If I'm going to be honest, I've never been a real fan of Aphex Twin's music. Most of it to me feels rather generic and overtly hi-tech to really merit any actual catchy-ness or originality that I would look for; however, if Chris Cunningham's visuals are attached to it, that's another story. From my past experience, Cunningham's "Rubber Johnny" is already rather disconcerting and unsettling, but seeing "Come to Daddy" was a whole other thing. Granted, this isn't quite the level of nightmare-inducing material I was expecting after being told for quite some time it was too much for me to handle, but it is fairly disturbing and frightening enough to scare plenty of people, and certainly to the extent that it caused quite a stir when first released.
In a word, this film is about a broken TV which, if urinated on by a dog, will come to life with a creepy distorted face that summons delinquent children who all have the face of Aphex Twin who proceed to torture people by parading around with the TV. That's exactly the sort of thing you would visualize in a nightmare, thus making it entirely unsurprising that Chris Cunningham is the man behind it. He's certainly a brilliant visual artist who knows how to make Aphex Twin's music come to life even though, admittedly, I came for his surrealistic take on it instead of the song itself. Nonetheless a great short, particularly if you're into surrealism or just want to try and scare yourself every now and then.
In a word, this film is about a broken TV which, if urinated on by a dog, will come to life with a creepy distorted face that summons delinquent children who all have the face of Aphex Twin who proceed to torture people by parading around with the TV. That's exactly the sort of thing you would visualize in a nightmare, thus making it entirely unsurprising that Chris Cunningham is the man behind it. He's certainly a brilliant visual artist who knows how to make Aphex Twin's music come to life even though, admittedly, I came for his surrealistic take on it instead of the song itself. Nonetheless a great short, particularly if you're into surrealism or just want to try and scare yourself every now and then.