The Rise of the Synths (Spanish: La rebelión de los sintes) is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Iván Castell and narrated by filmmaker and composer John Carpenter.

As journalist Ben Beaumont-Thomas described in the Guardian review of the film: "Carpenter is employed as a sensei-like narrator, recording his observations on to a cassette tape to be taken back in time by a Gosling-type pretty-boy street punk driving a DeLorean".

[22] The director created the Synthrider "as an homage of the Mad Max's Night Rider character and Ryan Gosling in Drive"[14] and as a "metaphor of the time travel backward that most people experience when they discover this subculture.

"[29] Inaki Ortiz Gasoc at El Contraplano wrote, "The aesthetic is careful and prevents this from being a classic boring documentary of talking heads" with "some fantastic film performances following the canons of the musical movement with its DeLorean".

"[30] The view from The Guardian's Bill Beaumont-Thomas was more mixed, with him praising the film's "admirable production values", particularly the "impressively produced interstitial [fictional] segments", but also mentioning that the documentary was "stylish but shallow" and "trades deep analysis for platitudes and boring asides".

[34][35][36][37]The film also features the music of Power Glove, Maethelvin, 80s Stallone, NINA, Robert Parker, Waveshaper, Nightcrawler, Cougar Synth, Electric Youth, Miami Nights 1984, Dance with the Dead, MPM Soundtracks, Lazerhawk, Bluezz Vylez, College, GOST, Carpenter Brut, Mecha Maiko, Mega Drive, Scandroid, Sebastian Gampl, D/A/D, Gunship, and IamManolis.