Beyond the Black Rainbow

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Movie
Original title Beyond the Black Rainbow
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Panos Cosmatos
script Panos Cosmatos
production Oliver Linsley ,
Christya Nordstokke
music Jeremy Schmidt (under the pseudonym Sinoia Caves )
camera Norm Li
cut Nicholas T. Shepard
occupation

Beyond the Black Rainbow is a published darkly in 2010 psychedelic sci-fi - horror film from Canada and the feature film debut of director Panos Cosmatos .

The director Cosmatos self-produced low-budget - Independent Film with production costs of about 1.1 million US dollars had its premiere on December 3, 2010 at the Whistler Film Festival and expired on 31 December of the same year with a 14A Unlock When ( from 14 years) and the tagline Beyond science - Beyond sanity - Beyond control in Canadian cinemas on May 18, 2012 with an R-rating (from 17 years) in the USA.

Outside of North America, it has only been shown at film festivals so far (2014), despite Region 1 DVD and BluRay release, and has not yet been released in German.

action

The film begins with a short 1967 promotional film for the Arboria Institute in which its founder, Dr. Mercurio Arboria ( Scott Hylands ) introduces its New Age research facility, which, equipped with extensive, “award-winning” relaxation gardens, enables its customers or patients to achieve peace and bliss with the aid of pharmaceuticals, sensual therapy and energy sculpting ( light work ) promises.

Leap into 1983: The mute, psychic gifted girl Elena ( Eva Bourne ) has been living almost her entire life as a prisoner in the Arboria Institute , under the observation of the sadistic Dr. Barry Nyle ( Michael Rogers ) tormenting her with questioning. Elena is guarded by the cold-feeling nurse Margo ( Rondel Reynoldsen ) and a grotesque, robot-like being ( Ray Campsall ) who is referred to in the credits as Sentionaut (in German for example: sensory traveler , but also note the sensual therapy mentioned at the beginning ). The established founder of the institute, Dr. Arboria, has been turned into a drug addict wreck by Barry, which has apparently been vegetating in a foggy dark room of the institute for a long time and has largely lost touch with reality; in his naivete old Dr. Arboria said that his life's work would be in good hands with his successor, Barry.

In the course of the plot, the nurse Margo finds a disturbing file with either cruel experiments on Elena, or (if you follow a statement by Barry in an earlier scene or some of the quick-cut entries you can see) Elena's own delusions, but does nothing before she is later telepathically killed by Elena for a cruelty perpetrated. Barry watches Elena's killing of the nurse on a surveillance screen; Barry seems satisfied with the scene, and he uses the remote-controlled Sentionaut to lock Elena, who has passed out in the hallway, back in her room.

During a conversation between Barry and Dr. Arboria, Barry remembers his admission to the institute in 1966, which we see in a long flashback, which is held in blurred and high-contrast black and white images. Barry's initiation through an LSD trip failed, however: unlike Dr. Arboria intended, Barry had a traumatizing horror trip (which is the only section of the flashback that is sharp and in color) that turned him into a sadistic psychopath, so that immediately after his initiation trip, Elena's mother, Dr. Arboria's wife Anna ( Sara Stockstad ). Nevertheless, the naive Dr. Arboria, to whom Barry's transformation into evil either remained hidden or which he did not want to admit, made him his close collaborator and successor; shortly after her mother's death, Elena was also introduced to Dr. Arboria was admitted to the institute as an infant, suggesting a ritual similar to that of Barry's initiation.

After reminiscing about the above events in 1966, Barry brings the unsuspecting Dr. Arboria in the present from 1983 through a targeted overdose of the intoxicating drug, on which the old institute founder is now dependent. Back at home, Barry saw an aggressively paranoid speech by US President Ronald Reagan on television that evening, fueling his now completely erupting psychopathy. He removes his wig and contact lenses, which he has had to wear since his bad trip in 1966, which, as we can now see, also disfigured him physically, and murders his wife Rosemary ( Marilyn Norry ) before heading back with a dagger goes to the institute to stab Elena.

Since after the murder of Dr. Arboria forgot to turn on the occult pyramid, which is supposed to keep Elena's powers in check, the girl is now on the run through the almost infinite labyrinthine rooms, corridors and shafts of the institute, where she confronts the Sentionaut and a worm-like creature ( Geoffrey Conder ) has to escape with a bald head that accidentally wakes her. When Barry arrives, she has already escaped from the remote institute complex and is in the countryside. But since he recently had a tracking chip implanted for her by the Sentionaut , Barry starts the chase first by car, then on foot.

