COLOR OUT OF SPACE (2020) Explained
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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Based on the classic H.P. Lovecraft story, COLOR OUT OF SPACE is a technicolor cosmic nightmare where a family encounters an interstellar entity that fundamentally changes everything it touches. Learn all about the trippy story, the properties of the entity, easter egg references to other Lovecraft works as well as explaining the quite psychedelic ending and what it means.
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Honestly Cage seems like the perfect casting for any male character in an adaptation of HP Lovecraft's work just because of his freak out skills.
He's definitely the best actor to play a Lovecraft character since Jeffrey Combs.
What about Jim Carrey?
@@chaosrex1487 Jim Carrey sucks shit compared to cage in films like this I can't imagine him being the father in this film it would have been ruined you're crazy
If his job is to ruin it, yes, he is perfect.
Cage is so good for this role because he doesn't have to act.
The color: *Is indescribable*
Lovecraft: *Describes it*
Hey, at least they didn't decide that the color was *purple.*
Thanos: *incomprehensible!*
he never actually described it in the story.
Description: A color out side the visible spectrum of light.
@@firetarrasque4667 prince & deep purple
*Mother and son get fused together.*
School nurse: Here's a pack of ice
thought you were gonna make a step mom step son joke
And a lollipop
@@chadthundercheeks4242 hoho
"You can lie down for a bit, but that's it."
He was in front of her though.
Scientist: so yeah, there’s a whole spectrum of light not visible to the human eye.
HP Lovecraft: You mean that there are colors not yet witnessed by man? WHAT MIGHT THEY BE CAPABLE OF?
We love overly sarcastic productions 😌✊🏽
well, to be fair, the color isnt a color itself, its more an undefined thing, that can only be described as a color.
@@marcosdheleno it's a reference to a video by overly sarcastic productions
@Casey Krier 😂😂
I was just watching some osp
"His cat, G-spot"
So you're really just gonna throw that out there huh
What is it with HP Lovecraft and unfortunate cat names?
a pussy named g spot
It’s funnier when they can’t seem to find the g spot.
Jose Burgos Damn it! You beat me to the joke!😤
@@unhingedconnoisseur164 His other cat was the N-word.
Nicolas Cage found his niché, it's wildly outlandish films where he's covered in blood & the film is saturated in color.
He was good in Mandy, although it’s very depressing
@@mar.jam.esquire he was fucking phenomenal in "Mandy" he truly shined as an actor in that film & it's one of his most convincingly authentic roles. He played the grieving husband hell-bent on revenge against a seeming supernatural cult with those bikers who seem like they were sent straight from hell. It's one of his best film roles & I'd love to see him in more films like that, where his outlandish behavior is a wflvkmd departure from his normally shitty acting. He actually became the character & convinced people he can really act when he wants too. He's making shit film after shit film because of his debts. But this film is a gem that doesn't get the recognition it deserves bank from both story & acting.
I'm very ready for this Nic Cage renaissance.
That's why he is a national treasure
Let's be honest. You could count on one hand how many Nic Cage roles AREN'T wildly outlandish.
I think that Nicolas Cage finally found his genre. Experimental stuff.
Honestly though! Mandy was terrific and along with this it feels like he has found his new niche!
I agree, he was wicked in Mandy. Hopefully he will appear in a lot more Lovecraft adaptations. I love the colour schemes in this movie and Mandy.
i also enjoyed him in Mom and Dad
Facts
Nicolas cage is beyond genre.
Hey, the black guy survived. Love craft would hate that.
In Lovecraft stories surviving is the worst fate of all, so the black guy still got shafted.
I mean when encountering Cthulhu. You don’t have a chance. You’ll either go insane. Or die. I’d your lucky.
FYI it's documented that Lovecraft actually relaxed his racist mentalities leading up to the last portion of his life. So honestly if he were alive today he probably wouldn't even be a racist anymore...
@@zipzzo I 100% agree with your point that he wouldn't have that mindset today. He was very easily swayed by the beliefs of his times. I mean, he wrote a piece or two describing his supposed hatred for non white immigrants, and then marries a Jewish woman. He didn't really care when it came down to it. Plus his racism was oddly... over the top? He sounded near exactly like the propaganda at the time, and even then he still went beyond that to compensate (a certain feline). He probably subconsciously adopted that mindset to fit in with his fellow American seeing as he was already a very unorthodox individual; mentally ill parents, minimal formal education, neverending bouts of poverty, unrecognized, believing he was born in the wrong time, writing for the never formally commercialized genre of "horror", etc.
Ew this got too long, but in conclusion, I can see why. Do I think he was racist? Yes. Do I think his heart was in it? I think he may have CONVINCED himself it was, but not really.
@@nervousdorito3696 Actually, the proof of his racism was a book from an author that wasn't him and he EDITED IT. I mean 20 years ago, so many people now would have made gay jokes, but they wouldn't kill gay people even back then. People just parrot the times.
I love the Color out of Space as a movie, and I know I was pushing it for the past couple months in comments. This is a great movie where Nicholas Cage's over the top acting works for him as his character goes insane. And the color magenta works for the reasons listed in the review.
