一颗流光溢彩的太空陨石径直坠入新英格兰偏远庄园后，邪恶势力开始暗暗渗透静居于此的加德纳一家。不知不觉中，时间开始膨胀，自然逐渐呈现超凡脱俗的异世色调，而所有鲜亮美丽之物则受其影响纷纷异变腐败。 　　本片由南非影人理查德·斯坦利执导，与斯嘉丽·阿马里斯合作改编自H·P·洛夫克拉夫特1927年同名短篇小说《异星之彩/流星溢彩（The Colour Out of Space）》，并由奥斯卡影帝尼古拉斯·凯奇领衔主演。A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches...including them.