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* AnAesop:
** Be wary of utopian dreams, as utopian ambitions can easily become destructive when divorced from ethical principles.
** Psychedelic drugs are ''not'' harmless tools for enlightenment. When used by people with existing mental instability, or used without consideration for set and setting, psychedelics can bring about terrifying experiences and trigger mental health problems.
** Be wary of utopian dreams, as utopian ambitions can easily become destructive when divorced from ethical principles.
** Psychedelic drugs are ''not'' harmless tools for enlightenment. When used by people with existing mental instability, or used without consideration for set and setting, psychedelics can bring about terrifying experiences and trigger mental health problems.
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* BarefootCaptives: Elena is barefoot in her confinement cell.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Elena is barefoot in her confinement cell.
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* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace[=/=]EscapedFromTheLab: The last third of the movie involves [[spoiler:Elena escaping from the Arboria Institute compound as Barry descends deeper into madness]].
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* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace[=/=]EscapedFromTheLab: EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: The last third of the movie involves [[spoiler:Elena escaping from the Arboria Institute compound as Barry descends deeper into madness]].
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No relation to ''Film/BlackRainbow'', the 1989 movie.
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* SheKnowsTooMuch: Barry realizing that Margot found and examined his notes on Elena leads him to [[spoiler:have her killed by Elena.]]
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* BattleaxeNurse: Margo, who treats Elena callously.
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* BattleaxeNurse: Margo, who treats Elena callously. [[spoiler:She ends up paying for her callous behavior with her life after Barry sets her up to be killed by Elena.]]
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* EyeScream: A few. A notable one includes Dr. Nyle removing his contacts with ''needle nose pliers''. The removal is not shown, but his moan of pain tells it all.
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* EyeScream: A few. A notable one includes Dr. Nyle removing his contacts with ''needle nose pliers''.''sharp tweezers''. The removal is not shown, but his moan of pain tells it all.
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* EvilSorcerer: The Arboria Institute staff's functional roles given the [[MagicIsEvil psychic energy it contains]], but especially Barry in his control of the pyramid and the MagicPoweredPseudoscience that causes the Sentionaut to be activated by a desktop keyboard shortcut Margo types in.
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* EvilSorcerer: The Arboria Institute staff's functional roles given the [[MagicIsEvil psychic energy it contains]], but especially Barry in his control of the pyramid and the MagicPoweredPseudoscience that causes the Sentionaut to be activated by a desktop keyboard shortcut Margo command he types in.
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* CoolCar: Dr. Nyle drives a wedge sports car only a step removed from older concept models--a Lotus Esprit. However, it's really the [[TwoDecadesBehind only cool thing]] about his look or surroundings.
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* CoolCar: Dr. Nyle drives a wedge sports car only a step removed from older concept models--a Lotus Esprit.Esprit that seems to be powered by something... otherworldly. However, it's really the [[TwoDecadesBehind only cool thing]] about his look or surroundings.
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* CoolCar: Dr. Nyle drives a wedge sports car only a step removed from older concept models. However, it's really the [[TwoDecadesBehind only cool thing]] about his look or surroundings.
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* CoolCar: Dr. Nyle drives a wedge sports car only a step removed from older concept models.models--a Lotus Esprit. However, it's really the [[TwoDecadesBehind only cool thing]] about his look or surroundings.
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* TheDitz:
** In the 1966 flashback, Dr. Arboria left the room after Barry ingested LSD and submerged himself in the black liquid, leaving Anna by herself to supervise the dangerous experiment and handle Barry if anything went wrong (which it did, in spades).
** Dr. Arboria submerged his infant daughter in the black liquid in the hopes of awakening her psychic powers. He did so ''after'' Barry had a psychotic break from exposure to the liquid ''and'' while the psychotic Barry was still in the room!
** Margo consistently shows a lack of common sense. She continued to stay at the Arboria Institute after seeing the deranged contents of Barry's notebook, failed to contact the police when Elena was held captive, and was cruel to Elana despite knowing that Elena had formidable psychic powers. She pays for her lack of common sense when Barry sets events in motion that lead to Elena [[YourHeadAsplode killing her]] through telekinesis.
