This is the best adaptation I've seen of my favorite Lovecraft story. The B&W is perfect and makes the appearance of the colour all the more compelling.
Die Darbe is no The HPL Historical Society's The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), but they share many fine qualities and I wouldn't kick it out of bed for turning on the resonator for a few minutes now and again.
I think the best part of this movie is the focus on terror, rather than horror. There were so many opportunities to do jumpscares and similar kinds of tricks, but instead they chose to draw out the scenes, which really adds so much overall value to it. Jumpscares are scary the first few times, but you grow to expect it, and afterwards it has much less of an impression on the view. This movie chooses to focus on the terrifying realities: It's not scary because it catches you off guard, it's scary because you know what is happening, yet powerless to stop it.
Have you seen the HPL Historical Society's The Whisperer In Darkness? In addition to being perfectly well-produced, it's a true-to-the-original masterpiece.
"The fire... The fire burned all night" The music, the way the line is delivered, the visuals of the light coming through the trees, the whole feel and atmosphere of this scene was perfect, i absolutely love this one scene. Cosmic horror will never ceases to amaze me
I came to this thinking simply, "Oh, another film version of 'The Color Out of Space'". Of course, I was interested. And then the title comes on the screen: "Die Farbe", and a broad smile comes across my face. Though I had seen it before, I was so utterly pleased, because it is one of the best interpretations of this story that I have ever seen. And watching it again brought out more. Among other things, that this unnamable color has hints of mauve in it, a color that one of my favorite authors of "mythos" fiction (who, sadly, recently died -- in 2019), W.H. Pugmire, uses mauve as a color of the dark mysterious in his own invented place of lovecraftian horror, Sesqua Valley. In any case, thank you for uploading this marvelous movie, so that I could easily watch it again.
This is a rare gem of a movie! The Dorf reminds me where I grew up as a child. Also nice to hear the German language spoken, now that I live in Central America.
deserves to become a classic . great quality acting , filming , eerie in a very original way. now i will be stuck to find something as worth watching as this for a while
Slow paced like Ermanno Olmi but filled with immanent omen like Werner Herzog.. It fully catches the atmosphere of cosmic horror invented and imagined by my beloved HPL. And the names...herr Pierske as Ammi Pierce: the cherry on the cake. I liked it a lot! 👍🏻
I read Lovecraft's story a couple years after seeing 'Die Monster Die" '65 on the tube when I was a kid and noticing it in the opening credits. It's still one of my favorite gothic chillers despite being such a liberal adaptation and cramming all the noteworthy action into practically the final 10 minutes. Along the way, though, I find that it makes good use of expository dialogue and very gradual but interesting revelatory imagery and events. Those last qualities are definitely this version's strong suit, and as fond of vague but frightening description and musings on the part of narrators as Lovecraft was, I'll bet he'd be pleased with this film of his tale. Thankyou very much for this.
This German version closely follows the book, once it gets rolling. Blank and white suits the mood. Everything works to build suspense. The ending did not disappoint.
Fun fact: Lovecraft came up with the color out of space when he learned that there were colors humans can't perceive and misunderstood what exactly that means
I'm not a fan of movies that do black and white in an effort to be all "deep" and "retro" and "artsy" so I was a little hesitant about this one but man it was so worth it. Artsy film kids out there take note of this one: They did the black and white thing here but it had a PURPOSE, it actually served the film and even the story, not just to look oldschool. Also aspiring (especially horror) movie writers and directors take note too. There were a couple of glimpses, but the mother was the most of what you really saw until the big climax. They didn't need a ton of jumpscares and terrifying imagery. The father's ending was so dramatic and horrifying and all you really saw was a pov and one gooey hand and it said EVERYTHING we needed to know. It gave enough information to not be aggressively esoteric but little enough that it let your mind draw in the blanks. Not everything was explained but the narrative was complete and compelling. It wasn't all "Oooo but what could it meaaaaan???", it had a purpose and it actually told a story rather than just leaving the audience sitting confused. I'm not a huge fan of the little twist at the ending but it didn't detract from the story or overall themes, and it MOST IMPORTANTLY didn't say the narrative we just watched was actually a waste of time. The events were slightly reframed without being invalidated. The somewhat recent game Little Hope is a fantastic example of a narrative that is ruined by its ending, because the ending takes away the story rather than reframing it or adding additional context to tie things together. A bad movie director would have left you wondering what was wrong with the dad, a good one showed him seeing the colour in the second well, which told you enough to tie it together. We didn't have to say "Was it guilt? Was he corrupted by the colour?" we just had to show what caused it. You don't have to give your audience every single piece, you don't have to hold their hand, but you have to make sure that the pieces you DO give them tie together or they're left dangling at the end and your movie leaves them feeling unfulfilled and confused. It's not artistic, it's not edgy, it's just bad writing. For writers and directors who want to do this type of narrative where not everything is clear and explained, what I would recommend is making sure YOU know exactly what's going on. You have to understand the rules of your universe to keep them consistent. Why did the colour do anything it did? Was the colour alive? What WAS it? We can enjoy the movie without answering those questions because the pieces were consistent and coherent. In this case the water was the connecting thread. We don't know exactly why or how the colour did what it did, however, we know that it did it through the water, the threads are missing pieces but still connected. Also, props to the lead actor here he was FANTASTIC. Absolutely carried the movie.
