Summer of Lovecraft: The Color Out of Space (Die Farbe) (2010)

Directed by Huan Vu
Starring Ingo Heise, Michael Kausch and Erik Rastetter

The Story

“The Colour Out of Space” is widely regarded as one of Lovecraft’s best stories, and despite its tricky content it’s been filmed several times. Check out our reviews of Colour from the Dark and Die, Monster, Die!

The Film

Huan Vu’s adaptation follows the basic structure of Lovecraft’s story, except that instead of a researcher on an unrelated mission, Jonathan Davis (Heise) is looking for his missing father, who he believes is in a small town in Germany he visited at the end of the Second World War. When he gets there, he slowly begins to uncover the tale of the meteorite and its effects.