Color out of Space - And other Lovecraftian movies/tv shows

[Dante Alighieri]

I watched Color Out of Space the other night, starring Nicholas Cage and other B-tier actors. Based on The Color Out of Space by Lovecraft it's a modern day adaption done decently. Nothing to write home about but if you like Lovecraft it's not that bad.

Color Out of Space (2019) - IMDb

Directed by Richard Stanley. With Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight. A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

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I'm looking for more Lovecraf or Lovecraftian tv shows and movies to scratch that itch, so let's discuss!

 

[Orion Balls]

There's of course everyone's favourite Re-animator (1985), with Jeffrey Combs. For something a bit more serious, Dreams in the Witch House from the Masters of Horror series is decent. Dagon (2001) is pretty fun, especially the look Ezra Godden has at the climax that basically says "Now I understand, I understand it all."

*Edit*- They basically got Nicholas Cage to play the lead so that he would "Nic Cage out" during the second act. Color Out of Space was alright, but I didn't save it after watching.

 

[Shoggoth]

I downloaded some German version of Color Out Of Space - Die Fabre, should watch it sometime

Dagon

"Fuck Dagon!"
"Yes!"
10/10 would watch again

 

[A Clockwork Soybean]

Wasn't there an amateur adaption out there were everything is filmed in black and white except for the Color itself, which is a very bright shade of purple? That's the way they should have done it for the big-budget adaption.

 

[Troonologist PhD]

John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness is almost as good as The Thing. The Void on Netflix was a decent Lovecraftian horror movie. It doesn’t actually use the mythos, but it definitely has all the elements of Lovecraftian horror story.

 

[Commander X]

Wasn't there an amateur adaption out there were everything is filmed in black and white except for the Color itself, which is a very bright shade of purple? That's the way they should have done it for the big-budget adaption.

Yes, that was Die Farbe, which I watched a while ago when it was offered temporarily free to watch online.

 

[Commander X]

Among others, the Canadian indie Black Mountain Side - an archaeological crew uncover what may be the top of a very large ancient structure, thousands of years older than any previously found in North America.

Absentia - Tricia’s husband has been missing without a trace for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him ‘dead in absentia.’ As Tricia tries to straighten matters out, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous pedestrian tunnel near the house. She comes to note there have been a lot of missing persons cases in the neighborhood... Doug Jones has a brief appearance, more or less sans makeup.

AM1200 - A short film: an embezzler on the run, haunted by guilt, is driving along late at night when he finds himself drawn to a mysterious radio station.

From the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, an adaption of The Call of Cthulhu, filmed as if it were a silent picture produced in the 1920s.

Dark Intruder, a curiosity of an unsold TV pilot for a series that would have been titled "Black Cloak". Starring Leslie Nielsen as a foppish playboy sleuth and occult expert in 1890 San Francisco. He has a secret career in dealing with paranormal malefactors, like the one behind a series of murders, with grotesque ivory idols left near the bodies.

Pickman's Muse - Another adaption, of "The Haunter of the Dark" where an artist named Robert Pickman becomes obsessed by strange visions of unearthly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.

The Resurrected, a 1992 adaption of "Charles Dexter Ward", where a private investigator is hired by the wife of a chemical engineer who is conducting experiments at his remote family cabin, and neighbors are complaining about the smells being produced, and local law enforcement is wondering if there's a connection to gruesome murders in the area.

The Void - a deputy sheriff brings an injured man he found crawling along a road to a rural hospital being run by a skeleton crew - robed figures surround the building and strange transformations occur among the patients and staff. Someone has been up to no good in the hospital basement...

 

[BrunoMattei]

I made a thread. FFS man.

The Color Out of Space

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[millais]

HPLHS also made a film adaptation (with full sound) of "Whisperer in Darkness". It's pretty good for what it is; even the budget CGI is serviceable.

The Whisperer in Darkness - Trailer 1

The official trailer for the upcoming HPLHS Motion Picture release of H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of alien horror shot in genuine Mythoscope by the H.P. Lo...

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[Dante Alighieri]

I made a thread. FFS man.

The Color Out of Space

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Well fuck. Oh well! There's further recommendations in this thread so I guess it's fine?

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Oh good a place I can talk about Lovecraft shit without someone squeezing through a crack in the wall to tell me he was a bad bad racist man.

 

[Constellationzero]

I made a thread. FFS man.

The Color Out of Space

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Someone on the other thread said they had a link to the movie. Still waiting on that fucking link...

 

[IamSpechal]

I think this is the third thread made on this topic. Meh, some cosmic horror content recomendations are always nice.

 

[horrorfan89]

Nothing can ever top reanimator and from beyond. Probably the best 80s horror movies to feature Barbra crampton and Jeffery Combs

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Could just make this a general lovecraft thread, since there's already a couple on TCOoS.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Here's a recommendation: Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993):

A Lovecraft anthology that's better than most. With Jeffrey Combs as Lovecraft in the framing story.

 

[Commander X]

Another film from 2018, Black Site.

For decades, the Artemis organization has been defending humanity from the Elder Gods, who sought to use humanity as a source of energy. Lurking in human hosts, Artemis has captured them and used ancient incantations to send them on one-way trips back to their realm. However, as the number of threats has dwindled, so has the organization's budget. A skeleton crew is on call at one of Artemis' three black sites when they receive word that one of the worst remaining, Erebus, is arriving trapped in the body of a murderer. Ren an Artemis employee, saw Erebus murder her parents. Ren joined the organization to become a field operative just like her father but she's been denied due to her longstanding psychological trauma from being touched by Erebus' mind. Instead she has duties like supervising the deportation officer who has remembered the incantations needed to send off Erebus.
Unfortunately, Erebus-worshiping cultists have infiltrated the facility...

 

[DapperShark]

Not direct Lovecraft adaptations but The Mist (2007) and Annihilation on Netflix are pretty good.

Is there any chance Guillermo del Toro will eventually make At the Mountains of Madness or is that dead in the water forever?

Probably the latter, it was cancelled because Del Toro refused to compromise his vision for the movie, the studio thought the subject matter was too similar to Prometheus (which had just come out at the time) and that a big budget R-rated horror film was too risky. A big shame since GDT is a massive Lovecraft fan and along with being one of the few people I can think of that could pull this off it was also his passion project.