History Literature / TheColourOutOfSpace

* ''Film/Annihilation2018'': A 2018 horror movie that while adapted from [[Literature/{{Annihilation}} the novel of the same name]], it definitely has a identical premise and ideas, with a meteor strike containing an alien presence crashes into a lighthouse and emanates a colorful radiation that negatively affects all organisms it comes into contact with, mainly horrific mutations of the animals and humans who travel into it.

* ''Film/Color Out of Space2020'', a film adaptation directed by Richard Stanley and starring Creator/NicolasCage, was made in 2019.

* ''Color Out of Space'', a film adaptation directed by Richard Stanley and starring Creator/NicolasCage, was made in 2019.

* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum: The mysterious meteorite.

* ThereIsAnother: Actually played for horror. Pierce notices that when the Colour leaves Earth, a part of it breaks off, try to follow the rest, only to fail and return to the well. Some of the Colour remains on Earth, which in all probability is the reason for the Blasted Heath.

* ''Film/Annihilation2018'': A 2018 horror movie that while adapted from [[Literature/Annihilation the novel of the same name]], it definitely has a identical premise and ideas, with a meteor strike containing an alien presence crashes into a lighthouse and emanates a colorful radiation that negatively affects all organisms it comes into contact with, mainly horrific mutations of the animals and humans who travel into it.

* ''Film/Annihilation2018'': A 2018 horror movie that while adapted from [[Literature/SouthernReachTrilogy the novel of the same name]], it definitely has a identical premise and ideas, with a meteor strike containing an alien presence crashes into a lighthouse and emanates a colorful radiation that negatively affects all organisms it comes into contact with, mainly horrific mutations of the animals and humans who travel into it.

* ''Film/Annihilation'': A 2018 horror movie that while adapted from [[Literature/SouthernReachTrilogy the novel of the same name]], it definitely has a identical premise and ideas, with a meteor strike containing an alien presence crashes into a lighthouse and emanates a colorful radiation that negatively affects all organisms it comes into contact with, mainly horrific mutations of the animals and humans who travel into it.

* ''The Color Out of Space'', a film adaptation directed by Richard Stanley and starring Creator/NicolasCage, was made in 2019.

* UnfazedEveryman: Ammi is a rather unlikely protagonist for a Lovecraft story. Not only did he keep visiting the Gardener farm long after everyone else was shunning it, he even stayed in his home at the edge of that forest after the whole thing went down, and remained there for the rest of his life.

* AdultFear: Poor Nahum gets a lot of this. First his farm, which was his livelihood, gets contaminated and ruined by the color. Then his family starts getting sick. Then his wife goes mad. The one of his sons goes mad ''and then'' dies. And then, after his wife is also dead, his remaining two sons disappear.

* EnergyBeing: The Colour is either a living cloud of gas, or this. Assuming its alive at all.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The titular "colour" is unlike any color in the normal spectrum, which under conventional logic would suggest it simply being invisible. Maybe it isn't even a colour, as it's only said a colour is the closest thing it can be compared to. Or, it could be ultraviolet or infrared (more likely the former), which are colors ''barely'' out of the human visible spectrum.

* ''Color From the Dark:'' Transplants the story from 1890's America to WW2 Italy, and the Color comes from deep underground instead of from space. It also changes the Gardner boys into a CompositeCharacter; a mute girl.

* It was also a major inspiration for the Color of Madness DLC of VideoGame/DarkestDungeon

* Film/DieMonsterDie: starring Creator/BorisKarloff, it takes some of the ideas of the novel and then follows a completely different plot.
* Film/TheCurse: starring Creator/WilWheaton and directed by Creator/DavidKeith, actually has a plot not so unfaithful to the novel.

* ''Die Farbe'': A german movie filmed in black and white which is, sans a few changes, the most faithful adaptation of the original source of the story.

* StarfishAliens: The Colour. This was {{Invoked|Trope}} by Lovecraft, who didn't like how human-like aliens were in other works of his time. He took it UpToEleven too, as the end result is something closer to a bacteria infection, slime mold, or non-living nuclear radiation than anything else.
** Also its motivations, if any, are unknown and possibly unknowable. Is it feeding? Terraforming the planet? [[ForTheEvulz Killing for fun]]? All of the above? None of the above?

--> "This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. It was just a colour out of space. A frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all nature as we know it."

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The titular "colour" is unlike any color in the normal spectrum, which under conventional logic would suggest it simply being invisible. Maybe it isn't even a colour, as it's only said a colour is the closest thing it can be compared to.