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Plot Summary
Held captive in a specialized medical facility, a young woman with unique abilities seeks a chance to escape her obsessed captor. Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. From the producer of Machotaildrop, Rainbow is the outlandish feature film debut of writer and director Panos Cosmatos. Featuring a hypnotic analog synthesizer score by Jeremy Schmidt of “Sinoia Caves” and “Black Mountain,” Rainbow is a film experience for the senses.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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48%- Reviews Counted: 27
- Fresh: 13
- Rotten: 14
- Average Rating: 5.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Close-ups of a needle penetrating gnarled toes and a mutant slathered in what I choose to believe is bittersweet chocolate make as much sense as the scary drawings of angry vulvas hiding in a drawer.
Rotten: "Beyond the Black Rainbow" has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable.
Fresh: Audiences who appreciate oddball first efforts from talents such as Lynch (Eraserhead), Cronenberg (Shivers) and Jeunet (Delicatessen) will be thankful.
Fresh: Beyond The Black Rainbow is more surface than substance, but those surfaces are gleamingly polished enough to make for a hypnotic experiment that goes beyond genre pastiche or art-school wankery to seem formally daring.
Customer Reviews
Magnificent (if a little slow)
They don't make enough movies like this one. It doesn't go far, and it takes its time getting there, but the retrotropic ride is enjoyable. The poster, while cool, makes the movie look like Halloween or something - which it definitely isn't. What is it about then? Well, that's not as hard to figure out as some of the critics would have you believe, though I still don't know for sure. In any case, its not real important. Let's just say that Dr Mercurio Arboria probably chose his name for the same reason Ford Prefect did….but you don't have to understand that statement to enjoy this movie.
Michael Rogers gives a fantastic performance as Barry, Elena's "doctor". Somehow, even in pretty heavy makeup he's able to go from evil to pitiable to hilarious. The Man Who Fell To Earth meets American Psycho, well sort of. Maybe I'm just saying that because he kind of resembles Christian Bale. It doesn't matter, just watch the movie!
I'm greatly looking forward to more from Panos Cosmatos.
The love child of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch
If you are interested in something different, you have found it...Creepy, Eerie, and mysteriously haunting...this movie is not so much about a story content as it is about strikingly mood-setting filmography. Watching this movie, you get the feeling that it was actually made in 1983 with all sets, props, and overall style. The pacing might be a bit slow for some people, however to me it helps build the suspense and tension. I predict this film is destined to become a cult classic. Michael Rogers carries the workload in this movie and deftly delivers a truly disturbing performance in his role as "Barry".
A masterpiece
An incredible experience unlike anything you've ever seen. It's like "2001" meets I don't know what.
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