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Crosswicking.
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* SnowballingThreat: As the movie goes on, the titular EldritchAbomination[='s=] hold over the main location and the family escalates horrifically since its landing. At first, the only obvious signs of the Color's presence can be dismissed (abnormal bugs and insects, and episodic blackouts among the human family), but it soon escalates [[spoiler:to people and animals being horrifically fused into {{flesh golem}}s]], the family becoming trapped as the Color prevents them leaving the affected area, and the vegetation and very ''air'' becoming visually infected with the Color. [[spoiler:Fortunately for the rest of the Earth, the Color goes back into space once its strength hits its zenith, albeit taking all life in the infected area with it]].
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main threat of the film is an extraterrestrial ''color'', described from the original short story as "[[FictionalColor display[ing] shining bands unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum]]", something that naturally poses a problem when translated to the visual medium of film. The solution was to choose the next best thing: [[PsychoPink magenta]], a color that's not only garish and striking, but also technically doesn't exist in the color spectrum as there is no natural bridge between red and blue -- it's strictly a mental construct based on how optical rods in our eyes interpret specific mixtures of red and blue, paralleling nicely with the nature of the human mind trying to perceive an alien force that to characters and viewers alike [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm should not be comprehendible]].
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main threat of the film is an extraterrestrial ''color'', described from the original short story as "[[FictionalColor display[ing] shining bands unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum]]", something that naturally poses a problem when translated to the visual medium of film. The solution was to choose the next best thing: [[PsychoPink magenta]], a color that's not only garish and striking, but also technically doesn't exist in the color spectrum as there spectrum. "Pink" is no natural bridge between red and blue -- it's strictly a mental construct based on how optical rods in our eyes interpret specific mixtures of red and blue, blue (which are non-adjacent on the color spectrum), paralleling nicely with the nature of the human mind trying to perceive an alien force that to characters and viewers alike [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm should not be comprehendible]].
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main threat of the film is an extraterrestrial ''color'', described from the original short story as "[[FictionalColor display[ing] shining bands unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum]]", something that naturally poses a problem when translated to the visual medium of film. The solution was to choose the next best thing: [[PsychoPink magenta]], a color that's not only garish and striking, but also technically doesn't exist in the color spectrum as there is no natural bridge between red and blue -- it's strictly a mental construct based on how optical rods in our eyes interpret specific mixtures of red and blue, paralleling nicely with the nature of the human mind trying to perceive an alien force that to characters and viewers alike [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm should not be comprehendible]].
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* ClosestThingWeGot: Ward is a hydrologist, but the Gardners ask his help identifying the meteor, and the sheriff and a local hunter ask his help identifying a mutated animal corpse, as he's likely the only person with any form of scientific education for miles.
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** The fate of [[spoiler:the alpaca herd]] strongly recalls that of [[spoiler:the sled dogs]] in ''Film/TheThing1982''.
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** The fate of [[spoiler:the alpaca herd]] strongly recalls that of [[spoiler:the sled dogs]] in ''Film/TheThing1982''. Considering that, it's probably not a coincidence the family dog Sam [[CastingGag is played by a wolfdog]], though in this case Sam is a Czech Vlcak or Saarloos instead of a low-content that can pass for a malamute.
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->''"I hope the dam water that covers this place will be very deep, but even then, I'll never drink it. There are only a few of us who remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science, or our basic concept, our perception of reality. It was just... a [[TitleDrop color out of space]]. A messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes."''
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->''"I hope the dam water that covers this place will be very deep, but even then, I'll never drink it. There are only a few of us who remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science, or our basic concept, our perception of reality. It was just... a [[TitleDrop color out of space]].space. A messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes."''
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->''"I hope the dam water that covers this place will be very deep, but even then, I'll never drink it. There are only a few of us who remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science, or our basic concept, our perception of reality. It was just... a [[TitleDrop color out of space]]. A messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes."''
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* HostileTerraforming: A bit more [[EldritchLocation Eldritch]] than most examples, but the ApocalypticLog speculates that the mutations the Color causes to the environment are the Color attempting to shape the environment into something more familiar to it and something which the EldritchAbomination understands.