I watched the one with Nicolas Cage on Acid & it was awesomely freaky & i almost turned it off because of the Krazy special effects. 🎄☃️🎄 Merry Christmas
Yes films on acid can get pretty weird, I remember 'Blood on Satans Claw' tripping very frightening at the begining but had my brother and I in hysterics by the end. A bottle of vodka can mellow things out a little take some of the rough edges off the acid.
Lovecraft was trained as a chemist, and knew a lot about physics and astronomy. As a science enthusiast, I found that the scariest aspect of this story was something that was not explored fully in the film. The scientists who examined the meteorite were unable to determine what the meteorite was made out of. In the book, their spectroscopic analysis revealed that is was not comprised of any of the elements known to science. Its physical properties and behaviour were mysterious. It was not made of any kind of matter that we are familiar with. Given that astronomical observations reveal that only around 5% of the mass/energy equivalent of the observable universe is comprised of ordinary matter, the rest being made up of dark matter (whatever that is), and dark energy (whatever that is) along with a few neutrinos and possibly other stuff that we don't know about, Lovecraft's fundamental premise is that there are forms of matter that exist (not normally found around here) that might be incompatible with, and highly disruptive to, the biochemistry of life forms (i.e. DNA) that are found here on earth. The frightening part is that there is no sound scientific basis on which to refute Lovecraft's speculation. We just don't know. It is not often that you come across such profoundly disturbing notion in a science fiction novel. He really was a brilliant story teller even if he was somewhat disturbed.
I have to disagree with you. We might not know what "dark matter" is, but we do know what it isn't. That is matter that interacts with the electromagnetic field. The Colour (in Die Farbe and The Color Out Of Space) does interact with the electromagnetic field. "Dark matter" isn't like some spooky magic stuff that is very dark. It's rather a problem in einsteinian relativity that we do not really have a solution to yet. Also there definitely is matter not found on earth that is highly disruptive to life. This is not nearly as wacky as you might think it is. There is even such matter on earth. Bromine or quicksilver for example. Or pretty much all highly radiocative matter. However, the color out of space most definitely violates a lot of very fundamental laws of modern physics.
Like the HPL Historical Society's (admittedly superior) The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), Die Farbe is a darkly atmospheric, (mostly) b&w adaptation of an epoch-making HPL tale. Thanks, Sci-Fi Central, for this dope UL.
God ok so I read the story yesterday and adored it so i watched the nic cage movie and I hated that and I feel so relieved to know that this is just substantially better
SPOILERS BELOW: I'm really confused about the flashback at 1:19:05, which seems to imply that Armin pushed Marwin down the well? It's a strange twist that's not in the short story and doesn't fit with any of the character's actions, unless I'm misreading what's even happening there?
This is the only Lovecraft movie I can watch. I don't think the others are interesting. If you know of one that is good, let me know. I've read many of his stories.
An interesting interpretation of what I regard as Lovecraft's best short story, The Colour Out of Space. The world war 2 angle was creative, moving the narrative to Germany instead of Arkham, Mass. I read the other comments. This was good, but not the best, there are plenty of other Lovecraftian films that are far better. Of course it was obvious that this was a low-budget production. The pacing was good, it held my interest throuhout. Some Lovecraftian stories lend themselves to dark humor, such as Re-animator 1 &2 The 1970s adaption of the Dunwhich Horror, is, in my opinion among the beast that I have seen. The Trilogy of Lovecraft stores, 1992's H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon, directed by three different directors is also worth a look.
Something's off in 1:19:00. I get this is Old Armin's unfiltered flashback, but here, we see his younger self being offered help from Nahum. Why would he? Nahum's the one who needs help. In 39:20, that's what we see. Armin is offering Nahum help. In fact, in both scenes, they've changed seats. Have they changed bodies? Is Old Armin really Armin?
This is a *masterpiece.* Incorporating elements of Michael Shea's excellent follow-up book "The Color Out of Time" was perfect. "The Colour Out of Space" was the first story I ever read of Lovecraft's, and it left me both absolutely terrified and eager to read more. Would I have enjoyed this as much if I hadn't already read the story? I'll never know, but I don't think so. It wasn't possible to give all the nuances of the story in a film, like the scream of the horse, for example. "Horror" has entirely changed its meaning by now - compare Shirley Jackson's book "The Haunting of Hill House," the original terrifying 1963 movie "The Haunting," and the absolutely dreadful 1999 gory remake with the book's whole name. Lovecraft's cosmic horror wasn't about gore, and I'm glad this film was faithfully adapted. I do have one question. My hearing isn't the best anymore. What did the young man say before he got out of the car at the end? He gave a short, wry laugh and said, "At least ..." but even with the volume turned up high I couldn't understand the rest of the sentence. I hope someone can tell me.
@@Lazarus178 I went back and listened again. Even knowing what was said, I could now only understand, "I least ... Danforth." And also found that I had never understood the professor's name in the opening anyway.
