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Space haven alien infection9/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Ward can also see the echoes of the Gardner family sitting in the room with Nathan, presumably what Nathan himself was seeing when he insisted earlier that his family was gathered around him. (Or a third possibility that a future version of Nathan has been created by the Color's time distortion, similar to what happened to Ezra.) But there’s clearly enough of Nathan left in that body to compel him to sit and wait in his chair, his designated spot as the Gardner patriarch. Nathan’s continued deterioration suggests that he either wasn’t actually dead when Ward and the Sheriff left for Ezra’s, or that the Color is keeping his body animated on cosmic life support. The rash on his body is now even more advanced than it was when he was supposedly killed by Sheriff Pierce, with his face covered in huge boils. He can also see Nathan sitting in the living room just as he was before, staring fixedly at the TV. Ward can now hear the voices of the Gardner family as they spoke to each other over dinner in one of the film’s earlier scenes. Everything around him is afflicted with the same visual effect, which represents the Color beginning to rip everything in the farmhouse out of reality. Ward appears to be constantly sliding into a prism of light, which is the pull of the Color attempting to draw him into its dimension. 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. 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. ![]()
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