Movie Information
Overall Rank: 19088
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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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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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 …
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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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