“Colour Out Of Space” is an interesting sci-fi/horror film that is a bit slow at the start but it does become rather engaging. It reminded me of “The Shining” as well as more recent films such as “The Witch” and “Annihilation”. Directed by Richard Stanley (“Hardware”) and starring Nicolas Cage (“Vampire’s Kiss”, “Raising Arizona”), the film seems to perfectly combine their extreme styles.

In “Colour Out Of Space”, a family that live on a farm surrounded by woodland find their existence completely altered when a strange meteorite lands near their home. Their perception of reality and their very existence becomes threatened by something that human minds cannot fully comprehend.

Richard Stanley supposedly holds up “Vampire’s Kiss” as his favourite Cage film and instructed Cage to copy his performance in that movie as much as possible. It definitely shows as “Colour Out Of Space” gives us one of the craziest Cage performances of all-time. Cage does a really good job. Joely Richardson (“Event Horizon”, “The Patriot”) is good as the wife. The kids and the other characters are not as interesting as they could have been. The daughter (Madeleine Arthur “Big Eyes”) is into black magic and you question at times whether or not her rituals are responsible for the strange events that unfold. The effects on the strange creatures you see are actually really impressive.

“Colour Out Of Space” has a few dull moments near the beginning but it becomes a surprisingly disturbing piece with some very creative special effects. You really do get the sense that whatever the family is dealing with really is not from this world. I think the performance from Cage is also very entertaining. I also think that this infinitely better than Stanley’s film “Hardware”. If you want a sci-fi/horror flick with shocking visuals then “Colour Out Of Space” is definitely worth checking out.