Color Out of Space (2020)
A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world. (imdb)
Directed By: Richard Stanley
Written By: Richard Stanley, H.P. Lovecraft, Scarlett Amaris
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Brendan Meyer, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Julian Hillard
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Color Out of Space belongs to 11 collections
1. Body horror (public: moderated by mattburgess - 4 stars)
2. H.P. Lovecraft (public: moderated by iconogassed - 3 stars)
3. 63rd BFI London Film Festival (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
4. 30th Stockholm International Film Festival (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
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10. 2020: Year in Review (private: Mag832801)
11. Filmjahr 2020 (private: KenMeisters)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Sep 23 |  |
td888 | 50 43% |
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It's a mess but a Cage mess. But even Cage can't make this script any better.
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| Sep 23 | NNGkEI | 50 0% |
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| Sep 23 | JZ17 | 72 50% |
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| Sep 20 |  |
boriaj | 70 43% |
| Sep 19 |  |
wokelstein | 75 62% |
| Sep 18 |  |
JooJoo | 3 30% |
| Sep 17 |  |
BizarroIl | 78 53% |
| Sep 16 | pck00 | 85 50% |
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| Sep 14 |  |
jagardoden | 69 48% |
| Sep 13 |  |
Luk92 | 65 37% |
| Sep 13 |  |
scott.mcc | 60 36% |
| Sep 13 | Wyzt | 80 74% |
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| Sep 11 |  |
selingoknar | 56 12% |
| Sep 09 | tyranmollusk | 25 29% |
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| Sep 09 |  |
VltChimaera | 20 8% |
| Sep 09 | Dufftone | 80 66% |
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| Sep 09 | flat circle | 4 37% |
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| Sep 08 |  |
Uatu | 2 40% |
| Sep 07 |  |
wintersunset | 70 61% |
| Aug 31 |  |
Siltem | 60 52% |
| Aug 26 | knives | 80 76% |
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| Aug 25 |  |
Corbad | 55 21% |
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The cinematography is strong throughout, the expository concepts are sound, and the final act is certainly gruesome, but the overall execution fails to capitalize or keep up: direction and script inject silliness and cheese into nearly every moment, and that it’s (mostly) intentional doesn’t diminish its negative effect on the whole.
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| Aug 24 | anarchyintc | 80 58% |
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| Aug 23 | Ciaphass | 50 9% |
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| Aug 22 |  |
alpozdemir | 70 20% |
| Aug 20 | vesuvius | 68 66% |
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| Aug 18 | CountO | 40 16% |
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| Aug 14 |  |
slimepwuppy | 100 80% |
| Aug 14 | onura | 0 7% |
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| Aug 14 |  |
joel-w-m | 70 43% |
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Odd, and not just because its entire premise post-meteorite is "weird shit happens" (mediocre editing, performances, and dialogue make it feel off even when considering the bizarre plot-world-looking at you, Nic "Nathan" "Trump" Cage) but it works in the compelling grand stew of things-a mix of grotesque horror, investigative sci-fi, and contemplative mood-movie capped off nicely by a grounded epilogue. Couldn't help but wish the VFX was as good as that of genre counterpart Annihilation though.
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| Aug 09 |  |
mikelykzit | 60 26% |
| Aug 07 |  |
kNwsVXgzm | 5 28% |
| Aug 03 |  |
KenMeisters | 84 92% |
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Starts off slow, but becomes weirder and weirder as it goes on. With a good Nic Cage performance and some great effects the movie is a surreal trip into an unknown force of cosmic madness. Also, great alpaca content.
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| Aug 03 | slaterman2 | 80 62% |
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| Aug 03 | wimcalp | 55 24% |
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| Aug 02 |  |
ptkw | 30 11% |
| Aug 02 | JLCME20 | 80 64% |
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| Aug 01 |  |
IeuanDP | 65 49% |
| Jul 31 |  |
jsopanen | 42 9% |
| Jul 30 | NevinLiu | 50 6% |
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| Jul 29 |  |
nothings | 69 61% |
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sort of a shallower Annihilation, sort of a shy cronengerg, sort of "nic cage doing a trump impression." when nic started going crazy i caught a glimpse of what i wanted Mandy to be, but really that movie was him being absolutely manic for one scene, and this was him being a 6/10 the whole time. theres one jumpscare here that got me WAY more than id like to admit.