In the German adaption of the story the entire film is apparently black and white, except for the magenta color, again to highlight that is *not* a natural color.
TBH the German version sounds like the version that makes more sense to me
Wait, natural colors? What do you mean?
I saw him become Trump
@The Strangler look up what your talking about first. So a leaf may not actually be green because we see it as that color. Your trying to say it’s not real but I think you mean color is just what our eyes create the color.
I agree excellent movie but should have a seizure warning at end
"MYSTERIOUS COLORS UNLIKE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!"
Eyy OSP!☺️
Yes! OSP joke! Yay!
Only comment that matters
JUST MOVE AWAY
shit joke and shit video
We're not going to adress the cat being named g-spot? Ok...
Liz-Otaku-Artist right!?
Or the fact no one could find it
It's a naughty pussy.
You think that’s something search up h.p lovecraft cats name in real life
Seems like a perfectly good name for a cat
BTW, the idea of “we’re gonna buy your land and put it underwater” is a real thing here in Massachusetts. Just look up The Quabbin. You can still see farm houses in the water when it’s low
In Missouri at the Truman Reservoir you can see old houses when the water gets low as well
This movie is the most beautiful and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. That deep purple in the girls eyes was magnificent.
@@Nochannel-qb3km what are you talking abaut?
Magenta
have you seen annihilation? Its kind of like this
Its magenta
If your into that type of thing watch 'From Beyond' same stuff.
Lovecraftian rule 1: Your heroes will either die or be scared for life.
Or lose to insanity or even ended up worshipping the great old one
Unless it's the Dunwich Horror, in which case they nut up, arm up, and kill the (literally) damned thing!
@@ThePa1riot what about porn?
Lovecraftian rule 1 is to always be as racist as you can
Literally one of the only constants in lovecraft
I'll be honest, I went into watching the movie without much expectation - Lovecraft's works are difficult to translate into different types of media, given the more primal cosmic horror aspects (the remarkably underwhelming games over the past few years being chief examples). But this movie did as good a job as it could have, I think, and I was pleasantly surprised. I hope the director gets the opportunity to explore more of Lovecraft's work in the future.
i think he is working on the dunwich horror and maybe another one after that
Bloodborne is by far the best cosmic type horror in current media.
@@AQS521 seconded. No movie or game comes close to Bloodborne
the simple fact that Bloodborne exists is a really good reason to delete this whole comment
He's creating a lovecraft cinematic universe
I'm taking Red's advice when it comes to mysterious colors etcetera etcetera.
_"JUST MOVE AWAY!"_
Me too, bro
That's a good plan
LMAO favorite video
Rachel Swank you know that won’t work
I was literally just thinking that
"Colours, unlike any seen on earth."
You mean there are colors man has never seen? WHAT MIGHT THEY BE CAPABLE OF???
Alternatively:
“What? A kaleidoscope, I’m not five *shapes and colors the likes of which I’ve never seen!”*
Almost as if it's a colour out of ......SPACE! Lol
I must watch BLUE's video about HP Lovecraft again hahaha
@@udsmusic_official Red did that video
So when Jack was talking to "the man in the well", was he talking to Benny after he fell in the well looking for his dog? Since time is all messed up?
Oh shit, you might be right 😳
That's actually a quite interesting theory!
Not really, the color was a simple minion, so it was very intelligent(much more intelligent than humans by their perspective). Although it does bend time/space and is heavily referenced to be a minion of the god Yog-Sothoth(hence its able to affect consciousness much easier and stealthier(Cthulhu is just one look and insanity)) and why it was attempting to “help” the family from its own perspective as Yog-Sothoth helped Carter(in a way) become the new king of Ilek-vad(from a literal dream world) in another story(and coincidentally having him become merged with it)
@@Strangeship1997 that would plant the blame soley on levina though as if i remeber right yogsothoth dosent just go around doing stuff only doing things that invoke it be it in dream or reality and levina did have a necronomicon
😲, but no, maybe, f it i got no clue
the daughter, Lavinia, is actually one of the focus characters in The Dunwich Horror, another of Lovecraft's novels
Just shares the same first name.
Duc Minh Ngo but, I don’t doubt that the director was influenced by The Dunwich Horror for her character, since Lavinia in the book is very ritualistic and weird
Or the daughter of King Latinus from the Aeneid
Bottom Text oh yeah, that could very well be true
I really loved the little background references, the weather report listing off towns and cities from other Lovecraft stories was my favorite.
People wanting a concrete, explainable ending from a LoveCraft story. FOOLS
I love all the references packed in there. From t-shirts to the name of the daughter. It's a huge Lovecraft love letter.
So which Lovecraft story was G-spot used in..? 😅😼 hehe
@@kilssj2250 Well, in todays climate, using name of Lovecrafts beloved black cat would be bit problematic.
@@Karak-_- I'm pretty sure it wouldn't cause any issues, why would it?
@@ngastakvakis4425 The cat't name is the N-word.
@@Karak-_- Ooooh... I assumed it was g-spot from the previous comment lol... Yeah I can see that being an issue.
when you are trying to get away from the coronavirus by self-isolating but some goddamn alien rock has other plans with you
Coronavirus: Finna clap so humans cheeks.
