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The Color Out of Space - Directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage
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No. No. No. I was just talking about this a few weeks ago. That I hoped they'd just leave Lovecraft alone because it's almost impossible to properly translate his stuff to film. I even used this story as an example. This trailer looks fucking awful. Re-Animator was the closest to "okay" you could hope to get.
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Damn! Makes me wish we got that Del Toro "At The Mountains Of Madness".
EDIT: I feel like this trailer missed the point. I'll see it so I can laugh at Cage.
EDIT: I feel like this trailer missed the point. I'll see it so I can laugh at Cage.
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"At the Mountains of Madness"?
Would that have had anything to do with "In the Mouth of Madness"?
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In the Mouth of Madness is inspired by Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness is about alien old ones living in the Antarctica and weird mutant penguins. It's been a while since I've read the story.
Del Toro was going to make a movie about it but Hollywood wanted him to add a love story to it to make it more marketable.
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I mean, I guess you could consider demons some kind of aliens.
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Cosmic horror films are notoriously difficult to create. Why? Because we have pattern recognition, and we've already discovered almost everything on the planet, so it's hard to be scared or freaked out by things. Until we can travel to another dimension and describe and catalog things there, cosmic horror will remain a difficult genre to execute.
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I think Fulci's The Beyond pulled this off pretty well by deliberately not explaining what's going on.
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This is what concerned me about the idea of a film adaptation of this particular story from Lovecraft. The story revolves around a color that is unimaginable to the human mind, and that works with a written story because you aren't visually seeing it. It's freaky because it's something that exists outside of our own perception. A movie meanwhile is a visual medium so there's no real way to show a color that exists outside human imagination, mostly because it'd be physically impossible.
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that silent Cuthooloo movie was a fun enough little gimmick
but yeah the further you get from Lovecraft's prose the goofier shit gets quick
but yeah the further you get from Lovecraft's prose the goofier shit gets quick
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Everybody should be black in this movie, that would be funny.
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I'm still waiting for my Rats in the Wall movie.
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The family in the story were uncultured hillbillies, weren't they? Certainly not liberal coastal elites larping as the salt of the earth.
The inherent problem with this as a film is right there in the title. The color out of space. A color that does not exist on earth. A color that could only be described in ornate prose tuned to ply the space behind your eyes.
Also, lmao at anyone but john carpenter doing lovecraft any justice.
The inherent problem with this as a film is right there in the title. The color out of space. A color that does not exist on earth. A color that could only be described in ornate prose tuned to ply the space behind your eyes.
Also, lmao at anyone but john carpenter doing lovecraft any justice.
It's definitely a nod to lovecraft's story. The aesthetics and themes are shared as well.
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Fulci and Stuart Gordon would say otherwise.
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Point taken, I stand corrected.
I had hopes for Del Toro, too, but I guess he doesn't have the institutional tenacity, or something.
ETA: I liked 'From Beyond', but not for the right reasons. Gordon did re-animator too, so he's def worthy of a shot. What's the probability of something like that happening, tho?
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Almost every modern adaptation of Lovecraft is shit, but it's so hard for me not to feel disappointed with each new tone-deaf adaptation. Most stuff either boils down to "racist man bad" or "dude tentacles lmao."
I just want someone to make good cosmic horror again.
I just want someone to make good cosmic horror again.
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The Germans took a stab at this story a few years ago:
They got around the problem of visualizing the "unknown color" by making the movie black and white, and the color, pinkish. Still, Color Out of Space works best as a story you sit back and imagine while you're reading or listening to. No amount of special effects are going to creep me out the way my imagination did when it pictured the house and trees coming alive at the end of the story.
Still, I'd watch this version for Nicholas Cage and the Over the Top spectacle it promises to deliver. That has to have some entertainment value, at least.
They got around the problem of visualizing the "unknown color" by making the movie black and white, and the color, pinkish. Still, Color Out of Space works best as a story you sit back and imagine while you're reading or listening to. No amount of special effects are going to creep me out the way my imagination did when it pictured the house and trees coming alive at the end of the story.
Still, I'd watch this version for Nicholas Cage and the Over the Top spectacle it promises to deliver. That has to have some entertainment value, at least.
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I think part of the challenge with making good cosmic horror is that the essential conceit of Lovecraft's paradigm - that feeling of human insignificance and smallness before the incomprehensible - is no longer applicable to us as a species. When that shit came on the scene it was revelatory art, nobody'd thought of these things yet.
Here we are in current year, where we've spent the better part of a century contemplating that stuff. We're post Stephen King now, we need a serious evolution of the whole thing if it's ever gonna hit its audience the way it used to.
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The Thing was a kinda nod to Lovecraft. That movie was boss.
Color Out of Space kinda looks bad. Cage is overacting. Hard pass. I MIGHT torrent it... Maybe not worth the bandwidth. Lets see what RLM says...
Cage is a joke. I never thought an actor could literally sell himself so much that his own value would plummet.
He is a bear market of one.
Color Out of Space kinda looks bad. Cage is overacting. Hard pass. I MIGHT torrent it... Maybe not worth the bandwidth. Lets see what RLM says...
Cage is a joke. I never thought an actor could literally sell himself so much that his own value would plummet.
He is a bear market of one.