Reminded me of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukashima, agent orange, Round-Up, on and on and on. Lovecraft was an environmentalist even if he didn't know it yet. He certainly would have seen the connection of the story to modern life had he lived longer.
Well I have officially seen both versions of the Color out of space I have to say I like both of them if you want a more entertaining movie that gets to the point much quicker I'd go watch the Nick Cage version but if you want one that's more than that for the book and actually handles the concept of the color being hypnotic while also being mysterious to the people of this world since most of the film is in black and white as I said was a complaint for the newer one because in the newer one it didn't make much sense as to why the heck the color was so mysterious when it's a color they've seen on a regular basis where is here I can at least someone understand it because the color is the only part of the movie that is in color.
would had been better if they didn't used any color for the color, maintaining it as grey, thay way they could had created the doubt about how the color looked...
I do like how they handled it, but they could also have looked at some of the crazier things that were done in the black and white days, based on how the chemicals used in old film stock reacted to different colors they could do some strange "impossible" effects. "Sh! The Octopus" from 1937 is a famous example of using different color filters that appear very different on film, making a woman transform into a horrifying witch in a single shot. Something akin to that could've worked too - I know that for example red appears as black on some types of film - imagine the effect of a darkness that seems luminous etc.
Thanks all for this presentation. I now feel compelled to investigate Mr. Lovecraft. Any suggestions from anyone as to how to proceed in choosing a newcomers first reading? I hope so. Sincerely, Mr. Holliday
THIS is a good first story. Later you can learn abouthCthulu, fish people, and others. Good Reading to you! I found this in Omnibus of Science Fiction, 1953, Groff Conklin editor.
The most faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's story. The newer one with Cage is very good but they deviate from the story in a big way and it's kind of cringy.
You're speaking to someone that's read all of Lovecraft's written stories, and I RP, as well. I'm not one of those bandwagoners. I'm familiar with R'lyeh and feline tendencies in Ulthar; perverse experiments on the brain ultimately delving into the cosmic void of timeless, great beings that are beyond our understanding and imagination. I also find that the word that best describes his work is "insignificant". The major difference and only improvement I noticed in this version over Stanley's in relation to the book was that of the focus on the labwork. None of that was seen unfortunately in Stanley's.
I'd say both took it from other Lovecraft stories. Throughout the dream cycle he mentions malicious magenta coloured clouds, that seem to be related to the colour in The Colour Out Of Space, even though the colour in that story is indescribable. But magenta is also a non-spectral colour, it doesn't "exist" as it's a combination of colours on the opposite end of the spectrum, so it's probably as good as it gets when trying to represent it on film.
Not bad, took a bit to get going, i know establishment, but in German, normally I have Zero problems with Foreign films or Independent films, love it, But I have a headache and normally i give things 15 min and if it hasn't got me, I'm out as I can tell how the rest is going to go, but at some point I checked and I was at the 25 min mark and said okay, giddy up Lets see tjis through, yeah I actually said that. Good version, I recommend no headache. I was hoping for a bit more gore, but, thats okay it did it jobs. Thumbs up, free liw commercials, Im happy, 👍 great job.
It's unclear, but Arnim probably means a local family with the surname "Nägele". The name does literally derive from "nailers" and might have referred to skilled craftspeople in general, but I think the word is very archaic (even set in the late 1800s/early 1900s, Nagelschmied or Nagler would be better terms if Arnim literally meant a nailsmith). And although I cannot find any specific info on this, it would almost certainly have a different plural that what Arnim uses (personally I'd expect Arnim to say "von der Nägelen" (it's dative) instead). By contrast, surnames in German *are* regularly pluralized with -s, and that's exactly what Armin uses here. In context, Nahum has obtained a large number of new collection bins in expectation of the overgrown harvest -- although at first Arnim misunderstands, thinking that these are replacements for broken bins. Nahum has probably just picked up the bins, and has stopped at Arnim's on the way home. (In the short story, the line that this scene is based on is: "The fruit was growing to phenomenal size and unwonted gloss, and in such abundance that extra barrels were ordered to handle the future crop.") So Arnim is *probably* referring to the name of the family Nahum would've bought them from, and maybe the film was being a bit cheeky by giving that family a somewhat-apt name. ...Although, personally, I would've used "Kaufmann" (which is both a surname and the word for "merchant"), since it fits better AND 'Chapman's Brook' is a place in Colour out of Space -- the "Chapman" surname comes from "chapman" as an archaic English word for merchant, with chapman/Kaufmann being cognates. I agree that it's an odd and confusing line, but hopefully that helps!
@@anaphysik wow, thats an explanation!, thank you for taking the time to explain me, yeah it helps a lot, now it makes more sense to me so im gonna take it as you said. Thank You.
Like the HPL Historical Society's (admittedly superior) The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), Die Farbe is a darkly atmospheric, (mostly) b&w and adaptation of an epoch-making HPL tale. Thanks, Sci-Fi Central.
I don't think Lovecraft ever mentioned it as being pink. The genius of lovecraft is that you could almost imagine the colour he was describing, always hovering at at the tip of your consciousness but unable to pin it down. If evil has a colour, then the colour was evil.
