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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]]: a withered mad scientist assisted by a strange sexy red-eyed [Fembot] creates a human inside his lab. Said human ages rapidly until ultimately being destroyed by the fembot, much to the scientist's delight.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]]: a withered mad scientist assisted by a strange sexy red-eyed [Fembot] female robot creates a human inside his lab. Said human ages rapidly until ultimately being destroyed by the fembot, much to the scientist's delight.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]]: a withered mad scientist assisted by a strange sexy red-eyed [[Fembot]] creates a human inside his lab. Said human ages rapidly until ultimately being destroyed by the fembot, much to the scientist's delight.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]]: a withered mad scientist assisted by a strange sexy red-eyed [[Fembot]] [Fembot] creates a human inside his lab. Said human ages rapidly until ultimately being destroyed by the fembot, much to the scientist's delight.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]] is filled with this. As are "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxmt4PX6gto Angry Chair]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs I Stay Away]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU Man in the Box]]".
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHUwfFb2lw "Get Born Again"]] is filled with this. As are "[[https://www.Again"]]: a withered mad scientist assisted by a strange sexy red-eyed [[Fembot]] creates a human inside his lab. Said human ages rapidly until ultimately being destroyed by the fembot, much to the scientist's delight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxmt4PX6gto Angry Chair]]", "[[https://www.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU Man in the Box]]: A man crouches in a tiny stall, the kind used to keep animals. As the video progresses, ropes, wires, and fencing begin to cover him as well as the footage of the band members. In the final shot, the man is finally free from the barn, but when he pulls back his hood his eyes have been sewn shut.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs I Stay Away]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU Man com/watch?v=zTuD8k3JvxQ Them Bones]]: The band seems to be playing in a dim muddy cave lit mostly by brief lightning flashes. There is a large pool of a bubbling, splashing liquid in the Box]]".middle. Intentionally distressing images such as vultures picking at a carcass flash across the pool's surface, distorted by liquid's surface. Trash is thrown into and piles up in this distorted nightmare pool.
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->''"I also happen to be one who never really understood the universal appeal of ''Thriller''. Sure, it was a great album, and it's a great video, but it's so disturbing! Look at him! He's scarier than anything I've ever seen in a horror movie! And what's even more frightening is that the world embraces this so much!"''
-->-- [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe's]] [[http://cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1654 tribute]] to Music/MichaelJackson
-->-- [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe's]] [[http://cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1654 tribute]] to Music/MichaelJackson
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->''"I also happen to be one who never really understood the universal appeal of ''Thriller''. ''[[Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller Thriller]]''. Sure, it [[Music/{{Thriller}} it]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic was a great album, album]], and it's a great video, but it's so disturbing! Look at him! [[TransformationHorror him!]] He's scarier than anything I've ever seen in a horror movie! And what's even more frightening is that [[NightmareFetishist the world embraces this so much!"''
much!]]"''
-->--[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe's]] [[http://cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1654 Creator/{{James Rolfe}}'s [[https://archive.org/details/CinemassacreLostVideos/A+Tribute+to+Michael+Jackson.mp4 tribute]] to Music/MichaelJackson
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* Cattle Decapitation released a video in October 2012 for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4HP-VBVWk Forced Gender Reassignment]]" that was brutally violent and disturbing enough for both Website/YouTube ''and'' Vimeo to reject it. The song deals with the harsh treatment of transgender people and the video's visuals...um, let's just say the title says it all. Several reaction videos on Website/YouTube still exist for anyone even morbidly curious. [[note]] We are not responsible for any injuries or deaths caused by this video. '''Please consult your doctor before and after clicking this link.''' [[/note]]
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* Cattle Decapitation released a video in October 2012 for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4HP-VBVWk Forced Gender Reassignment]]" that was brutally violent and disturbing enough for both Website/YouTube ''and'' Vimeo Platform/{{Vimeo}} to reject it. The song deals with the harsh treatment of transgender people and the video's visuals...um, let's just say the title says it all. Several reaction videos on Website/YouTube still exist for anyone even morbidly curious. [[note]] We are not responsible for any injuries or deaths caused by this video. '''Please consult your doctor before and after clicking this link.''' [[/note]]
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* One of very few examples of this in Christian music is Carman's video for the 1989 song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySscnbaGAy0&pp=ygUbQ2FybWFuIEEgV2l0Y2gncyBJbnZpdGF0aW9u "A Witch's Invitation"]] when we get to the part where Carman's character confronts a warlock named Isaac Horowitz (also [[ActingForTwo played by Carman]]) and we get a brief scene of an aged Horowitz on his deathbed and a green demon coming out to claim Horowitz's soul for Hell.
