Review – The Colour from the Dark

Once again a movie adaptation of a Lovecraft story scores a serious “close but no cigar.” This time the source is “The Colour Out of Space,” one of my favorites. So perhaps I’m being a little too hard on this production. In its defense, when it strays somewhere near the neighborhood of the source story it’s actually reasonably good. The strange, amorphous “monster” is particularly well suited to a production that doesn’t have the money for effects more graphic than some lighting tricks and simple CGI. Ah but that’s only part of it. The rest for some reason is a heavy dose of The Exorcist mixed with Nazis, zombies and the usual batch of low-budget standby nudity and gore. See if desperate