 Alright, so I'm doing another one of these. It's been a couple of months now and you can see I got my Quarantine hair going on. I was out in the wind. So it's all swept up and everything But you know what? We're here to talk about the color out of space. So the color out of space is You know, it was an HP Lovecraft short story that came out in 1927 I think and I said back in October when I did my HP Lovecraft video I mentioned that there was a movie coming out soon and that I was expecting it to be good for all the wrong reasons and I Missed a spot-shaving whatever. I was expecting it to be good for all the wrong reasons because you know It had Nicholas Cage in it and it was made by a director who had been out of the game for a while And so I was thinking yeah, this looks like a train wreck and it'll be hilarious But the movie had a limited release so I didn't see it until the other day and I'm happy to say I was totally wrong Okay, that movie. It's a genuinely great horror movie. Okay, and while there are some parts that are funny That's not at all what makes it so great like it takes advantage of being a film And so it's actually able to give different types of horror and it keeps Lovecraft's eldritch horror in a Well, it keeps it intact I guess is the best way say because what a lot of these movies do is they make the mistake of you know showing the monster or Explaining too much about the gods or whatever and so it just doesn't work that well because in Lovecraft's mythos the fear comes from realizing how tiny we are in the grand scheme of the universe and Granted Lovecraft is a little one note when it comes to that sort of thing. So the color of space is Well, the original story is kind of confusing to explain even though it's not that complex really Basically a meteor comes and crashes to the earth and it has this weird Color coming out of it, and we don't know what this is Is it a substance or a living creature and we never really find out what it is at all? but It's just it's there and then it starts mutating all the plant and animal life around the this farm where it crashes and then it starts killing it and then the people that live there start going insane and they start wasting away and Eventually they all die and oh by the way, um from this point on there will be spoilers for the book and the film so just be aware of that because it's very difficult to talk about this without going into that but Basically, yeah the film the only place I can find it is on YouTube But it's still really really solid horror movies So if you're a fan of stuff like the thing then I think you'll like this one The book story is pretty simple, but the way it's told is kind of weird and Lovecraft did that sometimes like Basically, there's an unnamed narrator and it's told from first-person TOV and he is like a surveyor who's going out into the wilderness to Try and help people build a water reservoir and while he's out there the locals are saying oh don't Go to this part of the woods some crazy shit happened there Like 40 years ago and then so eventually he goes out and finds this old man who people think is crazy and the old man tells him the story of what happens 40 some odd years ago and I Mean some people might like that because they feel it adds to the mystery or it adds to the horror or something Personally, I feel it detracts from the horror because one it obfuscates things and two It leaves you with this feeling like okay, this guy might actually just be crazy and making stuff up or He might be exaggerating or something like that so For me personally that takes away from the horror whereas the movie is just told in a pretty traditional way like it's Showing these people while stuff is happening and you're watching it great Probably the biggest single improvement that the movie makes over the story is that it gives the characters actual Personality now in the book Well, like like we're saying like I said, we're getting all the information third hand. So it's just there's this farmer named Gardner and his family and His wife was named this is someone's named this and they none of them get any personality or anything whereas in the film they actually do have personality and it has I mean it has Nicholas fucking cage in it and Nicholas cage basically gives three different types of performances There's the sleepwalking performance where he's clearly just in it for a paycheck and doesn't care like this would be him in the 2014 left behind movie or in ghost rider and Then number two is hey, I can actually act when I feel like it Nicholas cage This would be in him in leaving Las Vegas or the National Treasure movies and then number three my personal favorite is The over-the-top crazy freak out Nicholas Cage You know what I'm talking about Now the over-the-top freak out Nicholas Cage is Hilarious, okay, and I was expecting that to be in this movie or at least I was hoping for that to be in this movie And there are one or two moments like that But overall it's um He he is giving a good performance, you know, this is his I can actually act when I feel like it type performance and Well, yeah, there's not a whole lot else to say there He like he's an actual good actor giving a good performance and all the other characters as well they have some personality like his daughter has a personality and Realizes hey, this color is acting kind of weird some stuff's