** In the 1966 flashback, Dr. Arboria left the room after Barry ingested LSD and submerged himself in the black liquid, leaving Anna by herself to supervise the dangerous experiment and handle Barry if anything went wrong (which it did, in spades).
** Dr. Arboria submerged his infant daughter in the black liquid in the hopes of awakening her psychic powers. He did so ''after'' Barry had a psychotic break from exposure to the liquid ''and'' while the psychotic Barry was still in the room!
** Margo consistently shows a lack of common sense. She continued to stay at the Arboria Institute after seeing the deranged contents of Barry's notebook, failed to contact the police when Elena was held captive, and was cruel to Elana despite knowing that Elena had formidable psychic powers. She pays for her lack of common sense when Barry sets events in motion that lead to Elena [[YourHeadAsplode killing her]] through telekinesis.
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** Dr. Arboria's suicide is similar to that of Sol Roth's suicide in ''Film/SoylentGreen''.
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** Dr. Arboria's suicide death while watching pleasant nature imagery is similar to that of Sol Roth's suicide in ''Film/SoylentGreen''.
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* BrownNote: The low humming on the soundtrack that indicates [[spoiler:that the Pyramid is active and suppressing Elena.]]
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Elena's "baptism" in the black liquid gave her OffTheScale PsychicPowers that Nyle covets and keeps suppressed via Arboria's technology.]]
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Elena's "baptism" in the black liquid gave her OffTheScale PsychicPowers that Nyle covets and keeps suppressed via Arboria's technology.]]
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* BrownNote: The low humming on the soundtrack that indicates [[spoiler:that the Pyramid is active and suppressing Elena.]]
Elena]].
* CameBackStrong:[[spoiler: Elena's [[spoiler:Elena's "baptism" in the black liquid gave her OffTheScale PsychicPowers that Nyle covets and keeps suppressed via Arboria's technology.]]
* CameBackStrong:
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** [[spoiler: Dr. Nyle's dip in the primordial ooze had this affect on him]].
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** [[spoiler: Dr. [[spoiler:Dr. Nyle's dip in the primordial ooze had this affect on him]].him.]]
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* CreepilyLongArms: The Sentionaut.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Elena.
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace / EscapedFromTheLab: The last third of the movie involves [[spoiler:Elena escaping from the Arboria Institute compound as Barry descends deeper into madness.]]
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace / EscapedFromTheLab: The last third of the movie involves [[spoiler:Elena escaping from the Arboria Institute compound as Barry descends deeper into madness.]]
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* EvilSorcerer: The Arboria Institute staff's functional roles given the [[MagicIsEvil psychic energy it contains]], but especially Barry in his control of the pyramid and the MagicPoweredPseudoScience that causes the Sentionaut to be activated by a desktop keyboard shortcut Margo types in.
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* EvilSorcerer: The Arboria Institute staff's functional roles given the [[MagicIsEvil psychic energy it contains]], but especially Barry in his control of the pyramid and the MagicPoweredPseudoScience MagicPoweredPseudoscience that causes the Sentionaut to be activated by a desktop keyboard shortcut Margo types in.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: In the Arboria Institute video, Dr. Arboria lists "benign pharmacology" as one of the tools used by his organization to foster happiness and enlightenment. [[spoiler:Subverted in the 1966 flashback scene, in which exposure to LSD and the black liquid shattered Barry's mind.]]
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: In the Arboria Institute video, Dr. Arboria lists "benign pharmacology" as one of the tools used by his organization to foster happiness and enlightenment. [[spoiler:Subverted [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in the 1966 flashback scene, in which exposure to LSD and the black liquid shattered Barry's mind.]]
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* {{Homage}}: In terms of style as well as subject matter, to Stanley Kubrick films of the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as science fiction films of the early 1980s.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Sentionaut.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Sentionaut.
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* {{Homage}}: In terms of style as well as subject matter, to Stanley Kubrick Creator/StanleyKubrick films of the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as science fiction films of the early 1980s.
