Unfilmable 12: The Color Out of Space
Added 2020-02-26 16:00:03 +0000 UTCRichard Stanley's 2019 adaptation of The Colour Out of Space is a fantastic movie, and a great adaptation. It moves the story to modern times, while putting the Gardner family in the foreground so we can fully absorb the tragedy of what the Colour does to them. It accomplishes this through spot on acting, great practical effects, and a truly psychedelic back half. Watch this film!
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You mentioned Nic Cage's more recent work early in this episode. Have y'all watched Pig yet? Not a horror movie obviously, but it has been one of my favorites in the last decade.
Gregory Martinez
2024-04-08 21:23:49 +0000 UTCGuys… if you haven’t seen Mom & Dad you HAVE to do it for this show, if I’m correct it assuming it’s moved from Lovecraft to general horror ahaha it’s a masterpiece and is so wild and fun and like disturbing in some really unexpected and off kilter ways.
Mateus Silva
2023-04-24 02:52:26 +0000 UTCFinally watched this as a rental. It's been a very long time since I've seen a horror movie where the threat has felt like it was completely unbound in terms of what may or may not happen. Truly disabling and alien in nature. The last time I had that sense was in John Carpenter's The Thing, and the ancillary effects of the curse from The Ring.
Darrin Michelson
2020-05-29 18:57:34 +0000 UTCDie Farbe is on Amazon Prime. I have been working through some low budget Lovecraft adaptations on there lately. I enjoyed it just fine, but I think it would be painfully dull after seeing 2019 version. I did really like that Cthulhu film from 2007.
Bob Witz
2020-03-04 15:18:42 +0000 UTCY’all really make me want to watch this movie. I saw Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated is on Netflix and think it might work for an Adaptation Decay. The whole series has a lot of Lovecraft influence, particularly the episode The Shrieking Madness, which features the gang meeting Jeffry Combs’ character HP Hatecraft, author of “Char Gar Gothakon: The Beast That Hath No Name.” Harlan Ellison also guest stars as an eldritch being (himself)
Duff
2020-02-29 04:19:24 +0000 UTCSaw this in a micro theater in Providence RI. When Ward said he was from Providence everyone cheered.
Teddadore
2020-02-27 19:05:29 +0000 UTCI saw this at the Hollywood theatre in Portland and loved it. Unfortunately there was a group of chucklefucks basically laughing through the entire “climax” portion of the movie that kind of ruined the impact but it’s a very powerful work. I grabbed the 4K/Blu-Ray so I’m looking forward to a revisit. This was a great recap and your observations are great as always!
Chris Hudson
2020-02-27 15:13:28 +0000 UTCWhat's really surprising is that this movie really goes hard at the loose adaptations that have shown up in movies since and just subsumes their ideas back into the body of the original work. Bits in this feel like references to Slither and The Mist, but in reality those stories are built on this work's foundation and the movie shows that the original context and good filmmaking can overcome the more "movie-like" set ups of those movies and make something way wilder and better.
Lucy
2020-02-27 12:59:32 +0000 UTCThis is on Amazon now, in case you don't say that in the episode. I'm really amazed by how good it was.
Brian Perkins
2020-02-27 02:56:29 +0000 UTCSo glad I saw this one on the big screen
Cody F
2020-02-26 16:36:05 +0000 UTC
