Soundtrack Review: Color Out of Space

February 16, 2020 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Soundtrack and tagged Colin Stetson, Color Out of Space, H.P. Lovecraft, Milan Records, RIchard Stanley | 1 Comment

Color Out of Space
Released by Milan Records, 2020
13 Tracks with a Total Running Time of 45 min.
Music by Colin Stetson

Let me start this by saying that I absolutely love the film Color Out of Space. So yes, this may make my review a little jaded, but I hope that you can at least understand why I think this score is an incredible piece of music when I’m done. So let us begin.

Watching the film, it really brings another world right in front of you, with strange and colorful things happening all around you. The music is right there giving you the audible angle to surround your ears with what your brain is seeing. It seems to just float around you while you’re listening to it, giving you a odd feeling of something… different. It may help when you have the volume cranked up! Continue reading →

Movie Review: Color Out of Space

January 20, 2020 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Movies and tagged Brenden Meyer, Color Out of Space, Elliot Knight, H.P. Lovecraft, Joeley Richardson, Julian Hilliard, Madeleine Arthur, Nicolas Cage, RIchard Stanley, Tommy Chong | Leave a comment

Color Out of Space (2019)
Directed by Richard Stanley
Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brenden Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Tommy Chong, Elliot Knight

Like many horror movie fans, my first introduction to the works of H.P. Lovecraft was from film and TV adaptations, most likely from an episode of Night Gallery, even though at the time I had no idea where the story originally came from. That would come many years later. I think the first feature film based on his work that I remember seeing was the 1965 film Die, Monster, Die!, directed by Daniel Haller. Again, even though I had no idea who Lovecraft was, let alone that this was based on his work, I do remember the “zoo in hell” sequence scared the crap out of me as a kid! This film happens to be based on the same short story that this new movie is based on, The Colour Out of Space, which was first published in the Sept. issue of Amazing Stories, in 1927. And while this latest version doesn’t have a zoo, there is plenty of images within to give one nightmares. Continue reading →

2019 Year End Review: Part 3 – Best Viewings

January 4, 2020 by Jon Kitley in Year End Reviews and tagged Border, Cold Skin, Color Out of Space, Marrowbone, Murder Party, RIchard Stanley, Satan's Slaves, Shrew's Nest, The Wind, The Witch in the Window, Tonight She Comes | Leave a comment

As always, keep in mind that my list here are my favorites that I watched for the first time in 2019. You’ll noticed that while most of them are recent films, coming out in the last few years, there are some that are older, one that even came out over a decade ago! But to me, when I’m watching a film for the first time, it is a new movie to me, so that is why I count them. I have them listed in alphabetical order just to make it easier.

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Stanley’s Return from Space

December 26, 2019 by Jon Kitley in Movie Events and tagged Color Out of Space, David Gregory, Dust Devil, H.P. Lovecraft, Hardware, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, Music Box Theatre, Nicholas Cage, RIchard Stanley | Leave a comment

Colors out fo space poster I can remember being in a theater back in 1990 and watching a screening of Hardware, by a young filmmaker, who showed me a post-apocalyptical world like I hadn’t seen before. But also one filled with amazing colors and sounds. I was so excited to see what this guy was going to do next. Then two years later, he gave us Dust Devil (though it took a few years to see the full version of the film!). And then we get to the tragedy that was The Island of Dr. Moreau, where he was fired and replaced, after bringing that film from the very beginning. That was well documented in David Gregory’s Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014). Ever since then, besides some crictially acclaimed documentaries, he has never made a full lenght feature film since that debacle. Until now.

Next month, with the release of Color Out of Space, we’ll see the glorious return of Richard Stanley to feature films. Starring Nicholas Cage, Stanley has adapted the 1927 tale from H.P. Lovecraft, about a meteor from space that starts to… change things around where it landed. Continue reading →

Monsterpalooza – Part 5: Celebs and Goodbye!

May 2, 2019 by Jon Kitley in Conventions and tagged Color Out of Space, David Del Valle, Dust Devil, Gamera, Greg Cannon, Hardware, Monsterpalooza, RIchard Stanley, Severin | Leave a comment

We never bothered with going to the celebs that were signing outside in the hall, mainly because they were ones that have been convention regulars, plus the fact that I had no interests in paying for an autograph. But there were more than a few “famous” people wandering around the vendor room throughout the weekend. On Saturday, as Dawn, Scott, and me were wandering around, we were coming up to the Severin table and I see this hat from the back. I looked over at Scott and said, “That’s Richard Stanley! I can tell by the hat.” And I was right. In 1990, I was got to see Stanley’s first feature film, Hardware, in the theater. It was an incredible experience, filled with colors, images, and music, all intertwined together into this futuristic, post-apocalyptic tale of humanity, barely holding on. His second feature, Dust Devil (1992), was another visually stunning film. His latest film, Color Out of Space, is in post-production and I can’t wait to see it. Stanley is one of those directors that I had never met before, but always wanted to at least shake his hand and thank him for his work. And now, I got to do just that. Another one off my bucket list.

Richard Stanley

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