![]() ![]() Here’s where conventional logic really begins to slip. Ward tries to convince Lavinia to leave, but she refuses, insisting “I live here.” Lavinia, who earlier wanted nothing more than to escape the farm and abandon her parents, is trapped in the same time loop that absorbed Nathan - her family is alive and intact right here on the farm, so why should she want to leave? ![]() Pierce, thinking Nathan is pointing the gun at Ward, shoots Nathan, presumably killing him. They all head downstairs, where Nathan sees the Color rising out of the well and aims his gun to fire at it. Ward and Pierce are understandably too stunned to react, but Nathan appears and kills the creature himself, muttering “They’re not my family.” Because again, as far as he’s concerned, his family is sitting downstairs waiting for him in some past memory that the Color is projecting for him. Ward and Pierce bust into the attic where Nathan has locked Lavinia with the mutated creature that used to be his wife Theresa ( Joely Richardson) and their youngest son Jack ( Julian Hilliard). So keep that dynamic in mind as we unpack the film’s bizarre ending. The genial old hermit Ezra ( Tommy Chong) suggests to Ward that he has been sitting in his shack recording audio evidence of the alien entity for a very, very long time, despite the fact that the meteor only crashed a few days ago. The concept of shifting time is a major point throughout the movie - Lavinia ( Madeleine Arthur) stands in a trance at the kitchen sink after washing her mother’s blood off of a knife for something like 6 hours, while Benny ( Brendan Meyer) gets lost in their own backyard for an entire day. So what exactly happened in that ending, after the hapless hydrologist Ward ( Elliot Knight) returns to the Gardner house to try and save the family only to have the shit hit the interdimensional fan? Obviously, SPOILERS are ahead, so if you haven’t watched Color Out of Space you should probably do that before you read any further, and also what the hell are you doing with your life? Stanley does an excellent job of adapting the cacophonous madness that punctuates virtually every Lovecraft story, which consequently means that it’s a bit confusing. Things hit a fever pitch in the last 20 minutes, when the world goes full-Lovecraft and logic is obliterated into cosmic dust set to a soundtrack of Nicolas Cage doing his voice from Vampire’s Kiss. Baiting them to miss a charge with one dude is effective.The movie is a gorgeous piece of surreal psychological horror, with some gen-u-ine gore and body horror thrown in for good measure, just in case you thought the Color was all about mind games. If your stacking your dudes, crawlers will almost never reach you, haulers are the real challenge. If you kill the hauler, push for the egg room hard, before another spawns. Infact, whenever you can fight aliens from the safety of floating, do that. Never enter the derelict through the air lock if there is a breach. Npc’s come around the corner and get blasted.) If you are attacking a pirate, or other ship, stacking all your dudes on 1 square makes the npcs miss more often, while ensures all your dudes have a clear shot, I get aggro, run my four dudes around a corner to a dead end and stack them and wait. If you get overwhelmed and someone starts taking damage, pause and move that injured dude back 1 square. If they all stack there and you open the door anything on the other side dies fast. They can all occupy the same space and shoot. When entering a room, stack all 4 people on the tile in front of the door. Ensure your best accuracy shooters have smg / assault rifle and the others have shotguns preferably. You are best to clear it in your first visit. The pods will continue to spawn in that area of the ship until it has been cleared / entirely explored. ![]()
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