Color Out of Space - Movie Reviews (2024)

A lovingly crafted Lovecraft adaptation... It features some of the most gruesome practical effects work seen since The Thing

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2022

Some will revel in the mystery and symbolism of the visuals, others will just watch, jaws agape, at how bonkers everything is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 21, 2022

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

Full Review | Jul 6, 2021

Nicolas Cage cracks up in an all-out assault on the senses.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2021

A parody of self-actualization in which an isolated family undergoes grotesque cosmic metamorphosis after being irradiated by a prismatic meteorite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2021

Even Nicolas Cage, compelling as he is, is interesting in spite of the underwritten script not because of it.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2021

The hardest thing to wrap your head around is how beautiful it all is, even the gross bits, and just how much that alone can carry you through.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2021

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2021

Stanley and his crew masterfully use practical effects and brief glimpses at the terrors to toy with audiences' imaginations and send them into unsettling territory.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Feb 17, 2021

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.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2021

Color Out of Space is a little uneven, cramming too many ideas into the mix, but the mix of two gonzo artists like Cage and Stanley offers up an movie that amps up the cinematic anxiety in unpredictable ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2021

COLOR OUT OF SPACE holds nothing back. Stanley enthusiastically dives into his source material to create a dazzling technicolor nightmare, complete with deranged alpacas.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2021

Psychedelic, cosmic dread with a dash of gnarly body horror, Stanley's first feature in decades is a gonzo rollercoaster bolstered by off-the-walls performances and hypnotic cinematography.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 29, 2021

Though we are still far from having a definitive cinematic version of The Color Out Of Space, Stanley's film has a lot going for it and will certainly interest fans.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

In the end though, there's just not enough bat sh*t Nicolas Cage moments to make this one worth your while.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

If you're a Nicholas Cage fan, and you have a friend thats a Nicholas Cage fan, this is a perfect film to go see together... It is a wild trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 13, 2020

For the more adventurous viewers, Colour Out of Space is a visually spectacular, insanely exhilarating, and unfathomable piece of work that could only have come from the minds of Lovecraft and Stanley. Highly recommended.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Depending on your mood, Color Out of Space will either be an entertaining yet manic escapade of fun or a disappointing adaptation of Lovecraft's source material.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2020

A chaotic and apocalyptic vision that all the same draws us in. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 31, 2020