Beyond the Black Rainbow

Starring: Allan, Eva and Hylands, Scott

Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. Cosmatos was born in Rome in 1974 to the late Greek movie director (George Cosmatos) and a Swedish experimental artist mother. He spent his early formative years traveling all over the globe before settling in Canada. In 1981, the family lived for a year in Mexico where exposure to the strange local interpretations of American pop culture had a profound and lasting effect on his creative life. Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day. He then immersed himself in the underground art and music scenes making short films, album covers and music videos with a burgeoning group of influential and groundbreaking artists. Panos currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 876964004848
• Release Date: October 2014
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
• Director: Cosmatos, Panos
• Starring: Allan, Eva, Hylands, Scott
• Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Ronald Regan cameo is the best actor in this movie

The movie starts meticulously slow, so you do not miss the subtle inferences. Then in the middle, it slows down so you do not miss the intricacy, in the end, it comes to a dead stop so you can erase the time spent properly. Our antagonist, Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers), just looks standard evil until one day his wife (Marilyn Norry) says, “Barry, you are not wearing your appliances.” And we recognize him as Nosferatu in a Noriega fine customer leather outfit. They probably need some name recognition money to pay for the filming. Not to sully Carl Mayer, but this film plot has something in common with “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” mixed with “Logan’s Run” attempt at finding sanctuary. Even a tad of “The village”. There is a lot of diverse music, smoke, colors, and heavy breathing (reminiscent of Darth Vader).