Looking at H. P. Lovecraft’s "The Colour out of Space" and Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space; a Review

Let us not forget that it shows very poor taste to ladle out an adaptation that exhibits a plethora of uninteresting alterations. To make this adaption terribly dissimilar from the original Lovecraft story, such adulteration could be considered bad form. Not every movie from long ago was perfect, but greater disillusionment and disappointment is to be expected from movies these days.

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Review: Color Out of Space Starring Nicolas Cage

Entertaining adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's work are, in my estimation, few and very far between. For the most part movies tapping into Lovecraft's work tend to feel like they're miles away from the cosmic horror themes that saturate most of the author's stories. After about fifteen minutes, Color Out of Space broke past my antagonism and hooked me.

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