History Film / ColorOutOfSpace2020

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At the end, after everything that has happened, the very traumatized [[spoiler: Ward,]] who had steadfastly rejected Ezra's repeated offers of getting a hit from his blunt, quietly smokes a cigarette as he considers everything that happened to the Gardners and the horrible implications of it.
* ClimateChangeAllegory: Under the meteor's influence (represented by [[BrightIsNotGood the tutular psychedelic "Color" emitting from the it]]) the farm gradually turns into a barren wasteland, its inhabitants are DrivenToMadness, and the local animals become creepy mutants. Though the movie is an adaptation of the eponymous 1927 story by Creator/HPLovecraft, the director stated in an interview that he reimagined it as a metaphor for climate change.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: How the Blasted Heath is represented. [[spoiler: The Color's departure from Earth drains the entire area around the Gardner's farm of ''any'' color, leaving it a white-and-grey ashen wasteland. Viewers may be forgiven for thinking the film has switched to black-and-white photography until they look closely at Ward and camera zooms out to reveal the surrounding green forest.]]

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Unlike in the short story, in this film, we get to spend a great deal of time getting to know the human characters, showing them as a rather dysfunctional family undergoing hard times even before they become victims of one of the Old Ones. You learn Nathan is a struggling gardener and father with anger issues who's also TheAlcoholic, stemming from his abusive father. Theresa is a highly stressed stock broker and haggard mother who's just recovered from breast cancer, and thus feels ugly because of it and comes off as somewhat insensitive to her husband and kids. Benny is a stoner who'd rather hang out with the residential hermit Ezra. Lavinia is a withdrawn goth who has taken up Wiccan arts as a form of coping, and Jack is even moreso withdrawn and hardly talks to his parents or siblings, only really connecting with their dog Sam. Despite these issues, it's clear at least in the beginning that they love each other. [[spoiler:Which makes it even more heartbreaking when the Color's arrival disrupts their lives and ends up directly ruining their lives before directly consuming them.]]

* EldritchLocation: It can be argued that the Color is slowly turning the Gardner's land into this. [[spoiler: Its homeworld is ''undoubtedly'' this: a confusing, fleshy landscape covered by writhing tentacles - some gigantic in size - dominated by towering structures of alien design, the most prominent of which has the same shape as the runic symbol from Lavinia's ''Necronomicon''. A black sun hangs in the sky, [[AlienSky which is bathed in a light identical to that of the Color.]]]]

* EvilSmellsBad: When the meteorite carrying the titular Color first crashes onto the Gardner's property, Nathan remarks that it smells awful. No one else does regardless of how close they are to the meteorite.

* HazardousWater: It is explicitly stated that the Color itself contaminating the water supply. Because the Gardner family's water comes from the well, the Color slowly drives them crazy and mutates the flora and fauna around them. [[spoiler:And in the final scene, it's hinted that the water of the reservoir now covering the land tainted by the Color might also be tainted, despite the Color's departure. [[FromBadToWorse And that water now supplies most of the US Eastern seaboard...]]]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Even before the Color begins working on his mind, it's blatantly obvious Nathan's not the best farmer and is just winging it. The best example is how he repeatedly insists that alpacas are great livestock even though they aren't in-demand, while using them for their milk, rather than what's really valuable - their fleece.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Mrs. Gardener's name was not mentioned in the story, here she is named Theresa. The water surveyor of the original story becomes Ward here.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:The Gardners' home and the surrounding land are left mostly dust at the end]]. The Color disintegrates [[spoiler: Lavinia]] in front of Ward, and this is also the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Nathan, though in his case the dessicated remains of his hand - [[TragicKeepsake with the wedding ring still on]] - are shown]].

* PsychoPink: The film gives The Color and the surrounds a magenta lighting, to depict a dangerously otherworldly setting.

* SettingUpdate: Changed from the 1930's of the original story to a more modern 2000's setting.

