#73: Color Out of Space
Travolta/Cage
English - March 06, 2024 16:25 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsSociety & Culture nathan rabin john travolta nicolas cage movie film action bad Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, Nathan and Clint stare into some glowy rocks for a single serving of Cage in Richard Stanley's Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space!
Serving as a spiritual followup to Mandy (with its cosmic-horror stylings and full-on Rage Cage moments), Color Out of Space puts Cage in another tale of rural tranquility disrupted by neon-tinted ravings from the beyond. This time, he's the patriarch of a broken yet resilient family who retreats to the woods to repair long-festering emotional wounds, only to find themselves torn apart by a fuschia glow that emanates from a meteorite that lands in their backyard. Crops grow uncannily, people lose their minds, and alpacas take on new, horrific shapes -- all while Cage and co. flail against the unfathomable knowledge the "color" presents them.
It's a lean, effective, genuinely haunting bit of cosmic horror, and the boys dig into why it gets under their skin so.
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