Colorful rock from space: I'Ll TaKe YoUr EnTiRe SuPpLy
Are you implying the Coronavirus actually ISN'T the contents of the alien space rock?
Hahahaha 😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍
Bro I watched this with my dad and he dead ass said was the meteor the corona
Lmao
The visuals in this movie, especially colors, are damn near exactly like the ones in another weird ass Nick Cage movie, "Mandy." I love them both
ThEm BlAcK sKuLls
IMO, Mandy is a masterpiece, and while there are similarities, it's really quite different as well. Here's a link to my review: ruclips.net/video/sjr9aPYLpSw/видео.html
I know! When I saw the movie poster for COOS, at first I thought it was a sequel to Mandy
The two movies had the same producers
Seem to be carryover from FROM BEYOND. Magenta all over the place.
I love how this movie feels like a love letter to the visceral horror films of he 1980s, where the monsters were oozing, bloody, slimy, pulsating, and always disturbing. Even the poster art for the film reminds me of those horror flicks. I remember as a kid I always went into the horror aisle of the video store (I am old, be quiet) because those movies always had the most shocking yet evocative cover art. Humans love to be scared. The ultimate adrenaline rush.
This movie reminded me a lot of The Thing
I'm honestly really interested in how The Dunwich Horror is done. Body horror plays an even bigger role than The Color Out of Space, so it'll be interesting to watch.
It will be hard to do proper justice imo, but I might be wrong.
Piotr Sulej You hopefully will be.
Or the thing at the door
@Cure4Living No, they aren't inbred. Lovecraft was a paranoid mentally-challenged uber-conservative, and the Dunwich Horror is his grotesque fears of race-mixing incarnate. (no joke!)
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I feel like this comment attacks Lovecraft a bit too directly, and is generally just misinformed. Yes, Lovecraft was an uber-conservative and a racist, but he was by no means mentally challenged. He suffered no mental disabilities or afflictions save for parasomnia, which ended up vastly influencing his works and inspiring such horrific beasts as the Nightgaunts, but he most certainly wasn't paranoid. He was introverted, but that doesn't count as a mental challenge.
I love how closely it follows the original novel even though it’s been updated to modern times
me too! :)
And is wayyy less racist.
@@mellie3882 cringe and gay
@@vatanak8146 Are you calling me gay?Because if so you're absOLUTELY RIGHT,I'M BI.
I wouldn't say it followed it too closely though.
In the book there was a process where the scientists of the university started chipping off parts of the meteor and took them back to the lab to study it. There's a lot that this movies leaves out, though. I could be wrong though, because all I know about the movie is just what's explained in this video.
Btw, I'm not saying this movie is bad or anything because of what it chooses to leave out or add.
Nathan: “Everything is going to be okay.”
Lovecraft: “But it was not okay.”
with this and Mandy, nick cage really has his heart set on getting into the trippiest movies possible lately don't he?
Pretty sure he lives in a haunted house or murder house
The dude will be in anything. Anything.
He is becoming the new Bruce Campbell
This movie isn’t that trippy
@@ryankasik7911 well he used to own the house of madame Lalaurie who tortured and killed slaves so...
14:45
Cage is such a good actor, especially when he acts angry
Just Some Guy without a Mustache You got discord?
I just watched this movie last week, and even though it isn't all that scary, it gave me the creeps many times. I have a fear of things that change stuff without knowledge that it is happening. It really freaks me out to not know when your mind is being fried, or if your body is changing.
Yea like the potion is doing to people. Check out Jay dreamerz yt channel he does much better break down of movies ams their meanings. This plasma apocalypse isn't impossible
"Color out of space"
_hmm, never heard of it, sounds interesting._
"We'll be looking at the psychedelic cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft's..."
_sees the name Nicolas Cage_
*Turns off video and instantly goes to find the movie.*
good choice. extremly fun movie.
This is exactly what I did
@@lonewalkerproductions is it able to be streamed yet? Or have they delayed it's release in the UK?
@@elliotstannard5621 It should be able to be streamed. Streaming has steadily increased in speed from Box Office to Home, and this was beginning of March on Vudu
@@DwarfyDoodad thanks mate👍 hope you are well during this time 😁
Stanley is amazing. He got screwed over by the system. Glad he's back. Hope he makes more H.P. flicks. He should just team up this team and make all the stories.
The lazy bum
@John Gibson What do you mean
@@dmin5782 I was quoting the joke from the end of the video
3D Modeller Control is the closest thing. It's pretty amazing. It's literally an SCP game. Highly recommend it.
I want a make of the Dunwich horror. One of the best stories in my opinion.
This man's movie collection never ceases to amaze me. I wish I had that large of a film library.
You can get most of these from the library for nothing...why own them?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 you can download them all from the internet for free so why even leave the house?
Levinia was not melding in the forces of evil: she was performing a version of The lesser Banishing of the Pentagram ritual for protection. Her ritual was rudely interrupted and ruined...perhaps allowing the "Color" to invade.