going on Let's figure this out and his other son or not his younger son because he's just a kid But his older son and his wife also have some personality and then So as this color is kind of driving them crazy We start to see that and we don't just hear third hand like oh, yeah they they went crazy it was weird like we're actually seeing the results of this and Through that one like obviously caring about characters makes everything scarier But two they actually combine the Eldritch horror with some other stuff like they put in some really good body horror and some good Psychological horror because we're seeing all this happen and also once you actually see some of the mutations that the color creates it's Yeah, it's it's genuinely pretty disturbing like I said if you liked the thing you'll you'll probably like this one I mean hell even Tommy Chong is in this movie And so that was part of why I assumed like oh, yeah That's just gonna be hilarious and terrible and I was thinking it might be funny on purpose But I wasn't thinking it was going to be a good HP lovecraft horror story, but no Tommy Chong He doesn't have a huge role in this movie, but in his role He's kind of funny at first, but then at the end even he gets some good really creepy moments We're like Jesus Christ. That is I wow that's that's kind of fucked up. Okay there are of course a Few issues with this movie nothing nothing really major in my opinion, but you know there there are some things and Well the first one being that some people might feel that Nicholas Cage's freakouts and the Humorous bits throughout would take away from the horror personally I didn't feel that way, but you know it it it happens and um the other one being that Just because it's film and because it's a visual medium we um we do lose out on some of the incomprehensible nature of the color and of lovecrafts creatures that he makes because Like I even said in my lovecraft video that like as soon as you show the monster You're losing most of what makes it scary because what makes it scary is that it's incomprehensible to humans and the color in the color out of space was supposed to be like something that No human had ever seen and they couldn't describe it because it was like no other color and Well in the movie you just can't do that like you can't make a new color that's never Existed before like you can try combining them, but that's about it. And so the color is just this sort of Magenta throughout and I know that like technically magenta doesn't exist. It's just our eyes perceive colors that way weirdly but Still the point is like when we see it. It's just like, oh, yeah, it's this pinkish purple And so it doesn't really feel that scary But at the same time in the book we we never really got any sort of Idea of what the color was like was it some sort of substance some sort of chemical was it like a Creature did it have any sort of sentience or was it just an animal lashing out like you know Was it like we get the feeling it's feeding on these people and on the animals and all that but we don't We don't really know if it's doing that maliciously or not. Whereas in the film We get a pretty good idea that yet is a malicious entity, but but that said it's still Way out there and really weird and crazy and creepy and we still don't have any real understanding of it And that comes through really hardcore in this one scene at the end of the movie where we get a brief Well, maybe not brief, but we get a sort of glimpse of what's the planet that the color came from is like and it's just Even though it's visual. We just you can't make any sense of what this is like We know it's some place with all these creatures and things, but we have no idea what it is or what's going on and that's what Lovecraft is supposed to do and I just I think this movie being an independent film probably helped with that or wait was it independent I'm actually I'm actually not so totally sure about that, but I it wasn't some big budget Hollywood thing which um That that's what I think that's what saved it in the end is because if it had been a big budget Hollywood thing they probably would have just turned it into a standard monster movie and then it would have lost its identity and I mean, maybe we would have gotten some good Nicholas Cage freakouts, but that's about it And there is one death in the movie Nicholas Cage's older son Benny like when he dies that was God that that was the one point in the movie where I was like dude You're you're a dipshit like you put yourself in that position and you have no one to blame but yourself whereas Threat throughout the rest of the movie I was thinking like well these uh these characters are doing everything right But they're just they're just fucked because this alien entity is there Whereas you know if and if you are fans of horror movies and even if you're not you've probably seen a couple where you're Just like oh Go out into the woods unarmed and alone while you're taking a piss that's that sounds safe And then they die and you're just like yeah, I'm not even scared you're an idiot like this movie avoids that for the most part and then Benny happens and weirdly enough the movie has kind of a happier ending than the book does because so basically in the story it was like this whole family died and when the people went to investigate um I Think only one of them was left alive and