Johnnie Redmayne

***This page contains spoilers for the newly-released Vide Noir film. It is highly recommended to watch the movie before reading.***

## Appearances

### Appears in

"Fool for Love"
"Until the Night Turns"
"Dead Man's Hand"
"Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)"
*Vide Noir*

**Johnnie Redmayne** is a young member of the World Enders gang. He is the brother of Alex and Dale Redmayne. Johnnie loves "starin' at darkness," "gets a thrill outta playing with fire" and "drives fast and rumbles the hardest." He doesn't care much for daydreaming and can't sleep when there's something to do. He is likely a member of the Phantom Riders as some songs are written from his perspective, although this becomes more uncertain during the events of the *Vide Noir* film.

## Description and appearances

Johnnie Redmayne is typically pictured wearing a black leather jacket with a prominent World Enders emblem on the back. His outfit is a classic greaser look with jeans and a t-shirt. If appearing with The Phantom Riders he would wear a white tuxedo. In *Vide Noir* he is shown with a slightly more modern jacket and red sweater.

His first appearance is in the *Strange Trails* song "Until the Night Turns," detailing a night spent with a bottle of booze and a beautiful girl, watching the potential end of the world, which he anticipates upon having a vision of a visitor from the great beyond. Buck Vernon later encounters Redmayne lying in the road in "Dead Man's Hand," an apparent victim of a rumble or perhaps even suicide. Upon rolling over Redmayne's body in preparation to bury him in the desert sand, Vernon is shocked to discover he is in fact still alive - perhaps returned from the dead. Redmayne proclaims "there ain't no thrills in the afterlife," then asks him to "lift me up out of here, my friend" so he can "wander the night 'til the ages end." Finally, in an apparent flashback, Redmayne is properly introduced in "Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)." Here he relates his love for thrills, which include driving fast, fighting and getting a kick out of thunder and lightning. He also seems to be a bit of a charmer with the ladies.

In the *Vide Noir* film and *Products of the Universe*, Vernon's encounter with Redmayne is shown in greater detail, his black brained state the result of a forced overdose on the Vide Noir drug.

## Music

### *Black Brained*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: WP-0064
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Rock, Rockabilly
* "Not Dead Yet"

### Unspecified album

* "Until the Night Turns”
* "Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)”
* "The World Ender"
* "Ancient Names (Part II)"

### Cover versions

From Lord Huron's *Strange Trails*:
* "Until the Night Turns”
* "Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)”
* "The World Ender"

From Lord Huron's *Vide Noir*:
* "Ancient Names (Pt.I)" (probable but not confirmed)
* "Ancient Names (Pt.II)"

From Lord Huron's *Long Lost*:
* "Not Dead Yet"

## Questions and fan theories

* While characters were not confirmed for the *Vide Noir* album, there are many possible references to Redmayne. In "Secret of Life," the narrator speaks of a curse and their life being chained to an ancient master. A clip from the WBUB version of Dead Man's Hand appears in Alive from Whispering Pines episode 423 immediately after Secret of Life is played. A slowed, distorted version of Secret of Life continues to play in the background throughout the clip. Could this song be from his perspective?
* There is a WBUB Midnight Movie called Dead Man's Hand referenced by the Alive From Whispering Pines hotline, which is assumed to be about Redmayne and casts some question as to what is a fiction within the fiction about the character.

## Gallery

Johnnie in "Dead Man's Hand"Cover art for "Hurricane" singleSketch by Ben SchneiderCover art for the "Until the Night Turns" singleJohnnie in *Vide Noir*Johnnie in *Alive From From Whispering Pines* film clips, affected by time's blur
## Sources

1. ↑ NPR Interview
2. ↑ Lord Huron Fanclub Facebook Q&A 22. Q: "Is the dead guy from Dead Man’s Hand the World Ender?" Ben Schneider: "No, but he is a World Ender, that is, he is (was?) a member of the gang. He’s also the subject of the song 'Hurricane'."
3. ↑ IMDB cast and crew