* TitleDrop: At end, [[spoiler:Ward, as he considers everything that happened,]] describes the entity as "a color out of space".
* ThousandYardStare: [[spoiler:Ward]], in the final shots of the film, displays an empty, haunted look as they look on [[spoiler:the water reservoir that covers the Gardners' home and recollects on the events that traumatized him]].

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Benny thinks he hears the family's dog, Sam, in the well and intentionally climbs in, practically serving himself up to the Color. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], however, by the Color's influence on the Gardner's deteroriating mental state, making his actions more the result of being BrainwashedAndCrazy rather than genuine stupidity.]]

* TruthInTelevision: There is a specific reason why the color magenta is used to represent the alien color in the film: by an objective measure, the color magenta ''does not exist as part of the natural color spectrum.'' Instead it is an extraspectral color that is only perceived by humans when optical rods in their eyes that detect red and blue colors interact in specific circumstances to create the color magenta in their minds. Ergo, it is the natural choice to represent a color that is an alien phenomenon. This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRuPF6JtWdw [=SciShow=] Psych]] Youtube video can explain it more fully.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: As the ApocalypticLog progresses, [[spoiler:Ezra]]'s voice becomes deep, gravelly, and echoic due to the Color affecting him.

** The final shot before the credits [[spoiler: shows a vibrantly pink praying mantis fly past, similar to the one that was mutated from the Gardner's well, showing that though the Color has retreated, the same may happen again.]]

''Color Out of Space'' is a 2020 SciFiHorror film based on the short story ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. It is directed by Creator/RichardStanley in his return to filmmaking after a twenty year absence and stars Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/JoelyRichardson, Creator/MadeleineArthur, Creator/ElliotKnight, and [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]].

** 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, or simply just operates on BlueAndOrangeMorality due to its utterly alien nature and is thus indifferent to lesser forms of life, as Cthulhu was originally described. The Color in the film appears much more aggressive, seemingly deliberately attacking, luring, and tormenting its prey. It goes so far as to directly influence the negative changes and deterioration of the Gardners' already shaky mental status, not to mention simply poisoning them with its essence polluting the well water.

* AdaptedOut: The researchers from the nearby university are nowhere to be seen in this movie, while in the short story they lead important research on meteor's origin, although they didn't come to a distinct conclusion.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: More than one character reacts to the Color by saying it looks beautiful, including notably in the film's final act where the Color is an established dangerous threat. Possibly {{justified}} in the latter instance by SanitySlippage. Also possibly justified in that, despite the horrors it leads to, the way it's presented does can indeed give the Color itself a weird, unsettling beauty.

* BugsHeraldEvil: A strange and vibrantly violet-pink coloured praying mantis creature is seen on the Gardners property crawling out of the well in the early stages of the Color transforming the local area. It has far more eyes than a mantis and what looks like several tongues sprouting from its mandibles. [[spoiler: Just before the credits, one of these is seen buzzing about near the reservoir after Ward has given his final narration, signifying the Colour's effects not be fully gone, though whether it is the same insect or a different one is not known.]]

* CellPhonesAreUseless: The Color causes electromagnetic disruptions that render cellphones all but inoperable, transmitting only sounds of garbled screams, effectively isolating the farm from the outside world. For some reason the Internet connection works slightly better -- for a while.

** Early in the film Benny finds a pair of old-fashioned pilot's goggles among hs grandfather's belongings. [[spoiler: When The Color emerges from the well in a burst of light, Benny puts on the goggles to shield his eyes... [[SubvertedTrope and gets vaporized anyway.]]]]

* SupernaturalIsPurple: Magenta in this case, but it fulfills the role nonetheless. The titular Color is a {{Starfish Alien|s}} EnergyBeing that gives off a supernatural and otherworldly vibe, thanks to its incorporeal nature and the ability to [[TheCorruption corrupt whatever it touches]].