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| Jul 28 | Kallikantza | 25 12% |
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| Jul 28 |  |
Revjhou | 60 11% |
| Jul 27 |  |
Enverovic | 52 26% |
| Jul 26 |  |
eCitizen | 30 20% |
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It seemed to have a lot of potential early on, but from about halfway it got tedious, annoying, and hopeless. Inadequate story and poor dialog. Some dead-end plot directions. Senseless special effects. Nutty story points. Terrible directing. From the 3rd-Act it became a hopeless mess, stuffed with ridiculous plot points, unrewarding SFX, and bombastic music. It might possibly be worthwhile if you're desperate for some weird Sci-Fi horror. Otherwise, not so much.
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| Jul 26 | daxxdog | 73 25% |
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| Jul 21 |  |
SPM_Liam | 50 7% |
| Jul 21 | myfavchords | 73 35% |
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This is a weird science fiction movie. The cast does a good job here, Nicolas Cage has the right amount of over the top moments. Overall I would recommend this film.
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| Jul 18 | critickerMCM | 71 32% |
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| Jul 17 | martin! | 74 65% |
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| Jul 15 |  |
YigitAta | 3 38% |
| Jul 12 | jimmyjazz | 75 66% |
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| Jul 12 | Trombone | 30 26% |
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| Jul 09 | RoyalB | 80 75% |
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| Jul 09 | Slowjoe | 63 46% |
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| Jul 07 | estragon | 50 37% |
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| Jul 05 |  |
Haydar | 50 30% |
| Jul 04 | kupfertj | 58 34% |
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| Jul 02 |  |
chiefg | 35 14% |
| Jul 02 | davesv | 76 48% |
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| Jun 30 |  |
Trash Puppet | 8 69% |
| Jun 29 | msworddoc | 85 81% |
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| Jun 28 |  |
Thomassejer | 55 25% |
| Jun 23 |  |
ZombieBuffet | 55 34% |
| Jun 19 |  |
begoniabol | 70 60% |
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I'll be honest, I didn't have much hope for it to become something worthwhile because of the tedious and slow start of the movie with some very mediocre acting. After the first hour though it starts getting more interesting and ends with an energetic and heavy finale. That really blew me away and thought it was great. Cage is Cage.
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| Jun 17 |  |
ZachReviews | 93 80% |
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What a fantastically terrifying acid-trip of a film.
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| Jun 15 |  |
jmsenise | 72 48% |
| Jun 13 | D Lightman | 40 5% |
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| Jun 11 |  |
Cowman | 65 41% |
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Character interactions and decisions were often too annoying for me to appreciate the whole thing. Cage seems like a hired gun, just trying to check all the expected boxes and get paid. I like the good old non-digital body horror effects, I hope it has finally made it's way back into modern filmmaking.
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| Jun 10 |  |
omeraksy | 55 24% |
| Jun 09 |  |
Reinalce | 60 27% |
| Jun 09 |  |
psim | 78 63% |
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I have never read Lovecraft, so I cannot judge this as an adaptation, but I thought the movie effectively depicts a family dealing with a madness-inducing cosmic event. The crazy finale will stay on my mind for a while. Almost as a bonus, this is also a very good Crazy Cage movie! Alpacas!
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| Jun 08 | dtu_test | 50 0% |
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| Jun 07 |  |
marco_n65 | 73 35% |
| Jun 06 |  |
Veterini | 63 23% |
| Jun 05 |  |
lebnof | 65 74% |
| Jun 04 | ericambler | 75 60% |
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| Jun 04 |  |
Darkling | 50 19% |
| Jun 03 |  |
RonnyDibble | 80 78% |
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Absolutely crazy movie. Creative visual design and progressive story. Nick Cage rocks.