there's like you know we're gonna put her out of her misery So he kills her with an axe and then the color like escapes the earth, but You can see the guy saw that there was a little piece of it that Broke off and stayed in the well, so it's still there and He knows that yeah that this thing still here can still be killing people so don't go over there And so the narrator who again is never named Decides you know what they're gonna build the reservoir there But I'm never drinking the water from it because it's probably tainted and so you know oh shit people are people are gonna start dying Whereas in the movie the narrator is actually made a character in the story his name is Ward and He's also a decent character by the way And he's the only one that survives at the end and it's not made totally clear what happened with the color like having read it obviously I knew like it left the earth and went off into space again, but If you hadn't read it, then it might have been a kind of confusing but it's also Never Totally made clear that a piece of it stayed behind like you see a little mutated bug that's still there But it's not made explicit that yeah, we're still in trouble. So weirdly enough the movie has a Bit of a happier ending than the book did it's it's um, I don't know. It's just kind of weird but at the same time they give The narration at the end Ward narrates at the beginning in the end and he uses actual lines from the story Which I think is really good. It adds to the creep factor and everything, but It doesn't feel totally justified in that case because you know in the In the book what I'll just call the narrator Ward It's whatever like in the book Ward knew for a fact. Yep, there's still a piece there the waters tainted So I'm not gonna drink it whereas in the film. It's just like he comes across as Maybe not paranoid, but definitely Traumatized and everything but at the same time like he was actually there this time. So he knows for a fact Yeah, this is all real. It's not the crazy ramblings of an old man Some other small things I liked about this um were like I said, I really liked the body horror I know I haven't focused on that a whole lot, but some of the shit that goes on in this movie I don't even want to spoil because like Around halfway through that's when shit hits the fan and everything gets real and from then on it's just crazy stuff after crazy stuff But there's a scene where a bunch of alpacas almost said llamas sorry a bunch of alpacas get infected by the color and merged into this one hideous monstrosity which is like the thing and Nicholas Cage has to kill it and we don't get a clear look at it, but I that kind of makes it creepier I think but we do get some nice gore when it gets killed and everything and There's a couple other good gore moments, but this movie doesn't rely on those You know, it's not like a slasher flick where like oh, there's a killer out there And the only reason to watch it is because boobs and because you want teenagers to get their heads cut off But there are some good gore scenes in there I really hate to keep harping on this but Nicholas Cage is funny at a couple of points, but for the most part Really solid performance the CGI in this is not very good, but it is sparingly used So if you see like in the first 20 or 30 minutes if you see those little bad bits of CG Just know they don't use it too much after that like they get into the practical effects And it's it's a lot better and you know they use shadows and everything to hide it So it's it's just a lot better and like I said most of the time the characters act rationally and they act smart and They just get killed anyways because the villain is that much more powerful like that and that's I Don't want to say more than anything that Makes this a good Lovecraft adaptation but that definitely helps make this a good Lovecraft adaptation because like had the Creature not been all that I feel weird calling the color a creature, but whatever had the eldritch abomination not really been all that Powerful and it only killed people because they were stupid then the eldritch abomination wouldn't have seemed that scary Whereas in this the people acted smart, but the eldritch abomination is just That much more powerful and that much smarter than they are so um yeah overall I'm kind of rambling now, but overall really really solid Lovecraft adaptation, which I didn't think whatever Get done. I will fully admit. I was wrong there and apparently this director also wants to make the Dunwitch horror next Which I haven't read that one, but hey if he was able to do this one then knock yourself out man I want to see him do either them at the mountains of madness or um shadow over in his mouth next but you know after Dunwitch horror and um Yeah, just really solid horror movie. So if you Want a good watch in the quarantine and you got a couple dollars to spend then go rent it or buy it on YouTube Thanks for watching me ramble on about a horror movie that I liked and thanks for my patrons for paying for it Thanks, especially to Appo Sabalainen brother Santotis Charles Gull Christopher Hawkins Christopher Quinton Joel Joseph Pendergraft Taylor Briggs tobacco crow and Viveictus or Viveictus. I'm actually not sure how to say that but you know all these names here you guys are You guys are pretty great. 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