Too Scary; Didn't Watch - COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Episode Date: December 16, 2020

A hydrologist, alpacas, and a color that defies description but looks an awful lot like magenta - we're recapping Color Out of Space! Join us to hear some pretty ok Nicolas Cage impressions. No Emily this week :( but she will be back next week for our holiday horror episode!Recap starts @ 28 minute mark Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. You might recognize this voice. It's not Emily. We are missing Emily this week. This is Henley. I am too scared to watch scary movies, and I am really missing my partner in crime, Emily, who is usually here to also be too scared of scary movies.

I'm Sammy. I like scary movies. I'm Sammy. I like scary movies. And now we're on a even playing field, one to one, one brave person, one scared person, missing our wonderful Emily. She could not make it today because it is our four respondents birthday today. So a big happy birthday shout out to Joel Jensen. Joel Jensen. We love him so much. He has he's the one who coined the brilliant term correspondent. We must give him so much credit for that.

And you can forget for respondent. Oh, yeah. Right. And for respondent. He has been on because he's been on four of our shows. He did The Witch, Train to Busan, Saw, and Drag Me to Hell. Right? Those are the four.

We love you, Joel. Happy birthday. What's up with you, Henley? Just you and me. Oh, my God. It's so good to see you, Sammy. I love you so much. So what's up with me?

So I have been doing something like all throughout quarantine that I'm just curious if other people have been doing this as well. And I thought I'd talk about it on the pod a little bit today. So I've developed a pretty obsessive habit of searching Zillow, Zillow.com. I am looking everywhere. I'm just imagining what it would be like to buy a house in Savannah, Georgia, like anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Like, I'm just curious. Certainly cheaper than Los Angeles and New York City. No, I mean, I mostly look in Los Angeles and New York City, but those prices are so deeply upsetting that then I have to like give myself a little palate cleanser by looking at in places like Savannah, Georgia, where you can buy like a beautiful

four bedroom home for like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Those are the upsetting ones. That's when I get upset. I guess. Yeah, this there's multiple ways to look at it. I think I like to daydream that I would be happy in a smaller city. Maybe I would. I've never lived in a smaller city, so I don't know. I've only ever lived in, like after post-college, I've only ever lived in New York or Los Angeles. So I don't know what it would be like to live anywhere else. But I recently, there's an article in the New York Times that someone wrote about this obsession. And apparently a lot of people are doing it. A lot of people have been doing it during quarantine, like Zillow's ad views or page views are skyrocketing because people just want to know what it would be like to daydream a little

bit about where else they could live. Everyone's fantasizing about leaving their homes or because we have to stay in our homes, changing homes. And what you could do to decorate your home, what kind of garden you could have in this, you know, fantasy life that you have. Sammy, have you ever done this? I have not, but I did definitely get into the redecorating early on. I bought a new couch, new art for the walls. I was just so sick of looking at everything. And so I had to revamp things.

But the only thing I've looked up on Zillow is the house I am currently living in while I'm here for work. And this is like a rental house and it's five bedroom and it's waterfront is beautiful. It's so beautiful. It's really, really beautiful. It's so beautiful. And it's just $1 million. It's so beautiful. And it's just $1 million. Oh, my God.

It's so insane. If this house was in Los Angeles, well, first of all, if it was waterfront, I mean, I guess it would be in Malibu or something. It would be $30 million. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's astonishing that it's this price. I actually looked at Malibu recently on Zillow, and that's a really fun one. That's a really fun one to fantasize. But all of them are like $15 million houses.

It's crazy. Yep. What about you, Sammy? How's your week been? Oh, it's been okay. Working away. I have been very, very busy with work. My work deadline got extended, so I will be staying up here through Christmas.

I'll be in this five-bedroom house by myself for Christmas. I can't believe it. So, listeners, we can't do any incredibly scary movies for the next couple weeks because I will be too scared. Yeah, you're not that brave. Even me, a brave person in a big house by myself for weeks is not ideal. You're only human. in a big house by myself for weeks is not ideal. You're only human. And what I've been doing is, well, recently,

I was like, oh, you know, it's the end of the year. There's going to be some top 10 lists. I like to make top 10 lists at the end of the year for movies and TV. And this has been a weird year for movies, obviously. Theaters have been closed. A lot of releases being pushed. But more than I realized were released.

And so I had a real panic attack looking up all these movies that came out in 2020 that I just kind of missed, went under the radar. And there's so many that I feel like I have to watch now before I can make my top 10 list. I was feeling very overwhelmed. And because of that, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. And so this week's movie... Because this is on your top 10. This is a potential for it could be on the top 10. This week's movie is a 2020 movie.

So yes, it was one that I was like, I got to see before I make that list. And this week's movie is Color Out of Space. It is directed by Richard Stanley, written by Richard Stanley and Scarlett Amaris, based on the short story The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft, starring Nicolas Cage, Jolie Richardson, Madeline Arthur, Elliot Knight, and Tommy Chong. It is available on AMC+. If you guys still have your free trial from last week from Wreck. I like got right in the window there and I was able to watch this one for free too. It's also on Shudder. If you guys have Shudder.

Sponsored by Shudder. Got it. Yeah, seriously. Hashtag Shudder. Sponsor us. Pleaseder. Sponsored by Shudder. Yeah, seriously, hashtag Shudder. Sponsor us. Please. We talk about you in every single episode. Sammy, I'm so excited to hear about this movie. We talked about how we should probably

discuss H.P. Lovecraft a little bit because the movie is obviously based off of a short story that he wrote. I had just heard that the only thing I know about him is, well, obviously that he's kind of a fantasy science fiction horror author and that he is racist. And so I asked Henley to do some digging. I've never really found out more than just that sentence. And so I was interested to hear. Yeah. Henley, what did you find? Okay. I found so many things, man, this guy's fascinating. He's really had a huge influence on

science fiction writing, um, and like horror fiction in general. So I'm just going to do a little quick little biography of him. Um, okay. So he lived from 1890 to 1937. He died in obscurity of intestinal cancer at 46. And he was never known or successful in his lifetime. Interesting. Like he was super poor. No, everyone hated his writing. Like a few years after he died, a New Yorker critic wrote, Lovecraft was not a good writer. The only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad art and bad taste. So mean. Yeah. But apparently people hated him.

Shitty. So maybe he deserved it. Well, we're going to get to that. Yeah. So then his popularity actually rose in the 60s and 70s, thanks to books like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist. That's when horror fiction started to become super popular. He always kind of had like a group of devoted, avid fans. And

during this time period, they really started to grow. More of his works were published. They developed a prestigious award for science fiction called the World fantasy award in 1975 and the trophy um was a bust of lovecraft's face um so he's best known for his super nihilistic point of view he's quoted as saying all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos at large. I can see that in this movie for sure. Yes.

So obviously really dark point of view. And he also is quoted as saying the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. So those are two of his more popular quotes and kind of give you a sense of how his brain works. So the other interesting thing about Lovecraft is he was a prolific writer and wrote almost 100,000 letters throughout his lifetime. And so it's in these letters that we really get a real clear look into how explicitly racist he was. Oh, boy. I mean, I think the racism also comes through in a lot of his short stories, but he's very direct about it in a lot of these letters.

So, for example, in a 1934 letter, he described extra legal measures such as lynching and intimidation in mississippi and alabama as ingenious jesus christ um yes he says uh he discusses miscegenation and says that it's his most corporeal fear he insists that only pain and disaster could come from the mingling of black and white um he also wrote a poem in 1912 uh where he says the gods having just designed man and beast create blacks in semi-human form to populate the space in between that's a poem that's in a god wow yeah so he's like horribly racist and super anti-semitic he also writes a lot about anti-semitic conspiracy theories he was a fan of hitler and fascism um a fan of hitler yeah so clearly really really racist. So the thing that this is ongoing controversy because people also are like a huge fan of his writing. He's really influenced a lot of a lot of writers.