While Elena wanders through a completely strange world of nocturnal fields, Barry comes across two men (Gerry South, Chris Gauthier) at a campfire, whom he stabs under the obsessive accusation that they have molested Elena. Finally, Barry finds Elena and, with the dagger in his hand, begs her, then screams, to come back to him, but when he tries to stab her too, he stumbles over a root and dies by hitting his head on a stone.

In the last shot of the action, the freed, disturbed Elena reaches a suburb that borders the fields and approaches a house, the window of which is apparently lit by a running television.

At the end of the credits, the quote "Wherever you go, there you are" ( "Wherever you go, there you are .") From the film Buckaroo Banzai - The 8th Dimension (1984) is displayed. After the credits you can see a last shot of the film in which a close-up of a toy figure of a Sentionaut lying on a carpet and apparently also illuminated by the bluish flickering light of a television outside the picture, while terrestrial radio interference is on the sound track and a reverse voice can be heard.

background

Emergence

Director Cosmatos said he had the idea early on to make a film like Beyond the Black Rainbow . As a child in the early 1980s, he often visited a nearby video store and imagined what the films might be like based on the covers of horror and sci-fi films that he had not yet been allowed to see. That was the basic idea that finally resulted in Beyond the Black Rainbow , which Cosmatos consciously designed stylistically as if it were a lost (cult) film from the early 1980s, a “film that never existed”.

The intentionally vague and cryptic plot with a strong emphasis on the overwhelming and disturbing optics was also intended, as Cosmatos said he wanted to make a film that corresponds to a memory of a secretly watched film that scared one as a child because it actually was was intended for an older age group, so that one's own memory of the film as an adult consists mainly of emotionally strong visual film images, while one hardly remembers the plot that one did not understand as a child.

As an adult, Cosmatos had two different ideas for the specific plot that he later combined: One consisted of a commercial for a non-existent research facility, the other of a girl trying to escape from a hospital or insane asylum.

The immediate trigger that finally prompted Cosmatos to implement his project was the early death of his parents; his work on the film was part of the therapy with which he tried to get over the loss. His parents were the Greek-Italian action film director George P. Cosmatos , who u. a. responsible for Rambo II - The Order (1985), and the Swedish sculptor Birgitta Ljungberg-Cosmatos . Cosmatos emphasizes that much of his parents' work has gone into his own film.

Influences

As influences on the 'modernist' color scheme of the film, director Cosmatos referred to Michael Mann's films Die eheimliche Macht (1983) and Blutmond (1986), as well as Dark Star (1974) by John Carpenter . The experimental horror film Begotten (1990) by E. Elias Merhige inspired Cosmatos for the black and white part of the flashback to 1966 in the middle of the film, and the small film-in-film sequence about the battle of the gods (in which you mainly see tracking shots around immobile statues ) from the film The Contempt (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard served as a model for Barry's colorful horror trip during this flashback.

Cinematographer Norm Li pointed to other influences for his work on Cosmatos' film: Electroma (2006) by Daft Punk , Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento and THX 1138 (1971) by George Lucas . General optical influences that Cosmatos and Li agreed on also existed in the style of the Franco-Belgian sci-fi comic magazine Métal hurlant (or its North American branch Heavy Metal ; there was also a German branch under the title Schwermetall ) and paintings by the fantasy artist Frank Frazetta .

Referring to the extremely slow, almost hypnotic narrative style, director Cosmatos describes his film as belonging to a type that he describes as trance films ; As concrete examples of what he calls this genre, he refers to Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola , Last Year in Marienbad (1961) by Alain Resnais and Phase IV (1974) by Saul Bass .

In line with Cosmatos 'intention to make a film that should look like it was from the early 1980s, and as an homage to the brightly colored action films by Cosmatos' father, cameraman Norm Li opted for a classic production method on 35mm film (Fuji Eterna 400T) in anamorphic aspect ratio of 1: 2.35. Cosmatos had originally intended to shoot the film digitally on a RED One camera and was reluctant to accept the costly sounding proposal to shoot at 35mm until Li was able to convince him of the cheap production format Techniscope (aka 35mm 2-perf ) .

subjects

Cosmatos emphasizes that the three main themes of his film are control mania , identity and criticism of the occult or esotericism of the 1968 generation .