That was the one genius aspect I took from this film...in their world of black and white(from our perspective)the color pink, comparitively, is the outer-worldly, non-existent color to us; as described in the book.
I maybe an imbecile but I'll never know unless I ask. Is an example of fictional non euclidean geometry the inside of the TARDIS on Dr. WHO? As in bigger on the inside, or the "infinite in a finite space" trope like a universe in a box or sphere or like in Harry Potter when they are inside the Weasley's tent or Hermione's bag? I read Lovecraft and alot of Sci-fi/fantasy stuff, especially SCP universe, that makes reference to it and I want to I'll make sure I'm grasping it in terms I imagine it as.
non euclidean geometry in 2 D would be a triangle whose internal angles add up to greater than 180 degrees or less than 180 degrees, where the 2 D surface is curved like a sphere or like a saddle . That's the best I can explain It . In Euclidean Geometry a triangle always has 3 internal angles that add up to 180 degrees , in other words , It's flat !
amazing all the damage a little bit of alien space poop flushed out of the side of these FRVs (flying RVs) can do.. That's why they're told not to just dump it on the nearest planet they're passing by... ;-)
If anyone is reading these comments to see if this movie is any good, it isn't! I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and while it's fairly true to the source material, this movie just isn't well made. Bad acting, amateur cinematography, and terrible CGI. Watch the one with Nicolas Cage instead, it's far more entertaining and visually interesting.
Yeah sure.. its 100% better than the one with Nic Cage. Im sure you havent read the book as this has so small inaccuracies that it can be missed. Like that the guy asking for dad was there for the dam closure or something and there was no mention of soldiers. I could guess the best war movie for you is Fury 😂 Dont put down films what are great adaptation as the new ones are just woke pathetic bs what has to include every race and gender to not get sued by buthurts who needs Cleopatra to be black just cuz My GrAnNy SaId ShE wAs BlAcK sO iT mUsT bE TrUe.
This is the best adaptation I've seen of my favorite Lovecraft story. The B&W is perfect and makes the appearance of the colour all the more compelling.
Couldn't have said it better!!
Die Darbe is no The HPL Historical Society's The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), but they share many fine qualities and I wouldn't kick it out of bed for turning on the resonator for a few minutes now and again.
I think the best part of this movie is the focus on terror, rather than horror. There were so many opportunities to do jumpscares and similar kinds of tricks, but instead they chose to draw out the scenes, which really adds so much overall value to it. Jumpscares are scary the first few times, but you grow to expect it, and afterwards it has much less of an impression on the view. This movie chooses to focus on the terrifying realities: It's not scary because it catches you off guard, it's scary because you know what is happening, yet powerless to stop it.
THOUGHT, well said, and THAT'S GREATLY appreciated 😊. (💯🎯)
Very true. Also the way Lovecraft wrote his story. The focus on powerlessness in the face of higher realities
Lovecraft doesn’t do jump scares …..one of the reasons l like his work.
True that, and one appreciates your making a distinction between terror (severe fear) and horror (repulsion or revulsion).
Best adaptation of anything Lovecraft I have ever seen.
Have you seen the HPL Historical Society's The Whisperer In Darkness? In addition to being perfectly well-produced, it's a true-to-the-original masterpiece.
A rare gem on RUclips. Intelligent, innovative, and beautifully crafted. The B&W makes it even more compelling.
The choice to shoot this film in black and white adds immense atmosphere and really makes for a striking juxtaposition once the alien entity appears.
"The fire... The fire burned all night"
The music, the way the line is delivered, the visuals of the light coming through the trees, the whole feel and atmosphere of this scene was perfect, i absolutely love this one scene. Cosmic horror will never ceases to amaze me
I came to this thinking simply, "Oh, another film version of 'The Color Out of Space'". Of course, I was interested. And then the title comes on the screen: "Die Farbe", and a broad smile comes across my face. Though I had seen it before, I was so utterly pleased, because it is one of the best interpretations of this story that I have ever seen. And watching it again brought out more. Among other things, that this unnamable color has hints of mauve in it, a color that one of my favorite authors of "mythos" fiction (who, sadly, recently died -- in 2019), W.H. Pugmire, uses mauve as a color of the dark mysterious in his own invented place of lovecraftian horror, Sesqua Valley. In any case, thank you for uploading this marvelous movie, so that I could easily watch it again.
This is honestly an incredible adaptation of the novel. Was not excepting this!
IKR? Have you seen The HPL Historical Society's The Whisperer In Darkness (2011)? It's like this but even better.
Five stars for this freakingly good, genuinely creepy movie. Many thanks for the upload!
Cheers George!
Surreal. Like a Herzog film. The spoken German helped set the mood. Well done! Thank you! ❤
This is a rare gem of a movie! The Dorf reminds me where I grew up as a child. Also nice to hear the German language spoken, now that I live in Central America.
A German livin in central America?
Is not u left ur fatherland after WW2?