* EldritchTransformation: {{Downplayed}} and {{implied}}. The Color fuses and transforms all plant and animal life it infects into horrible, mutated [[spoiler:{{Flesh Golem}}s and [[TwoBeingsOneBody other fusions]] which glow with the Color's light and energy. The movie's climax seems to imply that [[spoiler:the Color absorbed Lavinia and possibly her family's consciousnesses into itself before departing Earth, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor granting Lavinia's wish to escape the farm]]]].

** The phrase "No flesh shall be spared" hangs above Benny's computer. This is not only from the Biblical [[Literature/TheFourGospels book of Mark]], but is also the ArcWords for one of Richard Stanley's earliest films, ''Film/{{Hardware}}''.

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 a meteor that emits a strangely-colored light crashes onto their property. Ward quickly notices dangerous changes in the local water supply, but 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.

* BugsHeraldEvil: A strange and vibrantly coloured praying mantis creature is seen on the Gardners property, the early stages of the Color transforming their property. [[spoiler: Just before the credits, one of these is seen buzzing about near the reservoir, signifying the Colour may not be fully gone.]]

** "Ward Phillips" is an obvious reference to Ho'''Ward Phillips''' Lovecraft. He's seen reading a copy of Creator/AlgernonBlackwood's ''The Willows'', the author's favorite horror story.

* {{Expy}} Nathan shares a lot of characteristics to The Miller in the VideoGame/DarkestDungeon DLC The Color of Madness.
** They are both farmers who have trouble growing crops and went mad from a reality-warping alien entity that ended up consuming there lives and physically worked those around them. Witch drove of them completely mad to the point of attacking and killing those that dare cross them.

** Abigail "Nabby" Garner is changed to Theresa.

* DangerouslyGarishEnvironment: The more the [[EldtritchAbomination titular color]] infects the surrounding land, the more vibrant it becomes, with the plants and animals becoming a shade of bright magenta.

** Nahum's children's names are also changed: Thaddeus becomes Benny and Zenus is now Jack, while the middle son Merwin is [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] into Lavinia.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: How the Blasted Heath is represented. [[spoiler: The Color's departure from Earth drains the entire area around the Gardner's farm of ''any'' color, leaving it a white-and-grey ashen wasteland. Viewers may be forgiven for thinking the film has switched to black-and-white photography until they look closely at Ward and camera pans out to reveal the surrounding green forest.]]

* AdmiringTheAbomination: More than one character reacts to the Color by saying it looks beautiful, including notably in the film's final act where the Color is an established dangerous threat. Possibly {{justified}} in the latter instance by SanitySlippage.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Given the story's [[Creator/HPLovecraft author,]] such a bleak tone is unsurprising. [[spoiler: The EldritchAbomination cannot be stopped from achieving its goals, the Gardners all go mad and die horribly, Ward is left traumatized by his experiences, there are countless other creatures just as terrible out in the vastness of space, and said abomination's passage may have tainted the water supply for most of the Eastern Seaboard.]]

''Color Out of Space'' is a 2020 SciFiHorror film based on the short story ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. It is directed by [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau Richard Stanley]] in his return to filmmaking after a 20 year absence and stars Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/JoelyRichardson, Creator/MadeleineArthur, Creator/ElliotKnight, and [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]].

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Ward at the end of the film, with the entire Gardiner family, Ezra and even the sheriff who accompanied him all dead]].

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:{{Averted}}: Lavinia is heavily set up to be one, and she [[AmbiguousSituation probably]] outlives the rest of her family at least, but in the end the Color gets her too. Arguably, Ward ends up as a GenderFlip of this trope in her stead.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Grant Ward at the end of the film, with the entire family and even the sheriff who accompanied him dead]].

''Color Out of Space'' is a 2020 SciFiHorror film based on the short story ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. It is directed by [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau Richard Stanley]] in his return to filmmaking after a 20 year absence and stars Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/JoelyRichardson, Madeleine Arthur, Creator/ElliotKnight, and [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]].