  • Control madness is the main motive of the psychopath Barry, who seeks to use science and the occult to control others and ultimately a nature to be defeated by both means; According to Cosmatos, Barry has become “a kind of vampire” through his traumatizing horror trip, who, in his obsession with power, explores Elena's supernatural powers with the aim of usurping them, so he wants to suck Elena “like a vampire” . (Political) paranoia and control mania were also the two basic social moods of the USA during the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan (who can also be seen in the film with a speech excerpt) for Cosmatos , in which the film plays: “I remember constantly being afraid in the 1980s. ” The black leather jacket of the fictional brand NORIEGA, whose logo can be seen in close-up when put on, which Barry wears and in the second half of the film after his psychopathy finally breaks through, also refers to the repressive-paranoid Reagan era which refers to the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega , a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair and the War on Drugs promoted by the Reagan administration , while at the same time rumors were circulating about the simultaneous involvement of the CIA in the drug trade with South American regimes such as that of Panama.
  • An independent identity is Elena's central problem, as she has spent most of her life in isolation in an artificial and hostile environment.
  • Dr. Arboria, the original founder of the Arboria Institute , is primarily determined by his naivety and his penchant for esotericism . Cosmatos is of the opinion that the 68ers could have achieved and moved a lot more without their naive inclination towards mysticism and esotericism.

music

The soundtrack for Beyond the Black Rainbow comes from Jeremy Schmidt, keyboard player for the band Black Mountain , who wrote the music under the pseudonym Sinoia Caves . Cosmatos and Schmidt met through their mutual interest in the music of Tangerine Dream , Giorgio Moroder and the soundtracks to films by John Carpenter.

Schmidt designed accordingly nostalgically in the dark sound of the 1970s and early 80s, who also referred to additional musical influences from György Ligeti , Krzysztof Penderecki and the soundtracks to the films Shining (1980) and Loose Shops (1983) for his work for Cosmatos' film, also the soundtrack for Beyond the Black Rainbow .

review

Beyond the Black Rainbow received mostly mixed reviews. Points of criticism were the lack of action or cryptic action, as well as z. Sometimes the slowness of the film, although the latter was positively highlighted by other reviews as "almost hypnotic" and compared with the works of Kubrick or Andrey Tarkowsky . The film received special praise almost across the board for its exuberant, aesthetically overwhelming imagery, which, for critics who judged negatively, was at the expense of an understandable or sophisticated plot ( pretentious, self-indulgent style-over-substance , i.e. a superficial love of style, was the most frequent accusation The film received further praise for its darkly nostalgic analog synthesizer soundtrack, which is reminiscent of the early films by John Carpenter and David Cronenberg.

Nonetheless, the film also received quite a number of downright exuberant reviews, which saw it as a “welcome attempt” to “relive the days of films like El Topo and Eraserhead when late-night audiences valued directors who still held the viewer wanted to disturb in a clever way ”. But the positive reviews also emphasized the marginality of the film, whose sophisticated psychedelic aesthetics and slow narrative deliberately refuse to be suitable for the masses and blockbuster mentality, so that Beyond the Black Rainbow is almost exclusively based on a small intersection: "on the one hand art house and on the other hand Grindhouse fans" dishes that respond to both genres. The film polarizes strongly: " Beyond the Black Rainbow is either exactly your case, or it is so far removed from your overall mentality that you should avoid it."

Quite a few viewers and critics were also irritated by the fact that the film is explicitly divided into three comparatively different parts:

  • the extremely meditative and cryptic first half, which is aimed primarily at arthouse fans,
  • the long flashback to 1966 in the middle, which contains most of the information for the plot and its background,
  • and the second, slightly accelerated half, which, despite maintaining a Tarkowsky-like tempo and exuberant images, suggests a thriller with splatter elements and ends with Barry's relatively brief and unspectacular death.

Many critics noticed a striking affinity of Beyond the Black Rainbow to the psychedelic to disturbing cinematic visual and formal language of the 1970s and early 80s, especially to the works of the directors

and the production design of George Lucas ' film THX 1138 (1971). Modern films that Cosmatos' work has been compared to include Enter the Void (2009) by Gaspar Noé , The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick, and Amer (2009) by Hélène Catti and Bruno Forzani .

