I’m getting old and I don’t have the patience I used to. So flash forward in the story a bit now. I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts! The first piece of discernible data we see is the number of the year in which the film is set, gradually embossed on the screen in the slow-fade style of Alien’s (1979) opening title. Will My Masturbation Marathon Enhance Humanity’s Position in the Galactic Community? [14] Its paranoid, Cold War mood contains nods to the late U.S. president – through a clip of an ominous televised speech by Ronald Reagan himself – and former Panamenian general and convicted drug lord Manuel Noriega (Dr. Nyle's "Noriega" jacket). Hope it moves you, and thank you so much for reading! Afterward, Nyle receives a phone call and rushes back to the Institute where he discovers ash from Margo's cigarette near the case notes. A little understanding of modern ufology also helps. Then click over here and toss up a like for me, and then come over here and read something typically disturbing. I recommend Beyond the Black Rainbow to you today knowing that it will only reach half of you. He allows Elena to leave her cell and activates the prism, causing her to convulse and pass out. He has reached the next state of consciousness or spiritual evolution and all others are beneath his and Elena’s worth, which is shown in the arrogance he expresses to Rosemary…..this is shown when he abandons his “appliances” assumes his true form and has that moment with rosemary, before he kills her, saying that he has been to another world and that he has seen things that no human has ever seen, except Elena. The film stars Michael Although the movie Beyond the Black Rainbow (written and directed by Panos Cosmatos of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was first released a … A little understanding of modern ufology also helps. [10] Unable to deal with his mother's death, Panos "drifted into a slow motion mode of self-destruction and binge drinking". Club rated it B+, praising its style and daring form. "[23] The light triangle, responsible for dampening Elena's psychic powers, is another control symbol. [22] Schmidt also pointed out the background music from The Shining (1980) and Risky Business (1983) as musical blueprints for the Beyond the Black Rainbow score. I loved every second of it. Suspicious of Margo, Nyle informs her that Elena has smuggled contraband into her room. [33][34] The visual reference for Arboria Institute's interior design was THX 1138. [41] UGO Networks's Jordan Hoffman noted both elements, stating in his review that in the movie some "up-to-no-good new age scientists have let their experiments with consciousness-altering drugs mutate a young woman"[21] – in this case, Elena. That is just how life is.

Nyle, having dissolved his final contact to the material world, collects a ceremonial dagger he calls "The Devil's Tear-Drop" and follows Elena. There was an unnamed woman helping out during this experiment; Barry loved her, but Dr. Arboria had already scooped her up. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. In all four movies, every detail—from the use of music and graphics to elements of performance and design—has been fussed over to the nth degree to ensure that the feature would’ve passed for the real thing if it somehow slipped back in time to appear on a double bill with Xtro (1983) or Exterminator 2 (1984). Writer/Director Panos Cosmatos on his new film "Beyond the Black Rainbow", Sinoia Caves scores Beyond the Black Rainbow, Beyond the Black Rainbow director Panos Cosmatos brings a head trip to the big screen, https://www.allmusic.com/album/beyond-the-black-rainbow-original-soundtrack-mw0002703776, Beyond the Black Mountain: Jeremy Schmidt interview re: Sinoia Caves and Beyond the Black Rainbow, 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' Director Panos Cosmatos Talks His Sci-Fi Indie, 'Prometheus,' 'The Shining' & More, Interview: Panos Cosmatos Takes Us Back to the Past to the Future in 'Beyond the Black Rainbow', Eva Allan On Being Sad & Silent For 'Beyond The Black Rainbow', Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) / Interview, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW: Cool Canadian Cult Picture on Blu-Ray from Mongrel Media, Analysing a Movie ('Beyond the Black Rainbow'), Far Voyages — Lovecraftian Themes in 'Beyond the Black Rainbow', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dDYbajSSU, FANTASTIC FEST 2011: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Review, Fantastic Review: 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' is the Best Example of Whatever The Hell It Is, Movie review: Snoozer 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' is all ambience, no substance, 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' is a misfire of retro rockets with '80s-style sci-fi, Fantastic Fest Reviews: 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' and 'Manborg', Gloomy Clinic Where the Staff Behaves as Oddly as the Inmates, https://nypost.com/2012/05/18/beyond-the-black-rainbow/, https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/things-to-do/article225662040.html, https://366weirdmovies.com/198-beyond-the-black-rainbow-2010/.

Block this member This member is blocked; Just look at all the pyramids in these photo shots alone. First of all, let it be known, I first experienced Beyond the Black Rainbow in a heavily altered state. That copious list ranges from the steely, antiseptic likes of THX-1138 (1971) and Silent Running (1972) to the more eagerly existentialist SF school of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Solaris (1972) to Cronenberg at his most clinical—that is, in the films set in a clinic or clinic-like institutions, like Crimes of the Future (1970), The Brood (1979), and Scanners (1981). [27] All in all, "the chosen palette of sounds definitely harkens back to 'The New Age of Enlightenment'", said Schmidt.

[10] A number of reviewers noted similarities between the film and Stanley Kubrick's (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971). Cosmatos also takes influence from other visual media.