HYPERBOREA / Color Out of Space

**Posted by Spider of Leng** 2/27/2020 11:48 pm

For those of you who haven't seen the brand new "Color Out of Space" adaptation starring Nicolas Cage, it's worth checking out. They set it in the present, but it has a good vibe that is true to the story.

**Posted by Chainsaw** 3/04/2020 7:08 am

Thanks! I'd noticed it and was wondering.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 3/04/2020 9:15 am

Heard a cut off the soundtrack on the radio last night. Wild stuff!

https://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=91783&archive=183592&starttime=0:19:32

**Posted by Blackadder23** 3/04/2020 9:52 am

Cage does his usual stuff at a couple points in the movie.
Overall pretty decent; definitely better than that mess starring Will Wheaton.

**Posted by rhialto** 3/04/2020 1:31 pm

If you've seen the 2010 German version: how do they compare?

**Posted by BlackKnight** 3/04/2020 3:49 pm

I have it coming in from Netflix (DVD not streamable). looking forward to it...

**Posted by Blackadder23** 3/05/2020 1:49 am

rhialto wrote:
If you've seen the 2010 German version: how do they compare?

I thought the German movie was better.

However, this one is not bad. It's not a garbage fire like the Wicker Man remake or some of Cage's other movies.

**Posted by rhialto** 3/05/2020 4:56 am

Blackadder23 wrote:
rhialto wrote:
If you've seen the 2010 German version: how do they compare?
I thought the German movie was better.

However, this one is not bad. It's not a garbage fire like the Wicker Man remake or some of Cage's other movies.

Thanks, that's helpful: sounds good enough to watch if free.

**Posted by mabon5127** 3/05/2020 7:00 pm

rhialto wrote:
Blackadder23 wrote:
rhialto wrote:
If you've seen the 2010 German version: how do they compare?
I thought the German movie was better.

However, this one is not bad. It's not a garbage fire like the Wicker Man remake or some of Cage's other movies.
Thanks, that's helpful: sounds good enough to watch if free.

It's one of the few movies I have watched that I cannot decide whether or not I liked it. I could defend liking or hating with equal passion. At the end of the day I guess I was glad I watched.

**Posted by Spider of Leng** 3/05/2020 9:57 pm

Yeah, I saw a few reviews that really talked it up. It wasn't that good, but it was far better than most HPL film adaptations (a low bar, I know), and did a competent job of capturing the cosmic horror weirdness vibe IMHO.

**Posted by tomas** 4/18/2020 10:34 am

I finally got to see the movie the other day and wasn't impressed. But then again I'm hard pressed to come up with any HPL story to movie that I liked.

**Posted by mabon5127** 4/18/2020 3:30 pm

tomas wrote:
I finally got to see the movie the other day and wasn't impressed. But then again I'm hard pressed to come up with any HPL story to movie that I liked.

They are few and far between, unfortunately.