![]() Stanley has remained true to that vision and we sat down with him to discuss UFOs, John Carpenter’s The Thing, cancer, and witchcraft. ![]() As the narrator near the end of Lovecraft’s story remarks: “What it was, only God knows.” A movie that loses its own mind and feels as paranoid, cruel, ludicrous and radiation-poisoned as its characters. Starring Nicolas Cage as the head of the Gardner family whose property is infected by a meteor that begins to mutate the biology and psychology of everything it touches, Stanley’s film weaponizes the actor’s meta-comedic persona, psychedelic imagery and grotesque body horror to craft a film that is on an irregular and grotesque wavelength of its own making. ![]() Lovecraft’s personal favorite of his own stories, Color Out of Space. After directing two of the most genuinely idiosyncratic genre movies of the 1990s: Hardware and Dust Devil-the former is a frenzied cyberpunk dystopia splatter film that exists at the exact intersection of Mad Max and The Terminator, the latter an African spaghetti western with hints of mystic horror-South African genre filmmakers Richard Stanley makes his cinematic return thirty years later with his adaptation of H.P. ![]()
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