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COLOR OUT OF SPACE [sic] is an appropriately weird and witchy science-fiction film. But for an adaptation of a Lovecraft story directed by Richard Stanley, it never gets as weird as you feel it should be. youtube.com/watch?v=agnpaFLo0toOn Internet Archive
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Texturally and aesthetically, it's fairly similar to ANNIHILATION but without that film's cinematography and haunting soundtrack. The production design of flora and fauna is fairly similar to John Carpenter's THE THING but without the originality.Permalink On Internet Archive
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And then there's Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage's performance is... a choice. It's like he and he alone is edited in from a completely different film with a different tone to that of the actors around him. He's thoroughly, distractingly, and exhaustingly Nic Cage™.Permalink On Internet Archive
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I can only assume they needed the name recognition of a big star to get backing but Cage is really distracting. It's not Nic Cage's weirdest performance but it's way too out there.Permalink On Internet Archive
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There's some fun nods to Lovecraft in the location of Arkham and in the hydrologist from Miskatonic University. But the cosmic horror is never as mind-bendingly horrific as in Lovecraft.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Having watched LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S "ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU" just the other day, I am glad that Stanley finally got to direct his film with Marlon Brando in it though.Permalink On Internet Archive