The Beyond (2017)

Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered worm hole known as the Void. When the ... See full summary »

Director:

Hasraf Dulull (as Hasraf 'HaZ' Dulull)

Writer:

Hasraf Dulull (as Hasraf 'HaZ' Dulull)

Stars:

David Bailie, Jane Perry, Brian Deacon

Cast

Credited cast:
David Bailie	...	Jacob
Jane Perry	...	Gillian
Brian Deacon	...	David Johnson
Noeleen Comiskey	...	Jessica Johnson
Kosha Engler	...	Jessica 2.0 (voice)
Nigel Barber	...	Alex Grant
Amy Argyle	...	US Mission Controller (voice)
Courtney Barber	...	Youtube Star
Nick Kokotakis	...	Lee Cooksley
Melissa Graham	...	News Anchor
Julian Graham	...	Jim Marcell (voice)
Bruce Chong	...	Dr. Sebastian Lee
Georgina Blackledge	...	Alice Lamont
Tom Christian	...	Carl Roberts (as Thomas Christian)
Imran Yusuf	...	Vlog Citizen

Storyline

Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered worm hole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.

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Plot Keywords:

first contact | high concept | space exploration | cybernetic | found footage | 

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Taglines:

To find our place in the universe, we must venture beyond our boundaries.

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Official Twitter

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 January 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Void

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ground Control,HaZ Film,HaZ VFX

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Transhumanism is a real area of intellectual theory, as developed by philosopher Max More.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Gillian: We could not have been more wrong about all of this.

User Reviews

A+ for visual effects. And F for everything else.

Question: What sort of movie do you get when you have a visual effects supervisor write, direct and edit his own movie?

Answer: Why, THE BEYOND.

Hasraf Dulull, the writer, director and editor of THE BEYOND has a well established career as a visual effects supervisor and in many other roles generally revolving around visual effects. And, truth be told, the visual effects in THE BEYOND are superior in almost every respect. As one professional reviewer noted, Dulull is quite expert in executing visual effects "in ways that make the movies feel bigger than their budgets". Dulull has very much succeeded in making THE BEYOND "LOOK" like a science-fiction summer blockbuster. Unfortunately, THE BEYOND fails in every other aspect of professional moviemaking.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Dulull can't write, can't direct, and pretty much can't do anything else effectively when it comes to moviemaking OTHER than create superior visual effects. The storyline is appalling, any grasp of basic physics is missing entirely (sort of a failing in a science-fiction movie...), the majority of the acting is stiff and wooden at best, and so on. Glacially slow, THE BEYOND is literally painful to watch. Adding insult to injury, the movie concludes on an incessantly preachy note that is all but unstomachable.

I know that brutally negative reviews are not well received on IMDb and that this review will be condemned as "unhelpful". But this movie is what it is and one would have to lie to say anything else.

So A+ for visual effects and straight F's across the board for literally everything else for THE BEYOND.