When a glowing meteorite crashes to the ground in the backyard of the Gardners' family home, the indescribably colored light causes things around them to become a little… strange. Lovecraft has got to be at least a teeny bit unhinged, and Color Out of Space does not disappoint. Why it's worth seeing: Any movie directed by madman Richard Stanley ( Hardware) and starring madmen Nicolas Cage and Tommy Chong, and based on a short story by madman H.P. 20th Century FoxĬast: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong In a year like 2020, being abducted by aliens suddenly didn't seem too bad.Ĭheck out our favorite sci-fi movies from 2019 and the best movies of 2020. Given that most of the year's big-budget superhero outings and space opera blockbusters were shifted ahead in the calendar, it may seem like we were bereft of the usual amount of laser-blasting spaceships and sonic boom fistfights, but those empty slots allowed plenty leaner, meaner flicks to shine.

It only made the actual sci-fi offerings of the year more comforting in their escapism, even if that escapism involved villains from the future trying to use Russian Kenneth Branagh to blow up the past, or a bunch of trigger-happy mercenaries hell-bent on destroying a tiny jungle town, or a creature from the depths of the ocean laying eggs in people's eyes. When you think about it, 2020 felt like a year out of a science fiction movie, what with a global pandemic sparked by a mysterious virus and an election season that challenged all thresholds of common sense.

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