Review of Rubber (1936) by Tom K — 10 Aug 2014
I read somewhere this movie was entertaining.... Marie was wondering why we hadn't watched any scary movies yet and then we went through the horror movies on Amazon Prime to come upon this movie poster. It had a single car tire standing in a field and the synopsis mentioned a "killer tire" and we just started laughing. It was classified as a comedy terror.... It was extremely light on both of those, really....
Its an artsy French film... The movie is more about conveying the experience someone goes through watching a horror movie than about being a horror movie... theres even an audience we are watching as THEY watch what's going on. Its weird, its meta... it acknowledges that most horror movies have ludicrous premises and that people will watch just about anything... but it doesn't do much more than that... we had a few laughs, mostly just adding our own voice and motivations to the tire... maybe that's the point? Maybe this Frenchman just hates people and it's a cruel joke...
I'll probably never watch it again, but I do see some merit in it... the killer tire to me is not any more absurd than Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, the goddamn Leprechaun, or any of them, really...
Marie, on the other hand, felt like she was being condescended to for an hour and a half....
She was NOT amused...
This review of Rubber (1936) was written by Tom K on 10 Aug 2014.
Rubber has generally received mixed reviews.
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