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Portugal, United States, Malaysia · 2020
1h 51m
Director Richard Stanley
Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight
Genre Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
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A Lovecraftian story of cosmic terror about a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard and infects both the land and the family with a strange, otherworldly color.
The final result is a movie that feels as paranoid, cruel, ludicrous and radiation-poisoned as its characters; the kind of movie that is on an irregular and grotesque wavelength of its own making and will leave people not just in disbelief about what they just saw but what any of it meant, if it meant anything at all.
The Playlist by Charles Bramesco
Stanley ratchets up the off-kilter humor while playing down the deep melancholy present in the short story’s original text. This observation could be seen as a knock on the director’s approach, but for audiences going in with zero expectations beyond a good time, the interlaced humor feels like nothing more than playing to Cage’s unique strengths.
CineVue by Christopher Machell
If there is any real complaint to be levelled at Color Out of Space, it’s that it has more ideas than it knows what to do with.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A satisfying shot at bringing a classic of the sci-fi/horror genre to modern audiences. ... Hitting the main plot points with well-designed SFX and some impressive night photography, Stanley's film manages to be frightening indeed, even with star Nicolas Cage’s semi-farcical leavening adding some nutty laughs.
Entertaining but uneven, the result is a deliberately over-the-top sci-fi horror exercise that loses some focus as the action grows more psychedelically unhinged — its oscillating tone not necessarily helped by Nicolas Cage growing likewise, in one of his less inspired gonzo-style performances.
The film is a vivid depiction of how a confrontation with the unknown can so easily shatter the fragile bonds that hold us together.
Consequence of Sound by Sarah Kurchak
With its wacky space shit, off-kilter gore, creepy atmospherics, and hammy breakdown, most of which happen all at the same time, Colour Out of Space is, inarguably, one hell of a trip. It’s just not a trip that everyone is going to enjoy taking.
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One theater. Its last screening. No room to escape.