I also hope u were not a doctor back in time...
deserves to become a classic . great quality acting , filming , eerie in a very original way. now i will be stuck to find something as worth watching as this for a while
Slow paced like Ermanno Olmi but filled with immanent omen like Werner Herzog.. It fully catches the atmosphere of cosmic horror invented and imagined by my beloved HPL. And the names...herr Pierske as Ammi Pierce: the cherry on the cake. I liked it a lot! 👍🏻
Werner Herzog,, Very Good Man.
Definitely the best film version of the story :)
Really great movie. Using black-and-white really captured the eerieness of the place and the characters. Well done!
One of the better Sci-fi movies on RUclips. Well worth the watch.
Thanks for watching!
I agree
Quite gripping, very atmospheric and very well realised - thank you for uploading this
Having just read "The Color Out of Space," everything from how the meteorite was more like plastic than metal to the acting, I'm enthralled!
I read Lovecraft's story a couple years after seeing 'Die Monster Die" '65 on the tube when I was a kid and noticing it in the opening credits. It's still one of my favorite gothic chillers despite being such a liberal adaptation and cramming all the noteworthy action into practically the final 10 minutes. Along the way, though, I find that it makes good use of expository dialogue and very gradual but interesting revelatory imagery and events. Those last qualities are definitely this version's strong suit, and as fond of vague but frightening description and musings on the part of narrators as Lovecraft was, I'll bet he'd be pleased with this film of his tale. Thankyou very much for this.
This German version closely follows the book, once it gets rolling. Blank and white suits the mood. Everything works to build suspense. The ending did not disappoint.
Can u elaborate on the endings' meaning? I wanna make sure im seeing the same aesthetic as everyone else
So far The Best film adaptation of Colour out of Space. Without question.
I love how all these new guys are finding Lovecraft and doing their adaptations in black and white with low effects….classic.
This is my first intro to Lovecraft and I love it. I appreciate the nod towards The Whisperer in Darkness (2011), too. Many thanks.
This was great! Keep on edge the whole 9 yards!
That is a atmospheric movie. Awesome and thanks for showing
A beautiful movie, it was a treat to be able to watch it. Every frame is well thought out and are beautiful.
Fun fact: Lovecraft came up with the color out of space when he learned that there were colors humans can't perceive and misunderstood what exactly that means
Source?
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@@exorevbivoevturque I love and respect my brother, looking up to him as someone I can trust. You dare to question the sacred bond between siblings?
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Great adaptation from book to film, truly chilling where it counted. Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you, Bill!
Cosmic Horror NEVER GETS OLD
"Madness Consumes You Now Fear The Unknown."
Gott wie lange suche ich schon diesen Film!
I'm not a fan of movies that do black and white in an effort to be all "deep" and "retro" and "artsy" so I was a little hesitant about this one but man it was so worth it. Artsy film kids out there take note of this one: They did the black and white thing here but it had a PURPOSE, it actually served the film and even the story, not just to look oldschool.
Also aspiring (especially horror) movie writers and directors take note too. There were a couple of glimpses, but the mother was the most of what you really saw until the big climax. They didn't need a ton of jumpscares and terrifying imagery. The father's ending was so dramatic and horrifying and all you really saw was a pov and one gooey hand and it said EVERYTHING we needed to know. It gave enough information to not be aggressively esoteric but little enough that it let your mind draw in the blanks. Not everything was explained but the narrative was complete and compelling. It wasn't all "Oooo but what could it meaaaaan???", it had a purpose and it actually told a story rather than just leaving the audience sitting confused. I'm not a huge fan of the little twist at the ending but it didn't detract from the story or overall themes, and it MOST IMPORTANTLY didn't say the narrative we just watched was actually a waste of time. The events were slightly reframed without being invalidated. The somewhat recent game Little Hope is a fantastic example of a narrative that is ruined by its ending, because the ending takes away the story rather than reframing it or adding additional context to tie things together.
A bad movie director would have left you wondering what was wrong with the dad, a good one showed him seeing the colour in the second well, which told you enough to tie it together. We didn't have to say "Was it guilt? Was he corrupted by the colour?" we just had to show what caused it. You don't have to give your audience every single piece, you don't have to hold their hand, but you have to make sure that the pieces you DO give them tie together or they're left dangling at the end and your movie leaves them feeling unfulfilled and confused. It's not artistic, it's not edgy, it's just bad writing.
For writers and directors who want to do this type of narrative where not everything is clear and explained, what I would recommend is making sure YOU know exactly what's going on. You have to understand the rules of your universe to keep them consistent. Why did the colour do anything it did? Was the colour alive? What WAS it? We can enjoy the movie without answering those questions because the pieces were consistent and coherent. In this case the water was the connecting thread. We don't know exactly why or how the colour did what it did, however, we know that it did it through the water, the threads are missing pieces but still connected.
Also, props to the lead actor here he was FANTASTIC. Absolutely carried the movie.
I finally found it! Thank you for uploading!
