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Beyond the Black Rainbow

Beyond Science. Beyond Sanity. Beyond Control.

5.6(429)20101h 50m3

In 1983, a young mute woman with psychic abilities is held captive within the Arboria Institute, a secluded futuristic facility overseen by a sinister doctor with an unraveling mind and a growing obsession with her.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.1M
Box office
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Language
English
  • sadism
  • homicide
  • commune
  • delusion
  • exploitation
  • surrealism
  • mad doctor
  • brutality
  • captive
  • transcendence
  • drugged
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Canada

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR24 Sept 2011
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1524 Sept 2011
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical3 Dec 2010
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical1624 Sept 2011
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical (limited)18 May 2012

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Beyond the Black Rainbow was released on 3 December 2010.

Audience reviews

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  • G

    griggs79

    3/26/2025

    2/10

    _Beyond the Black Rainbow_ postures as a reverent tribute to 1970s cult sci-fi, but quickly reveals itself as an exercise in imitation rather than inspiration. Instead of channelling the essence of _THX 1138_, _Dark Star_, _Silent Running_, or _Solaris_, it appears to lift entire stylistic elements wholesale, without understanding what made those films resonate. Though drenched in an icy 1980s aesthetic—with CRT fuzz…

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    Dr Nostromo

    11/25/2025

    6/10

    63/100 I'd give you an idea of what this movie is about but I wouldn't know what to say as I have no idea. Ponderously slow with hardly any exposition, you'd think I would have really disliked it ...but I didn't. Surrealistically stark and sterile, yet strangely beautiful and colorful, it was like walking through a dream straight out of THX 1138. Even though I was finding it very difficult to make sense of any of …

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