Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010) was made before Stranger Things, and is like one plot strand of that show slowed down by fifty times into an arty music video perfect for projecting at a music show. A drugged patient/prisoner (Eva Allan) displays psychic abilities even as she is being interviewed/taunted by a smarmy, smirking doctor (Michael Rogers) in a shadowy institution. Directed by Panos Cosmatos (son of George P.; apparently funded off the back of Tombstone DVD residuals), this was an absorbing, trippy experience (even though its intentionally trance like style made me drift off a few times; I watched it on a Friday night and I am very tired then). Loved the synth soundtrack by Sinoia Caves and how it worked with the 2001-meets-THX 118 visuals. I dug the VHS art movie vibe of this and all the red lighting and smoke.