Woah! Excellent acting, fantastic cinematography, superb music 🎶 10 stars 🌟
I watched the one with Nicolas Cage on Acid & it was awesomely freaky & i almost turned it off because of the Krazy special effects. 🎄☃️🎄 Merry Christmas
Guess I gotta find me some acid now
Yes films on acid can get pretty weird, I remember 'Blood on Satans Claw' tripping very frightening at the begining but had my brother and I in hysterics by the end. A bottle of vodka can mellow things out a little take some of the rough edges off the acid.
I just found this,beyond impressed with the level of describing a deff
variation of the Astral .
Lovecraft was trained as a chemist, and knew a lot about physics and astronomy. As a science enthusiast, I found that the scariest aspect of this story was something that was not explored fully in the film.
The scientists who examined the meteorite were unable to determine what the meteorite was made out of. In the book, their spectroscopic analysis revealed that is was not comprised of any of the elements known to science. Its physical properties and behaviour were mysterious. It was not made of any kind of matter that we are familiar with.
Given that astronomical observations reveal that only around 5% of the mass/energy equivalent of the observable universe is comprised of ordinary matter, the rest being made up of dark matter (whatever that is), and dark energy (whatever that is) along with a few neutrinos and possibly other stuff that we don't know about, Lovecraft's fundamental premise is that there are forms of matter that exist (not normally found around here) that might be incompatible with, and highly disruptive to, the biochemistry of life forms (i.e. DNA) that are found here on earth.
The frightening part is that there is no sound scientific basis on which to refute Lovecraft's speculation. We just don't know. It is not often that you come across such profoundly disturbing notion in a science fiction novel.
He really was a brilliant story teller even if he was somewhat disturbed.
I have to disagree with you. We might not know what "dark matter" is, but we do know what it isn't. That is matter that interacts with the electromagnetic field. The Colour (in Die Farbe and The Color Out Of Space) does interact with the electromagnetic field. "Dark matter" isn't like some spooky magic stuff that is very dark. It's rather a problem in einsteinian relativity that we do not really have a solution to yet.
Also there definitely is matter not found on earth that is highly disruptive to life. This is not nearly as wacky as you might think it is. There is even such matter on earth. Bromine or quicksilver for example. Or pretty much all highly radiocative matter.
However, the color out of space most definitely violates a lot of very fundamental laws of modern physics.
Like the HPL Historical Society's (admittedly superior) The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), Die Farbe is a darkly atmospheric, (mostly) b&w adaptation of an epoch-making HPL tale. Thanks, Sci-Fi Central, for this dope UL.
God ok so I read the story yesterday and adored it so i watched the nic cage movie and I hated that and I feel so relieved to know that this is just substantially better
Wow what a different movie. IT'S WONDERFUL
SPOILERS BELOW:
I'm really confused about the flashback at 1:19:05, which seems to imply that Armin pushed Marwin down the well? It's a strange twist that's not in the short story and doesn't fit with any of the character's actions, unless I'm misreading what's even happening there?
This is beautifully shot.
well done...loved the use of spot color...hurrah
Very right lovecraftian rendering!
Great!
i've never read any HP Lovecraft story, but i interested. is it a good start by watching this?
yes
Genius decision to film it in b/w 👍🏻🥃
This is the only Lovecraft movie I can watch. I don't think the others are interesting. If you know of one that is good, let me know. I've read many of his stories.
So atmospheric! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
An interesting interpretation of what I regard as Lovecraft's best short story, The Colour Out of Space. The world war 2 angle was creative, moving the narrative to Germany instead of Arkham, Mass. I read the other comments. This was good, but not the best, there are plenty of other Lovecraftian films that are far better. Of course it was obvious that this was a low-budget production. The pacing was good, it held my interest throuhout. Some Lovecraftian stories lend themselves to dark humor, such as Re-animator 1 &2 The 1970s adaption of the Dunwhich Horror, is, in my opinion among the beast that I have seen. The Trilogy of Lovecraft stores, 1992's H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon, directed by three different directors is also worth a look.
@@sundog9360 I just told you, The Dunwhich Horror. 1970.
Old Howard would be proud of this one.
This was excellent.
Monochromatic filming with the "color" in color adds to they dark mystery of the story. Is it over? A question left lingering.
Something's off in 1:19:00. I get this is Old Armin's unfiltered flashback, but here, we see his younger self being offered help from Nahum. Why would he? Nahum's the one who needs help. In 39:20, that's what we see. Armin is offering Nahum help. In fact, in both scenes, they've changed seats. Have they changed bodies? Is Old Armin really Armin?
Sehr gut gemacht/ very well done!
This is a *masterpiece.* Incorporating elements of Michael Shea's excellent follow-up book "The Color Out of Time" was perfect. "The Colour Out of Space" was the first story I ever read of Lovecraft's, and it left me both absolutely terrified and eager to read more.
Would I have enjoyed this as much if I hadn't already read the story? I'll never know, but I don't think so. It wasn't possible to give all the nuances of the story in a film, like the scream of the horse, for example.
"Horror" has entirely changed its meaning by now - compare Shirley Jackson's book "The Haunting of Hill House," the original terrifying 1963 movie "The Haunting," and the absolutely dreadful 1999 gory remake with the book's whole name. Lovecraft's cosmic horror wasn't about gore, and I'm glad this film was faithfully adapted.
