As a fan of craftsmanship, I have been looking forward to this movie. The original short story "Colors from the Stars" is also a very typical "indescribable" horror, and it is a step-by-step madness. To put it simply, an alien life form with an "indescribable" form, perhaps fog, or light, with an "indescribable" color fell into this town in the form of a meteorite, and began to penetrate, affect, and absorb the surrounding area. The story of a life form that runs away after being full. But I have to say that this screenwriter is too bad. I wanted to tell the story in a third-person intervention style according to the original book, but the role that was arranged was too tasteless. In addition to the screenwriter's adaptation settings, the middle-aged family in the smartphone era, there are still inexplicable Crazy Indian neighbors (just because Indians are mentioned in the novel? It can be metaphorically in the movie, not so straightforward), and the result is all like a mystique, not even the basic fueling effect. If you don't have the talent for adaptation, why can't you write the script as close to the original as the original? The most exciting part of the Cthulhu mythology is the indescribable thing about how normal people are driven crazy (the textbook-level reference "Lighthouse"), but the John Carpenter-style biological variation is the secondary element, just embellishment. As a result, the film did not perform these two places very well, and the director also had a big problem. He directly made a mysterious, crazy, and desperate story into one word: vulgar.
The film format is also very petty. Congrats to Nicolas Cage for continuing the title of King of Bad Movies. Two stars, one for the original IP and one for the ending.
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