![]() There is no CGI, the set looks like it was leftover from Space Odyssey and the seven-foot guards could pass for retired lightbike racers from 1982’s Tron (except for the fact that they have babies’ heads). Article contentīlack Rainbow is set in 1983, and Cosmatos has fun making it seem as if it was also shot the same year. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Everything is going swimmingly until Elena manages to overcome her sedation and escape, devolving the sci-fi horror film into a straight up slasher flick. Mercurio Arboria (Scott Hylands), the retired patriarch of the institute, is the man responsible for the horrific setting, although nowadays he’s confined to his quarters where he shoots some sort of drug into the varicose veins of his gnarled toes (in extreme close-up). Barry Nyle, a pill-popping sadist played by Michael Rogers in a monotone so menacing that he makes the head-popping Elena seem like Snow White.īarry alone controls the dial that causes a giant white prism to glow and shoot dry ice, which in turn causes Elena to go in and out of her comatose state. It’s a good thing, then, that she’s being held captive at Arboria, a futuristic commune promising “serenity through technology,” and which is controlled by Dr. We might know more if Elena actually spoke, but she prefers to spend her time staring into space and crying single tears. What we do know is that Elena (Eva Allan) possesses some sort of mind control that allows her to make heads explode. For the plot that does exist, even it is hard to explain with certainty.
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