10 Intense Horror Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen

In this gory, sci-fi body horror adapted from the work of HP Lovecraft, Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage) and his family are beset by an extra-terrestrial substance (best resembling the colour purple), which infects their minds and bodies. Before you can say eeugh their bucolic rural life is turned into a nightmare of blood, guts and mutation, as animals and family members alike are fused together in horrific new combinations.

It took Richard Stanley over two decades to pick up the pieces after the epic disaster that was his adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), from which he was unceremoniously fired during production, but Color Out Of Space gives diehard fans precisely what they have been missing since the days of Hardware (1990).

Equally, we have been witnessing Nicolas Cage's return to form over the past few years as he has transitioned his approach to taking parts away from anything and everything to anything and everything plus some films that actually mean something. And this entry in the rejuvenated Cage canon sits comfortably alongside Mom and Dad, Willy's Wonderland and Mandy.

While the sheer intensity at play in the destruction of Color Out Of Space's characters, relationships and setting might not be for everyone, the dark triumvirate of Stanley, Cage and Lovecraft offers a worthy trial by fire.