Beyond the Black Rainbow

  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Mystery
12/3/2010
110
R

Beyond Science. Beyond Sanity. Beyond Control.

Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.

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$1,100,000

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  • griggs79

    Beyond the Black Rainbow postures as a reverent tribute to 1970s cult sci-fi, but quickly reveals itself as an exercise in imitation rather than inspiration. Instead of channelling the essence of THX 1138, Dark Star, Silent Running, or Solaris, it appears to lift entire stylistic elements wholesale, without understanding what made those films resonate. Though drenched in an icy 1980s aestheticwith CRT fuzz, sterile corridors, and a heavy synth scorethe film offers little more than visual mimicry. An early sequence cuts from Ronald Reagan archival footage to a suit carrier marked Noriega, a clumsy nod to the CIA-backed Panamanian dictator famously driven out by the sonic assault of Van Halen. Had this films soundtrack been used ins...

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