Beyond Your Consciousness: The Beginning

Impressive thriller reminds me of 1970s-era horror - in a good way! ROSEMARY'S BABY comes to mind as the story's central character (Amanda) fights for her sanity and soul. It's a world where supernatural forces lurk around every corner and the audience never knows the real truth - if such a thing exists. I like movies that this - provocative and conversation starters. The film does a great job building suspense and even has a few jump scares. Well-written script gives the actors a lot to do - and a few memorable lines! Overall, I enjoyed this film. It's modest and tight, and way more enjoyable than so many big budget Hollywood horror movies.

Loved the way the story gripped you in the situation initially, and the character development in the beginning was well developed. Yet it provided a delightfully surprising twist of reality at the end. I thought it was going to be an emotional journey with a women experiences life's trauma, and then have a supernatural theme to spice it up like a lot of thrillers do. It did that nicely, but I was surprised at how it turned out. I didn't see it coming. Impressed with how a new producer and writer can have an idea, pull together a team, and produce such a work within a limited budget. The effects and cinematography were great. A must see independent film.

"Beyond Your Consciousness" is a psychological thriller in the mold of 1970's Brian DePalma. Story begins with psychiatrist Amanda, portrayed by Jen Ayer Drake, treating a teenage patient suffering from supernatural trauma. From here story shifts to Amanda's new home, but soon after, mysterious presences reach out to her. Lead actress Jen Ayer Drake does a great job navigating the emotional ups and downs of this character as she seems to descend into madness. There are many supernatural/horror elements that emerge, things that go bump in the night, and ghostly voices/apparitions. Our own sense of reality is challenged. I really enjoyed this movie. It's technically well-made, and worth checking out if you want a good supernatural thriller with a surprise ending.

A nail-biting thriller replete with shades of psychological horror. Just when you think you know where it's going, the film takes a sharp detour. There's a real exploration of psychosis in this film. Jen Ayer Drake offers up a multifaceted and offbeat performance that will leave you guessing until the end. Throughout, the film offers up that haunting question we all ask-are our lives our own? Rinoj Varghese's exploration of psychological horror and gaslighting that will leave you guessing until the end. Jen Ayer Drake gives a captivating and multifaceted performance.

For fans of movies that make you think, this is your cup of tea.

Amanda played by Jen Ayer Drake is a psychiatrist who focuses on patients who claim their mental illness is a result of coming into contact with supernatural elements. Recovering from her own personal trauma of losing her child through miscarriage she and her husband move to a new house in a new town in a bid to start over.

When Amanda believes a woman was murdered in her new home it sends her on an odyssey into a claustrophobic world between the living and the dead and the memories that shape them.

Writer and director Rinoj Varghese crafts a subversive and ambitious thriller Its themes which are anything but straight forward. This one will stay with you long after the credits are over.

The film plays like a surreal fevered dream where you empathise with Amanda as she continues to be dragged into unknown territory in her obsessive pursuit of the truth

The constantly shifting narrative rampant paranoia malevolent characters and twists and turns reminded me of Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" and Ari Asters "Hereditary"