He obviously has a huge legacy in our culture today. And so there's been a lot of talk of like whether it's possible to separate his racism from his work others were trying to square it trying to reconcile it um the award that was created in 1975 the world fantasy award it's still one of the most prestigious science fiction awards but of course like who wants to receive a bust of this super fucking racist man as an award that this redesign that award so they did in 2015 they they no longer award a bust of hp lovecraft to winners but there's controversy about that like some authors um expressed anger at the decision returned their awards because they decided to make this decision

and urged people to boycott it like that's and that's in 2015 that this is happening i mean not surprising no but it's just like are you fucking kidding me um and so anyway i think i think the thing that i was thinking about while reading all this is like his stories. I don't think you can't. It's impossible to separate the fact that this guy was super racist. I mean, you just you can't. I don't think it's possible to really reconcile it. And like it's something that we talked about before on the podcast where it's like representation matters, of course.

And like his stories are coming from an extremely racist point of view. And they kind of like breathe life into these myths that already exist in our culture that have like real world consequences. And are used constantly by our society to justify violence, pain, or just like keeping people down that aren't white. And I don't know what's going to happen with H.P. Lovecraft's legacy. I think we're like in a moment where we don't know. Yeah. Quite yet. Have you seen Lovecraft Country? No, I haven't.

Highly recommend. It's not based on anything he did, but it's set in the same world. And it's a primarily black cast and gets into a lot of American history and confronts this racism in a really interesting way. It might be making an appearance on the aforementioned top 10 list so oh my god sammy okay well i want to watch it then i'm really curious it's really good okay um because obviously this guy's still we're still making all these things that are based off of his stories like he he still has a huge presence in what we're consuming. And I'm wondering, I was just wondering, I don't know anything about this movie

we're about to hear about, but if any of this like resonates with what you watched with Color Out of Space, or if it feels like that story is kind of not engaging with any of this at all. Because he wrote so many stories. I don't know if all of them necessarily are relevant to this topic or not i mean i didn't there weren't there i didn't pick

up any you know racist undertones or anything like that but i'm sure that they would rewrite to not have it be that way i don't think think that, so maybe the original story there is. Right. There's a character in this that's name is Ward Phillips and H.P. Lovecraft's full name is Howard

Phillips Lovecraft and so it's kind of him putting himself in the book and that character is cast as a black guy. Oh, cool. Okay. I don't know if that's them being like, fuck you, H.P. Lovecraft. Like, what?

But yeah, no, I didn't. It didn't come through in that way. The other stuff that you were saying about, you know, the fear of the unknown and that kind of stuff does. And yeah, that makes sense. That's kind of, yeah, I think that's a common theme. It sounds like, not that I have read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft or know a lot about him. This is just, yeah, I just feel like he's become some, he's a name you hear more and more often. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I think because of this and because of Lovecraft Country, he's had a bit of a resurgence.

So yeah, I was just interested to know more about him. So thank you, Henley. I feel like it's important to not ignore these things when you're talking about these people. I feel like that should always be part of the conversation when talking about problematic people, like you can't you can't celebrate them without criticizing them. Well, yeah, I mean, we got into this a bit with Rosemary's Baby, too. It's something that kind of I feel like on an individual level, you kind of have to reckon with these things. And you can't yeah, you can't like brush under the rug because that allows it to keep happening. And that kind of dismisses the behavior. rug because that allows it to keep happening and that kind of dismisses the behavior yeah i i personally i don't i don't love separating art from the artist but here we are yeah i don't know he's tricky he's a tricky one so sammy were you like so happy to watch your favorite actor in the entire world, Nicolas Cage. Oh, you know I was. I freaking love him. But let the record show that my favorite actor is Keanu Reeves. Hello, everyone. It's our favorite time of the week, cocktail hour. What will you be drinking

this week? Today, we're having a space gin smash to ward off the deep existential dread of knowing just how small and meaningless we are in the vast, vast cosmos. We think H.P. Lovecraft would love this drink. green grapes, one green apple slice, one lemon wedge, half an ounce of simple syrup, one and a quarter ounces of gin, and an apple slice, mint sprig, and green grape for your garnish. In a shaker, muddle the mint, lemon, grapes, apple, and simple syrup. Add the gin, fill with ice, and shake until well chilled. Strain into a glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with your apple, mint sprig, and grape. Cheers. Okay, Henley, I have some trivia for you. If you can believe it, this is the same production company that made Mandy. It's called Spectre Vision. Okay, that makes sense. From the posters,

it kind of like looks like it would look like Mandy I don't know whether that's the case in the actual film or not there are certainly similarities it's for one Nicolas Cage and incredibly colorful um uh Mandy is very red this is very magenta so different um but it the budget was somewhere between 6 and 12 million couldn't get a clear figure it only made 1 million a rare case in which a horror movie lost. I mean, I'm sure it's not a rare case, but at least in movies that we've covered in bigger movies, it lost money. And I'm wondering if that has something to do with COVID because it came out basically right before. Okay. So did it come out in like February or something?

Yeah, I think so. End of January or February. And so I was wondering if that played a part. That must have had an effect because obviously people stopped going to the movies. Yeah. But you would think that if it came out in January, it wouldn't have had a huge, huge impact necessarily. it wouldn't have had a huge huge impact necessarily but it's also i it's also a shutter original and so maybe shutter originals make less money because people can watch people can stream them that makes sense so yeah that's probably it just

kind of stuck out to me i was like huh there huh. There was one trivia I wanted to read. I couldn't write it down because it's super long, but it's interesting. Okay. The color used in this film to represent the color is magenta, which doesn't exist as a single wavelength of light as part of the spectrum of visible light, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, also known as roigibiv. you, Biv. Rather, it is an extra spectral color that is only perceived by humans in a specific interaction of the optical rods in the eyes that detect red and blue in specific circumstances to create the magenta in the mind. Since red and blue are associated to evil and good, it means that the color is apart from evil and good to come from another universe where these concepts collide. where these concepts can collide wow perfect perfect i love it i love it yeah that was that's something he that's something that hp lovecraft is obsessed with is the fact that like even our ideas of human good and human evil like don't apply in the cosmos like none of that is applicable

um and this movie also also has joely richardson who was in event horizon and the turning to previous movies we've done um and as i was watching it i texted jenna and said um nicholas cage is very vampires kissy in this i see a lot of Peter Lowe, and that's his character in Vampire's Kiss, who members of Toni Collette's inner circle will know that that's who I was dressed as when me and Henley met for the first time. Oh my God, bringing it full circle. And then when I was reading the trivia, Richard Stanley, the director, his favorite movie, his favorite Nicolas Cage movie is Vampire's Kiss. And he asked Nicolas Cage to bring some of that into this performance.

So I was not imagining it. You're right. You're spot on. Right on the money. Amazing. And then this one I just wrote down because I don't know what the fuck it means. Both Nicolas Cage and Richard Stanley at some point in their lives have gone on a search for the Holy Grail. What?

No. Wait, really? I don't know. I didn't do any further research. I was just like, that's amazing. I'm writing it down as is. We're just leaving it at that. It feels like they're just referencing Nic Cage's experience with National Treasure.

I mean, that's where my mind went as well. But Richard Stanley, on the other hand, has got some explaining to do. Oh my God. That's ridiculous. Yeah, I would actually like... I want to be able to have the time and resources to go on a search for the Holy Grail.

