By Mark Saldana
Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars)
After taking an extended break from narrative feature filmmaking, director Richard Stanley is back with an adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story, The Color Out of Space. Stanley is no stranger to Fantastic Fest, as he attended the festival in 2014 in support of the documentary, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau. The documentary feature reveals some insight into how Stanley, an intelligent and creative filmmaker, was fired from the Moreau adaptation despite his bold and exciting vision for the movie. Given his talents as a filmmaker, and his visionary mind, it is only fitting that he take on a Lovecraft story.
