Re: YASFID strange color

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:52:11 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-04-20, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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The Colour From Out of Space by Lovecraft.

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I don't normally do this but, as it happens, I recently saw a film
based on the story that I really liked:
<https://www.amazon.com/review/R3M5UVI9YLBC4D/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8>

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I may be missing something, but I can't find a way from the review
back to the actual product, so I don't know which film you saw.
The story has been adapted a number of times.
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If it's the one with Nicolas Cage from 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/
then that's the one I saw, too.  It was done well.

Sorry 'bout that. I forgot it was a review that would normally be read
in the context of the film itself. Had I been paying strict attention
I would have identified the film.

It is /The Curse/:
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092809/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_7_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520curse>.

The 2019 Cage film is the one I was thinking of as being done as a
tragedy, as least it seemed so to me: I found the story of an honest
farmer being destroyed tragic. Here, the characters are set up
differently, and the horror comes to the fore. YMMV, of course.

Please keep in mind that Lovecraft-related movies are often low-budget
and frequently show it. Note the "For a Lovecraft film" qualifier in
the review: this is better than most. It is not, however, at the level
of /Re-Animator/. The 2019 Cage film probably had a bigger budget than
this one, but the comparison between tragedy and horror still applies.
As does my preference. But YMMV, of course.

There is also an Italian B&W film (being B&W, it neatly sidesteps the
"how do you show a color different from all known colors?" problem)
which is about a young man trying to find out what happened to his
father, who investigated the strange effects of a space rock falling
on a farm. This is less tragic because it is told second-hand, as it
were, but also more detached.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"