Subtle yet possibly a huge detail
I think her ritual in the beginning was either taken literally, because she asked "to get out of here". Or it went completely wrong, as you said - because the hydrologist interrupted her in the end. I know that doesn't fully explain everything. But the time phenomena and the wormhole/gate at the end strongly suggest that she called down Yog-Sothoth or at least some avatars of him.
She looks satisfied before she disappears btw...
@@voidw4lker Well, the mass of wormy tentacles is probably Azathoth.
@@Sinewmire Lavinia could be a reference to Lavinia Whately from Dunwich Horror who sired children of Yog-Sothoth.
Alone that this guy correlates the pentagram with satanism, makes him as stupid as the Christians back then in the days, demonizing Pagan symbolism as the purest evil, there are no doubts of pure ignorance.
Nah mate, if you need protection in Lovecraft, you call Hastur.
Hastur's a good chap, the King in Yellow keeps his promises.
Have you seen the Yellow Sign?
Fire Tarrasque I have, isn’t Hastur Cthulhu’s half brother? Why would he be good?
The film The Void, which he did a explained on a long while back, was a Lovecraft inspired film. The ending of that one is a reference to Hastur/The King in Yellow's fortress pyramid I think.
Correction: It was Nyarlathotep inspired in The Void. Who would appear as a tall, lean man of dead black colouration but without the slightest sign of negroid features: wholly devoid of either hair or beard who resembles an Egyptian Pharaoh. Hence the pyramid symbols throughout The Void as well.
Correction to my own comment, The Void's antagonist's end form and the ending was a similarity inspired by Nyarlathotep. Who would appear as a tall, lean man of dead black colouration but without the slightest sign of negroid features: wholly devoid of either hair or beard who resembles an Egyptian Pharaoh. Hence the pyramid symbols throughout The Void.
Cyber D Vonaven nice, neva know The Void was inspired by Lovecraft
Fire Tarrasque Oh cool another Hastur enthusiast. Hi brother!
I’d like to point out, that this entire story, came out of love craft not understanding of visible and non visible light
He had an amazing one when he misunderstood air conditioning. And one of his most favourites was when he misunderstood poor people getting suddenly rich. Lovecraft not understanding the World made a wonderful genre.
lovecraft was a man of three main points ONE he had basically every form of anxiety and phobia and paranoia you could imagine.
TWO because of this he was a shut in isolated hermit basically his entire life with nothing but books for company.
THREE he loved the old ideas of astrology with some of the early days of modern astronomy mixed in he would fuse these things together to create the lovecraft genre using semi scientific terms blended with old mysticm and the vast unknown of space.
though he did have a funny reaction to albert einstein basically saying in a way he was dissapointed that the universe wasnt as scary as he imagined though he did keep with him the idea that mankind would one day find something they would regret ever seeking to know.
@@wilmagregg3131 lovecraft was a racist too.
@@wilmagregg3131 don’t forgot he was also racist
@@shaninejackman9395 he had every phobia ever he was afraid of people PERIOD and literally fell in love with and married a smoll hot at the height of discrimation agasint them.
and the only "wascist" things lovecraft ever did was 1 mention in a book after seeing a dark skin person that he must be a member of the low class WHICH WAS TRUE IN ENGLAND AT THE TIME.
2 mention and use voodoo a couple times like he did every other faith.
3 he named his cat the n word OH THE HORROR THE EVIL AHHHHH,
he was barly even wascist by modern standards he was pretty freaking tolerant compared to nearly every other high class person back then who either had slovs or thought they were genetically superior to anyone with diffrent skin tones.
so please stop trying to ruin a good person for the sin of not being perfect cause by that logic gande and martin luthor king should be given the same treatment as gande was pretty wascist to some people and martin luthor was a womanizer.
This movie reminds of The Thing meets Annihilation
and hereditary for the family drama
Exactly
copied lovecraft lol
Annihilation is actually based on the book that this is based on.
@@user-im2vz3yc3h exactly
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Silent Judging I agree with you , Lazarus effect needs a nice Foundflix explanation
That movie suckeddddddd
@@GreenGlo1991 Same. It popped in my head about a year ago but I forgot to suggest it to him 😂 now I'm keeping in my head the list of videos I've asked until he does it
@@realtalk361 Right?! Even if only for the people who haven't seen it. I think it was pretty good.
@@beegyoshi8797 I respect your opinion but let's not act like every movie done on this channel was a Blockbuster film *cough* The Boy 2. Forgive me, BRAHMS: The Boy 2
Just watched this. And lol, the 'creatures' in this film were the creepiest things I've seen compared to any other film I can remember. It was sick.
Watch, the thing (2011)
Watch The Fly.
Edit: I'm sorry 2011 The Thing is not as good as the Original. Watch The Thing (1982)
@@user-xk7gy4dk3g The CGI messes in that movie just look hilarious.
@@JRSRLN the thing 1982 is amazing, its the best lovecraft story that isnt actually a lovecraft story but feels very heavily influenced by him. Holds up incredibly well, one of my fave horror films along with the shining
@@user-xk7gy4dk3g the thing 2011 is garbage, how dare you even mention that.
i loved all the subtle dunwich horror easter eggs, the daughter named Lavinia, the whippoorwills chirping in the background, the mention of mikatonic university
Honestly, this was extremely good. Like, I love how, throughout the whole movie, it never felt like the entity wanted to kill anyone? It just felt like it was growing to get enough energy to yeet back to its home planet.