I do have one question. My hearing isn't the best anymore. What did the young man say before he got out of the car at the end? He gave a short, wry laugh and said, "At least ..." but even with the volume turned up high I couldn't understand the rest of the sentence. I hope someone can tell me.
He said "I least I found a Celtic gravestone for you, professor Danforth," referring to his conversation with the librarian at the start of the film.
@@Lazarus178 Thanks!
@@Lazarus178 I went back and listened again. Even knowing what was said, I could now only understand, "I least ... Danforth." And also found that I had never understood the professor's name in the opening anyway.
Outstanding!!!
Better than the Nicholas Cage version.
Reminded me of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukashima, agent orange, Round-Up, on and on and on. Lovecraft was an environmentalist even if he didn't know it yet. He certainly would have seen the connection of the story to modern life had he lived longer.
Well I have officially seen both versions of the Color out of space I have to say I like both of them if you want a more entertaining movie that gets to the point much quicker I'd go watch the Nick Cage version but if you want one that's more than that for the book and actually handles the concept of the color being hypnotic while also being mysterious to the people of this world since most of the film is in black and white as I said was a complaint for the newer one because in the newer one it didn't make much sense as to why the heck the color was so mysterious when it's a color they've seen on a regular basis where is here I can at least someone understand it because the color is the only part of the movie that is in color.
1987 The Curse is another good adaptation if you haven't seen it.
pretty good job!
would had been better if they didn't used any color for the color, maintaining it as grey, thay way they could had created the doubt about how the color looked...
Totally agree!
I liked the colour bit. It was the only colour in the whole film….l thought it worked well and all the brooding German”angst” suited the story well.
I do like how they handled it, but they could also have looked at some of the crazier things that were done in the black and white days, based on how the chemicals used in old film stock reacted to different colors they could do some strange "impossible" effects. "Sh! The Octopus" from 1937 is a famous example of using different color filters that appear very different on film, making a woman transform into a horrifying witch in a single shot. Something akin to that could've worked too - I know that for example red appears as black on some types of film - imagine the effect of a darkness that seems luminous etc.
Well made kept me interested
ALL that way to Massachusetts and still you got the lovely Rosenthal porcelain teacups ...
Jürgen must've taken it with him when he emigrated?
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kool , also a Ningen Isu song...thanx
Ein Meisterwerk!
Thanks all for this presentation. I now feel compelled to investigate Mr. Lovecraft. Any suggestions from anyone as to how to proceed in choosing a newcomers first reading? I hope so. Sincerely, Mr. Holliday
The Shadow of Innsmouth is a good one, I just finished it. There's a great twist too!
THIS is a good first story. Later you can learn abouthCthulu, fish people, and others. Good Reading to you! I found this in Omnibus of Science Fiction, 1953, Groff Conklin editor.
The novella the Mountains of Madness is a treat.
The most faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's story. The newer one with Cage is very good but they deviate from the story in a big way and it's kind of cringy.
Stanley's was actually more faithful. They both deviate, but this one does more-so going onto doing its own thing, approaches and tangents.
You obviously haven't read the story lol.
You're speaking to someone that's read all of Lovecraft's written stories, and I RP, as well. I'm not one of those bandwagoners. I'm familiar with R'lyeh and feline tendencies in Ulthar; perverse experiments on the brain ultimately delving into the cosmic void of timeless, great beings that are beyond our understanding and imagination. I also find that the word that best describes his work is "insignificant". The major difference and only improvement I noticed in this version over Stanley's in relation to the book was that of the focus on the labwork. None of that was seen unfortunately in Stanley's.
The scene starting around 59:17 is pretty effective I thought.
Does anyone know the artist of the soundtrack? 🙏🏼
Nice Audi... what year and model?
So this where the nic cage movie took the whole purple idea for its movie🤔
I'd say both took it from other Lovecraft stories. Throughout the dream cycle he mentions malicious magenta coloured clouds, that seem to be related to the colour in The Colour Out Of Space, even though the colour in that story is indescribable. But magenta is also a non-spectral colour, it doesn't "exist" as it's a combination of colours on the opposite end of the spectrum, so it's probably as good as it gets when trying to represent it on film.
Not bad, took a bit to get going, i know establishment, but in German, normally I have Zero problems with Foreign films or Independent films, love it, But I have a headache and normally i give things 15 min and if it hasn't got me, I'm out as I can tell how the rest is going to go, but at some point I checked and I was at the 25 min mark and said okay, giddy up Lets see tjis through, yeah I actually said that.
Good version, I recommend no headache.
I was hoping for a bit more gore, but, thats okay it did it jobs. Thumbs up, free liw commercials, Im happy, 👍 great job.
29:25 Someone knows what that means? What is Naegeles? I dont get it :s
It's unclear, but Arnim probably means a local family with the surname "Nägele". The name does literally derive from "nailers" and might have referred to skilled craftspeople in general, but I think the word is very archaic (even set in the late 1800s/early 1900s, Nagelschmied or Nagler would be better terms if Arnim literally meant a nailsmith). And although I cannot find any specific info on this, it would almost certainly have a different plural that what Arnim uses (personally I'd expect Arnim to say "von der Nägelen" (it's dative) instead). By contrast, surnames in German *are* regularly pluralized with -s, and that's exactly what Armin uses here.