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| May 30 |  |
WWallce4prez | 75 58% |
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I am no Lovecraft expert, but Richard Stanley's take on the one-of-kind writer seems to nail the tone better than the countless attempts that we've seen in horror. The setting starts in a sort of fantasy-land and only gets weirder. This actually works well for a pretty unhinged Cage performance as he doesn't stick out as the oddest thing in the film. The colors are fantastic and the some of horror visuals are really cool.
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| May 30 |  |
Luna6ix | 58 13% |
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Following the same trend of relative obscurity that Lovecraft endured in his own lifetime, his work (inventive and astonishing though it may be) struggles to be adapted into anything other than b-list schlock hardly even worth paying attention to. And what's even more difficult for me to admit is that this adaptation has heart and faithfulness to the story, but it's got to be the worst story Lovecraft ever penned. I remember even rolling my eyes at the concept twenty years ago when I read it.
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| May 29 |  |
El99can | 62 24% |
| May 28 |  |
kevinjoseph | 62 39% |
| May 27 | DePalma | 41 30% |
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| May 25 | dogafton | 40 0% |
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| May 25 | pachodomi | 30 2% |
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| May 24 |  |
Byder | 73 73% |
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At times this move felt like a cheap amalgamation of modern B-Horror-Movies but I found it to be very enjoyable.
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| May 24 | blucthulhu | 80 79% |
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| May 23 | spacemanmoth | 7 38% |
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| May 23 |  |
ladymcdeath | 67 51% |
| May 23 |  |
sergebarber | 0 16% |
| May 18 |  |
djross | 50 41% |
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The characters are a bit oddly drawn, but this is really just an "experience" film, conjuring a sense of the uncanny before shifting to an attempt to convey sublime cosmic mysteries. This does jar a little with the comic or ironic elements, although it is hard not to smile at Cage's decision to go back to the Peter Loew well (but lacking that character's hilarious dialogue). Big THING influence: the house is like the Antarctic base, and the final visit to Ezra is like the trip out to see Blair.
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| May 18 | a81 | 75 48% |
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| May 18 |  |
jgreenwood | 60 44% |
| May 13 |  |
felipelahm | 80 84% |
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Well, I didn't know I needed so much a colorful and mostly ORGANIC horror movie to keep things positive during this quarantine. Pure bliss in its over-the-top, on-the-nose, fuck-we-are-going-this-way approach to Lovecraft's talent of building stories of both dread and delight, body and mind. Cage has the time of his life here, milking alpacas a trying to keep the family together as a Trumpian father. The color merges us with them. All that there is and was and will be. Just drink the damn water
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| May 13 | Setionis | 85 88% |
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| May 11 |  |
jobsbronson | 18 74% |
| May 07 |  |
Barthalen | 64 43% |
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Give me some trippy visuals and creepy soundscapes and normally I'm a happy camper, but this definitely needed... well, more restraint and less frustrating character interactions. When people can't communicate and start making odd decisions because the plot needs them to, it just gets kinda annoying. I was losing interest until some pretty nasty body horror happens for a bit, but then it limps to its standard conclusions. Color me surprised, ha ha haoh god I'm so sorry
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| May 06 |  |
Yiannos | 63 51% |
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Excessively praised by the cult of Stanley. While it's more cohesive than his other films, it works best in fits and starts, unable to sustain the impact of its best moments. Cage gives another 'crazy', if overly self conscious, performance, and Stanley builds the tension admirably from frame one before unleashing bloody mayhem. It is definitely too derivative of better films (e.g. The Thing, Body Snatchers etc), but it does a fairly decent job of capturing the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.
