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Adaptations of The Colour Out of Space (Lovecraft)

There's a 1987 Wil Wheaton movie on... some cable network, this month. It's not a good movie, it's only worth your time if you're REALLY hardcore about seeing every adaptation of any H.P. Lovecraft story. The movie is called The Curse, and it also has John Schneider, and some less famous actors. It's interesting to see Wil Wheaton as he looked just shortly after Stand By Me, I guess. It's also sort of interesting because it was directed by David Keith. (NOT Keith David from They Live, The Thing, There's Something About Mary, etc. David Keith, from Firestarter. I was reminded of The Unnamable a few times, so maybe one of the two movies influenced the other. The 80's The Blob is similar, too.

Anyway, not a great movie. But, it made me think about the H.P. Lovecraft story it is based on, The Colour Out of Space. In the story, the ending was important, because they were planning to build a huge reservoir to contain the drinking water for some major city in New England (probably "Miskatonic," because it's a Lovecraft story), and they were planning to build it right on top of the ground poisoned by the monstrous alien meteor. This is interesting to me, because for most of my life I have been drinking water from the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts (where they filmed Super Troopers 2). The Quabbin was probably one of the inspirations for the story... another, smaller reservoir in Rhode Island, called the Scituate Reservoir, was definitely an inspiration. I have cousins who live a short walk from that reservoir, so, kneel before my godlike majesty.

Wikipedia says there have been some pretty solid adaptations of The Colour in this century, made in Italy and Germany. I already knew about Die, Monster, Die. But, has anyone here seen the recent German or Italian versions? Any thoughts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space
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