More than twenty years after he was fired from the project three days into shooting, South African filmmaker Richard Stanley has revealed that he may get another opportunity to direct a film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic tale The Island of Dr. Moreau. Stanley spent years developing the 1996 feature starring Marlon Brando and Val […]
October Horrors 2020 – Color Out of Space (2019)
Color Out of Space, 2019. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong. SYNOPSIS: A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite that soon begins to have a strange effect on its surroundings, including the farms’ human inhabitants. Throughout this […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, 2020. Directed by Justin McConnell. Featuring George A. Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Richard Stanley, Barbara Crampton, Paul Schrader, and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive […]
Movie Review – Color Out of Space (2020)
Color Out of Space, 2020 Directed by Richard Stanley Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tommy Chong, Brendan Meyer, Madeleine Arthur, Julian Hilliard, and Elliot Knight SYNOPSIS: A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. Some stories are seemingly impossible to translate from one entertainment medium to another, but that’s […]
Movie Review – Color Out of Space (2019)
Color Out of Space, 2019. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hillard and Q’orianka Kilcher. SYNOPSIS: When a meteorite lands in their farm, a family descends into anarchy as a strange contagion spreads across their land. Richard Stanley is an interesting name in cinema. For […]
First trailer for Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space starring Nicolas Cage
The first trailer has been released for director Richard Stanley’s sci-fi horror Color Out of Space. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story of the same name, the film sees Nicolas Cage lead a cast that includes Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, Josh C. Waller, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong; […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Color Out of Space
Color Out of Space, 2019. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, and Madeleine Arthur. SYNOPSIS: A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. The trio of Nicolas Cage, H.P. Lovecraft and cult filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) make for compelling bedfellows in this unexpectedly hilarious sci-fi horror, […]
