![]() While father Nathan (Cage) is gung-ho about becoming a farmer and raising alpacas (“the animal of the future”) despite no discernible talent for either, wife Theresa ( Joely Richardson) is preoccupied with recovering from a recent mastectomy, eldest son Benny ( Brendan Meyer) is off getting stoned most of the time, teen daughter Lavinia (Madeline Arthur) vents her annoyance at the move by dabbling in the black arts with her paperback copy of “The Necronomicon” and young son Jack ( Julian Hilliard) more often than not simply gets lost in the shuffle. The film centers on the Gardner family, who have recently left the hustle and bustle of the city for a more bucolic life in a remote house near a lake in the deep woods of Massachusetts. However, the addition of Cage to the already heady cinematic brew definitively puts it over the top, making it the kind of cult movie nirvana that was its apparent destiny from the moment the cameras started rolling. ![]() Moreau” after only a few days of shooting), there was very little chance that it was every going to be just another run-of-the-mill project. Lovecraft, and was directed and co-written by Richard Stanley (making his first stab at narrative filmmaking since being fired from his remake of “The Island of Dr. ![]() Considering that the film takes its inspiration from one of the most famous short stories by the legendarily weird H.P. And yet, none of these films may be able to top his latest effort, "Color Out of Space," in terms of sheer nuttiness. According to IMDb, the seemingly inexhaustible Nicolas Cage has no fewer than six additional movies in various stages of production that are currently scheduled for release in 2020, ranging from high-profile studio outings to the kind of demented head-scratchers that he somehow manages to sniff out in the manner of a pig finding truffles.
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