Color out of Space (2020) - Ezra's Cabin - "It Burns"

The movie had its flaws compared to the original story, but Ezra was a great change to the story.

I get chills just thinking of the phrase "it burns" now, like got dayum, I just teared a bit, this is the only movie that's made adult me do that

I finished reading all Lovecraft's horror stories years ago. I dreamt about Lovecraftian movies since then, but I always heard it is hard to make a movie out of Lovecraft. Well this movie delivers it so stunningly. This scene above everything else. A shaman that knows, and the more he knows the more he descends into madness. The psychedelic colors, the mutations, the audio distortion, the music that feels like a bad acid trip. And Ezra's words that feel very Lovecraftian. Just perfect.

Brilliant scene. Totally Lovecraftian

I like to think the recording wasn't distorted, that's just what he sounded like at that point.

"It's just a color... but it burns." That line gave me a really huge deep chill down my entire spine the first time I heard that, it still does, the way it's said in a distorted audio recording combined with the static sounds, it is so otherworldly/unearthly.

"It's just a color, but it burns."
"Benny lives in the well now."
It's so rare that you get a Lovecraft movie made by people who actually understand how to translate one of his stories into film. This is one of those movies.

Imagine being born with a voice like that, that be awesome

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
Cold and wet.
But it burns.
Sucking the life out of everything.
It came down in the rock.
It lives in the well, it grew down there.
Poisoning everything, changing everything, into something like the world it came from.
Into what it knows.
We all know it's coming, but we can't get away.
It's got everything that lives.
They all drunk the water, it got strong on 'em, fed itself on 'em.
It came from the stars.
Where things ain't like they are here.
It's just a colour, but it burns...
It sucks, and it burns...
Burns.

I don't know why, but it feels like the colour didn't erupt from Ezra's corpse when they first entered his shack because it wanted them to hear the recording. So it would somehow enjoy indirectly informing them of their hopelessness against its power.

Ward begins to realize that in spite of his prestigious university training, he knows absolutely nothing and some hippy in the woods understands an alien force better than anyone.

We need more Lovecraftian movies like this that get the central premise of deadly, maddening, unknown forces from beyond our world or our era of history that we are all but powerless and insignificant against.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Cold and wet. But it burns. Sucking the life out of everything. It came down in the rock. It lives in the well. It grew down there. Poisoning everything. Changing everything. Into something like the world it came from. Into what it knows. We all know it's coming, but we can't get away. It's got everything that lives. They all drunk the water. It got strong. Fed itself on them. It came from the stars... where things ain't like they are here. It's just a color. But it burns. It sucks, and it burns. It burns

This is by far one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time.

About the color of the meteor that poisoned the well, I would call it burning purple.

“Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Cold and wet. But it burns. Sucking the life out of everything. It came down in the rock. It lives in the well. It grew down there. Poisoning everything. Changing everything. Into something like the world it came from. Into what it knows. We all know it's coming, but we can't get away. It's got everything that lives. They all drunk the water. It got strong. Fed itself on them. It came from the stars... where things ain't like they are here. It's just a color. But it burns. It sucks, and it burns. It burns.”

This is for those who can’t hear what he’s saying.

Cosmic Horror Never Gets Old

This was trully respectful to Lovecraft's concept of cosmic horror.

Ammi Piers ( Old Man Ammi), in the original story, was the only survivor of "The Strange Days" and compared to the movie, which was great, Ammi was with the sheriff and the professors when he witnessed the death of The Gardner Family and The Colour itself as he told his story to the protagonist!

This is so well done

At first I thought it was kind of “on-the-nose” to have Tommy Chong play Ezra. But hearing his voice in this scene changed my mind right away

These films are rare but when they come along they give me faith that people still know how to make great pictures

Man I love this movie, finnaly Lovecraft on the big screen.

The only thing I would change is I'd remove the "tentacles" the light has, make it nothing but a glow.
To me the colour was horrifying because it was just a colour. Reality is so flimsy and illusionary that all it takes to undo everything is a single color..