Also, I am not sure how, but Cage is really good in Lovecraft-psychedelic thriller-horror movies, isn't he?
He naturally looks and sounds like he's on the edge of sanity already 😂
The thing I didn't like about this adaptation is that, with a few exceptions, almost all of Lovecraft`s beings and creatures from outer space or other dimensions were, if not exactly benign, at least not actively malicious. Their effects on humans and other earthly creatures was a side effect of their presence being literally anathema to us, and we are simply unable to handle their existence. You don't blame the sun for burning you because it gives off UV light, or uranium for getting radiation sickness. It's merely how it is. Giving the entity a motive, actively giving it a backstory kind of cheapens the Cosmic Horror aspect. Yes, from a traditional horror point of view, it's scarier for the entity to be a deliberate invasion, a creature who has come to Earth solely to consume and corrupt. But it's a much more fitting Cosmic Horror to have it just be a thing that happened to crash here, and it's very existence causes all these horrific consequences, with the entity being either unaware or uncaring of its effect on us.
Agreed, however I understand why they did it. Though it was always going to be a cult movie the fact is if you somehow wound up going into this without knowledge of Lovecraft that would be incredibly confusing so I understand the rationale of being easier to consume to widen the potential viewer-base. That said I really wish someone would do a period piece of COoS as the family being alone and cut off in a backwater hundreds of miles from the nearest population center made a lot of the stories plot points make a lot more sense. A lot of the plot (like not leaving the moment they realize something is really off) just don't make as much sense in a modern setting where leaving and finding a new home is so much easier.
I thought it captures the characters going insane perfectly well
Yeah, that’s kinda what happened. It didn’t come here to fuck us up or it would have stayed. It came to recharge and left. The fall out of its presence was the whole story.
Yea but the movie never implied if the entity came there on purpose or had a motive
@@weakestpakistani9730 that's part of why it's lovecraft. We can only guess why they were here or what they were doing. That's my best guess.
“Color Out of Space” what I heard, “Colorado Space.”
I'd watch that.
Lmao
I swear I was thinking about this half the video
You r not alone
NotYourGreatestPlan same
I remember hearing of another Colour Out Of Space adaptation that did something really interesting the depict the Colour. The whole movie was shot in black and white, except the Colour, which was a shining purple-pink.
14:33 Obligatory “Purple Haze, all in my brain”
yes, it was more avantgarde, set in germany instead with reference to america. interesting project nontheless but fell flat to depict the horror. which is honestly tough and never thought one can do, but i think this movie is close enough to satisfy.
Auburnt Vixen As I never really watched the other one, I can’t say, but this movie definitely does that better with the depiction of the Colour as a shifting mess of otherworldly spectra. Especially with the “Colour Star” on the other side of the portal, showing that the meteor is just a fragment of something far larger.
lately things they dont seem the same
It is bothering me that they were pretty much ignoring Jack. They hover over mom, give her water, and try to comfort her with love, while Jack is behind her being ignored completely. WTF is up with that?
It was one body though.
RIGHTTT?? and he was screaming and crying the whole time in a really disturbing high pitch and no one cared it was traumatizing
That was so hard to watch...especially when he started whimpering like an infant.
That was bothering me too lol I was like that poor baby is literally crying back there
I love the movie, but i thought the dialogue and the acting was weak. They were all doing their own thing acting, but the director should have reminded them that within the movie they're supposed to be a family.
mysterious colors UNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH-
JUST MOVE AWAY!!
This is what happens when you have "too delicate a constitution for math"
I just thought of overly sarcastic productions
We love Overly Sarcastic Productions
I knew this was from Overly Sarcastic productions
6:10 fun fact if you listen real close you can hear whiporills in the background. This will also come into play when/if the director films "The Dunwitch Horror." I thought it was a nice nod to the Lovecraft 'mythos'.
I hope the same director does Dunwich horror and casts Nic cage again . They are both huge HP Lovecraft fans
What a great mother, reading classic horror stories to her child.
*skin is cracked and dry*
Smart guy: "Oh yeah, let's just rub some alcohol on it!
Me: *facepalm*
Well, when a bizarre color that’s infecting your water supply is slowly driving you and your family insane...
This gives me HUGE creep show vibes. The one where Stephen king touches a rock and becomes a huge alien plant creature growing out of his lazy boy. Lol
Yep, his short story was based on Color out of Space!
ummm no he was just covered in grass inside and out
Nny tk I choose to remember the effect in a way that he becomes the plant as well. Either interpretation isn’t really bad per say. He calls it “grass” specifically sure, but one could argue as the life form came from a space rock, that it might be considered an alien space plant as well. 👍
@@PrettyTigerlilly I can see that. His character (after touching the space rock) Starts to go insane. With the pictures of his father in the wall starting to talk to him in an abusive way. And how he was driven to take a bath, even though water accelerates the plant cancer.
