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“ | Hey, Pop. Time for din dins! | „ |
~ Isaiah telling his father that dinner-time is ready. |
“ | Put that in your book. | „ |
~ Isaiah to his father after brutally raping him. |
“ | I loved him better than you ever did! | „ |
~ Isaiah proclaims himself as the only one who loved Sidney to his mother. |
Isaiah Johnson is the main antagonist of the 2011 infamous indie short horror film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons.
He was portrayed by Brandon Greenhouse, while his younger self was portrayed by Carlon Jeffery.
Biography[]
Isaiah is first seen in his room sexually pleasuring himself to a picture he had in his hand. Without much warning, his father Sidney Johnson arrives in the room, interrupting him from climaxing. After a well-intentioned speech about the circumstance, Sidney leaves his son to finish up. It is then revealed that Isaiah was masturbating himself to a picture of his father when he was younger. During an unknown amount of time, Isaiah had continually worsened eventually resorting to sexually harassing his father which likely began when his father came home crying after attending Isaiah's prom most likely as a result of the harassment, or likely even earlier according to Joan.
14 years later, Isaiah acquires a respectable background and is married. Unfortunately, the abuse just continued. During the wedding reception, his mother Joan hears a commotion and peering through a hole in a fence, she is horrified to see Isaiah rashly unbuttoning his father to perform oral sex on him. Despite seeing this, Joan decides to do nothing about it to keep "everything under control".
Sidney had since taken to writing an autobiographical manuscript entitled Cocoon Man: Confessions by Sidney Johnson, and places the memoir under his wife's pillow, along with a note asking for her forgiveness. Isaiah arrives claiming that his toilet was broken and he goes into Sidney's bedroom. He discovers the document and tries to guilt-trip his father about what he had written, accusing him of starting his spiral into incestuous obsession. After Isaiah informs him that he will burn the manuscript and being warned that he'd do something worse shall he make more, Sidney reluctantly gets rid of the memoir.
Alone in the bathroom, Sidney lays in the bathtub, listening to a voice track. After demanding that his father open the door failed, Isaiah kicks down the door, frightening a scared Sidney before viciously raping him. Joan overhears her husband crying out for help, but she turns the volume on the television up to drown out his screams. After raping his father, Isaiah shuffles out of the room, spitefully telling him to "put that in his book." This serves as the breaking point for Sidney who uncovers a secret copy of his memoir. Isaiah tries to talk his father out of getting it published with the same tactics he used before. This time, Sidney chooses to escape, and he runs out of the house, memoir in hand, only to get run over by a white van. Distraught, Isaiah angrily demands Joan to call an ambulance.
Shortly after the funeral, Isaiah decides to wear one of Sidney's sweaters to remember him. Joan arrives in the room, asking her son how long the sexual abuse happened. Isaiah attempts to convince her that she was being irrational only to be struck by her. Enraged, Isaiah engages in a scuffle with his mother and he goes to push her headfirst into the fireplace. Setting her sights on a fire poker, Joan makes a grab for it and slams it on her son.
After hitting him again, Joan bludgeons Isaiah to death with the fire poker. The film ends with her throwing Sidney's second copy of his memoir into the fire, keeping this dark family secret to herself.
Appearance[]
Isaiah Johnson is an adult African American male who is at average height and is in his 20s. He wears a wedding ring and is seen lots of times wearing a suit with a tie. When he gets married, he is wearing a formal tuxedo, and near the end of the film, he wears his father's red, white, and gray-checkered sweatshirt from when he was young.
Personality[]
“ | You monster. You killed your own father. How could you? | „ |
~ Joan blaming Isaiah for causing his own father's death. |
Isaiah is shown to be a depraved, delusional and sick individual who blames his father for causing the sexual abuse that happened in the family, even though it was Isaiah himself who started the abuse when he assaulted his father at a prom. This was all because Sydney was simply checking on Isaiah on what he was doing in his own room as, unknown to him, Isaiah was sexually pleasuring himself to a photo of his father from when he was a young man. He gets violent when things don't go his way, as when he saw that Sydney locked the door to the bathroom, Isaiah raped him out of anger, and tries guilt-tripping him the next morning to manipulate him into continuing to accept the abuse. Upon seeing his father's demise, Isaiah's attitude is that of someone who lost his victim as every time he has with his father shows him as lustful.
Relationships[]
Sydney Johnson[]
Isaiah is shown to have a condescending and sexually abusive relationship with his father, as he was molesting and raping his father for fourteen years, resulting in Sydney writing a memoir about said abuse called "Coccoon Man". He is constantly manipulative towards him as he lies to his father that he sees him as not just his dad, but his best friend, even though everything he's done suggests otherwise. After Isaiah rapes him in the bathroom, Sydney sees through his son's lies and leaves through the door, and it's even implied that Sydney deliberately got ran over by the vehicle to escape his son's abuse.
Isaiah's Wife[]
While Isaiah does have a wife, it's shown that he doesn't really care about her at all; the only satisfaction that he got during their wedding was when he was groping his father's behind. Additionally, he doesn't pay attention to kissing his wife and instead continues to have his eyes laid on Sydney, and deliberately breaks a glass to make an excuse to stay behind.
Quotes[]
“ | This is pathetic, Dad. If you want me to apologize, I'll apologize, and I am sorry about what happened last night and I did go too far, but what about you? Am I totally alone here? Am I just this abusive monster and you're just this sad helpless victim? Or does it take two to tango? Because I think it does. And if I've done anything, you've done it with me. | „ |
~ Isaiah to his father. |
“ | Don't shake your fucking head at me!! Everything I've ever done has been for you and for you and for you and to what end!? I didn't ask for this! This is your thing, something you started, but I'm here now, and I'm in it, and I've given myself, and I've accepted you completely! But you are not just my father. You're my friend. You're my best friend, and maybe we can just agree that that's a beautiful thing and not something to be perverted and corrupted and mutilated by your warped and confused conscience. You've always sabotaged everything good in your life, you've been shitting all over this from the minute we started. You never gave it a chance to be good! But you can sleep with that cold bitch in that loveless bed, and you can write your backwards book about your backward son, but not a single word about what you've done. It's just love, Dad. And it is big and it is scary, but there's being scared and there's being a coward. R—right now, you're breaking my heart. | „ |
~ Isaiah justifying his actions and trying to guilt-trip his father. |
“ | Isaiah: Mom… you're emotional, I'm emotional; We are not ourselves. Joan: Stop it. Isaiah: You don't even know what you're trying to say! Joan: I know exactly what I am trying to say! Isaiah: Well, I don't! But I think it's pretty ugly what you seem to be saying, and I think you would agree if you could hear yourself. |
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~ Isaiah denying any wrongdoing as Joan questions when the abuse started. |