Go Interesting little flick by This was a trippy film. The best way I can put it, is what if you combined elements of Altered States with Scanners, and then tried making that into an art film. Even then, that description doesn't...
88 Slant Magazine | Simon Abrams Something like a trippy grindhouse homage whose familiar images are refracted through a prism of blacklight posters, Jodorowsky films, and even Rob Zombie's grungy psychotropic sensibility. Read full review
83 The A.V. Club | Beyond The Black Rainbow is more surface than substance, but those surfaces are gleamingly polished enough to make for a hypnotic experiment that goes beyond genre pastiche or art-school wankery to seem formally daring. Read full review
80 Time Out New York | Though the finale feels a bit anticlimactic, the lysergic atmosphere, synth-heavy score and logic-resistant story line more than earn Beyond the Black Rainbow's concluding quote, borrowed from another classic midnight movie: "No matter where you go…there you are." See the late show. Read full review
80 Village Voice | At heart, the film is no more (or less) than a brilliantly executed lark, but it's not often that we're reminded with such potency that movies are most delightful as sensory experiences. Read full review