![]() Ehh whatever-i'm positive it will find its audience soon enough anyways and it will have a nice cult like following in the years to come-much like Cronenberg's early stuff does too. ![]() You know there's only so much ranting and raving i could take from the good psychotic doctor and there's only so much self defense scenes i could take from the woman in the mental hospital before a part of me just wanted to scream Get on with it already movie! but eventually the movie does-and it does it well enough-but not so well enough that i can't help but think this movie should have probably been at least a half hour shorter then it was. Don't get me wrong-this movie is trying and succeeds to a varying degree at capturing a certain style and certain flavor of suspense horror film-the director is quite clearly a fan of early Cronenberg-there's not just the obvious nod to Scanners but there's nods to The Brood and Shivers and even a slight one to videodrome in here as well (at least i thought i caught those maybe i'm wrong i don't know) and there are nods to other scare films of the early 80's as well-and certainly the whole tone and pace and set design and wardrobe and just everything about it is very much on the money for a suspense film from the early part of that decade-but i don't know, the movie also had a sort of sleepy effect on me-like as psychedelic as the director wants the movie to be (and it definitely is) you can only indulge in that kind of style so much before you just end up putting a guy like me into a kind of coma-and not the cool trance like one that i'm sure the director was hoping his film would have on its audience. by which i mean there's a lot of set up and a lot of artfully done goosing of that set up-but it takes a good hour and a half if not longer before the actual ch as/confrontation between the two main characters that you spend most of the film waiting to happen finally happens. Beyond the Black Rainbow is a version of a beautiful, artistic, nightmarish vision of a man trying to tell a story. (c) Warner Bros.Its a well done enough horror/suspense/David Cronenberg esque wtf kind of film-but after a while i kind of just wanted them to cut to the chase already. Like dreams, Beyond the Black Rainbow might exist in a state of pre -meaning. © Universal Pictures THE INNER CIRCLE, Tom Hulce, 1991, © Columbia AMADEUS, Tom Hulce, 1984. Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1984 DOMINICK AND EUGENE, Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, 1988, (c) Orion INNER CIRCLE, left: Tom Hulce, 1991, ©Columbia Pictures INNER CIRCLE, Tom Hulce, 1991 AMADEUS, Tom Hulce, 1984, (c) Orion AMADEUS, Tom Hulce, 1984, (c) Orion NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, (from left): Tom Hulce, John Belushi, 1978. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, Tom Hulce, 1978 ECHO PARK, Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, 1986, (c) Atlantic Releasing AMADEUS. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. ![]() Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits on the other side and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Dominick and Eugene Stranger Than Fiction Stranger Than Fiction Photos ECHO PARK, Tom Hulce, 1986, ©Atlantic Releasing / DOMINICK AND EUGENE, Tom Hulce, 1988, ©Orion / DOMINICK AND EUGENE, Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, 1988, (c) Orion AMADEUS, Tom Hulce, 1984. Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits 'on the other side' and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances.
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