Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- surreal
- irreverent
- deadpan
- cult movie night
- arthouse horror night
What critics said
Critics broadly recognized the film's clever, impeccably designed absurdist premise and comic violence, while finding its self-conscious storytelling and repetitive middle increasingly overextended.
What sets it apart
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The plot openly follows groups of spectators watching the tire's rampage while characters attempt to control or end the film itself.
The tire's violence and the film's events repeatedly invoke the stated principle that things happen without meaningful explanation.
Telekinetic explosions of animals and human heads are staged as both gruesome spectacle and deadpan joke.
The film presents a killer-tire horror premise while characters discuss, manipulate, and attempt to terminate the movie around it.
Films like Rubber, and why
Deerskin
shares surreal black comedy, self-aware genre satire, and deliberately bizarre visual premises
The Cabin in the Woods
shares absurdist horror-comedy, meta-cinematic playfulness, and deadpan treatment of violent fantasy
Being John Malkovich
shares surreal comedy, existential disruption, and a formally unconventional relationship between fiction and spectatorship
Freaky Stories
shares cult-oriented black humor, grotesque violence, and a knowingly trashy yet artful sensibility
Movie Details
- Director
- Quentin Dupieux
- Release Date
- 2010-11-09
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 (1153)
Cast
- Thomas F. Duffy
- David Bowe
- Stephen Spinella
- Roxane Mesquida
- Jack Plotnick
- Wings Hauser
- Ethan Cohn
- Charley Koontz
- Daniel Quinn
- Devin Brochu
Common questions
- What is Rubber about?
- A sentient tire unleashes telekinetic carnage while the people watching its story try to stop the movie itself.
- What is Rubber like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Rubber as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Rubber violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Rubber as graphic.
- What did critics think of Rubber?
- Critics broadly recognized the film's clever, impeccably designed absurdist premise and comic violence, while finding its self-conscious storytelling and repetitive middle increasingly overextended.
- Which films are like Rubber?
- Films with a similar feel include Deerskin, The Cabin in the Woods, Being John Malkovich, and Freaky Stories.
- How long is Rubber?
- Rubber runs 82 minutes.
