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 ScoreRobbie 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNick 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.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreEd PottonTimes (UK)
Stylised weirdness can only take you so far, though.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCath 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLarushka 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNick 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDallas KingFlick Feast
A lovingly crafted Lovecraft adaptation... It features some of the most gruesome practical effects work seen since The Thing
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBrian 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreVictoria 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJason 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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