But I understand that's just me ;)

Beautiful

I absolutely loved this movie.
It went from standard first contact with an unknown alien lifeform to a literal Lovecraftian nightmare in just one scene.

I was on a road trip and stopped at my cousins after driving for 12 hours, I put this mo on on and ended up falling asleep. Woke up to this scene and it freaked me the fuck out, I had to watch the movie!

Great film! 👍

I like this movie a lot more than Annihilation.

I absolutely love this scene, it’s one of if not the best scene from the entire movie, my only gripe is with the slightly goofy way the sherif is pulled away by the tree, which could’ve been fixed by the colour just consuming him as Ward escapes, still love this scene so much though.

Best scene in the whole movie, theres simply no competition. Eldritch horror at it`s finest. H. P. would be proud.

The crazy ones are always the most aware and smartest in any horror movie

“They came from the stars”
Bone chilling line

I'd like to think that Ezra's recording wasn't distorted due to the machine. I think the recorder captured his own distorted voice as the color consumed him, much like Nahum's might have been distorted in his final moments in the Lovecraft story.

Ezra was so enlightened that his body was mummified sitting upright, like a Tibetan monk who passes while deep in meditation. He knew that he was infected, but instead of simply going insane, he mindfully described for others how he perceived the Color to be changing him and everything else. By the time they arrived, he was scantly a hollow shell, but his mind continued resisting the Color until there was nothing left of him.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Cold and wet... But it burns... Sucking the life out of everything... It came down in the rock. It lives in the well. It grew down there. Poisoning everything. Changing everything... into something like the world it came from. Into what it knows. We all know it's coming, but we can't get away. It's got everything that lives. They all drunk the water. It got strong. Fed itself on them. It came from the stars... where things ain't like they are here. It's just a color. But it burns. It sucks, and it burns. It burns.

Nice job putting your ad banners over half the screen while the video is still playing, dickwad. Sabotage your own work why don’t you, that’s real smart. You could have added a black or neutral frame for that, but you’d rather piss off your viewers I guess.

Such an underrated line:

"It came from the stars... where things ain't like they are here..."

Chills, man. Chills.

What's funny is when Warren and the sheriff first arrived around when Jack/Mom was trying to eat Lavinia they had epic music playing as they got out of the car, but as soon as the two get to the house, it's as if both the movie and the two characters figure out they did not know what they were getting into.

If you really think about it the color basically gave everything that it came in contact with what ever it really wanted, but it did it in a extremely warped and demented way.

This movie deserved to be on the big screen.

This should have gotten Tommy Chong an Oscar. I was so used to his funny Stoner persona, that this scary recording really took me by surprise.

Never did I expect Tommy Chong to deliver such chilling dialogue

When you take too many "Nolte-Vitamins" and your piss turns purple ...

Tommy Chong is so unsettling in this speech. I'm so used to him being such a chill guy, it's weird to see him so creepy.

10/10 would scare myself again!!

This is a movie made by a crew that clearly understands H. P. Lovecraft. Love it.

The most terrifying thing about the Color is there seems to be no way to really stop it. It's an entity that defies natural law, you can't fight something when the rules of your reality don't apply to it. Hell, that sailor was able to hurt CTHULHU of all creatures, granted he healed himself pretty easy but still Cthulhu has a physical form. This thing is basically energy, so I'm pretty sure nothing short of a nuke will really do anything and even then, I'm not so sure. Also, it probably didn't even comprehend it was hurting anyone, because of how different it is from us.

I think about this scene quite a bit. Such a good example of eldritch horror

evil dead rises, the first omen, and this? i love it so much! this was so disturbing that i couldn't look away, not even to b on my phone. we need more lovecraft movies. and we need them as horrifying as this

The tree randomly killing a guy felt kinda out of place for this story IMO. Like is there any similar thing that happens in this plot? I thought the color mostly possessed… you know… animate things?