Color Out Of Space (2020)

[Archivist]

I'll put this in the Good Movies section because it has low cheese factor and decent production values, and is the first prominent take on an HP Lovecraft property in, well, ever.

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Let's hope this gets Lovecraft back on the cinematic map, and leads to decent movie adaptations of his work.

[RCMerchant]

It has been done before-!
DIE,MONSTER, DIE! (1965)



http://youtu.be/psOfe41Gq-I

[Ted C]

Did it have to be Nicholas Cage? Really?

[Rev. Powell]

Did it have to be Nicholas Cage? Really?

Yes! I would have been far less interested if it had been anyone else. As it is, Richard Stanley + HP Lovecraft + Nic Cage = must see.

[Bushma]

Did it have to be Nicholas Cage? Really?

Yes! I would have been far less interested if it had been anyone else. As it is, Richard Stanley + HP Lovecraft + Nic Cage = must see.

Yup, Rev is completely correct.  Without Mr. Cage I would care less about this film.

[Trevor]

Did it have to be Nicholas Cage? Really?

I thought you were going to say "Did it have to be directed by a South African? Really?" 

[chefzombie]

nic being in it definitely adds to the allure for me too, along with madeliene arthur, i'm a huge fan of hers.

[Allhallowsday]

Well that trailer looks a lot of not LOVECRAFT.  

It has been done before-!
DIE,MONSTER, DIE! (1965)

http://youtu.be/psOfe41Gq-I

Check out NICK ADAMS' lifts!!! 

[RCMerchant]

Did it have to be Nicholas Cage? Really?

Oh yes!  

Watch him in BAD LIEUTENANT : PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS or VAMPIRE'S KISS!

http://youtu.be/f27cck3Bl-Y

[claws]

It has been done before-!

I believe this is the fifth time. I do enjoy the 1987 version:

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[RCMerchant]

Lovecraft hasn't been down a whole lot on screen...some movies are Lovecraftian, but I don't think Lovecraft can be done well...maybe by the guy who did ICHI THE KILLER.

[Alex]

I've always thought a big part of the problem with Lovecraft on screen is that for most of his big bads, you see the creature you go insane. Kind of hard to replicate that on screen. Just ask the makers of 'Bird Box'. Or as in this case put a colour no one has ever seen before up.

Mind you that may not be so hard for the male half of the population since women seem to invent extra colours. All we'd have do to do is see the colour spectrum the way women do.  

[Trevor]

The one Lovecraft story which scared me was The Festival: I wish someone would make a movie about that one. 

[Archivist]

The one Lovecraft story which scared me was The Festival: I wish someone would make a movie about that one. 

The Festival is right up there, similar to The Strange Case of Arthur Jermyn, in that the protagonist is revealed to have ancestral connections to something more hideous than his mind can bear. Arthur Jermyn would be a great story to adapt, it's like a X-Files episode on meth.

[zelmo73]

I really want somebody to do a film version of The Haunter Of The Dark. There is a Russian movie that is a take on the story, but once again not a true adaptation and it is another one of those silly "found footage" movies. To this day, the very last entry in the writer's journal just creeps me the hell out: "...the three-lobed burning eye..."