The two sons in the family are given next to no characterization, and the oldest of the two makes some truly terrible decisions which lead to tragedy. She is probably the earliest member of the family who appreciates the danger that they are currently placed in, and at least attempts to set things right. If there is a main character, it’s daughter Lavinia, a Wiccan played by Madeleine Arthur. The Gardners are not particularly well written. One of the big takeaways from that documentary, which applies to this film, is that his vision perhaps exceeds his abilities as a filmmaker. He doesn’t show half of that intensity here, even when his loved ones are being destroyed. For as much as Cage has become a meme for his odd performing choices, I found him to be almost restrained here, certainly compared to a film like Mandy, where his unhindered rage is both earned and appropriate. Her husband Nathan is played by Nicholas Cage, who seemed to be the focus of the film’s advertising campaign. The film focuses on the Gardner family, who have moved out to the country after matriarch Joely Richardson’s mastectomy. The story behind that debacle is the subject of a fantastic documentary called Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. The director is Richard Stanley, who hasn’t directed in over 20 years, and is probably better known as the original director of the notorious 1996 box office disaster The Island of Dr. In the film, the titular color is an enormous part of the story, and is easily the most interesting aspect of the production. And yet the sum of their parts left me thoroughly unimpressed.Ĭolor Out of Space is the latest adaptation of the Lovecraft short story where a meteorite lands on earth and destroys the local population. Three of my favorite horror movies, all in my top 10. It has the aesthetic and leading man of Mandy, the motifs of Annihilation, and a healthy helping of The Thing in its creature design. In theory, Color Out of Space should be one of my favorite movies of the year. Think the chili with Peeps and M&M’s from The Good Place, or milk steak from It’s Always Sunny. This seems like a fantastic idea until we’re actually given the chance to live out this fantasy, and it turns out that great things can taste terrible together. We’ve all seen shows or movies where characters put a seemingly endless supply of toppings on a pizza or make a giant sandwich out of all the things they love. The one that sticks out the most to me is the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, which confused me, because I had never imagined it was possible for a movie about my favorite thing could be bad. I remember the first time I discovered that movies about things I liked could disappoint me. As you get older, you discover nuance, which makes the world simultaneously more interesting but a lot more complicated.

Good things are enjoyable, bad things are not. When you’re a young child, things generally get lumped into two categories: bad and good.

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