Come to Johnny...

July 13, 2005 12:17 PM

Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham strike again. (Come to) Rubber Johnny. More here and here.
posted by afx114 (40 comments total)

It's not there! :(
posted by Rothko at 12:20 PM on July 13, 2005

Shit! They must have just taken it down, cuz I just watched it. You can watch it from the second link as well.
posted by afx114 at 12:21 PM on July 13, 2005

The trailer is on the second link. The full film is 6 minutes long. If you want it, it's all over the P2P networks, like 72 MB or such.
But I think the huge booklet is as much part of the work as the movie itself is. So, buy it.
posted by mr.marx at 12:29 PM on July 13, 2005

It's back up.
posted by NinjaPirate at 12:49 PM on July 13, 2005

Oh dear.
That'll give you more nightmares than blue cheese.
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:00 PM on July 13, 2005

like most of their stuff, great. but scawy.
posted by gnutron at 1:16 PM on July 13, 2005

I want my mommy.
posted by Robot Johnny at 1:19 PM on July 13, 2005

Not to be a spoilsport, but is that first link the actual whole 7 minute movie ? I mean, the one just released and available for sale on DVD ?

That said, Cunningham an RDJ are the perfect match. Glad I watched it during daylight and not alone in the dark.
posted by swordfishtrombones at 1:20 PM on July 13, 2005

Love those guys!
posted by shoepal at 1:23 PM on July 13, 2005

love that it took him four years to finish a (shitty) seven minute film.

and that he's SELLING said shitty film.
posted by jimmy at 1:29 PM on July 13, 2005

What the hell was that about?! Scary monster stuff, but that's cool. IIRC, Cunningham did the very strange Playstation ads a good few years back (in the UK at least). I'd watch it again, but I need to sleep tonight.

Great link though, muchos gracias
posted by TheDonF at 1:33 PM on July 13, 2005

They're still not sure it even is a baby.
posted by Nelson at 1:46 PM on July 13, 2005

I want my mommy.
posted by Robot Johnny at 1:19 PM PST on July 13 [!]


come to daddy
posted by ori at 1:50 PM on July 13, 2005

What a lot of people miss about Aphex is that his stuff is laugh-out-loud (capital L-O-L) funny. Seriously. Check out the first bit. Macabre and funny, like a nightmare.
posted by mistersquid at 1:55 PM on July 13, 2005

and that he's SELLING said shitty film.

And you're stealing said film.
posted by gwint at 2:09 PM on July 13, 2005

And you're stealing said film.

uh, same as just about everyone else in this thread. you didn't happen to miss the very first link in this post, did you?

besides, even better that i didn't spend nearly $20 on a shitty seven minute film, isn't it?
posted by jimmy at 2:41 PM on July 13, 2005

Creepy, but not as creepy as the annoying frog.
posted by bdk3clash at 3:12 PM on July 13, 2005

*shits himself*
posted by matteo at 3:51 PM on July 13, 2005

seriously, what the fuck is that? it's terrifying
posted by matteo at 3:52 PM on July 13, 2005

I think it's cool, not sure it should've taken 4 years though (I've been reading about it forever, it feels like.)

The cool stuff is the lo-tech things, like when he squashes his face on a pane of glass with various pieces of intestine and such. That's very effective.
posted by fungible at 3:52 PM on July 13, 2005

and that he's SELLING said shitty film.

Which is rather handy, as it means I can buy it. Must be something wrong with me to find something incredibly entertaining after your insightful, eloquent analysis proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it has no value.

Cheers for the preview, afx114.
posted by jack_mo at 4:11 PM on July 13, 2005

must be.
posted by jimmy at 4:28 PM on July 13, 2005

By the way, this album just came out, it's pretty awesome.
posted by bobo123 at 4:35 PM on July 13, 2005

Well I just got home half-pissed and watched it and loved it. Afx and CC together is a match made in (my) heaven. Now I'm going to watch it again and again and again...
posted by DelusionsofGrandeur at 4:36 PM on July 13, 2005

what is it with those 2 blokes and creepy hospital shit? I consider myself a fan of these two weirdos, but i have to say i wasn't very impressed with this one. (Listening to AFX's analord08 right now)
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 4:44 PM on July 13, 2005

ha! that alarm will sound album looks cool. samples here
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 4:50 PM on July 13, 2005

Woah.
posted by delmoi at 5:15 PM on July 13, 2005

Frickin' sweet. Cunningham is a genius. He apparently got his first gig running the special effects team for Alien 3 when he was, I think, 20. Since then he's mostly been doing his own, weird shit. Love it.
posted by billysumday at 6:46 PM on July 13, 2005

can someone explain how this is not pirated material? not that i'm a prude about such things, i just don't think metafilter is the place for it.
posted by erebora at 7:22 PM on July 13, 2005

i thought the beginning was great, and very disturbing. funny but scary.
it lost me with the whole discodance in the middle and the chihuahua.
posted by chococat at 8:39 PM on July 13, 2005

Yummy.
posted by lorrer at 8:48 PM on July 13, 2005

am i the only one disappointed that it wasn't more disturbing than the come to daddy video?
posted by VulcanMike at 9:48 PM on July 13, 2005

A good friend of mine (Jonathan Newman) did two of the arrangements for that "Acoustica" album. Alarm Will Sound is doing the whole album live in a few days in NYC at The Allen Room - check it out.

I loved this video. Played it for my coworkers. Freaked them out.
posted by gsalad at 9:49 PM on July 13, 2005

This would make a rilly super Mother's Day E-Card for someone you don't like a whole lot.
posted by maryh at 12:23 AM on July 14, 2005

Holly jebus sucking cripes - that Alarm Will Sound stuff is tremendous!
I had my hands over my mouth in a primitive effort to calm myself but OMG!

Twin's got to be hopping mad he didn't try this first. They're probably better than the originals.
If I weren't sitting at a desk, I'd probably have to skip.

Thank you very, very much for the link
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:27 AM on July 14, 2005

Well for four years work its a bit underwhelming, but its freaky in its own way... liked the odd baby thing that comes up first... probly should get on and make a proper film now though...
posted by Meccabilly at 3:17 AM on July 14, 2005

Several years ago Cunningham was slated to direct the film version of Neuromancer, and was enthusiastically supported by William Gibson himself. But The Matrix came along and the film was scrapped.

/dammit
posted by zardoz at 4:16 AM on July 14, 2005

Twin's got to be hopping mad he didn't try this first.
well, he did do that track with the philip glass orchestra a while back..... but ya, this is better.
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 10:58 AM on July 14, 2005

I'm sorry, but those of you raving about the Alarm Will Sound stuff don't understand Twin very well. The stuff is garbage.
posted by mistersquid at 12:17 PM on July 15, 2005

whew! thanks for clearing that up, mistersquid!
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 1:00 PM on July 15, 2005