Rubber is a cheap horror movie made by a pretentious French novice called Quentin Dupieux. It’s about an abandoned car tyre that comes to life somewhere near the Mojave Desert and starts killing the locals through the power of telekinesis. It’s supposed to be ironic, and filmic, and a bit media studies (there’s a gathered audience, at the edge of the desert, “watching” the action, geddit!). But it’s mostly moronic. Dupieux has claimed in interviews, French to the end, that, “creativity is something deep and should not come from the brain. So when I’m shooting I am always trying to be brainless.” Mission accomplished.
(15, 82mins)