The Colour Out of Space (spoilers, but come on)

[skuu sunshine]

I've been moving so I haven't been jumping on the forums... but this thread... HOLY COW! There are like a million things I want to address! UGH!

Hi, Chris. Is the next episode out today? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 

[Bulbatron]

I realise this is the literary section and not the Entertainment and Gaming section, but sometimes the film adaptations of stories get discussed.  There are two adaptations that I know of.  One is Die!  Monster!  Die!.  It's pretty dire and only worth seeing for Boris Karloff.  The other is Colour From The Dark (directed by Ivan Zuccon).  This version changes the location and time period, but it's actually pretty good - for a Lovecraft adaptation.

But, getting literary, I remember thinking this was really creepy when I read it.  It lingers in the mind long after the last word has been read.  I live in quite a rural area now, but the bungalow I lived in when I read this was even more rural.  I read it at night, in total silence.  By the end, I was pretty nervous about looking out of the window, in case the grass and bushes might be tinged with an strange, alien colour...

[Danial]

I think I've mentioned in a previous thread that my favourite HPL moment from any of his stories is the ending of this one:

Then without warning the hideous thing shot vertically up toward the sky like a rocket or meteor, leaving behind no trail and disappearing through a round and curiously regular hole in the clouds before any man could gasp or cry out. No watcher can ever forget that sight, and Ammi stared blankly at the stars of Cygnus, Deneb twinkling above the others, where the unknown colour had melted into the Milky Way. But his gaze was the next moment called swiftly to earth by the crackling in the valley. It was just that. Only a wooden ripping and crackling, and not an explosion, as so many others of the party vowed. Yet the outcome was the same, for in one feverish, kaleidoscopic instant there burst up from that doomed and accursed farm a gleamingly eruptive cataclysm of unnatural sparks and substance; blurring the glance of the few who saw it, and sending forth to the zenith a bombarding cloudburst of such coloured and fantastic fragments as our universe must needs disown. Through quickly re-closing vapours they followed the great morbidity that had vanished, and in another second they had vanished too. Behind and below was only a darkness to which the men dared not return, and all about was a mounting wind which seemed to sweep down in black, frore gusts from interstellar space. It shrieked and howled, and lashed the fields and distorted woods in a mad cosmic frenzy, till soon the trembling party realised it would be no use waiting for the moon to shew what was left down there at Nahum’s.

[Genus Unknown]

I also think that, for lack of a better term, "infection" by the Colour shares some symptoms with depression.

I never looked at it that way, and now I can never not look at it that way again. You, sir, have a good brain. (Beware of Mi-go!)

Heh. Thanks, but that little insight is courtesy of a bad brain. I've been changing depression meds lately, and I've been feeling a hell of a lot like Nahum Gardner for about a week.  

[Bassik]

Did we just overflow Chris' brain? Oh no! 

And Genus Unknown: ouch, that's not good. I hope these will work bether for you. In any case, you don't have to worry about a trip to Pluto for a while. Unless you want to go there.
I want to go there...

@Daniel: that is the stuff of nightmares. You know you have read a good story when it lingers in your mind for days, and that part plus some of the others discussed in this thread have the power to stay with you for ever.

[JulieH]

I realise this is the literary section and not the Entertainment and Gaming section, but sometimes the film adaptations of stories get discussed.  There are two adaptations that I know of.  One is Die!  Monster!  Die!.  It's pretty dire and only worth seeing for Boris Karloff.  The other is Colour From The Dark (directed by Ivan Zuccon).  This version changes the location and time period, but it's actually pretty good - for a Lovecraft adaptation.

And "The Curse" (1987) with Claude Akins and Wil Wheaton.  Not great,and too much banjo music, but some good bits.

[Genus Unknown]

Bassik: Don't worry about me, I'm fine. The new meds are starting to kick in, and I've quit glowing eerily at night.

And speaking of Pluto... actually, that's a topic for another thread.

[Bassik]

Bassik: Don't worry about me, I'm fine. The new meds are starting to kick in, and I've quit glowing eerily at night.

Well thats good, unless the glowy made room for brittleness and grey...

[Genus Unknown]

Q. Why do Nahum Gardner's cows taste better than other cows?
A. Because they're a little meteor.

[Bassik]

Q. Why do Nahum Gardner's cows taste better than other cows?
A. Because they're a little meteor.

You're terrible 

[skuu sunshine]

Q. Why do Nahum Gardner's cows taste better than other cows?
A. Because they're a little meteor.

That was pretty good... you're making my wait for the episode fractionally more bareable. 

[old book]

On previous adaptations to comics, I thought the original Creepshow had a story inspired by Colour. Yes, I know Creepshow was a film, but they had a little graphic novel they sold with it. It had four stories I think. One was about this guy who touches a fresh meteorite and starts growing grass all over his body.

Dell Comics did at least one issue of Die, Monster, Die! based on the Karloff film based on Colour (An Incredible Force of Evil Strikes Fear into the House at the End of the World!). It's also possible Heavy Metal might've done Colour and possibly Weird Science or Weird Fantasy in the Entertaining Comics line-up, but I'd have to check more.

[Genus Unknown]

THE EPISODE HAS LANDED, THE EPISODE HAS LANDED, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[Danial]

EEEEEEEEEE!!! *races to open iTunes ASAP*

[catamount]

New episode! Praise Jeebus!