And Another

I said you’d be sorry

In downtown Los Angeles for part of last weekend, I was surprised by the overabundance of billboards and posters for today’s release of The Orphan, a new entry in the evil-kid subgenre from Jaume Collet-Sera, the director of the watchable remake of House of Wax and the sequel to Goal! (I’m avoiding spoilers so far, but am gonna be amused if The Orphan turns out to be a remake of a certain scary story many of us read as kids.)

Anyway, the poster is designed to be just slightly off and kind of Photoshop-disturbing, but it just put me in mind of other recent image-manipulated would-be creepy kids.

Esther, with whom it seems there is something the matter, or so I hear:

Fi-Fi, charming star of Chris Cunningham’s “Mental Wealth” commercial for Playstation, 2000

The kid from David Slade’s “Aerials” video for System of a Down, 2002

Both directors worked with Aphex Twin previous to these inventions – Slade on Donkey Rhubarb, 1995, and Cunningham on Come to Daddy, 1997, and Windowlicker, 1999. I wonder if knowing Richard D. James does weird things to a person?