https://vo.rs/tags/meta-cinema/Latest from the Meta-Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/rubber-the-killer-tyre-film-about-watching-films/<p>Pitch <em>Rubber</em> (2010) in one sentence and it sounds like a dare you&rsquo;d lose money on: a discarded car tyre comes to life in the California desert, discovers it can make things explode by force of will, and goes on a killing spree. That&rsquo;s true, and it&rsquo;s not remotely the whole film. Quentin Dupieux — better known to a certain crowd as the electronic musician Mr. Oizo — made the killer-tyre premise the bait for something considerably stranger: a feature-length essay on why audiences watch, disguised as the dumbest B-movie imaginable. It runs about eighty-two minutes and it is one of the few genuinely successful meta-horror comedies of its century.</p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000