Precisely what I thought of!
"Ew! Meteor Sheeeiit"
Darkest dungeon has a Color of Madness DLC. That's based on the same story. The farmstead is basically this place
At the Mountains of Madness would make a great mini-series. Just, Lovecraft in general would make a great mini-series
yes! Favorite lovecraft novel by far would make such a potentially great cinematic experience!
True but The Thing already kind of ripped it off. I mean it is kind of different but youd have to put up with idiots who dont know the story saying "expedition to the arctic, find aliens, clearly this is a rip off of The Thing"
really hope we get more HP lovecraft movies and games in the future i have reccently started with the books after loving the universe for so long absolutly falling in love with the style of bloodborne
well they would have to be heavily edited, as they sometimes have some not so good treatment and descriptions of cultures.
@@ironrhino25 his racism is usually just passing remarks and not ever integrated into the story itself, not much heavy editing needed
There's probably more than enough Lovecraft content to just pick around the racist bits
@@ironrhino25 i mean to be fair who wasn't racist at that time ofc it needs to be updated a fair bit but the idea itself is still great
@@nagashtheundyingking4404 I mean Lovecraft was much more racist then even most people back then, he loathed people of colour and minorities even hating white people that were poor or inbred he also hated mixing of other races he even named his cat n-word man
You can see Lavinia carving the word "solve" into her hands. This relates to the alchemic formula "solve et coaglua" (latin) meaning "loose / disband and combine". Also when you first see Benny's room there are letters on the wall behind his computer screen spelling "no flesh shall be spared", a vague reference to a bible verse and also a foreboding message about the story's end.
Tommy chong:
already knows who he will meet before it happens, presumably predicting the future.
Foundflix:
ah hes just really stoned lol.
Those are not contradicting statements.
You know, there’s a much easier way to explain any Lovecraft ending. Everyone dies. Everything’s depressing. The end.
What about The Dunwich Horror, or The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath?
2 out of umpteenth depressing Lovecraft endings hardly excuses him from beating an emo horse
They're horror stories. "And then the humans beat it" isn't scary.
Alternatively "they don't die but would, of course, have been infinitely better off had they simply died." >.>
Sinewmire Well, doesn’t always have to be scary. Horror does have its heroes like ashley williams
I only just heard of the film a few days ago, and, watched it last night. I knew so little of Lovecraft's works, and am now an instant fan. So much so I just got the complete Lovecraft collection on Audible.
Something not seen: * Exists *
Lovecraft: *But is it!?*
9:58
"Exotic"?.....
Yeah, sure, let's go with that...
Watching first half I was like “why Nic Cage for a normal role?” But by the time he started chomping veggies I was like “ah there’s the Nic we know and love”
I kinda feel like the changes they made for the movie kinda detract from the horror, at least for me. In the original story, the necronomicon isn’t involved at all. The family is just unfortunate enough to be the closest to the meteor. Made the situation more tragic, since the family did nothing to deserve what happened.
Also, the color kind of worked more like radiation poisoning rather than straight up magic in the original story. Obviously still magic, but there was no time dilation or people fusion. Just a brief burst of color, followed by a greying decay. Felt more focused, which made it feel more “real” to me. It was also, ironically, less explained in the original story, which is kind of what I want with lovecraft. No other world, no desire to terraform the earth, etc.
While I like Nicholas Cage, I did like the impersonal nature of the original framing. It was a local telling the story to a surveyor checking out the area. We got the highlights from, I think, about a years worth of weird occurrences, no family drama. Or at least, not in as much detail. Maybe that wouldn’t work as well for a movie, I’m of course no expert here.
Anyway don’t mean to complain, still liked the movie, just kinda confused with some of the changes.
Same
@@FF-oh2pv Honestly the biggest bit of sadness to me was the way it left. The movie does things in a definitely visually interesting way, sure, but there's something about the idea of the well getting brighter and brighter and then just... gone with a perfectly strangely square hole in the clouds... with a small piece falling back in. Greater mystery with no real explanation.
The Colour was based on radiation and UV, so the depiction was faithful here. In the end, we still don't know what the Colour is, wtf was that vision, or what is its mindset. Tommy Chong's recording isn't to be taken serious.
I'M SORRY BUT IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO SIT AND WRITE THE WORLDS OF SHAKESPEARE OF WHY YOU THINK THIS FILM IS SHIT THEN YOU NEED TO REALLY FIX YOUR LIFE
The Necronomicon in the film is nothing more than a red herring, a cameo. It doesn't do anything in the context of the story. It's in fact a real book, a hoax grimoire known as the Necronomicon by Simon. It's just something that a New Age-y would-be witch like Lavinia would buy. There's absolutely no suggestion that it had any kind of real power, much less that it played any part in the disaster.
“Otherworldly Climax” That’s my next band name.
Nocturnal Emission
"a cat named g-spot" would be a good name as well
That could be misconstrued as a really bad sci-fi porn film. Yes I'm a degenerate
I must say, this has got to be my favorite in Lovecraft takes, the film is just cinematic masterpiece 👌
Yes, the cat being called *G-spot* was what made the movie for me
When I heard that the daughter was named Lavinia, I thought that this was somehow also an adaptation of The Dunwich Horror.
