Director Richard Stanley's science fiction horror film is an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story of the same name. It stars Nicolas Cage, Q'orianka Kilcher, Madeleine Arthur, and Joely Richardson. A small meteorite with unearthly properties crashes into a rural family estate in Massachusetts. It has a miraculous effect on the surrounding flora, but soon begins to wreck havoc on all the humans in its vicinity.