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''Color Out of Space'' is a 2020 science fiction/horror film based on Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace by Creator/HPLovecraft. It stars Creator/NicolasCage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, and Tommy Chong.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TemptingFate Everything's gonna be A-okay.]]]]
'''''Color Out of
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Unlike in the short story, in this film we get to spend a great deal of time getting to know the human characters.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Unlike in the short story, in this film we get to spend a great deal of time getting to know the human characters. [[spoiler: Which makes even more heartbreaking when they're horrifically killed by the Color]]
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%%* EldritchAbomination: The titular entity, driven home by a vision of its homeworld provided via [[PsychicLink psychic link.]] [[spoiler: It shows several disgusting writhing tentacled entities that are quite obviously other members of the Great Old Ones, the Color's fellow cosmic gods]]. Since this movie adapts a book by none other than Creator/HPLovecraft himself, [[SignatureStyle this is a given]].
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* EvilDetectingDog: The Gardners' family dog, Sam, knows the Color is dangerous from square one.
* {{Fingore}}: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting in lopped off fingertips.
* {{Fingore}}: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting in lopped off fingertips.
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* EvilDetectingDog: The Gardners' family dog, Sam, knows the Color is dangerous from square one.
one. [[And he ends up being one of it's first victims alongside the alpacas]].
* {{Fingore}}: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting inlopped her lopping off her fingertips.
* {{Fingore}}: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting in
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward]] escapes several attacks from the Color operating through its various proxies and ultimately survives, despite not having any particular kind of edge or advantage that would help.
* AdaptationExpansion: The short story tells very little about the Gardners' life before the arrival of the meteor. Here, the entire first act is spent just getting to know them. There is also a scene of Arkham's mayor emphasizing how the new reservoir will provide water for much of the eastern seaboard.
* AdaptationExpansion: The short story tells very little about the Gardners' life before the arrival of the meteor. Here, the entire first act is spent just getting to know them. There is also a scene of Arkham's mayor emphasizing how the new reservoir will provide water for much of the eastern seaboard.
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward]] escapes several attacks from the Color operating through its various proxies and ultimately survives, despite not having any particular kind of edge or advantage that would help.
help, plus he's pretty fucked up from the utter horror of the Color.
* AdaptationExpansion: The short story tells very little about the Gardners' life before the arrival of the meteor. Here, the entire first act is spent just getting to know them. There is also a scene of Arkham's mayor emphasizing how the new reservoir will provide water for much of the eastern seaboard.
* AdaptationExpansion: The short story tells very little about the Gardners' life before the arrival of the meteor. Here, the entire first act is spent just getting to know them. There is also a scene of Arkham's mayor emphasizing how the new reservoir will provide water for much of the eastern seaboard.
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%%* EldritchAbomination: The titular entity, driven home by a vision of its homeworld provided via [[PsychicLink psychic link.]]
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%%* EldritchAbomination: The titular entity, driven home by a vision of its homeworld provided via [[PsychicLink psychic link.]]]] [[spoiler: It shows several disgusting writhing tentacled entities that are quite obviously other members of the Great Old Ones, the Color's fellow cosmic gods]]. Since this movie adapts a book by none other than Creator/HPLovecraft himself, [[SignatureStyle this is a given]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: AdaptationalVillainy:
** The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
** The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
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* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] is shown to have grown one by the time of the film's epilogue.
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* EldritchAbomination: The titular entity, driven home by a vision of its homeworld provided via [[PsychicLink psychic link.]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Unlike in the story we do not see the entity leave an offspring behind as it departs. But Ward suspects it regardless and refuses to drink from the new reservoir. Then, in the final shot a mutated mantis like the one seen earlier in the film goes flying by...]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Unlike in the story we do not see the entity leave an offspring behind as it departs. But Ward suspects it regardless and refuses to drink from the new reservoir. Then, in the final shot a mutated mantis like the one seen earlier in the film goes flying by...]]
* WhamShot: When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
** When the camera pulls upward near the end, revealing [[spoiler:the devastation of what is now the Blasted Heath.]]
* WhamShot: When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
** When the camera pulls upward near the end, revealing [[spoiler:the devastation of what is now the Blasted Heath.]]
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** The short story mentions the trees swaying on their own in the absence of wind. The film takes this much further with the trees capable of grabbing people and killing them.
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Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Ward quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Ward quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Knight quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Knight Ward quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward]] escapes attacks from the Color operating through various proxies and ultimately survives, despite not having any particular kind of edge or advantage that would help.