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* HostileTerraforming: A bit more [[EldritchLocation Eldritch]] than most examples, but An EldritchAbomination case. The Color increasingly contaminates and mutates the fauna, flora and even the ''air condensation'' on the Gardner property and its surroundings, [[spoiler:rendering the vegetables inedible, and turning [[HazardousWater the drinking water]] into a fate-sealing hazard which makes any drinkers vulnerable to the Color, and by the film's final act, the property's boundaries look as if AnotherDimension merged with it]]. The ApocalypticLog speculates that the mutations the Color causes is trying to reshape the local environment are (which is just as alien and strange to the Color attempting to shape as the environment Color is to us) into something more familiar to it and something which the EldritchAbomination understands.Color.
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Ambiguous Disorder is not a trope anymore, but a redirect to a YMMV entry.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jack is somewhat immature for his age, still sleeping with fuzzy animals and having imaginary friends. He's also prone to staring off into space.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the prominence of Cage on the poster and advertisements, Lavinia is the real lead, having the primary point of view [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies this, however, does not mean she's spared]]]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the prominence of Cage on the poster and advertisements, Lavinia is the real lead, having the primary point of view view. [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies this, This, however, does not mean she's spared]]]].
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Ward basically disappears around the start of the second act and doesn't come back until the climax.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the prominence of Cage on the poster and advertisements, Lavinia and Ward are is the real leads. lead, having the primary point of view [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies this, however, does not mean she's spared]]]].
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** Ward wears a Miskatonic University jersey.
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** Ward wears a Miskatonic University jersey.shirt.
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Bourgeois Bohemian requires from character(s) to be financially successful or simply rich. They are neither, stuck on an inherited farm due to an entire string of bad business deals and misfortunes
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* BourgeoisBohemian: The family seems to be something like this. They live in a large, fairly elaborate house with modern amenities that include television and internet, but they're critical of big food chains like McDonalds, Lavinia is Wiccan, and they take water from a well and own a farm. Ezra, on the other hand, is full-on NewAgeRetroHippie.
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* BourgeoisBohemian: The family seems to be something like this. They live in a large, fairly elaborate house with modern amenities that include television and internet, but they're critical of big food chains like McDonalds, Lavinia is Wiccan, and they take water from a well and own a farm. Ezra, on the other hand, is full-on NewAgeRetroHippie.
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->''"I hope the dam water that covers will be very deep, but even then, I'll never drink it. There are only a few of us who remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science, or our basic concept, our perception of reality. It was just... a [[TitleDrop a color out of space]]. A messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes."''
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->''"I hope the dam water that covers will be very deep, but even then, I'll never drink it. There are only a few of us who remember the strange days now. What touched this place cannot be quantified or understood by human science, or our basic concept, our perception of reality. It was just... [[TitleDrop a color out of space.space]]. A messenger from realms whose existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the gulfs that it throws open before our frenzied eyes."''
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* NuclearMutant: The Color's presence has a lot of overtones associated with nuclear radiation, implying that the Color might be giving off a form of radiation or is itself a sentient radioactive wavelength. It mutates the flora and fauna around it, creating unusual mutant strains before the land is reduced to an unrecognizable wasteland. It contaminates the air, the soil and the water, slowly driving people exposed to it insane. When a group of hunters finds the corpse of various animals melted together, Ward compares some of the injuries to radiation burns. [[spoiler:After it fuses Theresa and Jack together skin is made grey, they become sensitive to sunlight and her hair starts to fall out, not unlike the symptoms of cancer and radiation therapy]]. [[spoiler:When it flees at the end of the movie, it leaves a massive ash-heap where the farm used to be, Nathan reduced to a charred skeleton, almost as if a nuke was dropped on it]].
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* NuclearMutant: The Color's presence has a lot of overtones associated with nuclear radiation, implying that the Color might be giving off a form of radiation or is itself a sentient radioactive wavelength. It mutates the flora and fauna around it, creating unusual mutant strains before the land is reduced to an unrecognizable wasteland. It contaminates the air, the soil and the water, slowly driving people exposed to it insane.insane and messes with all of the signals in the area. When a group of hunters finds the corpse of various animals melted together, Ward compares some of the injuries to radiation burns. [[spoiler:After it fuses Theresa and Jack together together, their skin is made turns grey, they become sensitive to sunlight and her hair starts to fall out, not unlike the symptoms of cancer and radiation therapy]]. [[spoiler:When it flees at the end of the movie, it leaves a massive ash-heap where the farm used to be, Nathan reduced to a charred skeleton, almost as if a nuke was dropped on it]].
