Color Out of Space
Short description
The Gardner family moves from the city to a farmstead in rural New England, hoping to leave the noise of modern life behind. Nathan, an artist, tries his hand at raising crops and animals while his wife and children settle into the property. Their plans change when a meteorite lands in the front yard and dissolves into the ground. Something it carried begins to spread through the soil, the water and everything living nearby: plants grow strangely, animals change, and the family itself starts to come apart.
The film is Richard Stanley's third feature as director, arriving nearly three decades after his second, Dust Devil. It adapts H.P. Lovecraft's story, with a screenplay credited to Stanley, Scarlett Amaris and Lovecraft. Nicolas Cage leads as Nathan, alongside Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Elliot Knight and Tommy Chong. Elijah Wood is among the producers.
Made for about 6 million USD, it earned roughly 1 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.1/10 from around 64,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.1/10 from a much smaller pool of about 1,800. A critics' rating of 6.8/10 from 213 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Richard Stanley was a fan of H.P. Lovecraft's work from childhood, having read all of his works by the age of eight. He wrote the screenplay with Scarlett Amaris because he wanted the film to have a female voice.
- To realize the otherworldly nature of the color, director Richard Stanley experimented with hot air, water, and temperature, and also used infrasound and ultrasound. VFX was used to depict spatial changes in the house.
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