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An inbred
hillbilly is admitted to an Asylum where
a demented intern performs painful experiments on
his patients. The intern quickly becomes fascinated
with the hillbilly and believes that there's a more
clever side hidden within him, perhaps an evil twin.
He starts conducting experiments on him but is
soon stopped by the other doctors. How can he prove
that the hillbilly is more than meets the eye?
So the movie starts in black and white and moves
on with some very colourful and flashy opening
credits so I'm like "Phew! It was only the opening
scene that was in B&W". To my big disappointment
it turned out that I was wrong. About 90% of this
movie is in black and white and only when there
are gore scenes involved the movie turns into
colour. Why they did this I don't know because it
seemed to serve no purpose and really just annoyed
the hell out of me. The fact that the story-line
was horrible didn't help either.
The title for this movie is pretty suitable since
it won't take long before the viewer is behind the
wall of sleep themselves. The story is remarkably
bad and I usually love Lovecraft adaptations so
this was a huge let down for me. Anyway, the movie
revolves around a demented intern at an asylum who
conducts electric experiments on his patients and
while the experiments are pretty gruesome and cool,
the cheap effects took away the disturbing feeling.
Watching Beyond The Wall Of Sleep is about as
exhilarating as watching paint dry, and of course
not colourful paint, but black or white paint. As
you've probably all ready understood, I'm not a
big fan of black and white in new movies, it doesn't
look good and it looks like they're trying to cover
up a very low budget (which this movie must've had
considering how bad the stiff actors were).
I really wish that Lions Gate would have at least
given us a hint of the fact that it's in B&W
on the cover, but no, they market it as a mainstream
horror flick. I have nothing good to say about
this movie at all. Everything about it is just
horrible. The editing, the gore, the directing,
the acting, the story. Just skip this one.
The cheesy gore effects didn't do it for me even
though I was appreciative of the fact that at
least those scenes were in colour. We get a head
opened up, a couple of decapitations and some more,
no gore could save this movie.
Just as plain and dull as the movie.
This isn't art, this is barely even a movie, this is
just bad. This movie has no redeeming qualities
at all. It's poorly made, badly edited, horribly
scripted and on top of that, it's in black and
white! Great for putting you to sleep but that's
about the only good thing about this movie.
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