NicolasCage makes everything around him stranger in ColorOutofSpace
The ways movies can capture the one-of-a-kind bizarre textures of H.P. Lovecraft’s work are limited. Known first as a great author and second as an enthusiastic Hitler stan, Lovecraft imagined his personal fears—particularly of “the masses”—into wholly unimaginable entities, his work so tethered to his pants-wetting neuroses that adapting it for a visual medium feels like a masochist’s chore.
, starting off the 2020s on the right foot with another Cage-ian horror performance after his stellar work in 2018’s. If there’s an actor better-suited than Cage for conveying the experience of losing one’s sanity under Lovecraftian duress, the industry hasn’t found them yet. Cage plays Nathan Gardner, amiable patriarch of the Gardner family, who lives with his wife Theresa , daughter Lavinia , and sons Benny and Jack on the family estate where Nathan grew up, in the boonies of Arkham,. Don’t let his last name fool you: Nathan isn’t the farmer type, though he gamely tries his hand at growing crops of heirloom tomatoes and peaches, and he’s raising a herd of alpacas, too. You can’t fault the guy for not trying.
plays a role here, as do the works of David Cronenberg, Stuart Gordon and even Barry Levinson, for those who saw his 2012 found footage flick, and each of these names are contained by the weird framework set by Lovecraft’s text. But as easily as Stanley’s influences are sniffed out by discerning noses, he operates on a dreamy wavelength that’s all his own.
The best pleasure of all is Cage, who, like Stanley, occupies an existential plane visited by no one else. Lovecraft’s words givea foundation; Cage gives it character. He might exist in a vacuum, but he doesn’t act in one: The rest of the cast falls in the orbit of his unhinged eccentricity, much as the meteorite’s presence warps all nature around it.
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