Color Out of Space: H.P. Lovecraft done right, who knew?
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It’s been known nearly as long as its creator has been dead that the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Lovecraftian fiction or cosmic horror depending on your disposition, are not meant for film and its “show don’t tell” format. Sure, there have been minor success stories, The Thing, The Mouth of Madness, that fit the genre but most of these movies were their own story that borrowed thematic elements from the original works and nothing else. How does Hollywood finally, mercifully make a successful interpretation? Why, by taking a mentally unstable actor (Nicolas Cage), a gonzo director coming off a twodecade-long blacklist (Richard Stanley), fill the rest of the cast with mostly unknowns and just roll with it. I wish everything was this simple. Color Out of Space is a pretty awesome movie. The cast, led by