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Color Out of Space
Color Out of Space At this point, to say that Lovecraft is unsuitable is to fall into an even bigger topic than those who suffer from films that try unsuccessfully to approach their Crucible of the Vampire powerful and influential imagery. Inadaptable there is nothing. It is advisable, however, to have your own authorial vision that knows how to fill in the immense blank spaces left by the Providence teacher. A vision that does not detract from the originals.
Richard Stanley has it, and I suppose that more than one of the spectators who enjoyed it in Sitges will agree with me that nobody had them all in that regard. Almost nothing (some very, very modest documentary experiment) had been known to Stanley since the debacle of ‘Dr. Moreau’s Island’. The last important thing heard from him was, literally, The Rake that he had slipped in with a man-dog mask on the set of the movie from which he had been fired.
That and what he did as a Lovecraftian creature in ‘Dagon’, the wonderful but very modest adaptation of Lovecraft shot by Stuart Gordon in Galicia, Stanley a Man of Variety which made him the only Primordial creature with a cowboy hat. In my book, it is a milestone in your resume that enables you to fully adapt to the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. And still, ‘Color Out of Space’ amazes how it grabs the necronomicon by the horns.
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Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Director: Richard Stanley
Actors: Brendan Meyer, Elliot Knight, Joely Richardson, Julian Hilliard, Madeleine Arthur, Nicolas Cage, Tommy Chong