I just never even imagined anybody actually doing that. I can't believe it. And two people involved in the movie have done it. Oh, my God. That's amazing. I need to know more. I know. I actually should have looked up more because it's certainly a very interesting statement.

Yeah. So, listeners, if you've ever gone on a search for the Holy Grail. Let us know. Let us know. How was it? How much did it cost? Yeah. That's the main thing I let us know let us know how much did it cost yeah that's the main thing i want to know um wait and also this is a stupid question but the holy grail it's like gives you immortality is that what the holy i don't even know um wait i need to i feel like i should look this up i like

don't even know what the holy grail is some art some ancient artifact oh it's just it's not actually supposed to necessarily mean anything or at least according to wikipedia it's often used to denote an elusive object or goal that is sought after with great um significance and it can kind of be anything with miraculous powers that provides happiness eternal youth they go on a search for it if it's a just a general term it's different traditions make it mean different things and and it's like something with miraculous powers that provides happiness eternal youth or sustenance and infinite abundance okay well all right i don't think either of them found it. Or. No, they didn't.

Or we would have heard more about it, probably. Okay. Okay. Should we watch this goddamn trailer? Let's watch it. Look at this. All those years in the big city and we finally got out. We're living the dream.

Maybe it is a dream. Then everything just blew up. Big flash, like a pink light. Or actually, I don't even know what color it was. It wasn't like any color I'd ever seen before. Looks like a meteorite. I mean, it's radioactive. I mean, it's from space, right? Meteorites are generally no more dangerous than ordinary rocks.

How can something that big just disappear? Did you plant those? No. Ward, you come here for a sec. Oh, God. What are you doing? Shh. It's talking to me. Who's talking to you?

A man in the well it's in the static it's in the moisture it's in here is out there what's out there is in here now everything's under control here he is so in denial that ding from the meteorite changes everything around it. It's just a color. But it burns. Can you believe me now? I don't know what to think. First of all, it has the little boy from haunchative hill house in it who's like the

cutest little kid in the entire world but i fear for him and his future because i'm worried he's one of those like child actors who's just so cute now but who knows what's gonna happen um that looks like it almost didn't even look like scary in the beginning for the first it looked more just like kind of like a sci-fi film and then obviously it gets scary at the beginning. For the first, it looked more just like kind of like a sci-fi film and then obviously it gets scary at the end but I'm wondering how scary and I'm also

wondering whether or not, did you like this movie, Sammy? I did like it. Same thing as it was starting, I was like, I wonder if this is going to be scary and I wonder if anything scary is going to happen and for me it's not the kind of scary that sticks with you. There are some jump scares. There's some body horror. It ramps up. It gets wild. I don't think it's the kind of thing, well, maybe it would probably give people nightmares, but it's not the kind of horror

that really scares me. It was just fun to watch. Nicolas Cage, it's funny. It has humor in it. It's really visually cool. I liked it. It's a contender for the top 10. Ooh, contender. Yeah, it looked not as,

like when I watched the Mandy trailer, I was like, this looks fucked up. Like this looks really scary. And I know that I don't think I could watch this, even though I'm super curious. This one feels more palatable, potentially. I like

Nicolas Cage as just a family man. You know, just living his life. And oh my god, I just can't wait to hear about it. I'm so excited. I can't wait to tell you about it. Can't wait to hear about it. I'm so excited. I can't wait to tell you about it. Can't wait to know what happens.

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Arthur and we see someone in regular clothes coming up behind her, kind of approaching her and she is saying she's like, what do you call it? Encanting? Doing incantations?

I didn't know if incanting was... She is reciting incantations. That sounds like if incanting was she is reciting incantations this is a weird way to put it she is saying there we go she's burning a piece of hair and saying please remove all

traces of cancer from Teresa Gardner my mother and this guy comes up behind her. He steps on twig or something, scares her. She turns around. She's immediately very, you know, kind of embarrassed and annoyed and yells at him. This is private property. And he says, I think it's public property.

She's like, public property ends at the road. And she starts packing up her stuff. And she said, now my spell's not going to work because of you. And he says, was it wiccan or alexandrian and she turns back like who's this guy that knows different like what do you know um and this guy is hot by the way and she okay thinks so too so they have kind of a little flirty moment um but she's still annoyed she is getting up on her horse what she has a horse so she's kind of packing up her horse to go gathering her belongings and he said he introduces himself his name is ward phillips and he is a hydrologist that was sent to inspect the water in the area.

And she says, you know, basically you're interrupting me, whatever I'm leaving and hops on her horse and gallops back home. And at this point in the movie, there's also this kind of opening sequence with very mystical looking trees and narration. The music is the same composer as hereditary. Colin Stetson is his name and um so

i i was very thrown in this opening i was like wait are we in like a an actual like lord of the rings movie is this a different world but we get we get to the front porch and nicholas cage is sitting there in his patagonia vest very normally. Everyone is normally dressed except for this girl. Okay. And it's like 2019 or whatever. Yeah. Okay. But it really tricked me for a second.

I was confused. But through her interaction with Ward, we find out her name is Lavinia. Did we ever find out whether it was Wiccan or Alexandria? Alexandrian? He guesses Alexandrian. And she says, that's the second thing you're wrong about today. Ooh, damn. Okay.

We see Nicolas Cage on the porch. His name is Nathan. That's her dad. Jolie Richardson comes out. That's her mom, Teresa. And they're on what looks to be a family farm and she goes to put her horse back in the barn we see some alpacas also in the barn okay is there still weird like color stuff going on or is that over now um no color stuff yet there hasn't been any color stuff yet oh okay

okay i was thinking in the beginning when i'm like there was a little i mean it wasn't the color but it was just kind of misty and woods and just kind of looked kind of like fairy tale as mythical okay but no color yet um so she goes to put her horse back in the barn we see the alpacas her brother is in the barn his name is benny an older brother i think she looks to be um you know who knows but they're both teenagers 15 and maybe six her brother's 16 they have a dog named sam you hate to see it don't even tell me about the dog i don't even want to know about the dog well he's cute oh that's don't make it worse don't make it worse dog benny and Lavinia are walking out of the barn and they have like a well on the property. And their younger brother, Jack, is looking into the well. This is the Haunting of Hill House kid.

He's looking into the well. He says something like, Dad told me if I stare hard enough, I'll see stars. They're just having fun. Jokes. Happy family. Happy family of five okay cute lovely so they go inside for dinner dad has cooked dinner tonight and they're all looking a little nervous he opens it and it's some french dish that they're all very disgusted by. But mom is working away upstairs.

She's some sort of like stock analyst or something. She's got important phone calls. She's looking at the stock ticker. She's wheeling and dealing. Whatever the hell that means. She's making trades. She's day trading. I don't know what.

Okay. She's making money off of the money that she makes. Exactly. But they're having some internet issues. So she comes down, she ends her call and she comes down and she says, oh, you got to take a look at that dish. I keep getting dropped calls. And he says, okay, I'll take a look at it, honey. Again, the kids are complaining about dinner. And he says, just wait until we get to eat alpaca next year and lavinia is like nobody eats alpaca dad like i don't know why you bought them and he loves his alpacas and he's like you have no idea how expensive those alpacas were like don't talk about like they're gonna be great for our family you respect the alpacas and in trivia, it says an alpaca costs between $5,000 and $30,000. Holy shit.

They're pretty expensive. Do you actually eat an alpaca? I've never heard of anyone eating an alpaca, but apparently this family is planning to. What's a fucking expensive- That's an expensive burger. Meal. Yeah. Jesus Christ.

