Sometimes that means having to take quite a big step away from the text. "I tried at every turn to be faithful and bring out the strongest points of the original story. His approach relies first on making Lovecraft contemporary enough for its horrors to touch on the awfulness of our current moment. The cult director of 1990's Hardware and 1992's Dust Devil, Stanley more than makes up for lost time in his Color, creating both a relatively faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's original, as well as a modern celebration of the kind of excretion-splattering body horror not seen since the Lovecraftian renaissance of the 1980s.
So why isn't there a Color, or The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or Mountains of Madness, or Dunwich?" Stanley said to Newsweek, in an interview leading up to the release of the South African director's new movie, Color Out of Space, in theaters Friday. It seems like these movies should be made and remade every generation. "As a lifelong Lovecraft fan I've always been distressed by the lack of decent screen adaptations of his work.
Director Richard Stanley wants to change that, beginning with his adaptation of the short story Lovecraft himself loved best, "The Colour Out of Space." Over the past century, his terrors have been digested and reconstituted, leaving only 1920s pastiche still attached to his name.
While throbbing, otherworldly beings can still be found in horror/sci-fi movies like Annihilation and Prometheus, cinematic adaptations of the actual novellas and short stories of Howard Phillips Lovecraft have become rare. Rather than cosmic horror, 21st century Lovecraftian is more often the domain of tabletop roleplaying gamers, faux old-timey radio show podcasts and video games with tommy guns and tentacles.
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