We've come to the end of the Summer of Love (craft) and we're ending it on a remake of an earlier film. "The Colour from Space" was already made as Die, Monster Die! but just because a film was made doesn't mean it can't be made again.
The Crane family isn't doing terribly well. Living in the backwoods of Tennessee, the family is ruled over by patriarch Nathan (Claude Akins). His second wife Frances (Kathleen Gregory) is treated like one of the help. Nathan shows clear favoritism to his son Cyrus (Malcolm Danare), allowing the older boy to torment his step siblings Zack (Wil Wheaton) and Alice (Amy Wheaton).
As the soil is more rock than soil, trying to turn a profit on the farm is proving harder than anyone thought. All that changes when a strange (and poorly rendered) meteorite crashes into the backyard. While Nathan thinks of calling someone, Realtor Charlie Davidson (Steve Carlisle) talks him out of it. The reason is the TVA is interested in building a dam in the area, and Davidson is convinced he can gouge as much money from the agency as he can, nosy TVA agent (John Schneider) notwithstanding.
Things seem back to normal as the meteorite soon shrinks to nothing, but all the plants and vegetables start growing at an alarming rate. Which is good. The plants and vegetables also taste weird and seem to drive everyone who eats them crazy. Which is bad.
With Zack being the only one who figures the horse sized cabbages are what turning his family into pus oozing psychos, can he save his sister before the blood thirsty chickens run amok?
A few useless characters aside, not a terrible film. Keith dumps all the horror elements too fast onto the viewer. It plays almost like he wanted to do some small character drama then decided to add some horror. It also pays only the lightest lip service to Lovecraft through. The infection seems to work differently depending on the needs of the plot. Zack's mother is turned into a sore riddled hag, while his sister is cured with hose water. Also stay away from the purely in name only sequels. Not even Jamie Farr can save those.
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