Then they tried to feed her to he indescribable monstrosity locked in the house, and I was absolutely certain.
The director is actually making a trilogy of lovecraftian adaptions, next of which being The Dunwich Horror.
Sounds like an amalgam of Annihilation, The Shining and The Thing. Also:
“Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop.”
there's also that other movie where we unleash some primordial deep sea imbedded mutational thing and it infects everyone at a beach.
though, to be fair, there even contact with the water is dangerous. or, not even that, after it got on land it changed to become airborne spores.
@@leeman27534 What movie is that?!??!?! Sounds high-concept!
@@liyon316 its called the beach house.
This movie is what annihilation SHOULD have been
Hell yeah thanks for doing “A color out of space” cause the ending was just a little bit confusing also Nicolas cages acting is amazing and the way he talks
Love the use of magenta/other pinks and colors in some of the scenes! The whole movie gives me some major Anialation vibes
You said we don't see the dog in the well but we do see it. When he looks in the well, there is movement in the shadows and you can tell it's a dog's snout.
Nothing is more horrifying now than the sound of coughing
and they had it in this movie. the dad was coughing nonstop
First off i have to say Thank you and Thank you so much for finally getting around to doing a super in-depth review on, The Color Out Of Space! I’ve been patiently waiting for you to do a review for this film for a little while now and I always knew you would not disappoint! The Color Out Of Space is such an insane and wild ride especially towards the end. This is definitely the best H.P. Lovecraft adaptation to date! I was so surprised that the director didn’t hold back and totally went for it! Obviously this movie is not for everyone but anyone who is a fan of Lovecraft will enjoy the hell out of this film! I don’t know why but as far fetched as Cosmic Horror is, I find it to be more disturbing than your straight up body horror movies like so many David Cronenberg films. What I find to be incredible is that after being semi-retired for so many years, Richard Stanley hit the ground running and made an excellent Lovecraft movie that hit all the marks for me. I’m so excited to see what specific Lovecraft stories he plans on adapting next! I hope Stanley includes a super accurate rendition of Cthulhu and the Cthulhu Cult/ Religion. That would be so epic! Only time will tell. This was a great review/video and I look forward to seeing the next one! Cheers!
"Colorado Space" this is what I kept hearing every time he said the movie's title. LOL
Omg yes
I saw the premier of this at the HP Lovecraft film festival back in October and was hoping you’d cover this 🙌
Isn't this a 2020 flick
@@omnikingzeno5520 Yes but they only released it this year. they likely had most of it done by the time the festival happened.
Yep, this is an accurate depiction of a T-Mobile service installation.
G85 W 5G rays be like
Ward was not affected, but he looks like the walking dead at the end with his mind broken his spirit crushed by the unknown forces that his scientific brain can not understand.
Now thats a Lovercraft story ending.
The weird violet light features heavily in MANY Lovecraft stories. My favorite is the ramblings of Walter Gilman as the witch seduces him in Dreams in the Witch House. They appear and disappear in a weird violet light.
Shame that we're not getting another Lovecraft film from Stanley. He definitely understood the material best
2:18 The Necronomicon in Lovecraft's work isn't AKA'd as "The Book of the Dead", that was something Evil Dead made up whole cloth for their movie.
Well, Necronomicon roughly means “Law of the Dead” in Greek.
It actually derives from 3 words νεκρός=dead νόμος=law εικών=image so the actual translation is images and laws of the dead
I bought this the day it came out on DVD and rewatched it with my roommate. "Keep an eye on those alpacas man. They're shady."
Later, "ALL HAIL THE ALL-PACA!"
The one thing family does is stick together. Hahaha I couldn't help but die laughing when you said that.
Ah, I see someone else read the IMDB trivia for this film.
This was such a wonderful adaptation of Lovecraft’s work, which doesn’t always translate well into a movie (which is why literature is such a nice canvas for entertainment). I loved it. Easily one of my top favorite horror films of all time.
I never heard a single thing about this movie until just now. Had no idea this existed, lol
I mean, Ezra could have left a note about the cat looking horrifying, but what would it have even said- "Cat Mutated, Details Later"?
I kept hearing the title as "Colorado Space".
me too
Me three
I heard it after reading this comment 🥲
Well you're not wrong though, it does rhyme to it.
Never heard of it but I’m damn sure about to get it explained to me!
RollingxBigshot it's better than the book.
@@thefiregodzapp neatly deals with a couple of points that would be plot holes in modern times (as opposed to 1920s era rural New England), like speeding up the timeline, explicitly making modern communication hard, and giving a reason for the family to stay.
Please watch the film, the story is amazing
THE COLOR IS MAGENTA .
The filmakers chose it because this is a visual medium and Magenta doesn't exist because it has no wavelength; there's no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn't like having green (magenta's complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing
I feel like Annihilation probably took away a lot of thunder that this movie could have had; now, it just seems derivative. I guess both being "inspired" by Lovecraft stories would make comparisons inevitable, but even so, this movie seems less impressive by virtue of being second.