And at dinner, then Teresa asks nathan to go get her or get a bottle of wine they have a a basement like wine cellar a little trap door in the kitchen that goes down to the wine cellar uh-oh they yeah mark your bingo's basement oh her office is also in the attic markov attic okay after dinner nathan and theresa go outside and they're kind of watching the sunset it's again very like misty and looks kind of ethereal and just not normal outside nathan is says something like oh I'm can you believe we're here on my dad's old farm and we get the impression that his dad was kind of abusive and she says something like that's you know probably the first thing you've ever done that your dad would have approved of and he does

an impression of his dad that's exactly vampire's kiss and he's like you can't be a painter nathan don't be a painter and it really made me laugh that was spot on i'm i'm pretty impressed with myself i'll be honest with you i'm happy i'm happy that turned out it's really good usually it takes me a few tries comes out crazy first but that time right on the money so nathan is a painter is that what he is you know we never come back to that he that is the only line that suggests that that he at least wanted to be we don't see him ever painting or anything but we don't see him doing anything else so maybe he's a painter okay um and he starts kissing theresa and she looks kind of hesitant. And he says, it's been six months.

Don't you think we should try? And she says, I don't know how you can still be attracted to me. And we find out that she has had a mastectomy. And he basically is like, of course, I'm still attracted to you. Like, you're my, what does he say? You're my golden lady. I love you so much. And they have a nice moment.

People, everyone goes upstairs into their bedrooms. They're kind of maybe going to have sex for the first time in six months. They're kissing. We see in Lavinia's room, she's got her Necronomicon next to her bed and her Wiccan candles and whatnot. And Benny is on his computer looking at videos of black holes. And Jack is in his room looking really scared.

He has a dinosaur mobile above his bed. And I don't know, he just looks scared. And he walks out into the hallway to maybe go to his parents' room. And Sam, the dog, is at the end of the hall staring back at him. And they're in this kind of face-off. Another fantastic Nicolas Cage. Oh my god. Accidental Nicholas Cage drops. And we see a color burning bright behind Jack. And that's what Sam is looking at the dog. And the dog starts really growling. And Nathan and Teresa don't notice. They're making out. They're getting busy. Oh, no.

And the light is getting brighter and brighter. We see it in each of the rooms. We see in Benny's room, he is frozen stiff and drooling at his computer screen, drooling down his mouth. Oh, what the fuck? And Lavinia is kind of waking up and sitting up and looking around, confused. And then there's a huge bang, explosion sound, and the whole house shakes. The

light gets super bright. Jack starts screaming. Nathan and Teresa run out of their bedroom, run to Jack, who is screaming in the hallway. They pick him up. They all run outside to see what the noise was, and we see that some sort of meteor has crashed in their yard.

Whoa. Okay. That's cool. It is a magenta in color and kind of glowing. And Nicolas Cage immediately comments that it smells. He's like, oh my God, that smell, that smell, that smell. Nobody else smells it. Only he does. And he continuously comments on the smell. Nobody else can smell it. Only he does.

And he continuously comments on the smell. Nobody else can smell it. They're all outside, kind of freaking out a bit. And then Teresa says, something is wrong with Jack. And we go back inside. Jack is sitting on the couch, kind of catatonic, like in a daze. And they say, like, he's in shock. Maybe we should take him to the hospital. We find out that the

hospital is an hour away um they are in west arkham which is a town that it's a fictional town that is in a lot of hp lovecraft stories and so they're an hour away from the hospital and this is this is a stressful situation everyone Everyone's a little freaking out. And Nathan immediately pours himself a drink. Uh-oh. Teresa says to him, you know, that's what you're doing right now. Your son is sick. And that's what you're doing.

And he says, what else? I don't see what else I would be supposed to do. Like, what the hell else am I supposed to do? So then moments later, Jack kind of comes to and says, Mommy. And he seems okay. He was just momentarily in a shocked daze. Okay. The next day, the sheriff and the mayor come out.

I think they call the cops and they come out to inspect. And again, they're walking up to it they ask nathan to explain what happened he keeps saying i'm so sorry for the smell i'm so sorry for the smell they can't smell it um okay he says well what happened was my wife and I were going to have sex for the first time in six months. He like starts with that. It's really funny. Oh, my God. And then this happened. And he says it was like a flash of pink light.

And then he says, actually, I don't know what color it was. It was unlike any color I've ever seen. And, you know, they, they oh ward is also there and which you know it's a movie but it's they like turn to ward like he's the expert in this he's a hydrologist so he's there for checking the water and they're like ward come take a look at what do you think this is and like he's not a geologist maybe he i guess maybe he you know he is a scientist that would know more than they would know but i was still like well he's not gonna know this is he has all he has all adjust in the last part of his uh name so that that that just makes it that just means he knows everything he knows what's going on yeah does he seem like he is an expert?

Does he have any ideas? He says it's a meteorite. I think that's all he says. He just says it's a meteorite. And that's the only info we get. And I think maybe they're going to call in other experts or something. But they all go to leave. And as they're leaving, Nathan says says are there any doctors closer by um we're an hour away from

you know arkham general hospital is there do you know if any doctors live closer and she says nope you'll have to go to arkham welcome to life in the sticks okay an hour also like isn't that crazy you know what i mean Part of me is like, just go. Ward stays behind to kind of look around and Nathan says, well, time to milk the alpaca. And we go into the barn. He brings Ward with him and he starts milking the alpaca. And he turns to Ward and says, you know, milkingpaca is not easy they don't they don't give you as much milk as a cow you have to be very gentle with the boobs i didn't even know you milked an alpaca this is news this is news to me and it's true you can but so then ward asks he's weirded out and is like okay um he says is there anybody

else living on the property and they say yeah our squatter ezra but he's probably not going to talk to you but benny can take you there to go talk to him so ward and benny head over to ezra's little cottage ezra is tommy chong and okay he's caught it he's got um he's got like satellite dishes all over and uh as ward approaches he says ward ward phillips and he says have we met and he says no and he says you're the hydrologist though right and he says i don't how do you know that and he says lots of little birdies you just got to know where to listen it's kind of like a he seems like a burnout kind of from did a lot of acid in the 70s wearing some tie-dye squatting in the woods super cool so ward comes inside uh uh ezra offers him a cup of water the water is completely brown and and he says it's the it's

the purest water is straight from mother earth and uh ward is like i don't think you should be drinking that and he's like we've been drinking it it's great we love it and straight from it's straight from the well because they have a well, remember? And Ward is like, I'm a hydrologist. I feel like you should listen to what I say. Exactly. And Ward says, let me run some tests on it. Rather be safe than sorry. He takes a sample. It's got a little camp set up, a little tent by his truck somewhere on the property, I guess. He takes it back, takes the water back, dips one of those little pH sticks in it, and the stick comes back magenta.

Oh, okay. A storm starts and it's lightning-ing and it sounds really close and they run outside back at the main family's house. They're the gardeners.

And Lavinia runs out and looks and we see that every bolt of lightning is hitting the meteorite. Well, it's drawing it. And so it's and it's, again, very colorful and cool looking. And they're all a bit hypnotized by it. How big is this meteorite? Just to give a sense of scale. It's not very big, but it hit it. Obviously, it made a big crater.

But the meteorite itself is not that big. Maybe maybe two feet diameter. OK, got it. Got it. So Ward has run his samples on the tests on the water samples and as he's at his truck he's listening to the radio the radio goes staticky his car turns on by itself and he shines a flashlight into the woods and sees kind of a translucency border, kind of like an annihilation. Nothing happens. The car

turning on is a jump scare. Got me real good. Because this is when it first starts to get kind of spooky. A little spooky. Starting to get a little spooky. So, okay, the next day, the meteor is gone. They wake up and it's gone. Okay, all right. Then they turn and Nathan says, did you plant those? And we see some magenta colored flowers growing nearby. And she says, no, maybe they're perennials. And she says, no, maybe they're perennials. Maybe.