A small part of the critics accused the director of offering little more than a derivative infusion, while the majority saw the strong bonds, but made the final decision dependent on their own opinion about the plot, timing and the overall design and narrative structure either identified as the main problem, or welcomed the film as a successful homage, which, due to its very own overall effect, turns out to be more than the sum of its stylistically modeled elements.

Based on 23 reviews, the online film review database Rotten Tomatoes currently (2020) has 58% positive reviews for Beyond the Black Rainbow ; Metacritic counts 4 positive reviews, 3 mixed and 3 negative.

Individual reviews

German-language reviews

“No classic narrative cinema, a nightmarish-hypnotic experience, a frenzy of colors and shapes with an 80s film aesthetic. (4 out of 5 stars) “

- Verena Saischek : PressPlay; Beyond the Black Rainbow

“[…] I have seldom seen a strip lately that has so gripped and occupied me at the same time, while it has apparently remained completely inaccessible to those around me. I understand that Beyond The Black Rainbow [...] has everything in it that could annoy horror fans or even cinema fans: A non-linear story where you have to figure most of it yourself; The plot and camera pans are as slow as slow motion and a completely sterile atmosphere, which is reflected in the few, claustrophobia-inducing glass and steel backdrops and in the lack of expressiveness of the few protagonists.
Of course, all of this is just as intentional in order to convey a vision between the debut director Panos Cosmatos and the viewer. A vision that is so complex and powerful that they are transmitted only in this most severe form can . "

“Visually impressive, with a terrific synthesizer score and an atmospheric staging, Beyond the Black Rainbow is undoubtedly a special cinematic experience as an audiovisual sensory experience. With his meditative-hypnotic narrative "tempo", however, he will offend many, and unfortunately it was too slow for me in places. In particular, individual shots seem to drag on forever - [...] It's a real shame ... with a somewhat tighter staging, Beyond the Black Rainbow could have been a small modern masterpiece of fantastic cinema. Unfortunately, it is only enough for the rating of a fascinating experiment. (6 out of 10 points) "

- Christian Siegel : FictionBox; Beyond the Black Rainbow

“Beyond the Black Rainbow is a completely insane creation that combines beguiling visual beauty, yawning boredom and a sensationally high WTF factor. [...] not an entertainment film, but an out-of-the-way and experimental work of art that is only made for die-hard friends of the really unusual. It is the kind of film that is wonderfully suited to projecting it onto a wall with a projector at a party of fanatical film freaks or other deviant deviants. […]
CONCLUSION: Beyond the Black Rainbow is a completely insane retro science fiction neo midnight movie bastard. Absolutely fascinating and inspiring, really beautiful and wondrous, extremely tough and, strictly speaking, almost unbearable. (Rating: 7 out of 10 WTFs) "

- Gregor Torinus : filmtipps.at; Beyond the Black Rainbow

“This Canadian independent film extends a simple story through visual gimmicks to 110 minutes. It's nice to watch - especially for lovers of the visual cinematic experience - but always on the verge of boredom. Anyone who has a few free minutes and likes drug-trip art films with a dash of horror can safely take a look. For others, the film is probably too lengthy and too narcissistic. (5.5 out of 10) "

- Albrecht Yves : Film Freaks Review; Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)

" Beyond the Black Rainbow is less a narrative film than a total sensory experience: Panos Cosmatos uses soundscapes and hypnotic sequences of images to plunge the viewer into a place beyond the black rainbow, into the depths of the subconscious."

- / Slash Film Festival (program booklet)

“One thing has to be said in advance: Beyond the Black Rainbow is a very stubborn mixture of different genres and, due to its strange and opaque character, not everyone's taste. To be precise, only a few will be able to gain anything from the film, as it basically tells hardly anything and ends abysmally poorly. But from a purely stylistic point of view, the film is very interesting, and as the press release of the film aptly describes it, Beyond the Black Rainbow is an experience for the senses. [...] a daring and intense sensory experience on the screen. (Rating: 6.0 out of 10) "

- video machine; Film review: Beyond the Black Rainbow

“Panos Cosmatos, offspring of an extremely creative film family, ignites a frenzy of images with his poetic sci-fi horror tale that is unparalleled in contemporary cinema. His debut film shows influences from Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick and Dario Argento - and yet it seems unique. The tour de force performances by Michael Rogers and Eva Allan, the psychedelic primary colors and the atmospheric synthesizer soundtrack, Beyond the Black Rainbow all melts into a visionary, hallucinative, nightmarish total work of art. "

- International Film & TV Festival Cologne; Beyond the Black Rainbow

English language reviews

"As if the 70s were dreaming the 80s, complete with booming synths, the 2001 sets , lighting like Mario Bava and a speed like watching a glacier hiking."