*EDIT* I'm not saying it is derivative, rather just seems like it. If anything, Annihilation is derivative of the original Color Out of Space story, but since that movie got out first, this later release inherently appears less innovative.
i liked me some Annihilation. crazy Lisa Frank world with Lisa Frank flowers, Lisa Frank skies, Lisa Frank bears
Annihilation only had the mood of Lovecraft not exactly the horror, though it was close. Timing is everything I guess.
Nah, they're actually two very different movies, thematically.
Also, I haven't seen this movie, but purely judging from the analysis presented, it seems like it fell into the trap that most Lovecraft adaptations and even original stories fell into: the alien force isn't simply alien, it is evil. I think the concept of the story was to create an extraterrestrial wildfire - it warps and destroys everything it touches, can be made worse due to human curiosity/stupidity/cruelty, and leaves once all possible fuel has been consumed, although potentially leaving behind "embers" that could trigger further destruction. It is chaotic, but beyond constraints of morality.
But some of the stuff in the movie just seems evil; the mother-son hybrid seems like something a psychopath would construct. You could argue the alpaca massacre was "experimentation," but even humans can understand when an animal is in pain, so after that mutilation, the entity should realise it caused suffering, yet still does it again; technically, it could equate all Earth life as equally beneath it, so it shouldn't need to repeat an experiment on another "animal," however, the fact that it does, indicates evil. It reminds me of - perhaps appropriately enough - some of the bonus info one can find in Batman: Arkham Knight; to lure Jason Todd into a trap, the Joker butchered a kindergarten class, then stitched them back together, as some twisted form of "friends stick together." So, melting a mother and small boy together doesn't come across as "alien force beyond our comprehension," but rather a sick joke that a murderer would undertake.
Perhaps the entity doesn't even have sapience to even realise what it does, but there seems to be enough *orchestration* to imply some sentience, and therefore evil.
@@firetarrasque4667 Sure, but I just meant the fact that another Lovecraftian film with similar implementation of surreal visuals, body horror, and *downbeat* ending possibly reduces the impact this movie could have had if it was released without "competition."
So basically, the ending implies something like the "shimmer" from Annihilation.
The Shimmer from Annihilation is actually based off the original Lovecraft Story "Colour Out of Space".
@@AfewEwoks yeah I got that too
@@AfewEwoks part of it went back to its own world.
“He has a great handle on the source material”
My foot, he does.
The next ending explained should be the movie we all are living right now!
Well there’s no ending to explained
DON’T YOU DARE WOOSH ME
It won't end just yet
It's called. End, 2020.
Contagion 2
this movie really did good job bringing lovecraft to the screen.
The mom: *cuts off her finger*
Jack:😐👌 nice one, mom
That's just Thanos, spreading his joy from the afterlife.
Spreading his seed*
I laughed harder than I should have 🤣 take my like
Well, he is inevitable.
I keep thinking your saying "Colorado Space"...is it just me?
But yeah- that was certainly a wacked out film (in a good way, though)
I thought that too!
My fire stick keeps hearing this when I look it up lol
I still laugh when I remember that Lovecraft actually had what was equivalent of a middle school/8th grade level of education in science and had extreme troubles with basic mathematics. This definitely helped construct his views of the unexplainable when it comes to a strange hue of color never seen to humans eyes before, since he didn't understand the spectrum of light, as well as simple temperature measurements in a different story that exclusively focuses on a doctor who tampers with his radiator to ensure the consistent cold temperature in his apartment above the MC. Main point, he don't know a lick about science, his fear of aquatic life and the deep sea, as well as his personal issues concerning both his familial & massive racist views that were even regarded as extreme for the time truly shaped his literature. And boy, I am glad other people took the wheel and made it what it is today since his writing would go on for ever with exposition dumps.
Just like Me!
I’m giving you a virtual hug. Ok?
@@photogeen Very appreciated, this self isolation is definitely getting to me
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Saying Lovecraft didn't know about science is like saying Shakespeare didn't know any good chilli recipes. So what?
About the color, I don't think it's as stupid as you're making it out to be. Magenta isn't on the light spectrum either, yet we see it.
@@ShootMeMovieReviews Lovecraft wrote this story based on his misunderstanding of the ultraviolet light spectrum.
Hey, @FoundFlix I think you failed to mention the effect the experience had on Ward. He was an environmentalist but is seen in the end smoking and throwing the cigarette into the water like he no longer cares about the environment after what he has seen; a common theme in H.P.L stories.
I feel like Nicolas Cage and bruce Campbell should be in a horror movie together lol
I loved this film so much. It was the perfect blend of weird, Lovecraftian nightmare and psychedelic visuals. Nic Cage goes 6/10 on the Cage rage scale and he's perfect in this role!!
Nicolas Cage has been doing a ton of incredible indie movies the past few years, he's really redeeming himself.
Never needed redeeming to begin with. Actors get bad roles sometimes and he was dealt a bad hand
He plays those weird/trash roles because he needs to pay off his taxes.
The man bought a castle in Europe for some apparent reason 😂
H.P. Lovecraft is just one phenomenal writer, they really picked the perfect actor for the film adaptation Nic Cage.