Pot Of Gold Beyond The Black Rainbow
No time for reviews, so a few words for a little movie I watched years ago but it’s still in my head will do. In a futuristic 1983, a girl with telekinetic abilities is an inmate of a new age psychopharmaceutical institute and is the object of obsession, both scientific and erotic, of it’s paranoid director (a Patrick Bateman look-alike without eyelashes and on psychotropic drugs). Completely reasonable and expectable for her to try an escape. This impressive debut film for Panos Cosmatos is a psychedelic sci-fi thriller with scenography, cinematography and soundtrack (composed by Black Mountain’s keyboard player) influenced by 70’s and 80’s relevant films from directors like Kubrick, Argento, Carpenter, Cronenberg, Lukas and Mann. If you like demented scientists, retro science fiction and LSD you’ll probably like this one too. Fun moment of the movie? The metalheads in the forest, getting drunk while listening to Venom’s Angel Dust!
Originally published at videogasp.blogspot.com on January 3, 2018.