Color Out of Space

critic Reviews

, 86% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • A welcome return for director Richard Stanley, Color Out of Space mixes tart B-movie pulp with visually alluring Lovecraftian horror and a dash of gonzo Nicolas Cage.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Robbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
    I found the results authentically nightmarish, perhaps especially thanks to the film's unusual rhythm for horror: not a panicky staccato but a fuzzy-edged, narcotic throb.
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    Nick SchagerThe Daily Beast
    A trippy and grotesque vision of the real and unreal colliding in the New England wilderness, energized by memorably out-there effects and its reliably rage-y leading man.
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    Ed PottonTimes (UK)
    Stylised weirdness can only take you so far, though.
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    Cath ClarkeGuardian
    Love it or loathe it, Stanley is trying to do something distinctively his own after all those years in the cold. His movie perhaps has the makings of a cult classic.
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    Larushka Ivan-ZadehMetro Newspaper (UK)
    Based on an HP Lovecraft story, it's a fun, messy, hallucinogenic head trip of a movie, shot with cosmic gorgeousness by cult director Richard Stanley.
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    Nick De SemlyenEmpire Magazine
    It's not as effective as Mandy or The Mist, both of which it evokes at points. But Color Out Of Space is still an audacious and admirably out-there attempt at cosmic horror.
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    Dallas KingFlick Feast
    A lovingly crafted Lovecraft adaptation... It features some of the most gruesome practical effects work seen since The Thing
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    Brian EggertDeep Focus Review
    Stanley crafts some incredible, genuinely disturbing visuals, marking the feature-length return of a filmmaker whose clear vision piques one's interest for whatever comes next.
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    Victoria Luxfordmetro.co.uk
    Some will revel in the mystery and symbolism of the visuals, others will just watch, jaws agape, at how bonkers everything is.
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    Jason AdamsMy New Plaid Pants
    The intellectual and emotional apocalypse that bursts, fiery and catastrophic, off our closest brushes with actual lived-in oblivion. It stares into horror's face and it sees horror staring right back
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