And soon enough, the family members themselves begin to show signs of unnatural change. On an otherwise normal night, the sky fills with pulsating light and a meteorite crashes onto the Gardners' land, and as time passes, the Gardners start to experience ever-more bizarre events - unnaturally localised lightning storms that seem to come from nowhere huge fuchsia-like plants that seem to grow overnight a horrific odour that only Nathan can smell a gigantic purple mantis flying around radios and the internet cutting out more than normal the water turning strange colours the family's dog, Lavinia's horse, and Nathan's alpacas starting to acting strangely even time itself appears to be corrupted. Just outside the city of Arkham, MA (the fictitious setting of many Lovecraftian stories), Nathan Gardner (Cage), his wife Theresa ( Joely Richardson), and their children Benny ( Brendan Meyer), Lavinia ( Madeleine Arthur), and Jack ( Julian Hilliard) have moved into Nathan's deceased father's property, with Nathan embracing rural life by raising alpacas on the property's farm. Mixing humour and body horror (perhaps weighed a little too much towards humour), the film gives Nicolas Cage another opportunity to go full-Cage, and boy does he lean into it - this is the most ludicrous, histrionic, and borderline farcical performance he's given since Vampire's Kiss (1988), and how much latitude you give him may well determine your opinion of the movie. Lovecraft's 1927 short story "The Colour Out of Space", and takes a good stab at depicting one of Lovecraft's most oblique entities. Moreau (1996)), Colour Out of Space is a modernised adaptation of H.P. Written and directed by Richard Stanley (his first film in 25 years, after he was infamously fired three days into production on his long-gestating dream project, The Island of Dr.
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