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward]] escapes several attacks from the Color operating through its various proxies and ultimately survives, despite not having any particular kind of edge or advantage that would help.
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: Ezra starts making recordings of the sounds emanating from the meteor underground, adding his own thoughts and theories as he goes. By the time these recordings are played near the end, they have become this trope.
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: Ezra starts making recordings of the sounds emanating from the meteor underground, adding his own thoughts and theories as he goes. By the time these recordings are played near the end, they have become this trope.this.]]
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%%* ApocalypticLog: By the time [[spoiler:Ezra's]] recordings are revisited, they have become this.
%%* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] by the time of the film's epilogue.
%%* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] by the time of the film's epilogue.
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* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] is shown to have grown one by the time of the film's epilogue.
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%%* TheStoner: Ezra, and Benny to a lesser degree.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey. In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey. In
**In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
**In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
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* WhamShot:
** When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
** When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
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**WhamShot: When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
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* ApocalypticLog: By the time [[spoiler:Ezra's]] recordings are revisited, they have become this.
* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] by the time of the film's epilogue.
* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] by the time of the film's epilogue.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
** In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
** In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
**prey. In the short story when Nahum is under the color's influence it renders him feebleminded but harmless. His film counterpart [[spoiler:Nathan,]] on the other hand becomes fully [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]
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* WhamShot: When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
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** When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
** When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
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* ShoutOut: "Lavinia" happens to be the name of character out of another of H.P Lovecraft's books, "The Horror of Dunwich".
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* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Ward Phillips]] by the time of the film's epilogue.
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* OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler: Sheriff Pierce]] dies from a carnivorous tree ramming a branch down [[spoiler:his]] throat.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played straight with Sheriff Pierce who respects Wade's expertise and rides to the rescue with him as soon as he learns what's going on. Averted with the mayor who will not let the possibility of extraterrestrial contamination stand in the way of the new water reservoir.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played straight with Sheriff Pierce who respects Wade's expertise and rides to the rescue with him as soon as he learns what's going on. Averted with the mayor who will not let the possibility of extraterrestrial contamination stand in the way of the new water reservoir.
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* WhenTreesAttack: A mutated tree lashes out kills [[spoiler:Sheriff Pierce.]]
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* WhenTreesAttack: A mutated tree lashes out and kills [[spoiler:Sheriff Pierce.]]
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* Fingore: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting in lopped off fingertips.
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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: The Color puts [[spoiler:Theresa]] into a trance, resulting in lopped off fingertips.
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward]] escapes attacks from the Color operating through various proxies and ultimately survives, despite not having any particular kind of edge or advantage that would help.
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* WhamShot: When the condition of the mutated [[spoiler:alpacas]] and [[spoiler:Theresa and Jake]] are revealed.
** When the camera pulls upward near the end, revealing [[spoiler:the devastation of what is now the Blasted Heath.]]
** When the camera pulls upward near the end, revealing [[spoiler:the devastation of what is now the Blasted Heath.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: The nameless water surveyor from the short story and Ammi Pierce, the local man he interviews, are here merged into the single character of Ward Phillips. Likewise, the half-dozen anonymous lawmen who accompany Ammi on his final journey to the farm are rolled into the singular character of the town sheriff, whose name does happen to be [[ContinuityNod Pierce.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: The nameless water surveyor from the short story and Ammi Pierce, the local man he interviews, are here merged into the single character of Ward Phillips. Likewise, the half-dozen anonymous lawmen who accompany Ammi on his final journey to the farm are rolled into the singular character of the town sheriff, whose name does happen to be [[ContinuityNod Pierce.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The Gardners' wine cellar, briefly seen while they're having dinner early in the film, allows Ward to survive the Color's parting shot.]]
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* MercyKill: Nathan is forced to do this to [[spoiler: the alpaca herd,]] and then again later when [[spoiler:Jake and Theresa are fused. In the latter case he fails to go through with it. He does eventually kill them, but at that point he no longer even recognizes them as his family.]]
* TheStoner: Ezra, and Benny to a lesser degree.
* TheStoner: Ezra, and Benny to a lesser degree.
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*TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Unlike in the story we do not see the entity leave an offspring behind as it departs. But Ward suspects it regardless and refuses to drink from the new reservoir. Then, in the final shot a mutated mantis like the one seen earlier in the film goes flying by...]]
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Both humans and animals who have succumbed to the Color's mental influence can display this.