Maybe, Teresa. Teresa, wishful thinking there, I think. And then we go inside. The whole family is watching TV except for Teresa, who is cooking dinner. And we see Nathan is on the news. He has been interviewed. I guess a news station came by and interviewed him as a quote unquote UFO witness. And he's all mad that they're making him out to look crazy his hair is like really messy in the interview he's just like getting

pissed off he's like oh UFO you called it UFO not me and he's getting mad and this is intercutting with a close-up of Teresa chopping carrots you always hate to see a close-up of someone quickly chopping vegetables hereditary that's what it reminds me of getting closer and closer to those fingers just chopping real fast and we see her face she looks like she is in a daze she's not looking as she's chopping she's kind of staring straight ahead and uh nathan says jack go get your mom bring her in here she's got to see this this is so crazy me on the news and jack walks up to his mom who slowly approaches her from behind that i'm thinking she's gonna turn around and stab her son but he he breaks her days i guess and he's like mom and touches her and we just see blood splatter onto his face and he starts screaming and Nathan turns and it's like what's going on and Teresa lifts her hand up and says dinner's ready and she's missing two fingers and it's pouring blood and she's not even noticed that she did it. And everyone jumps up. Oh, my God, we got to get her to the hospital.

They start wrapping her hand. And so just Nathan and Teresa get in the car to drive to the hospital and her hands all wrapped up. And she's saying things like, I can't believe I did that. That's so weird. I can't believe what a klutz I am. She's just not behaving normally. Oh, my God. Freaky. Okay.

I don't like that. So he, as Nathan is getting ready to drive away, he says, Benny, you're in charge. Alpaca's got to be in the barn by 10. And we see Benny put the alpacas away. Next morning, the alpacas are all out. Oh, no. Grazing in the in the lawn. And Lavinia says something like, oh, you got to stop smoking so much weed.

Benny, you didn't put the alpacas away. And he's like, I swear I did. Like, I think that I did. And we hear a whistling and we see jack sitting facing the well and he's whistling but there's also a second whistling and lavinia comes and sits next to him and he's like what are you doing and he says shh they're talking to me or he's talking to me he says who he says the man in, they're talking to me. Or he's talking to me. He says, who?

And he says, the man in the well. Oh, fuck that. I hate a well. Do we have a well on our bingo? Because I feel like that's a good one. There are a lot we should add it. And so Lavinia looks creeped out, stands up and looks like she gets a wave of dizziness. She goes inside, just kind of stumbling a bit.

And she gets a call from her dad. She answers it, dad. And we just hear, it's all garbled and staticky. She's saying, dad, dad, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. We see Nathan in the hospital on a payphone saying lavinia lavinia can you hear me it's staticky on his end as well they can't talk to each other okay uh we go back to jack outside next to the well he's drawing

creepy child drawing mark your bingos oh she's drawing magenta flowers then he sees something uh or here he hears the whistling coming from the well leans over to look in the well we see kind of a cocoon type thing at the bottom of the well looking like it's about to open and then we see from the cocoon's point of view up at Jack, then we see it opens and out flies a magenta praying mantis thing, a flying praying mantis thing. Okay, what? And it kind of looks at Jack. We get a good look at it. It has weird tongues coming out of its mouth. It's.

This sounds scary to me. This sounds like not fun. Jack is just looking confused and staring at it. It flies away. Then we go back into the house. Lavinia is about to wash the knife that her mother chopped her fingers off with, which has like pieces of skin and covered in blood. Gross. And she's carrying it over to the sink saying, don't throw up, don't throw up.

We see her wash it and rinse it. And then a big flash of light comes in. She gets momentarily hypnotized. Everything is purple for a second. And then we look at the clock and it's 5 p.m. This was like just morning. And now it's 5 p.m. And the sink is completely overflowed with bloody water.

She's stepping in the bloody water. She gets another call from her dad. Again, staticky, doesn't work. She runs to the bathroom and throws up. Wow. So she just like blacked out for like six hours or something. Where was everyone else when this was happening? Well, we're not sure. Then Ward shows up again, knocks on the door. Lavinia answers, sick and pale. She's just thrown up. She says, not a good time.

And he says, well, that's... She says, not a good time. I'm not feeling well. And he says, well, that's what I'm here to talk to you about. There's something wrong with the water. Like, you can't drink the water here. Try to drink bottled water. And she's about to throw up again she's like okay whatever thank

you bye closes the door on him runs inside he goes to to go to ezra's as well to tell him that the water is bad and ezra is on his hands and knees on the floor with headphones on and he says, you can hear them. You can hear them. I've heard them chattering all night. I've been listening to them chattering. And Ward looks, you know, weirded out. Freaked out. Yeah.

And it's like, I want to tell you, you can't drink the water. Like, you need to drink bottled water. And Ezra says, you don't get it water. Like, you need to drink bottled water. And Ezra says, you don't get it. You don't get it, do you? What's out there is now in here. What's in here is out there.

What's up is down. It's in the water. It's in the static. It's in the moisture. He just kind of goes on a little rant. And... Freaky. And Ward is like, okay, well, just try to drink bottled water if you can.

And then we go to Nathan and Teresa driving back from the hospital and we get a POV through their windshield and something runs in front of the car. And it looks like an inside out cat. And it's magenta. And it's a big jump scare. And're kind of like did you see that what the fuck was that and uh dry they continue driving home we see jack and sam the dog sitting by the well it's nighttime now then we hear the whistling and sam starts growling at and we see the light coming from behind the barn, the color, and the dog is growling at it

and then runs at it like it's going to attack and we just hear dog whimpers. Oh, no. Sam, he wasn't long for this world. No. Nathan and Teresa come home. they see that jack is outside by himself they're pissed they see nathan sees that the alpacas are out again and they come home they're like what the hell have you two been doing we left you in charge why is jack out here alone

why are the alpacas out and lavinia's like something really weird is going on and it wasn't we didn't do any of that stuff like something really weird is going on. And it wasn't, we didn't do any of that stuff. Like something really weird is going on. I don't know how to explain. And they're like, not totally believing them, but. She just chopped off two of her fingers. Like, where'd you guys just come from? The hospital. Like weird shit is going on.

Nathan storms off to go into the barn to put the alpacas away. going on nathan storms off to go into the barn to put the alpacas away and we've kind of seen that the light comes from near the barn i guess that's maybe where the meteorite hit is around there and that seems to be where the light is strongest and that and the well kind of are where the the things seem to be happening the most. So Nathan goes into the barn. And then after he puts the alpacas away, he comes back to Lavinia and immediately starts screaming at her in a way that is like not okay.

And he's seemingly not himself. And he says, there's a previous scene where she swears and he's like, language, please. No language. And in this scene where he yells at her, he's like cursing at her. He says, get the fuck out of my sight. Then he's like, actually, I'll do it for you. I'll get out of your fucking sight.

And it's just a really wild way to talk to your daughter. And so he goes inside and he goes to take a shower, which is where water is. Yeah. Don't want to be surrounded by that water. That water all over your body

probably leads to bad things. And he sees something in the drain of the shower blocking the drain from draining. And it's kind of looks almost like a jellyfish and he goes to pick it up maybe it's just some goop

you know classic goop situation in the shower ew he holds it in his hand and it pops alive and skitters off his hand. He screams and it then like slurps down the drain and goes away. Oh, my God.