- Jovanka Vuckovic : Revolver Mag; The Best Horror Films of 2012

"Like the project of a film student in their third year of training, provided that they would live on hands full of acid and with a paranoia like in Nixon's time."

- William Bibbiani : Crave Online; Review: Beyond the Black Rainbow

“Who needs drugs when there are films like Beyond the Black Rainbow ? A psychedelic journey into the unconscious, [...] a brightly colored feverish dream in widescreen, with sets that glow from within, and on the soundtrack you can hear unbelievably atmospheric synthesizers booming, clearly influenced by John Carpenter. [...] hypnotic and at the same time repulsive delirium visions [...] This is intended to confuse and disturb and create a very special film experience for the courageous friend of the experimental film. A convincing performance in which there are incredibly strange landscapes to discover. (Rating: B) "

- Brian Orndorf : Film Review - Beyond the Black Rainbow

“A Psychedelic Study of Free Will. A wacky meditation on the brevity of life. A fantastic crescendo of the futuristic present through the filter of aesthetics from 1983. A collection of images and sounds that is less a mere homage than a work that is on par with the best works of the past by greats such as Argento, Carpenter, Kubrick, Cronenberg, Lynch and Hooper moved. […] Each shot is a painting of shimmering colors, seen with the gaze of a hallucinating time travel hippie from the 60s who only just arrived in 1983 after making a short detour to 2075. (Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars) "

- Dustin Putnam : Beyond the Black Rainbow (2012)

“A bizarre homage to the midnight films and dirty, dark cult videos of the early 80s [...]. A combination of Kubrick's pictures with the themes of Carpenter and with a really unforgettable result. [...] Shockingly disturbing, but full of artistic beauty. "

- Edward Douglas : Coming Soon; Box Office Preview: What to Expect When You Base a Movie on a Board Game

“A dizzying drug trip from film [...] surreal scary images [...] like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey , if everything had gone terribly wrong [...] as if you were so high on acid that you couldn't concentrate on the bigger picture. (Rating: B +) "

- Alison Willmore : AV Club; Beyond The Black Rainbow

"Sci-Fi-Mindfuck in the style of the 70s [...] a welcome attempt to relive the days of El Topo and Eraserhead , when the visitors to late-night shows appreciated directors who wanted to disturb the audience in a clever way. (Rating: 4 out of 5 stars) "

- Matt Singer : Time Out; Beyond the Black Rainbow

“The cinematic equivalent of LSD: You see things on the screen and don't know what it is supposed to be. A thrilling trip that turns the viewer through the mangle. Whether it's a good or a bad trip depends entirely on the viewer. (Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars) "

- Simon Abrams : Slant Magazine; Beyond the Black Rainbow

“As a respectful ode to Kubrick, Argento, Cronenberg, Der Höllentrip , the synthetic soundtracks of John Carpenter, the sci-fi of the 70s and the fantasy of the 80s and all in all stunning, hyper-stylized madness, Beyond the Black Rainbow bows to its role models like he also draws his very own trail of madness. […] Even such a description hardly comes close to the madness of this film, which is tantamount to a full-length fairy tale set in that extraterrestrial celestial underworld that can be seen at the height of 2001 . [...] An LSD nightmare of a psychosis gone wild, the poisoned downside of the scene with the stargate from 2001 . [...] a festival of amazing spectacles, which unfortunately intensify the problems of the screwed-up plot. (Rating: A-) "

- Nick Schager : Lessons of Darkness; Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)

publication

After being released at various film festivals, Beyond the Black Rainbow has so far opened in Canadian cinemas on December 3, 2010 and in US cinemas on May 18, 2012.

The film has since been released on Region 1 DVD and BluRay in Canada and Australia alone. In January 2013, in keeping with the nostalgic early 80s aesthetic of the film, the American retro label Mondo Video released a limited edition of 300 copies on VHS in the North American video format NTSC , which is fitted into the 4: 3 aspect ratio using a pan & scan process .