* %%* HumanoidAbomination: The Sentionaut.Sentionaut. -ZCE
* InhumanEyeConcealers: [[spoiler:Dr. Nyle hides his BlackEyesOfEvil behind colored contact lenses until he goes AxCrazy.]]
* InhumanEyeConcealers: [[spoiler:Dr. Nyle hides his BlackEyesOfEvil behind colored contact lenses until he goes AxCrazy.]]
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* MagicPoweredPseudoScience: The entire Arboria Institute is based on a dark version of this.
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* MagicPoweredPseudoScience: MagicPoweredPseudoscience: The entire Arboria Institute is based on a dark version of this.
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* MindScrew: Endlessly. It reaches the point that a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler:EstablishingShot]] of a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler:staff break room]] will ''unwind your mind.''
* MushroomSamba: The 1966 flashback sequence (if not the whole movie.)
* NewAge: A number of classic NewAge tropes - such as belief in the spiritual focusing power of pyramid shapes and a fixation on psychoactive drugs as a source of inspiration - are given a nightmarish makeover in the form of the inside of the Arboria Institute.
* MushroomSamba: The 1966 flashback sequence (if not the whole movie.)
* NewAge: A number of classic NewAge tropes - such as belief in the spiritual focusing power of pyramid shapes and a fixation on psychoactive drugs as a source of inspiration - are given a nightmarish makeover in the form of the inside of the Arboria Institute.
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* MindScrew: Endlessly. It reaches the point that a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler:EstablishingShot]] of a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler:staff break room]] will ''unwind your mind.''
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* MushroomSamba: The 1966 flashback sequence (if not the wholemovie.)
movie).
* NewAge: A number of classic NewAge tropes- -- such as belief in the spiritual focusing power of pyramid shapes and a fixation on psychoactive drugs as a source of inspiration - -- are given a nightmarish makeover in the form of the inside of the Arboria Institute. Institute.
* OminousObsidianOoze: Arboria has developed an experimental hallucinogen in the form of a black liquid, which seems to induce psychedelic experiences, psychic powers, and mutations. [[spoiler:It definitely had an adverse effect on Dr. Nyle -- when he is [[SymbolicBaptism immersed in a pool of the black fluid]], he sees "the eye of God", loses his hair, gains BlackEyesOfEvil, and goes homicidally insane.]]
* MushroomSamba: The 1966 flashback sequence (if not the whole
* NewAge: A number of classic NewAge tropes
* OminousObsidianOoze: Arboria has developed an experimental hallucinogen in the form of a black liquid, which seems to induce psychedelic experiences, psychic powers, and mutations. [[spoiler:It definitely had an adverse effect on Dr. Nyle -- when he is [[SymbolicBaptism immersed in a pool of the black fluid]], he sees "the eye of God", loses his hair, gains BlackEyesOfEvil, and goes homicidally insane.]]
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** Depending on how the viewer interprets the notebook that Margo finds, it's possible Barry Nyle is planning a selective breeding program with himself as the main subject - similar to one proposed by the infamous sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.
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*** The baldness could also be a reference to the movie ''Film/BlueSunshine'' where a bad batch of LSD causes a long-delayed reaction in the form of baldness and violent psychosis.
** The Sentionaut is wearing gear reminiscent of the spacesuits from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.''
** The Sentionaut is wearing gear reminiscent of the spacesuits from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.''
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*** The baldness could also be a reference to the movie ''Film/BlueSunshine'' where ''Film/BlueSunshine'', in which a bad batch of LSD causes a long-delayed reaction in the form of baldness and violent psychosis.