I love these descriptors. Slurps down the drain. And so he gets out of the shower, says to Teresa, we got to get a plumber. There's something wrong with the shower. Yeah, that to Teresa, we got to get a plumber. There's something wrong with the shower. Yeah, that's what I'll fix it. A plumber. Gotta get a plumber in here. And Teresa is laying in bed with Jack, kind of comforting him because he's scared.

He's scared about the dog because they don't know where the dog is. Nathan comes into the room. I think it must be either Jack's room. Doesn't matter. Nathan comes into the room and says that smell, that goddamn smell. And she says, we washed everything. What are you smelling? Is it like a moldy smell? Is it you think it's coming from the basement, maybe mold in the basement? And he says, it smells, it smells just like, it smells like cancer it smells like the cancer ward that my dad was in he says you know the smell you should know the smell of cancer

better than anyone and just is mean to her she looks affronted and it's like hey can you calm down like what's going on like you're being such an asshole right now an asshole and then we cut to the next morning the yard the farm is now pretty colorful everything has bloomed there are fresh tomatoes and peaches and and some purplish magenta vines wrapping around trees a lot of magenta flowers. Nathan is kind of traipsing through the yard. He is drooling in the same way that Benny was earlier, but he's smiling and drooling. And he says, look at you beauties to all the tomatoes. He's picking tomatoes and peaches.

He says, and a month early too. He's very excited about his garden. And his arm, we see his sleeve is rolled up and his arm looks like it's burned almost. His skin is scaly kind of. It doesn't look good. Okay. And he goes inside and he's rinsing his fruits.

And we see Teresa upstairs back on her laptop making business calls, wheeling and dealing. And then the line drops out. she gets annoyed she storms downstairs and it's like nathan i thought i told you to check that dish i'm hemorrhaging clients and he is taking a bite out of each and every tomato and peach and spitting it like and he's like i did everything right i followed all of the gardening books and they still taste like shit. We're seeing Nicholas. This is classic. Nicholas Cage ramping up and he starts slamming all of the fruits into the trash can, freaking out.

Teresa starts yelling at him and she's like, he's like, I don't know what's going on. I just need you to fix that dish. They're getting in a big old fight. Oh, God. Okay. Here we go. And then Nathan storms into the living room, pours himself a big old glass of bourbon, morning bourbon,

sits down to watch TV, and we get another look at his arm, which looks maybe even worse than it did five minutes ago. It looks almost like tree bark. Oh, gross. And has he noticed his arm yet? He looks at it in this scene and he dips his finger in his bourbon and rubs it on it. I don't know. That'll help.

Now we see outside from the front porch benny is sitting on the front porch jack comes and sits next to him and the field is completely magenta benny says it's pretty beautiful huh buddy they need to get the fuck out of there like gtfo yeah so laavinia is definitely aware that something bad is happening. And she starts doing a little ritual. She pulls out her necronomicon and a box cutter. Oh, no. She arranges candles around her in a circle. She arranges candles around her in a circle and she starts chanting like protect me, help me and takes that box cutter and starts cutting into her arm, which is bad enough. I cringed at I hate I hate a box cutter.

Yeah. And I'm thinking, well, that'll be it because it's just like one little blood sacrifice. She keeps going. She cuts her hands on her palms and the tops of her hands. No. She cuts into her chest. She's like carving a pattern all through her chest, like almost like a like a diamondy pattern. She's just she's just carving away.

Oh, it's a lot. And I can hand her into her face too no fuck i hate it um now back downstairs on the front porch jack and benny hear a noise coming from the barn and go to check it out they're like sure what could this be do you think they're all a little fucked up right now yes so it's it's yeah it's pretty clear that the light the color has some sort of hypnotic effect like they've all at one point or another been in a kind of trance drooling or you know just frozen or something okay so So Jack and Benny go into the barn to check on the alpacas. And as they approach, we just hear these horrible squeals.

And we see just little glimpses as they get close of what looks like muscle tissue kind of again like as if an animal or anything was inside out like kind of like fatty muscle and it's kind of steaming a magenta color wait and these are these the alpacas we don't totally know but yes it's in the alpaca barn. But we also see what seems to be Sam's teeth, like growling. So we see like basically an inside out dog face growling. Okay. And the color then comes and starts getting bright. And Benny says, run, run, Jack, run. and Benny says, run, run, Jack, run.

And Teresa at this point has come downstairs because she was laying with Jack and then woke up and didn't know where Jack was. So she's looking for Jack. She comes outside. She sees them running towards the house. She runs out to them. Jack falls and Benny is still running away theresa's running towards um jack and benny's mom no mom no she the she scoops jack up in in her arms she is facing directly the entrance of

the barn and at the moment that she gets jack the color shoots out of the barn like a huge like lightning rod and hits them. And we just see them kind of engulfed in the color screaming. And then we don't see what happens. And we just see Benny's face. And then Nathan runs out like, what happened? And we just see them looking. And both of them saying, oh, my God, oh, my God. And Nathan says, bring him inside, bring him inside.

So they get them inside on the couch. We still haven't seen them. Oh, no. And then Lavinia comes downstairs to see what all the fuss is about. And she is, you know, bleeding from everywhere. She has a diamond shape cut into her forehead. And Nathan says, what have you done to yourself, Lavinia? Nathan is going in and out of normal father and screaming asshole not himself

yeah yeah um so he's having a moment of normal and he's like lavinia what have you done like are you okay and as lavinia walks forward she sees on the couch her mother and brother have basically melded into one. So they are, they are fused and they're both kind of glowing a little bit magenta and they can't speak. And they're both just moaning. What? And it's very, it's like,

it's reminiscent of some, some of the, some of the 80s body horror some yeah how can you tell that they're like fused together i mean it shows it it shows it they're they're literally skin it's they're back to back basically so jack's head is coming out of Teresa's back. Oh, they're fused together that way. I was thinking she was like holding him and they were fused together. No, their skin is melted together in a way

that they're now one being. What the fuck? That is crazy. But I love it. I know. This is when I was like, oh my god. It really getting pretty pretty wild um so nathan runs out to try to start the car to get get these people to the hospital that'll fix it that'll fix it and you can't start the car has another good kind of nicholas cage classic

nicholas cage meltdown freak out screaming yocksucker, over and over at the car. Doing what he does best. And Lavinia and Benny are inside sitting next to their mother and brother. Lavinia is at her side kind of stroking her mom's hair, saying, we're here. We're here. It's OK. We're going to get you help. Her mom's hair is falling out with every time she strokes her hair.

She's just, hair is falling out. She's gray. Oh, no. And looks like a little creature from the thing. Like she's just not looking good. No, no. Things are bad. And she's, they're just making horrible sounds. It's like both of them moaning

together oh they can't speak anymore and so it's just little little horrible sad scared moans constant moans oh my god i hate this and lavinia and benny are like what the fuck happened and lavinia says it's the it's the meteorite. It's the color. It changes everything that it comes in contact with. Like, it changes everything around it. And Benny says, it changes time also. Like, how long has dad been outside? How long has dad been at the car?

Like, they've all just kind of lost track of time. Their concept of time. And it does change from day to night many times in this movie okay that's cool and he says it's like a black like a black hole oh nathan comes back in says the car is not happening let's get her upstairs let's try to make her comfortable in the in the bed they take her up into the attic for some reason pull a little mattress up there lay them lay them there and then we hear more horrible noises coming from the barn benny says something's happening to the alpacas nathan says i'm gonna go

check it out he grabs his favorite alpacas um He loves them. He needs to protect them. He goes into the barn and we see that they have all fused together. The alpacas have fused together? Mm-hmm. There's about six of them and all their heads are sticking out at different angles. It's making horrible monster noises. Again, it looks like it's inside out. It's magenta. And it's mag horrible monster noises again it looks like it's inside out it's magenta and it's magenta of course and nicholas cage really loses it starts screaming and crying his favorite alpacas and he starts he's like he can handle his wife and child being fused together

but not the alpacas and he starts shooting them in the head with, he brought a little shotgun. He's shooting each of them in the head. And I guess he manages to kill this fused alpaca creature. He comes back into the attic covered in blood. And he tells Lavinia and Benny to get out of the room. He's still holding the shotgun. He says, you guys should go downstairs. And they're like, what are you going to do?

