The Color Out of Space 2020 :
warning:>>> blow by blow realtime spoilage alert* <<<
... half an hour in, all character development so far and this is not cutting it. What will they come up with to scare us... ah, our MC, a hydrologist young black guy, of course, who is gonna get involved with the young Wiccan daughter... cos it's 'Lovecraft... of course...well his car starts up for no reason... but no real scares yet. The meteor has landed and some really stupid stuff has gone on... like dad, Nic Cage, going on TV and being ridiculed as a 'UFO witness' even after cops have been there and its obviously uhhh a meteorite... until... at 37 min. geez, mom cuts a couple fingers off for no reason, graphically, while slicing carrots as the little kid stands there... * Off to the hospital with her. What else will they come up with... its high budget so... yech. Cage looks like he's not acting as he gags ... what am I doing in this movie...
Now.. the little kid, of course, is being talked to by 'it' ... and the well is getting consistent scary music... and the phones aren't working right... as the kid paints a monster while staring at the well. In the well we get purple colors, and a huge purple bug crawls up outa there...we see the kid through its bug* vision... and it flies off. Same purple color now showing on the TV...
Now the daughter sees the sink fill with blood... her phone acts up again, so she throws up. Now our MC figures out the water is contaminated.. and the little kid is playing with his invisible 'friend' in the well.
Next, the crusty hippy character in the woodsy shed is recording sounds from below the ground... 'the aliens' ... 'up is down, fast is slow'... whoa, finally a jump scare as Cage and wife drive back from surgery on her hand... some kind of monster runs crost the road. Purple light pours from the well and the dog freaks out but the kid just sits there. More phone nonsense as daughter and pothead son get together with dad Cage, Mom and kid... and Cage is angry as he sees the Alpaca llamas are out of their cage.
Lots swearing now as dad insists nothing is going on... he takes a shower and a glob of jelly stuff is plugging the drain, it grabs at his hand but he shrugs it off. Now there's a bad smell and the dog has vanished. Morning, and Cage picks giant weird tomatoes, up a month early. The phone acts up some more. Cage freaks out, smashing fruit... his skin goes all reptilian but he rubs whiskey on it and it goes away ... the TV acts up more... shots of the scary house.
The daughter is gonna do a ritual... she pulls out her copy of the necronomicon,, she drips blood on it. Oh gosh now shes cutting herself up pretty bad...
Son and little kid go into the barn but run right back out because the llamas have mutated into monsters radiating purple light. Mom and kid get zapped by a what looks like a million volts, from the barn. They take them inside and they are smoking and kinda fused together...daughter, bleeding everywhere, walks in and screams.. phone dead, car won't start, Cage freaks out.
Suddenly at one hour fifteen, son and daughter figure out the meteor is to blame. Mom and kid are now a hellish fused mess on the couch, they take them up to the attic. Cage gets his shotgun and goes to the barn where the alpacas look really a lot like the dogs did in
The Thing, and he blasts them to bits. Next Cage is gonna blast the wife and kid, like the alpacas, but he doesnt, he goes down and watches TV.
Meanwhile our MC water inspector and some cops have found some mutated fused critters near town. The son and daughter are gonna try and ride out on horseback, but horsie's eyes turn purple and he runs off. Uh oh, the missing dog is in the well... son goes down there and yes purple protoplasm does him in. Cage freaks again and locks daughter in with fused Mom and kid. Here comes our MC with a cop, as Cage rants and converses with the TV.
Upstairs, the mom/kid monster arises and menaces daughter. MC and cop enter the house and Cage is nuts, they race upstairs and blow the mom/kid monsters head off. The little kid thing is still alive so Cage blasts him too.
MC carries daughter out, purple monster light comes from the well, Cage is gonna shoot at it, cop assumes he's gonna shoot MC so he shoots Cage.
Now the old woodsy prospector has to be saved, so MC and cop go to his shed, he's dead with purple light in his head, a tape is playing in a crazy voice, explaining what the thing in the meteor is, how it 'sucks...and it burrrrns... ' MC and cop leave, but a monster bug thing swoops down.. no wait, it's a branch of a tree.. and grabs and squishes the cop. MC finds daughter back at the well, she goes all purple and our MC gets a very small glimpse of a purple worm world of some kind, and he falls down. The grass grabs at him as daughter turns into a purple vortex, but he manages to run back into the house, where Cage is sitting , speaking in a womans voice... and they battle, but MC escapes, down into the cellar, and everything is totally purple now, aaand FoosH, everything disappears.
We see MC crawl out and walk over to the well, in black and white, all color is gone now, and after a slow fade we get a voiceover... from the story! Then we get more of same as we see MV smoking a cig or is it a reefer and staring out across the land. .. the voiceover gets the title in, and a bit more about 'the messenger from realms whos existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.'
We see MC's cig butt floating in water as he walks off.
So, just like the book.
Ridiculous derivatory 'horror' movie, not tense or scary just kinda blecchh, and the most interesting bit, for me, wuz that the old hippy in the shed was listening to
Ultimate Spinach's 1st LP, from 1968.