** The Sentionaut is wearing gear reminiscent of the spacesuits from''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.''''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Guess where this movie falls? Hint: the entire movie can be taken as a lengthy NightmareFuel-driven TakeThat at the optimistic aesthetics of 20th century futurism, the inspirational rhetoric of the NewAge movement, and bright or outright utopian visions for the future in general - showing the disastrous decay that can come out of efforts to shape a better world or better humanity when those efforts are divorced from ethics.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Guess where this movie falls? Hint: the entire movie can be taken as a lengthy NightmareFuel-driven TakeThat at the optimistic aesthetics of 20th century futurism, the inspirational rhetoric of the NewAge movement, and bright or outright utopian visions for the future in general - -- showing the disastrous decay that can come out of efforts to shape a better world or better humanity when those efforts are divorced from ethics.
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler: A close-up of a Sentionaut action figure lays on a carpet, as a half-backwards voice exclaims "Do you read me?" over PacManFever noises.]]
* SurrealHorror: Oh, ''yeah.'' Barry's bizarre visions are just the tip of the iceberg.
* SurrealHorror: Oh, ''yeah.'' Barry's bizarre visions are just the tip of the iceberg.
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A close-up of a Sentionaut action figure lays on a carpet, as a half-backwards voice exclaims "Do you read me?" over PacManFever noises.]]
* SurrealHorror: Oh,''yeah.'' ''yeah''. Barry's bizarre visions are just the tip of the iceberg.
* SurrealHorror: Oh,
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* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: [[spoiler: What Dr. Nyle saw when he tried to "bring home the mother lode."]]
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** WordOfGod: "I look at Arboria as kind of naive [...] There is a moment of truth in the film where the whole thing starts to disintegrate because it stops being about their humanity and becomes about an unattainable goal. That is the 'Black Rainbow': trying to achieve some kind of unattainable state that is ultimately, probably destructive."
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** WordOfGod: "I look at Arboria as kind of naive naïve [...] There is a moment of truth in the film where the whole thing starts to disintegrate because it stops being about their humanity and becomes about an unattainable goal. That is the 'Black Rainbow': trying to achieve some kind of unattainable state that is ultimately, probably destructive."
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Maybe not the trailer, but the ''poster'' spoils [[spoiler:Barry's "transformation" into a bald-headed, knife-wielding killer.]]
* TwoDecadesBehind: Aside from having a single early-80s desktop computer, the Arboria Institute has a very '60s/70s aesthetic that implies it hasn't been remodeled or updated lately as of the film's 1983 setting. This is further evidenced by Barry's hairstyle and dated clothing.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Aside from having a single early-80s desktop computer, the Arboria Institute has a very '60s/70s aesthetic that implies it hasn't been remodeled or updated lately as of the film's 1983 setting. This is further evidenced by Barry's hairstyle and dated clothing.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Maybe not the trailer, but the ''poster'' spoils [[spoiler:Barry's "transformation" into a bald-headed, knife-wielding killer.]]
killer]].
* TwoDecadesBehind: Aside from having a single early-80s desktop computer, the Arboria Institute has a very'60s/70s '60s/'70s aesthetic that implies it hasn't been remodeled or updated lately as of the film's 1983 setting. This is further evidenced by Barry's hairstyle and dated clothing.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Barry goes from a cold and calculating PsychoPsychologist to a [[spoiler: bald, ranting, hallucinating, knife wielding psychopath]].
* WhatNowEnding: [[spoiler: Elena's escaped the suffocating control of Dr. Nyle and the Institute, but it's left unsure what she will do or face next.]]
* WhatNowEnding: [[spoiler: Elena's escaped the suffocating control of Dr. Nyle and the Institute, but it's left unsure what she will do or face next.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Barry goes from a cold and calculating PsychoPsychologist to a [[spoiler: bald, [[spoiler:bald, ranting, hallucinating, knife wielding knife-wielding psychopath]].
* WhatNowEnding:[[spoiler: Elena's [[spoiler:Elena's escaped the suffocating control of Dr. Nyle and the Institute, but it's left unsure what she will do or face next.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Elena telekinetically kills Margo this way, after Margo took away the photo of Elena's mother and made a cruel comment about her mother's death.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Elena [[spoiler:Elena telekinetically kills Margo this way, after Margo took away the photo of Elena's mother and made a cruel comment about her mother's death.]]
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* LooksLikeOrlok: Barry, once the makeup comes off.