And he says, I'm going to handle it. And she says, the same way you handled the alpacas. And they're kind of crying. Oh my God, wait, I forgot one part that really was jarring for me. crying oh my god wait i forgot one part that really was jarring for me so right after he kills the humpbackers it hard cuts to theresa lapping water up from a bowl like a cat they're giving her they're giving her water and she's drinking it like a cat and it's really creepy oh i hate that i really wasn't fond of it either. No. So they're leaving the room and kind of crying.

They realize that, you know, Nathan is planning to kill their mother and brother. And they kind of are like, we love you, Mom. They're saying their goodbyes. And they walk out of the room, close the door behind them. Nathan is in there with them. And he leans down to kiss Teresa one last time. As he pulls back from kissing her, her lips have, it's like glue between their lips. Magenta in color.

And it like sticks to his lips. And he like goes back for many more kisses. And he says, you're my golden kisses. And he says, oh, no, he's into it. He says, you're my golden lady. I love you so much. And you can't tell if, you know, he's like emotionally saying his goodbyes. But then a moment later, he says, you know what? I'm going to fix this.

I'm going to find I'm going to find help. I'm going to get you help. We're going to be OK. Everything's going to be a OK. Oh, right. That's from the trailer. He says that and things don't seem to be a-okay oh right that's from the trailer he says that and things don't seem to get a-okay after this so then we we see ward at i guess like city hall visiting the mayor and trying to say you know something's wrong with the water around here i think she kind of brushes him off he goes outside and there is a sheriff and a cop parked out front of the building and they say

ward let me show you this i guess they know him they're like we found this off the side of the road they pull back a tarp in the back of their truck and it's another like fused creature um with many heads and teeth and eyes it's yucky very yucky and they say there's there's a there's rabbits in there there's a a cat a bird like it's a bunch of creatures uh and ward says what they're like their skin look it looks like radiation burns then we go back to lavinia and benny lavinia's trying to to prep her horse she's like we're getting we need to get the fuck out of here she has the right idea get the fuck out. Mm hmm. And as she's putting a saddle on the horse or whatever, she its eyes are purple and salamander like in the same way that she's going to get fused to the horse. Well, luckily, the horse at that moment just basically runs away like does a little scary horse jump runs away. And she's like fuck like

i guess we're gonna have to walk out of here benny says you walk 12 miles through the forest she's like yeah there's like we're gonna die here if we don't basically lavinia knows that they got to get the fuck out of here and then as they're kind of turning to leave, Benny hears Sam in the well. He's like, I hear Sam in the well. And runs toward the well. There's like nasty sludge at the bottom of the well, kind of glowing. And he's like, Sam's in there. Sam's in there.

I'm going to climb down and get him. Nope. No. Bad idea. And Lavinia is rightfully like what the fuck are you talking about like that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard um it's it's just a dog it's just a dog which like is a sad thing to say but also true at this point like you're gonna die if you go down that well but he climbs he says i'm gonna

climb down i'm gonna put i'm gonna put Sam in the bucket. You pull him up. A great follow-up question that she should have asked is, how am I supposed to get you back up? Yeah, seriously. What's the answer there? Have we thought that through? They didn't think that through. But it doesn't matter because as he's climbing, he doesn't even make it to the bottom. As he's climbing down, the sludge glows bright magenta and color shoots up out of the well. And we see him looking down and screaming, no, no, no.

And he basically disintegrates. And Lavinia sees it, but it doesn't get her. And so she's crying at the side of the well, kind of sobbing. And then something comes up behind her and grabs her. It's a jump scare, but it's Nathan. And he immediately is screaming at her again.

And he's like, you left me to deal with this on my fucking own! And then he's kind of dragging her inside. Oh no. And then as he gets her up the stairs he starts being really nice again he's like i'm sorry i'm sorry and like family sticks together right family sticks together like we just got to be you know we got we're in this together and then they're right at

the door of the attic and nathan says like i said family sticks together and opens the door and shoves her in and closes it behind her and says, now go feed your mother. Ah, no. Fuck that. And we see in the room what we don't see, but we just hear kind of the same kind of moaning. But now it's almost a little growling. It's a little more mean sounding yeah and we just see like darkness in the corner where the mattress is and lavinia's like mom oh my god now we cut we cut away to the sheriff and ward driving out to the property they see lavinia's horse running away

they turn on the siren they They're like something is wrong. We got to get there. We see Nathan in the house. Pouring himself another drink. He's just talking to no one now. He's in the living room. As if the whole family is in there. Kind of.

I think he's talking about. You know the vacation they've been planning. Or something like that. And we go. Back upstairs into that attic and lavinia is looking at the corner and then out from the shadows bursts uh oh boy how to describe oh no oh no uh i mean it's still it's still Jack and Teresa fused together, but they've kind of changed shape into a human spider where their arms and legs are bent in a way that they're walking like they have eight limbs arranged like a spider. That is so scary. It's very scary. And it lunges at her, knocks her over.

and it lunches at her knocks her over the mom's face is now a monster face like the mouth is huge and growling and trying to eat her um Lavinia's holding her off we see downstairs the sheriff and ward have arrived

they're knocking on the door um Nathan answers covered in blood looking very disheveled and out of it and they're like what the fuck's going on here and nathan says i'm so glad you guys came like we've been having a real tough night he says you know he says you know you know the car or the wi-fi or cell phones life in the sticks, you know. My God, this is like a comedy sometimes.

It is sometimes a comedy. I think anything with Nicolas Cage is sometimes a comedy. Yeah, I agree with that. Even Mandy. Mandy was less of a comedy than this one, I will say. Less so, but Cheddar Goblin was very funny. Cheddar Goblin. So, and what's wrong with your arm? And he says,'s just a rash it's just a rash and he's scratching at his i guess radiation looking burned arm scratching

away and ward says where's your wife and he says she's right there and points to like an empty chair in the living room he says uh where's the rest of your family he's like what are you talking about they're already we're already here family we're family we stick together we stick together so he's like completely lost it um and then we hear a scream screech coming from upstairs ward runs up is like lavinia open they bust in him and the sheriff bust in um and see a very frightening scene and are both pretty pretty shocked and we just see teresa's head kind of about to bite into lavinia and then we hear a gunshot and her head explodes and we see that it is Nathan. He has come upstairs and shot

Teresa in the head and the sheriff and ward are completely in shock. They're like leaning against the walls like looking very afraid and and then we see on the other side of this creature Jack's little head is still alive and moaning.

And he's kind of magenta and glowing. And Nathan comes up and shoots him right in the face. And turns and says to the sheriff and ward, those are not my family. My family's downstairs. Oh, my God. that's so sad and so ward goes to scoop up lavinia and is carrying her downstairs they're carrying her outside and as they walk down the front steps the color comes out of the well like tentacles-y and is coming out. And they're all kind of momentarily hypnotized. And Nathan is also running out.

And he raises his gun. And I think he's pointing at the color. But Ward and Lavinia are right in front of him so it looks like he's also pointing it at them. I'm not sure who he's really pointing it at but the sheriff thinks he's pointing it at them so the sheriff shoots Nathan through the chest. Nathan collapses.