In addition, the film was released as an online stream on Amazon.com in 2014.

On September 2, 2014, the dark, hypnotic retro soundtrack of the film by Jeremy Schmidt alias Sinoia Caves was released simultaneously on LP and as a download on iTunes .

Web links

Official site, dictionaries and reviews

Interviews

The soundtrack

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistics on Beyond the Black Rainbow , on the movie statistics website The Numbers
  2. ↑ a b Wilkinson, Amber (2011). Retro Rainbow: Panos Cosmatos talks about the themes and influences of his sci-fi tale , Eye for Film, May 11, 2011
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  4. ↑ a b Brown, Phil (2012) Interview: 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' Director Panos Cosmatos , Dork Shelf, June 6, 2012
  5. ^ Monk, Katherine (2012). For Vancouver filmmaker Panos Cosmatos, 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' helped alleviate grief of losing parents , The Vancouver Sun, July 5, 2012
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  10. ↑ a b Macauley, Scott (2012). Panos Cosmatos, Beyond the Black Rainbow , Filmmaker Magazine, May 16, 2012
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  29. ↑ “Beyond the Black Rainbow is either right up your alley, or it is so far away from your comfort zone that you should probably avoid it.” Fleischer, Jack (2012). Psychedelic Freakout , Battleship Pretension, June 26, 2012
  30. ↑ (2013). "Beyond the Black Rainbow": Inconsistent Uncompromisingly , Splatting Image No. 94, June 2013 ( republished by the author on his personal blog The Broad Degree )
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  48. ↑ "It could have easily been, but thankfully manages to avoid being, just another tasteless mash-up of pop culture references. Cosmatos may borrow generously from the familiar, but the result is all his own. "(2012). Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) , Bonjour Tristesse - Foreign Indie and Cult Cinema
  49. ^ "This is to be distinguished from a movie that merely rips off scenes or plot elements from older science fiction films. Rather, certain visual elements […] are borrowed and fetishized to create something new. "(2012). BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (2010) , Cinema Gonzo, June 20, 2012
  50. ↑ “In fact the film looks like Russell meets Kubrick from the late 60's / early 70's and sounds like a David Lynch film from the 80's, as Cosmatos has taken the most deranged aspects from these masters and made something wholly his own. […] Cosmatos is a visionary filmmaker who was able to establish a blindingly original signature style with this first feature. “Pinson, David (2012). BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Available on Blu-ray September 11th , CinemaStance.com, September 10, 2012
  51. ↑ “And despite holding echoes of films from the Seventies and Eighties including, but certainly not limited to, 2001: A Space Odyssey , THX 1138 , Firestarter and Solaris , Cosmatos displays the muscle and, perhaps ironically, control needed to produce something that has a distinctive character all of its own that marks it out and stops it ever becoming merely a regurgitated soup of its references. "Wilkinson, Amber (2011). Beyond The Black Rainbow (2011) Film Review , Eyeforfilm.co.uk, May 11, 2011
  52. ↑ " Beyond the Black Rainbow feels like an homage to the low-budget, high-intellect science fiction films of 40 years ago, but it also comes off as a unique and invigorating addition to the genre in its own right." Weinberg, Scott (2012). 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' Movie Review , FEARnet, June 28, 2012
  53. ^ "With just this one film, [Cosmatos] has already bested his father's entire filmography. [...] This is a wholly unique world built from the bottom up, one I felt I had never seen before. Much has been made of its 'retro' qualities and there are certainly little tips and nods throughout; However, Cosmatos has more on his mind than simply replicating bygone films. "(2012). Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) , Filmdick.net, July 9, 2012
  54. ^ "Cosmatos has created something that not only draws from an older aesthetic but forges it into its own unique identity." Godzilla, Glitter (2012). Beyond the Black Rainbow , Outpost Zeta, September 7, 2012
  55. ^ "Yet despite its cinematic influences, Cosmatos produces something that has a distinct character all its own." Da Conceição, Ricky (2011). Fantastic Fest 2011: 'Beyond The Black Rainbow': Austere, cerebral, and sometimes maddening , Sound on Sight, September 26, 2011
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  57. ^ Beyond the Black Rainbow on Metacritic.com
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