortunately, patience is rewarded with a lot of juicy cosmic horror, a Cage that can go wild and some nice old-fashioned kitschy trippy visuals.
Still, the handbrake could have gone off a bit more (or sooner) in my opinion. Stanley is of course a recognized cult figure and that the man has plenty of wild, creative ideas is also apparent from this film, but his direction remains a bit too much on the safe side for my taste. Especially when you put it next to a Cosmatos. Stanley sometimes doesn't seem to know whether he really wants to go completely over-the-top or stay semi-serious. That monologue at the end, for example, felt quite out of place.
Doesn't take away from the fact that I certainly enjoyed this. The last half hour is a pleasant piece of cosmic, slightly trippy sci-fi horror. Spacious 3.5*, although it may be a grower.
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mrklm
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- 11699 messages
- 10079 votes
Bombastic, messy SF horror based on the eponymous story written by HP Lovecraft in 1927. Too much emphasis on colorful special effects and too little on character development or tension building, even though this is technically competent and the cast tries their best to make something out of it.
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filmfan0511
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- 1099 messages
- 1128 votes
As a big fan of HP Lovecraft, Color out of Space has been on my list for a long time, and in the end the film is anything but disappointing. No, it's not highbrow cinema so to speak, but the film is imbued with a fantastically fun and campy vibe that works. The kitschy purple/pink color palette supports and creates this atmosphere, and simply looks very nice. There are some scenes with 'the color' that look a little less, but other than that it's surprisingly beautifully and skillfully shot. The horror aspect is well worked out; on the one hand the cosmic side (which is given just a little too little emphasis), and also wonderfully portrayed body horror. The fused body of the mother and little boy is very oily (the kind of bug body at the end reminded me a lot of Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness), but also the scene with the affected alpacas looks like something out of a game like bloodborne. So there are really a lot of fun horror scenes in it.
The slow pace in the first half and the mediocre acting (also from Cage, who gets more and more the further the film progresses, erm yes, Nicolas Cage) are a bit restrictive, but fortunately the atmosphere, the experimental visual style, the original concept and the interesting horror more heavily; So I just end up with a 4*. Lovecraft's work is in fact an inexhaustible source for interesting horror films, but of course it is not mainstream enough; then Hollywood is largely uninterested in it unfortunately.
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