10 Sci-Fi Movie Endings No One Understands

Released in 2010, Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow signalled the arrival of a singular new talent in the world of psychedelic sci-fi.

Garnering understandable comparisons to the work of Alejandro Jodorwosky, the film saw the visionary director turn the story of a telekinetic girl and the shadowy doctor experimenting on her into a total headf***.

How much so? Well, the movie manages to make a shot of some carpet into a trippy, nightmarish prolonged sequence. So its take on telekinesis, mind melding, and New Age transcendence are understandably pretty insane too.

But as confusing as the bulk of this film's action is, the ending truly takes the biscuit, with a wild and impossible to decipher psychedelic odyssey which makes Kubrick's 2001 look easy to follow in comparison.

Suffice it to say that the viewer never learns the mysterious origins or intentions of the Arboria Institute outside of the eponymous doctor's attempts to achieve transcendence, a goal which ends with him... Maybe succeeding? Definitely becoming something more than human and very dangerous?

As for our heroine, she may be free to roam the earth, but the viewer still has no idea where she came from, how she acquired her powers, or what's next for her.