In context, Nahum has obtained a large number of new collection bins in expectation of the overgrown harvest -- although at first Arnim misunderstands, thinking that these are replacements for broken bins. Nahum has probably just picked up the bins, and has stopped at Arnim's on the way home. (In the short story, the line that this scene is based on is: "The fruit was growing to phenomenal size and unwonted gloss, and in such abundance that extra barrels were ordered to handle the future crop.")
So Arnim is *probably* referring to the name of the family Nahum would've bought them from, and maybe the film was being a bit cheeky by giving that family a somewhat-apt name. ...Although, personally, I would've used "Kaufmann" (which is both a surname and the word for "merchant"), since it fits better AND 'Chapman's Brook' is a place in Colour out of Space -- the "Chapman" surname comes from "chapman" as an archaic English word for merchant, with chapman/Kaufmann being cognates.
I agree that it's an odd and confusing line, but hopefully that helps!
@@anaphysik wow, thats an explanation!, thank you for taking the time to explain me, yeah it helps a lot, now it makes more sense to me so im gonna take it as you said. Thank You.
Its such a good movie for such a cheesy premise.
Like the HPL Historical Society's (admittedly superior) The Whisperer In Darkness (2011), Die Farbe is a darkly atmospheric, (mostly) b&w and adaptation of an epoch-making HPL tale. Thanks, Sci-Fi Central.
Would you believe this movie started as an indigogo-funding project?
I kinda dislike that spherical floating liquid shape of the color . It more of shapeless spectrum of light in the novel than whatever that is.
So Cao: How best to put on film the idea for understanding the nature of the colour HP described in his short novel?
Despite all the good spfx and creepy ♬ music 🎼 🎼 the main creepy trigger is the use of German language, it gives it a special mood
Why the color of bacteria pink?
Gay :)
Why not the colour of pink for bacteria? It’s a fictional story so anything goes.
What better color in a black-and-white film than an otherworldly neon pink?
I don't think Lovecraft ever mentioned it as being pink. The genius of lovecraft is that you could almost imagine the colour he was describing, always hovering at at the tip of your consciousness but unable to pin it down.
If evil has a colour, then the colour was evil.
That was the one genius aspect I took from this film...in their world of black and white(from our perspective)the color pink, comparitively, is the outer-worldly, non-existent color to us; as described in the book.
Well that was weird.
"And I couldn't explain the lantern" Can someone tell me what he means?
I remember the book mention something about "twisted piece of metal" he found near the well, which was probably the lantern.
Can someone upload the subtitles please?
A meteor crater that large would be a major event, noticed far away
I maybe an imbecile but I'll never know unless I ask. Is an example of fictional non euclidean geometry the inside of the TARDIS on Dr. WHO? As in bigger on the inside, or the "infinite in a finite space" trope like a universe in a box or sphere or like in Harry Potter when they are inside the Weasley's tent or Hermione's bag? I read Lovecraft and alot of Sci-fi/fantasy stuff, especially SCP universe, that makes reference to it and I want to I'll make sure I'm grasping it in terms I imagine it as.
non euclidean geometry in 2 D would be a triangle whose internal angles add up to greater than 180 degrees or less than 180 degrees, where the 2 D surface is curved like a sphere or like a saddle . That's the best I can explain It . In Euclidean Geometry a triangle always has 3 internal angles that add up to 180 degrees , in other words , It's flat !
It had to be aliens lol
Is this like that other colour movie horror❤
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OK Daniel: I will see your 5 stars, and raise you 5 more to make 10 stars, and I'm all in. Will you call?
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1:10:49 finale.
amazing all the damage a little bit of alien space poop flushed out of the side of these FRVs (flying RVs) can do.. That's why they're told not to just dump it on the nearest planet they're passing by... ;-)
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Not sure why the director thought this stupid twist would be a good ending.
This was better than the new one. How can Nicolas Cage singlehandedly make a movie shieeeet
that was one creepy movie
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If anyone is reading these comments to see if this movie is any good, it isn't! I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and while it's fairly true to the source material, this movie just isn't well made. Bad acting, amateur cinematography, and terrible CGI. Watch the one with Nicolas Cage instead, it's far more entertaining and visually interesting.
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Ok weird
Yeah… no. So amateurish, and a poor adoption at that. C’mon!
Yeah I know right, absolutely snore fest
What a crap film, serious pacing problems and endless blank screens. So slow and dragged out. -56 out of 10. Awful
Yeah sure.. its 100% better than the one with Nic Cage. Im sure you havent read the book as this has so small inaccuracies that it can be missed. Like that the guy asking for dad was there for the dam closure or something and there was no mention of soldiers. I could guess the best war movie for you is Fury 😂 Dont put down films what are great adaptation as the new ones are just woke pathetic bs what has to include every race and gender to not get sued by buthurts who needs Cleopatra to be black just cuz My GrAnNy SaId ShE wAs BlAcK sO iT mUsT bE TrUe.