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* ClosedCircle: The alien entity disrupts phone service and renders vehicles inoperable, making escape from the area impossible. Lavinia and Benny attempt to escape on horseback. [[spoiler:But then it possesses the horse.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: When it becomes apparent that escape from the Color is impossible, Lavinia, a white witch, turns to the evil magic of the Necronomicon for help. [[spoiler:Not only does it not work, but it is implied that it [[NiceJobBreakingItHero speeds Lavinia's doom]] due to the rune she inscribes on her forehead actually representing a structure found on the creature's homeworld.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: When it becomes apparent that escape from the Color is impossible, Lavinia, a white witch, turns to the evil magic of the Necronomicon for help. [[spoiler:Not only does it not work, but it is implied that it [[NiceJobBreakingItHero speeds Lavinia's doom]] due to the rune she inscribes on her forehead actually representing a structure found on the creature's homeworld.]]
* SupernaturalProofFather: Benny and Lavinia try to warn Nathan about the Color but he won't hear it, dismissing the damage it has caused as the result of their teenage irresponsibility. However, it is unclear how much of this is his own nature and how much is the Color preying on his mind.
* WhenTreesAttack: A mutated tree lashes out kills [[spoiler:Sheriff Pierce.]]
* SupernaturalProofFather: Benny and Lavinia try to warn Nathan about the Color but he won't hear it, dismissing the damage it has caused as the result of their teenage irresponsibility. However, it is unclear how much of this is his own nature and how much is the Color preying on his mind.
* WhenTreesAttack: A mutated tree lashes out kills [[spoiler:Sheriff Pierce.]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: A direct hit from the Color's attack fuses Theresa and her son Jack into one heaving, whimpering mass of flesh.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Color finishes its feeding and returns to space, leaving the Gardners, Ezra, and the sheriff dead, and Ward permanently traumatized by his experiences.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Gardners' hippie neighbor, Ezra, clearly isn't all there. But he's a competent electrician who built his own off-the-grid home, and he figures out the Color's origins, nature, and intent long before anyone else. [[spoiler:Not that it does him or anyone else any good.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: The titular entity, driven home by a vision of its homeworld provided via [[PsychicLink psychic link.]]
* GenderFlip: The Gardners' middle son from the story is replaced by a daughter,Lavinia.Lavinia.
* GodzillaThreshold: When it becomes apparent that escape from the Color is impossible, Lavinia, a white witch, turns to the evil magic of the Necronomicon for help. [[spoiler:Not only does it not work, but it is implied that it [[NiceJobBreakingItHero speeds Lavinia's doom]] due to the rune she inscribes on her forehead actually representing a structure found on the creature's homeworld.]]
* GenderFlip: The Gardners' middle son from the story is replaced by a daughter,
* GodzillaThreshold: When it becomes apparent that escape from the Color is impossible, Lavinia, a white witch, turns to the evil magic of the Necronomicon for help. [[spoiler:Not only does it not work, but it is implied that it [[NiceJobBreakingItHero speeds Lavinia's doom]] due to the rune she inscribes on her forehead actually representing a structure found on the creature's homeworld.]]
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*AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
*ApocalypticLog: By the time [[spoiler:Ezra's]] recordings are revisited, they have become this.
*BrownNote: The Color emits a noise that increases its hold over its victims.
*GenderFlip: The Gardners' middle son from the story is replaced by a daughter, Lavinia.
*AdaptationalVillainy: The Color in the story drains its victims at an almost leisurely pace and it is deliberately left vague as to whether the Color even possesses the sentience to be aware of what it is doing. The Color in the film is much more aggressive, deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey.
*ApocalypticLog: By the time [[spoiler:Ezra's]] recordings are revisited, they have become this.
*BrownNote: The Color emits a noise that increases its hold over its victims.
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''Color Out of Space'' is a 2020 science fiction/horror film based on Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace by Creator/HPLovecraft. It stars Creator/NicolasCage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, and Tommy Chong.
Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Knight quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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Presented as a haunting recollection by hydrologist Ward Phillips (Knight,) he tells of how his work once took him to Arkham County to aid in the planning of a new water reservoir. There he befriends the Gardner family, led by struggling farmer Nathan (Cage), and his wife Theresa (Richardson), a cancer survivor who is struggling get her online brokerage business off the ground. Despite their woes, the Gardners are more or less happy until the night when a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Knight quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but it quickly appears that his discoveries may come too late to help the Gardners, who must now struggle to survive against increasingly bizarre events that threaten to overwhelm their isolated farm.
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