Episode 498 – The Colour Out of Space Revisited
We’re making a journey back to woods no axe has ever cut – it’s The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft! We’re talking the story and the new film adaptation by Richard Stanley.
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Thanks to Andrew Leman for the reading on the original episode!
Next up: The Dunwich Horror Revisited
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Just want point out that Tommy Chong was in The Color Out of Space and his daughter, Rae Dawn Chong, was in Commando, so push those two big circles in your Venn diagram a little closer together.
Just to help you out on German pronunciation, it is pronounced dee farbeh, not dye farb. (Bruce Willis was not in this one) Generally the second vowel is long, not the first, and ending vowels are not silent. Stay eldritch.
Ah, “Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau.” It is one of the funniest film docs out there (docs about train wrecks tend to be more entertaining than ones about beloved classics), especially once Brando enters the scene. I loved that documentary so much as to purchase the 3-disc Blu-Ray from Severin video, a worthy purchase even if just because one of the discs is an audiobook of Richard Stanley reading the original H.G. Wells “Island of Dr Moreau.” Anyway, it is because of the doc that I have sought out anything by Richard Stanley, including the fantastic COLOR OUT OF SPACE.
this film is toppled over by Cage’s mannered performence. In my opinion Annihilation is a much better version of this story (and a much better film overall)