Lavinia jumps and and turns screaming for her dad and he's dying and pressing his hands into his blood and and looking at his blood and saying so beautiful so beautiful the color is so beautiful ward says lavinia we got to get out of here and she says we're never get out of here. And she says, we're never getting out of here. And I like, I'm not leaving. This is, I live here. I live here. So she's kind of changed a bit.

Okay. So she's not fully fucked up now. She's no longer trying to get out. No. Well, her whole family is dead. Everyone is dead. So that's,

you know. But let me remind you, Ward is hot. Oh my, so there's hope for the future with this man you've met twice under really horrible circumstances either way she should have gone she should have gone with ward but so there's a noise coming from ezra's house. So they go to check that out. Oh, God. And it's a tape recording of Ezra's voice saying it lives in the well. It grew down there,

poisoning everything, changing everything. And the tape is kind of like warped. So it sounds really old. And they go in and Ezra's body, he's a corpse and he's basically mummified as if he's been there thousands of years. Whoa. Okay. And he's glowing magenta under his skeleton, basically.

Wow. And the tape says it's just a color, but it burns. Oh! And he's kind of glowing in a way that looks like he's maybe about to explode, so Ward and the sheriff run out. As they're running,

a tree branch reaches down, scoops up the sheriff, wraps branches all around it, and a branch goes straight into his mouth, killing him. Ew. Very much like Evil Dead. And the sheriff dies, and Ward grabs his gun that he dropped and runs back to the house. He's still trying to get Lavinia and take her away. And Lavinia is now standing at the well. The color is shooting out of the well up into the sky, like a kind of tunnel of light up into the planets.

It's very beautiful. And Lavinia thinks so, too. She is standing there almost like she is worshiping the light. It's reminiscent of her opening shot where she's doing her ritual with her kind of arms spread. But yeah, now she is worshiping this light. She says, it's so beautiful. Ward says, we got to go. We got to get out of here.

She turns around. We see her eyes are totally purple. The shape that she carved into her forehead is like a diamond is also purple, glowing purple. is also purple glowing purple and ward gets momentarily kind of drawn in and it go it like goes to this very trippy kind of portally looking thing where we then see what we assume is the home planet of the color. And it has this kind of, it has like a magenta sun, everything's magenta. And there's kind of a throne in which it's shaped the same shape as what she has carved onto her head. And then it like fades back to her face. Ward is able to break whatever spell hypnosis is happening, kind of falls back, falls into the grass.

The grass is all alive and kind of wrapping around him. He pulls up and starts to run toward the house. And I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know why he runs toward the house and i don't know i don't know why i don't know why he runs toward the house get in the car get in the car and run away get away um and we see lavinia do one final like spreading her arms looking at the color and she disintegrates i assume she is being taken to this home planet or dimension or whatever it is this place that the color comes from and um so ward is running inside the effect that's happening is really cool it's like his it's like a motion blur type thing but it's all in in magenta and blues and reds i guess

and so his movements look like delayed and like they're leaving like a path like you can see where he's been it's a very cool visual effect he goes into the house and everyone is in there the whole family sitting around the couch nathan turns to him and with lavinia's voice says something to him in lavinia's voice and and ward is like you're dead this is what's happening and nathan jumps up to attack him so they're in like a fist fight and it goes into the kitchen uh nathan's trying to kill him ward finds a little trap door to the wine cellar goes in locks it behind him um you know not my first choice of a place to hide but i guess he didn't have a lot of options wasn't near another door no other escape route anyways

he's in the wine cellar and through this whole you know sequence with the color shooting up into the sky there's like a noise getting louder and louder the like color drifty motion thing is getting stronger like something is happening it's like building to this thing and the house starts like shaking and while he's downstairs uh or while he's while Ward is hiding in the wine cellar, eventually a big explosion happens. We see Nathan kind of disintegrate and the screen turns white and silent. So some big, big explosion. And a little while later, we see Ward emerging from the rebel um oh okay he survives the camera like pulls up we get like a bird's eye view and see regular trees and stuff um and then we get a a flash forward

and a voiceover from a little narration from ward saying i hope he says i i hope that they cover them with lots of water i'm gonna botch this, but basically that like final explosion left a big crater that they filled with water. And made part of the dam, I guess, that he was there to inspect in the first place. And he says, you know, I hope they bury them deep, deep underwater. But even then, like, I'll still never drink it. Like, he's not drinking this water. Fair. And he says, there's very few of us that remember the strange times.

And he says, but it was just a color, a color out of space, a messenger from realms we cannot place. And there's probably more that he says i didn't write it all down but whoa that's the end oh my god and that's the end so ward survived and lived to tell the tale and then they created a dam where it happened that feels like a bad idea feels like a bad idea maybe there's gonna be a sequel actually richard stanley said that this is gonna be part of a trilogy i think he's gonna do more hp lovecraft movies that feels very stephen king the like having the same town over and over again and stories being out in like a rural area having it be in this like it feels like um like they're they're in another world within their own

worlds kind of feeling yeah yeah um whoa that was that was definitely scary the scariest part for sure for me was when the boy and the mom got fused together and they became a spider i do not like that i did not see it coming. No, no. It's pretty unexpected. That sounds really, there's part of me, that's, there's part of me

that really wants to know what that looks like, but more, more a part of me is like, no, thank you. I can pass. It's pretty gross, but,

but I enjoyed the movie. I think it is, you know, a great Nicolas Cage performance. I love it. I love it. You're here for it every time. I'm here for it every time. You know what's so funny? I saw something in the trivia that was, I think, about one of the producers.

It must be at Spectre Vision or XYZ Films are the companies that did both this and Mandy. And the trivia phrased it as this company produced Mandy and Color Out of Space and the acclaimed thriller Mom and Dad. And I was like, acclaimed? I've never even heard of that. Oh, my God. It's pretty funny it's i guess kind of a a horror movie where a virus goes around that makes parents want to kill their their children and so it's nicholas cage and selma blair our mom and dad and it's like their kids trying to survive them trying to kill them it's very funny but it's in no way acclaimed there's no way there's any acclaim for it i just you can say anything on the internet

and people will believe you that's the moral of the story yeah sammy thank you so much for giving that beautiful rendition of this movie i felt like very uh totally entranced the whole time hypnotized um i was hypnotized one might say i'm seeing magenta as we speak um i feel like you didn't like it as much as mandy i got that yeah i mean i would be shocked if i if i if i did i wasn't expecting to like it as much as mandy so it wasn't a letdown. I knew that it was not. There's no film like Mandy. Except for Mandy.

It's one of a kind. Yeah, I'm curious. I feel like I could watch this movie the first like two thirds of it. And then maybe need to shut it off after that. Yeah. But you can see how it's like, it's not the kind of scary that totally sticks with you. Like I didn't like go to bed being afraid that I was going to be, you know, fused to the creatures around. No. And it also doesn't it isn't as one of H.P. Lovecraft story story, that's particularly, like, obviously racist in any way.

I didn't pick up on any of that at all in this. But it is spooky, the idea of it being a color, like a color that takes over. Oh, gross. Oh, well. I'm glad that you enjoyed hearing about it and listeners we'll have Emily back next week

next week's gonna be our holiday episode right yeah I think so our Christmas episode that is exciting our Christmas slash Henley's birthday episode oh yeah don't forget about my birthday. The most important holiday of all. That's the most important part. I'm going to be 31, you guys, on Christmas Day. 31. What a lame age.

As a 31-year-old, I can confirm. I can't believe it. Okay, well, Sammy, I love you so much. How should we sign off? I feel like there was, should we try to be like Nicolas Cage? Yeah, that's a good idea. Do your best Peter, your best Peter Lowe. A, B, C, D.

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