Nicholas Cage has been in a lot of weird movies lately, some of them hit and some of them miss. His latest low-budget affair that’s actually hitting theaters in a limited release is the Lovecraft tale from director Richard Stanley called Color Out of Space.

The trailer depicts a meteorite that lands near the homestead of Nicholas Cage and his family, and it begins having strange effects on the entire household due to its extra-dimensional properties. The movie centers around the abstractly horrific perils that begin to unfold around Cage and his family, with some disturbing results.

You can check out the trailer below from Movie Trailers Source.

So a couple of things.

First of all, props to the marketing team for not giving away the entire movie within the two and a half minute trailer. It’s always a huge pet peeve of mine when decent looking movies get spoiled by trailers that give away everything.

Secondly, the visuals for this movie are absolutely on point. It’s not dark and gritty, it’s more portent and mysterious.

Stanley doesn’t have a large resume of titles he’s directed, his most notable is probably the cyberpunk cult-classic, Hardware. I have a love/hate relationship with that movie because I loved the way it looked, and I loved some of the set designs, the creepy dystopian vibe for his depiction of the future, and I loved those beginning shots of Carl McCoy as the Nomad who digs the robot out of the rubble.

But the movie’s pacing and the way the story unfolds – especially the cuck-tier way Dylan McDermott’s character gets offed – really put me off that film, and I refuse to watch it again.

However, Stanley has an eye for unique cinematic experiences and his style could definitely mesh well with a Lovecraft tale given Stanley’s unorthodox approach to telling stories via film. We’ll find out exactly how well this odd combination of an esoteric director meeting a profoundly weird actor in a story about a killer color from space pans out when Color out of Space hits theaters this weekend.