17th July, 2018.
OK, I’m definitely on to something, there.
That light? The one Photo Booth seems to like me having on, when I record a video of myself?
Don’t half glare.
Possibly that’s my own fault for not wanting to switch the main light on.
Whatever.
At any rate … ?
It’s a Tuesday night.
Various bits and bobs have been done.
Including the fixing of my bathroom light.
You know? The one that was only fitted a few months ago, by the chap who did my electricity check?
Yeah, you’d think a bulb would last, won’t you … ?
At additional any rate … ?!
I’ve ALSO got Japan’s Gentleman Take Polaroids on in the background.
Track 7: Nightporter, if you must know.
Strikes me the band put a lot of work into that, and a handful of other, tunes.
But that possibly suits my mood, right now.
Mildly sleepy, slightly mournful …
And having watched a film: the 2010 movie adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story, the Huan Vu directed, The Colour Out of Space.
And yes: it’s slow …
~≈§≈~
The Colour Out of Space — Die Farbe, in the original German — replaces the unnamed surveyor in the short story with with a young man called Jonathon Davis (Ingo Heise): a young man searching for his father.
Davis senior?
Has decided to re-visit a small village in the Swabian-Franconian Forest Where he’d been stationed during the war.
And been told stories, by the locals.
Of how a meteorite had crashed on the Gärtener family farm.
And how something had got into the soil in the area, as a result.
Pears?
Shouldn’t be that size …
~≈§≈~
Now …
Good?
And slow?
Let’s take slow, first, call we?
Yes: even though The Color Out Of Space* is only 85 minutes, it’s somewhat slowly paced: it’s NOT an all guns blazing type of film.
Do NOT go into it expecting to get running about!
For me … ?
That slow pace, especially during the first fifty minutes or so almost put me off carrying on.
I resisted, though.
As, at around the fifty minute mark is when the film starts to bite. And, in a scene the the Gärtener family’s eldest son starts going mad, the film starts to pick up pace …
And dig into a viewer’s nerves.
Personally?
I think I’d’ve preferred some thing a little pacier …
However, that takes me to my next point.
Good … ?
I‘d have to say a somewhat qualified yes.
Don’t forget, my introduction to the works of HP Lovecraft was through the deliciously zippy Reanimator: and through Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu.
So the pace was a little off putting.
Beyond that, though?
I think The Color Out Of Space scores on atmosphere: atmosphere, AND on textural authenticity.
Reanimator?
Modernised a story that had been set — in part — in the run up to WW1.
The Color Out Of Space, on the other hand?
Stayed a little closer to its source.
And was just as unnerving.
Yes: that makes the film worth your while
The Color Out Of Space
★★★☆
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