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| May 04 |  |
gozdeyuksel | 60 37% |
| May 04 |  |
Vokalbum | 60 38% |
| May 04 | Hannes | 30 5% |
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| May 03 |  |
ManyPany | 64 47% |
| May 01 |  |
Mikadzuki | 69 61% |
| May 01 |  |
dzejson | 62 41% |
| Apr 30 |  |
NhanLa | 40 10% |
| Apr 30 |  |
punpun | 21 6% |
| Apr 29 | account2 | 56 54% |
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| Apr 28 |  |
Moribunny | 30 14% |
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Derivative beyond expression, it's a lazy, paling hodgepodge of Body Snatchers, Poltergeist, Mandy, and a bunch of other retro-horror randomness. The plot is totally phoned-in and the characters are total nothings. Nicolas Cage acts like a cheap imitation of himself, perhaps especially at the point of his mandatory freakout scene.
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| Apr 28 | petters | 64 10% |
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| Apr 25 |  |
frknerkn | 90 92% |
| Apr 25 | opensecret | 70 64% |
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| Apr 24 | Kylos609 | 85 76% |
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| Apr 20 |  |
seanfury | 7 17% |
| Apr 19 |  |
SickForay | 78 73% |
| Apr 19 |  |
dlthompson | 60 24% |
| Apr 18 | TobyTyler | 33 3% |
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| Apr 18 | sergerde | 65 28% |
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| Apr 17 |  |
buddhalou | 70 49% |
| Apr 17 |  |
korbenPL | 34 29% |
| Apr 15 | The Hell | 82 45% |
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| Apr 11 |  |
Oliveira | 56 26% |
| Apr 11 |  |
umurtas | 5 45% |
| Apr 11 |  |
r.Din | 70 57% |
| Apr 10 | koru2020 | 50 0% |
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| Apr 10 | outraethonth | 100 87% |
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| Apr 08 | geach | 50 8% |
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| Apr 07 | ticklemonstr | 50 45% |
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| Apr 07 |  |
walkabout | 60 38% |
| Apr 07 |  |
Budhisattva | 74 43% |
| Apr 02 |  |
melancholiaa | 65 30% |
| Apr 01 |  |
inmate | 66 20% |
| Mar 31 |  |
ibodirector | 60 39% |
| Mar 30 |  |
julesfmb | 57 26% |
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It's just clueless.
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| Mar 30 |  |
Diamorphoses | 70 52% |
| Mar 29 | Bryle | 40 2% |
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| Mar 29 |  |
iqcumber | 70 51% |
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Fun "bad trip" movie
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| Mar 28 |  |
poltergeist | 55 37% |
| Mar 28 |  |
IamTyphoon | 70 21% |
| Mar 28 |  |
Gabriel Vaz | 75 33% |
| Mar 27 |  |
ralexwr | 60 55% |
| Mar 27 | Croctopus | 62 56% |
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| Mar 27 |  |
TheShiznit | 45 48% |
| Mar 27 | Smatthew | 9 92% |
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| Mar 27 |  |
FCritikerAdm | 1 4% |
| Mar 27 |  |
Quintonjamin | 40 26% |
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This movie really wasn't good, but sometimes the visuals were good and Nic Cage was awesome. He milks an alpaca and throws tomatoes into a trashcan in way that reminded me of the misfiling scene in Vampire's Kiss.
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| Mar 24 | Cmone Weil | 4 18% |
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| Mar 24 |  |
nobamba | 30 14% |
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It had some promise but just got bland toward the end. Pretty colors. Needed more tension throughout. Madeleine Arthur, Tommy Chong, and Nicolas Cage were good (in that order). The mayor was pointless. The family didn't react the way you would expect (no, handwaving it as "they're affected" is inadequate). Creepy alpacas and mutations toward the end but it's nothing new or unexpected. Fuck the alpacas of the future. Fav scene: Cage freaking out about tomatoes and dunking them into the trash can.
