FilmRCosmic & Lovecraftian Sci-Fi Horror Body Horror

Color Out of Space2020

Name: Color Out of Space
Genre: Cosmic & Lovecraftian, Sci-Fi Horror, Body Horror, Psychological
Released: 2020-01-24
Rating: 6.4

“It will consume you.”

Directed by Richard Stanley

6.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.1Rotten Tomatoes 86%Metacritic 70TMDB 6.1

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Year

2020

Runtime

111 min

Box Office

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$1,023,510

Domestic

$765,561

🏆 11 wins & 17 nominations total

The premise

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

Horror Vault's take

When a meteorite strikes the isolated New England farm of the Gardner family, it brings with it something far beyond human comprehension — a shimmering, unearthly color that seeps into the soil, the water, and the minds of everyone it touches. What begins as strange livestock behavior and odd family tensions slowly escalates into a waking nightmare of mutation and psychological unraveling. Director Richard Stanley's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's seminal short story leans hard into hallucinogenic dread and cosmic terror, anchored by a characteristically unhinged Nicolas Cage performance. This is Lovecraftian horror rendered in vivid, alien hues — deeply weird, deeply unsettling, and impossible to look away from.

Content: Body Horror, Graphic Mutation, Animal Harm, Disturbing Imagery, Violence