![]() Barry Nyle (a deeply creepy Michael Rogers). She’s been imprisoned by Arborin, an institution with mysterious motivations and is under the care of Dr. Set in a fictionalized 1983 as designed by 70s filmmakers fantasizing about a dystopian future, Eva Allan stars as Elena a seemingly innocent young girl trapped in a white-walled sell under heavy sedation. There is ostensibly a plot to the film even if it can be at times nearly impossible to follow. The film is made to be experienced rather than understood and it’s really a shame that the midnight movie market no longer exists, because this thing would be an instant sensation with that audience who demanded little more than a movie than being able to mumble “far out” as they stumbled out of the theater in a daze. It’s as if Alejandro Jodorowsky had made a film comprised of leftover scenes and ideas from THX 1138, Scanners, and Altered States designed to tingle the brains of his chemically enhanced audience. ![]() Panos Cosmatos’ debut feature recreates the head-trip sci-fi movies of that era with an almost fetishistic attention to detail that captures the grainy cinematography, found location future, handmade special effects, enigmatic sound design, and gleefully confounding tone of that specific genre with eerie accuracy. ![]() If you were to stumble into a screening of Beyond the Black Rainbow told by devious friends that it is an undiscovered midnight movie from the late 70s, you would instantly believe it.
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