Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40847 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-06-20
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Synopsis
Johnny is a mutant child whose parents have locked him away in the basement. With his dog as his only companion, Johnny must find ways to amuse himself within his dark world.

From the Director
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 video is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham's first published book of original artwork.

Customer Reviews

Silly! Silly! Silly!
Chap in wheelchair wears prosthetic scalp balloon (a la alien autopsy) and dances in the dark while his bemused chihuahua looks on. Every so often Johnny pauses to squash face against a glass table and squidge spongy make-up attachments into various shapes. And that's it. Sure, it's funny ha-ha for one viewing but that's about it.

Freaky!
I originally saw this on the web and thought it was freaky but cool, so when I found u could get it on dvd with a book I couldnt resist!. Book is v freaky but the dvd was a bit disapointing, it was not in widescreen and only 2 channel audio which was not dolby digital, which is a shame as in full surround and widescreen it would hev been even freakier. A making off would have been interesting as well.

more messed up imagery to aphex beats
uh, well to be honest im not sure what to say about chris cunningham's latest offering. its been int the pipelane for a while now.. and i have been really looking forward to seeing this. so, i'm clutching the lovely hardback book like dvd packaging.. complete with a lovely 40 odd pages of quite frankly incredibly disturbing yet somehow horrifically funny imagary of the aformentioned genleman's genitals, and at first i couldnt wait to watch this... thing...

so in i pop the dvd, and im greeted with 6 minutes [yes kids 6 whole minutes] of aphex twin beats and.. not quite so disturbing imagery that i had imagined/hoped...and then it ends. and, quite frankly its made me feel slightly miffed... are warp taking the piss?

thinking about it, they probably are, and damn i applaud them for that. okay, 6 minutes and 42 pages of pictures isnt much for your 15 quid, but it doesnt matter i guess. cunningham's warped mind has come up with something completly surreal and scary and funny all at the same time... about halfway through when johnny's head smashes into the camera and, well, cracks open is both horrificly shocking and pretty funny[!] but the thing that gets me about this release is that... it just feels like a music video... and nothing more. which, for something that has been in the works for probably 3 or more years, is kinda a bit of a let down. okay the work that cunningham has put into this is immense... spending whole days one 1 frame just to get it perfect is fantastic. but its just somehow a let down. i dont think i can describe why... its good and bad at the same time.

i think the biggest killer is that the imagery in the book is so good, i espected the short to be in the same style. which in a way it is... but the film doesnt show the messed up body creations... just a teenager in a wheelchair....