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| Mar 24 |  |
ÖzcanEfe | 70 55% |
| Mar 24 | josefknecht | 60 66% |
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| Mar 22 | ignamiranda | 65 11% |
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| Mar 21 | Shewrats | 88 60% |
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| Mar 21 | CiEmPank | 66 42% |
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Mpython | 6 41% |
| Mar 20 | matthagen | 58 70% |
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| Mar 18 | henrybr | 68 15% |
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IDYmilkshake | 80 82% |
| Mar 16 | MuH4hA | 15 23% |
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| Mar 16 | oddis87 | 81 67% |
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| Mar 16 |  |
Stradivarius | 78 58% |
| Mar 15 | jimmyp | 85 88% |
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| Mar 15 | cloondog | 66 71% |
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| Mar 15 |  |
M_A | 68 52% |
| Mar 15 |  |
gracesake | 50 9% |
| Mar 14 | Jlschnei | 65 34% |
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| Mar 13 |  |
gunay | 89 33% |
| Mar 13 |  |
seroş | 94 46% |
| Mar 13 | felixgartner | 65 27% |
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| Mar 10 | speedking | 55 8% |
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| Mar 10 |  |
Groovy_Souls | 70 56% |
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Probably the most well-made Lovecraft adaption I've seen. It's not great, granted, but at least it provides some interesting visuals and a quotable Nick Cage performance.
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| Mar 09 |  |
tom20 | 80 62% |
| Mar 09 | strangelime | 70 27% |
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| Mar 08 |  |
cetincelik | 70 59% |
| Mar 08 |  |
Ariaz | 59 27% |
| Mar 08 |  |
antidood1 | 50 16% |
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I do like myself some weird B-movies. But they too need to have substance, or an idea, or some level of creativity. Color Out of Space doesn't really seem to have any ideas of its own, instead being content borrowing from many other, mostly better, movies.
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| Mar 08 |  |
Iconoclast | 65 36% |
| Mar 07 |  |
jemenfous | 65 30% |
| Mar 07 |  |
WuGambino | 80 74% |
| Mar 07 | Toke Za | 40 17% |
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| Mar 06 |  |
moonsmilk | 8 59% |
| Mar 05 | Gabriel_p | 65 28% |
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| Mar 04 |  |
ABUNCHOFCATS | 70 32% |
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Never quite gets there but it's fun.
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| Mar 04 |  |
Ringshifter | 54 17% |
| Mar 03 |  |
Alan_Laidlaw | 72 45% |
| Mar 03 | Krafty | 95 92% |
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| Mar 03 |  |
ADragon91 | 65 54% |
| Mar 01 |  |
vwgregov | 65 41% |
| Mar 01 |  |
DarrenCB | 70 42% |
| Feb 29 |  |
Marcos92 | 80 46% |
| Feb 29 |  |
beast | 4 21% |
| Feb 29 |  |
amerigo | 86 89% |
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Gorgeously shot, the convincing modernization of the setting works well with clever references to H.P.'s extensive literary corpus weaved throughout. It does well illustrating the most dominant themes of degeneracy of the mind & body, weird recluses, & tight-knit family units locking away their terrible secrets in decrepit locales. Casting the H.P. Lovecraft surrogate as a black man is perhaps the best touch, addressing the recent faux-controversies with deftly devised final shots.
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| Feb 29 |  |
HobbesZ | 95 94% |
| Feb 29 | dominuk | 2 16% |
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| Feb 29 | deezed | 90 74% |
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| Feb 29 |  |
TheRojBlake | 90 78% |
| Feb 28 |  |
muratkrks | 70 59% |
| Feb 28 | dracular | 20 6% |
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| Feb 28 |  |
Grouchy | 78 45% |
| Feb 27 |  |
paah | 60 33% |
| Feb 27 |  |
lupister | 32 31% |
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A bunch of cliche scenes and themes in a movie without any tension - of of those anything can happen at any time so there's nothing really to do about it.
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| Feb 26 |  |
BadCosmonaut | 5 62% |
| Feb 26 | Golfingdanls | 6 45% |
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| Feb 26 | am4 | 45 15% |
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| Feb 25 | bmmello | 78 52% |
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| Feb 25 |  |
maxmode | 60 43% |
| Feb 25 |  |
!Marx | 6 34% |
| Feb 24 |  |
elmakebabi | 65 47% |
| Feb 24 | spyce | 72 58% |
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| Feb 23 |  |
md5fungi | 67 14% |
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While this Lovecraftian adaptation is filled to the brim with evocative and memorable imagery, there's not much of a story here to chew on.
