# Rubber Johnny

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-johnny/312957>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 18, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-johnny/312957 "2005-07-18T08:58:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-johnny/312957/1 "2005-07-18T08:58:12Z")

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> [@Rubberjohnny](#):
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> Synopsis:  
> Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark.  
> Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK’s most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham’s first published book of original artwork.

[Very](http://www.rubberjohnny.tv/) [disturbing](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/rubberjohnny.html).

Anyone actually see the whole short?

Man, this is some scary shit!  
Raises the hackles…

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**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-johnny/312957/2 "2005-07-18T09:09:44Z")

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Only heard about whilst doing my daily scan of Snopes. Find it quite funny that it needed to be debunked as it is obviously not real. Some disturbed filmmakers out there…

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**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubber-johnny/312957/3 "2005-07-18T10:16:17Z")

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I’ve seen it, though I was disappointed because I thought it would have _some_ kind of story, like David Lynch’s **Eraserhead** , but it’s really just another music video. It’s still interesting to watch, in a repulsive sort of way, but I’d already read a lot of hype about it before I saw it, so I expected a lot better.

I read a list of movies that Chris Cunningham was offered the opportunity to direct ( **Minority Report** was one) and while I’m glad he hasn’t jumped at director-for-hire work, I wish he’d make the plunge into feature length films already.

His video for Bjork’s “All is Full of Love” is still his best work, IMO.