I was interested in this film because it adapts H.P. Lovecrafts great short story "The Colour out of Space". I could've guessed that this would be most likely bad (based on the Nic Cage billing alone) but man...
This takes the basic premise of Lovecrafts story and sets it in present day. After that, the writers who adapted the story must have taken the important plot points of the story, put them on a dart board, thrown some darts on it and taken those and filled the rest with other horror clichés. Can't explain this jumbled mess any other way. It omits certain (imo) important plot elements of the original. For example: Most about the meteorite itself and the globules of colour in it: Scrapped. The short story had a brilliant and subtle buildup, adding changes here and there in the surroundings of the well. The movie on the other hand doesn't care for subtlety, and turns it into an over the top story and adds some horror clichés (satanist rituals, car doesn't start, over the top deformed animals complete with the cliché squishy noises, etc.). Add a horrendous Nic Cage performance and you have this film.
I had a hard time finishing it and only could watch bits at a time. It is THAT boring and bad. I had to force myself to finish it.
This takes the basic premise of Lovecrafts story and sets it in present day. After that, the writers who adapted the story must have taken the important plot points of the story, put them on a dart board, thrown some darts on it and taken those and filled the rest with other horror clichés. Can't explain this jumbled mess any other way. It omits certain (imo) important plot elements of the original. For example: Most about the meteorite itself and the globules of colour in it: Scrapped. The short story had a brilliant and subtle buildup, adding changes here and there in the surroundings of the well. The movie on the other hand doesn't care for subtlety, and turns it into an over the top story and adds some horror clichés (satanist rituals, car doesn't start, over the top deformed animals complete with the cliché squishy noises, etc.). Add a horrendous Nic Cage performance and you have this film.
I had a hard time finishing it and only could watch bits at a time. It is THAT boring and bad. I had to force myself to finish it.