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Science fiction author John Kessel thinks some of these films push things too far, especially in the case of a movie like Beyond the Black Rainbow.
“It was almost impossible for me to watch,” Kessel says in Episode 373 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
“It was so slow and so cryptic and so unmotivated.
There’d be a long take of the camera watching the ceiling of a hallway as we move down it and the color changes from blue to red.
If there’s a significant intellectual content to that, it missed me.”
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees, noting that many of these films aspire to originality but end up relying on a familiar catalog of stylistic gimmicks.
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