Colour From The Dark (2008)

“Colour From the Dark” is an interesting take on Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”. It is an independent film that took top honors at the Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland Oregon in 2009. Filmed in Italy but in English, this low budget feature has a few differences from the original story while presenting the main themes that Lovecraft tried to convey. In this story, he wanted to write about a truly alien entity and the effects it has upon a small farming family.

In Italy during World War Two, there is a family on a farm who has a mysterious evil in the bottom of their well. Pietro releases the evil while attempting to retrieve a bucket that was knocked in but doesn’t think much about the smoke and odd smell that comes rising up. That night, Pietro and his wife Lucia and her sister Alice all drink the water from the well. At first everything seems great as the crops suddenly grow large and plentiful and Pietro’s bad knee is healed and Alice begins to talk for the first time in years. But just as quickly as their luck came, it sours and everything goes downhill. Lucia goes crazy, Alice becomes weird, and Pietro thinks the trees in his field are glowing at night. The family suffers as the fruit rots and their very life is sucked out of them.