Beyond the Black Rainbow - Your top 5 likely influences

Immediately I thought this film is like when record collectors form a band and make their own music but with movie fans instead, anyway... 2001 for obvious reasons, but also Scanners (death of the nurse) and Eraserhead (narrative style).

The alienness of it all, for me, harkens back to the original (Tarkovsky) Solaris. Also, as someone else said, Jodorovsky, most specifically the Holy Mountain.

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this thread is amusing, but also accurate: Beyond the Black Rainbow was influenced by a bunch of films that are WAY out of its league. in any other context, this film would be out of place in a discussion including Kubrick or Tarkovsky


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Here's my five...

1. Phase IV (1974): the hyper-stylized 70's-80's grainy New Age look
2. Altered States (1980): Dr. Barry Nyle's flashback scenes comes off like a homage to Dr. Jessup's hallucination from the root mixture in the caves.
3. THX 1138 (1971): Dr. Barry Nyle's patient, Elena, ironically tries to escape from the Aboria institute, which somewhat resembles the cold prison-like city that THX and LUH are trying to escape from.
4. Blade Runner (1982): Dr. Barry Nyle's car resembles the vehicles driven and ridden by Rick Decker. Both of them are alleged human beings with supernatural abilities (Decker a possible replicant, Nyle a telepath).
5. Sunshine (2007): Dr. Barry Nyle's transformation resembles Pinbacker. They both stalk and slash their victims in the third act.

and i'll add a sixth...

6. 1984 (1984): Director Panos Cosmatos set the film in 1983. Obvious reference to George Orwell and thus the film adaptation.


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Let me add "The Brood" by David Cronenberg

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(in no particular order)
1. Kubrick, 2001 , A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining (cinematography, set design, soundtrack)
2. Michael Mann, The Keep and Manhunter (cinematography, special effects/visuals, soundtrack, general atmosphere)
3. Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker (general pace, cinematography, psychological theme, general atmosphere)
4. David Cronenberg, Scanners, Videodrome, and Dead Ringers (paranoia, telekinesis, psychological themes, general atmosphere)
5. David Lynch, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive (general pace, surreal, disturbing visuals and themes, general atmosphere)

Not to mention things like George Lucas's THX 1138 (paranoia theme, set design), Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (cinematography, general atmosphere), From Beyond (general atmosphere), Argento's Suspiria (cinematography, soundtrack), Kenneth Anger's "Rising" films (cinematography, general atmosphere), etc.