I love this movie. I think there should be a remake.
Of course it would never be as good as the original. I just think a modernized version would be quite frightening, and not just campy like the first one.
sharethe other day I found out that they made a movie called, "Colour from the Dark" in 2008 that was based on the exact same story that 'The Curse' was based on....I was really surprised at how similar this newer movie was to the Curse...it has ALOT of the same scenes and characters that were in the Curse...alot of the scenes were almost identical to ones in The Curse...it wasnt advertised as a reamake, but its so similar in so many ways I would consider it one....if you liked The Curse, definately see,'Colour from the Dark' ( 2008)
shareThere's another movie adaptation of the same Lovecraft story. It's from 2010 and its English title is "The color out of space" (original German title "Die Farbe" (translated: "The Color")). I've heard it's the best Lovecraft movie adaptation to date, but i haven't seen it yet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756479/
I have not seen "The Curse" either, but from what i read in the summary it's a horrendously inaccurate adaptation. I'm not even sure i want to see it. To OP: for all the good stuff in the movie you can thank Lovecraft (like the feeling of impending doom, it's kind of his trademark). "The colour out of space" is one of his most atmospheric stories.
The original story can be found here: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx
(from what i can tell by quickly browsing that site, pretty much all his stories are available there).
Or you can listen to spoken versions on youtube (pick your preferred accent):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyda5iiGEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCG8CJlvVo
There is an older movie adapted from "The Colour Out of Space", named Die, Monster, Die, with Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, and Freda Jackson. It's not as "Lovecraftian" as it might be (up until recently, filmmakers never quite understood Lovecraft), but it's pretty good if you like Sixties monster movies.
And on a personal note, I live not too far from the place where Lovecraft's story takes place.
There was once a road over the hills and through the valleys, that ran straight where the blasted heath is now; but people ceased to use it and a new road was laid curving far toward the south. Traces of the old one can still be found amidst the weeds of a returning wilderness, and some of them will doubtless linger even when half the hollows are flooded for the new reservoir. Then the dark woods will be cut down and the blasted heath will slumber far below blue waters whose surface will mirror the sky and ripple in the sun. And the secrets of the strange days will be one with the deep’s secrets; one with the hidden lore of old ocean, and all the mystery of primal earth.
The "new reservoir" in question is the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, which supplies water to the Boston area (the first stages of construction began in 1926, and Lovecraft's story was published the following year). In some of the small towns in that area, you can definitely feel like you're in Lovecraft Country.
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