Color Out of Space

    Color Out of Space
    2019

    Synopsis

    The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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    Cast

    • Nicolas CageNathan Gardner
    • Joely RichardsonTheresa Gardner
    • Madeleine ArthurLavinia Gardner
    • Elliot KnightWard Phillips
    • Tommy ChongEzra
    • Brendan MeyerBenny Gardner
    • Julian HilliardJack Gardner
    • Josh C. WallerSheriff Pierce
    • Q'orianka KilcherMayor Tooma
    • Melissa NearmanReporter

    Recommendations

    • 83

      The Film Stage

      The final result is a movie that feels as paranoid, cruel, ludicrous and radiation-poisoned as its characters; the kind of movie that is on an irregular and grotesque wavelength of its own making and will leave people not just in disbelief about what they just saw but what any of it meant, if it meant anything at all.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      The film is a vivid depiction of how a confrontation with the unknown can so easily shatter the fragile bonds that hold us together.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      Stanley ratchets up the off-kilter humor while playing down the deep melancholy present in the short story’s original text. This observation could be seen as a knock on the director’s approach, but for audiences going in with zero expectations beyond a good time, the interlaced humor feels like nothing more than playing to Cage’s unique strengths.
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      Stanley does a remarkable job keeping the film grounded in emotional reality all things considered, but it’s admittedly an idiosyncratic movie about unconventional people made by an offbeat director.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A satisfying shot at bringing a classic of the sci-fi/horror genre to modern audiences. ... Hitting the main plot points with well-designed SFX and some impressive night photography, Stanley's film manages to be frightening indeed, even with star Nicolas Cage’s semi-farcical leavening adding some nutty laughs.
    • 63

      Washington Post

      As untidy and un-profound as “Color” may be, Stanley swings for the fences, when almost any other director-in-exile would have tried to get back in Hollywood’s good graces with an act of penance. Score one for the eccentrics of the world.
    • 63

      Movie Nation

      The B-movie king is in rare form in Color Out of Space, a sci-fi thriller that might have been titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Magenta” had horror icon H.P. Lovecraft been born a lot later, and — you know — had a sense of humor.
    • 60

      CineVue

      If there is any real complaint to be levelled at Color Out of Space, it’s that it has more ideas than it knows what to do with.

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