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| Feb 23 | sspiegel | 60 16% |
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| Feb 23 |  |
amazedemon | 45 2% |
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Barring some pretty visuals, Color Out of Space held very little of appeal to me. I was never invested in any of the characters, finding Richardson both bland and annoying. Some of the horror aspects were adequately creepy. At times pretentious, but rarely enjoyable.
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| Feb 22 |  |
ctavares | 75 77% |
| Feb 22 |  |
bybrt | 55 34% |
| Feb 22 |  |
outTake | 1 0% |
| Feb 21 | Burak Yaşar | 53 6% |
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| Feb 21 | KingBread | 70 56% |
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| Feb 21 |  |
Cipher067 | 55 34% |
| Feb 21 |  |
acrolyne | 30 5% |
| Feb 20 |  |
rosenritter | 6 50% |
| Feb 20 |  |
kubrickvari | 40 11% |
| Feb 19 |  |
DSouza_Vasco | 80 81% |
| Feb 18 |  |
Eignarom | 85 88% |
| Feb 18 |  |
devrimozkan | 61 49% |
| Feb 18 |  |
panzerwolf | 55 27% |
| Feb 17 | Parasite | 30 20% |
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| Feb 17 | tomi | 70 19% |
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| Feb 17 | matask | 60 10% |
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| Feb 16 |  |
Judo Koala | 76 63% |
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Richard Stanley externalizes the psychological torment of Lovecraft's cosmic horror into very literal forms of body horror and viscera that makes for a far less frightening but more 'fun' treatment of his work. Visually absorbing in its rainbow psychedelia that's met in weight by Colin Stetson's wall of sound, and full of Nicolas Cage Freakouts™ that the whole family will enjoy!
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| Feb 16 |  |
DavidBlast | 35 20% |
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There is a reading of this text, in which a local family is visited by the alien from 'Annihilation', but a more obvious interpretation is this: Father of two accidentally serves magic mushrooms in dinner dish, and the whole family trips out together. Nic Cage is the one hardest hit, killing alpacas while mixing the accent of Donald Trump with the one used in the SNL sketch 'The Californians'.
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| Feb 16 | Jorg | 60 27% |
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| Feb 16 |  |
pupahava | 72 55% |
| Feb 16 |  |
Vicenzo | 5 28% |
| Feb 16 |  |
voneverec | 45 9% |
| Feb 16 |  |
Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter) | 60 62% |
| Feb 15 |  |
VanillaSky | 70 73% |
| Feb 15 |  |
Nathan | 61 31% |
| Feb 15 |  |
feritdgn | 78 66% |
| Feb 14 | elimpe | 64 30% |
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| Feb 13 | zevel6 | 52 37% |
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| Feb 13 |  |
b4con | 80 52% |
| Feb 12 |  |
Kaan Kavusan | 35 8% |
| Feb 12 |  |
loosecanons | 7 59% |
| Feb 11 | areoharewhy | 6 53% |
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| Feb 11 |  |
jndcnr | 40 9% |
| Feb 11 |  |
hotsake | 57 43% |
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The movie itself was okay but watching this in a packed theater was pretty awesome. Nicolas Cage does his Nicolas Cage thing which is entertaining but doesn't make a good movie and the rest of the cast was pretty Meh. The film itself is fairly meandering and reveals in its style over substance source material. I've never been the biggest Lovecraft fan mostly because I love his ideas but all the stories I read didn't really go anywhere and ultimately left me feeling unsatisfied as did this movie.
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| Feb 11 |  |
HKi | 55 14% |
| Feb 11 |  |
breetz | 63 36% |
| Feb 10 |  |
Oktay | 60 25% |
| Feb 09 |  |
EvilMangoes | 55 25% |
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C+
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| Feb 09 |  |
Kraven1138 | 70 53% |
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