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** It's also implied as the possible back story of the Sentionaut and the creature in the straightjacket.
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* ChurchOfHappyology: The Arboria Institute in spades.
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* CostumePorn: Barry's black leather getup after his VillainousBreakdown is slick as hell.
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** The flashback to 1966 is shot in high-contrast black and white in homage to E. Elias Merhige's experimental horror film ''Begotten''.
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** The flashback to 1966 is shot in high-contrast black and white in homage to E. Elias Merhige's experimental horror film ''Begotten''.''Film/{{Begotten}}''.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Applies to movie posters too: Perhaps not the trailer, but looking at the poster, you'd assume this is a B-movie slasher flick. Especially jarring is the depiction of Elena ''running''. Elena does not run anywhere in the film; in fact she ''strolls'' everywhere when she's not crawling on all fours. Justified in that the film's concept is inspired by posters for horror and dark science fiction films that the director was fascinated by as a child but then too young to watch.
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* PostersAlwaysLie: Perhaps not the trailer, but looking at the poster, you'd assume this is a B-movie slasher flick. Especially jarring is the depiction of Elena ''running''. Elena does not run anywhere in the film; in fact she ''strolls'' everywhere when she's not crawling on all fours. Justified in that the film's concept is inspired by posters for horror and dark science fiction films that the director was fascinated by as a child but then too young to watch.
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Set in 1983, the film follows a girl named Elena, a telepath studied and locked inside a NewAge research compound, and the unstable therapist that supervises her. Things start getting astoundingly weird''er'' very quickly. The film is shot in the deliberately slow, sterile, and excessively polished style of '70s cold sci-fi movies, such as ''Film/THX1138'' and ''Film/{{Solaris|1972}}'', as well as 1980s cinema that continues in a similar vein such as ''Film/{{Scanners}}''. It also features a mostly DroneOfDread score.
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Set in 1983, the film follows a girl named Elena, Elena (Eva Allan), a telepath studied and locked inside a NewAge research compound, and the unstable therapist therapist, Dr. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers), that supervises her. Things start getting astoundingly weird''er'' very quickly. The film is shot in the deliberately slow, sterile, and excessively polished style of '70s cold sci-fi movies, such as ''Film/THX1138'' and ''Film/{{Solaris|1972}}'', as well as 1980s cinema that continues in a similar vein such as ''Film/{{Scanners}}''. It also features a mostly DroneOfDread score.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Implied. Rosemary seems to walk on eggshells around Barry, acting kind and gentle when he is in the house but hiding understated anxiety. Barry, for his part, can barely contain his disgust for Rosemary, hiding it under a veil of civility. He spends so much time at the Arboria Institute that he comes home late at night, so the two barely see each other. Rosemary sleeps on the sofa, suggesting that she and Barry do not share a bed. [[spoiler:Before Barry murders her, he dismisses her as "nothing" and "spit in the wind.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: Barry uses his powers for evil. Although Elena is the designated protagonist due to being his victim, it's left open to debate how she'll use her own powers once she's escaped from the Institute.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Barry uses his powers for evil. Although Elena is the designated protagonist due to being his victim, it's left open to debate how she'll use her own powers once she's escaped from the Institute.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Implied. Rosemary seems to walk on eggshells around Barry, acting kind and gentle when he is in the house but hiding understated anxiety. Barry, for his part, can barely contain his disgust for Rosemary, hiding it under a veil of civility. He spends so much time at the Arboria Institute that he comes home late at night, so the two barely see each other. Rosemary sleeps on the sofa, suggesting that she and Barry do not share a bed. [[spoiler:Before Barry murders her, he dismisses her as "nothing" and "spit in the wind.wind".]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: Dr. Barry Nyle uses his powers for evil. Although Elena is the designated protagonist due to being his victim, it's left open to debate how she'll use her own powers once she's escaped from the Institute.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Dr. Barry Nyle uses his powers for evil. Although Elena is the designated protagonist due to being his victim, it's left open to debate how she'll use her own powers once she's escaped from the Institute.
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