Beyond the Black Rainbow Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 19007

Average Rating: 2.2/4

# of Ratings: 13

Theatrical Release Date: 04/22/2011

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 09/11/2012

Language: English

Genre: Sci-Fi

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Panos Cosmatos

Actors: Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry, Rondel Reynoldson, Chris Gauthier

Plot: A woman under constant sedation makes it her mission to escape from Arboria - part prison, part commune, where she is being held. -- Chris Kavan

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Rating of
2/4

Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/21/2012

I like movies that challenge the viewer, but this movie was too bizarre for its own good. Nothing is really explained, things just happen - a girl with powers kept in some kind of facility - a man who transforms into a monster - an escape - the whole movie is like a bad trip or twisted nightmare fantasy. It's different, but not necessarily good.

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Jake
Jake
Rising Star

Rating of
3.5/4

Somewhere over the rainbow...

Jake - wrote on 11/04/2012

If you were to pass out after chasing several drops of LSD with Absinth, you're dreams may look something like Beyond The Black Rainbow, a challenging, phantasmagorical, and staggeringly bizzare experience that is both hard to shake and impossible to forget. Only for the most adventurous of film lovers, it recalls the same mood and madness of the surreal wave of films from the likes of Lynch, Kubrick, Gasper Noe, Jodorwosky, and Cronenberg.. It's long, excessive, flawed, and just may be a pretentious mess, but on the other hand it's daring, original, visually dazzling, frightening, fearless, and bizarre. My only trouble with it is with the last ten minutes or so, but everything up to that, especially the second act (the peak?) when full on nightmare logic takes over, is a hypnotic …

Jacob Zembower
Jacob Zembower
Producer

Rating of
3.5/4

This is your mind over the rainbow.

Jacob Zembower - wrote on 05/28/2012

If you were to pass out after chasing several drops of LSD with Absinth, you're dreams may look something like Beyond The Black Rainbow, a challenging, phantasmagorical, and staggeringly bizzare experience that is both hard to shake and impossible to forget. Only for the most adventurous of film lovers, it recalls the same mood and madness of the surreal wave of films from the likes of Lynch, Kubrick, Gasper Noe, Jodorwosky, and Cronenberg.. It's long, excessive, flawed, and just may be a pretentious mess, but on the other hand it's daring, original, visually dazzling, frightening, fearless, and bizarre. My only trouble with it is with the last ten minutes or so, but everything up to that, especially the second act (the peak?) when full on nightmare logic takes over, is a hypnotic …

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