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* Wild Boys was a bit surreal and scary, the fact the members of the band were being tortured in the video was unsettling [[https://youtu.be/M43wsiNBwmo?si=bpoEevFcMgV0N-WO "WiId boys video]]
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* *Duran Duran's Wild Boys music video was a bit surreal and scary, the fact the members of the band were being tortured in the video was unsettling and the creatures in the video were creepy [[https://youtu.be/M43wsiNBwmo?si=bpoEevFcMgV0N-WO "WiId boys video]]
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* Music/{{Beck}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE "Loser"]], with the girls working out in the graveyard and moving coffin, is eerie in that it uses somewhat morbid imagery while making absolutely no sense whatsoever. Watching the literal version at night, despite the funny lyrics, is a bad idea.[[note]] Although, it's not really that creepy if you have a [[SurrealHumor surreal sense of humor.]] [[/note]]
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* Music/{{Beck}}: Music/{{Beck|Musician}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE "Loser"]], with the girls working out in the graveyard and moving coffin, is eerie in that it uses somewhat morbid imagery while making absolutely no sense whatsoever. Watching the literal version at night, despite the funny lyrics, is a bad idea.[[note]] Although, it's not really that creepy if you have a [[SurrealHumor surreal sense of humor.]] [[/note]]
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* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject: "Prime Time" is not a particularly frightening song in and of itself, and actually rather soothing to certain people, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTSUoXpDq4 music video]] is just plain disturbing. What start as store mannequins descends rather quickly into some serious UncannyValley territory.
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* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject: "Prime Time" is not a particularly frightening song in and of itself, and actually rather soothing to certain people, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTSUoXpDq4 com/watch?v=P6NNJq0FZN4 music video]] is just plain disturbing. What start as store mannequins descends rather quickly into some serious UncannyValley territory.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 MopeMope]]" starts out as a cute song with dancing flowers, but there's a ''very'' good reason why the message [="//!--- This movie is NOT for children. ---!//"=] was in the video description. Halfway into the video the flowers will [[DisguisedHorrorStory suddenly]] transform into [[FoulFlower terrifying, semi-realistic monstrosities with hands as petals]], and the music will turn into distorted noises. The song seems to end by reverting back to its cheerful self, but [[LastNoteNightmare drops one last scare at the end]] in the form of a static sound, a ScareChord, and the "おわり" ("end") text suddenly turning red. In fact there was an incident where [=YouTube=]'s content detection system [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids mistakenly flagged it as a kids' video]], likely subjecting many kids online to the horrors of seemingly-innocent flowers.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 MopeMope]]" starts out as a cute song with dancing flowers, but there's a ''very'' good reason why the message [="//!--- This movie is NOT for children. ---!//"=] was in the video description. Halfway into the video the flowers will [[DisguisedHorrorStory suddenly]] transform into [[FoulFlower terrifying, semi-realistic monstrosities with hands as petals]], and the music will turn into distorted noises. The song seems to end by reverting back to its cheerful self, but [[LastNoteNightmare drops one last scare at the end]] in the form of a static sound, a ScareChord, and the "おわり" ("end") text suddenly turning red. In fact there was an incident where [=YouTube=]'s content detection system [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids mistakenly flagged it as a kids' video]], likely subjecting many kids online to the horrors of seemingly-innocent flowers. This is why several musical game arcades (e.g. Pump It Up) had to censor that segment due to how horrifying (and flashy it was), and to make matters more chilling, ''this song'' inspired the creator of [[VideoGame/GeometryDash Geometry Dash]]'s stage "Peaceful", and the aforementioned stage is EQUALLY HORRIFYING to the contents of the MV's horror segment.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVr1Ux95DQ "Ego"]]. It's like a mix of NightmareFuel and MindScrew?. Knowing the words doesn't help much, either. Roughly translated, the chorus goes something like this:
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVr1Ux95DQ "Ego"]]. It's like a mix of NightmareFuel and MindScrew?.MindScrew. Knowing the words doesn't help much, either. Roughly translated, the chorus goes something like this:
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVr1Ux95DQ "Ego"]]. It's like a mix of NightmareFuel, MindScrew, and WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs?. Knowing the words doesn't help much, either. Roughly translated, the chorus goes something like this:
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVr1Ux95DQ "Ego"]]. It's like a mix of NightmareFuel, MindScrew, NightmareFuel and WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs?.MindScrew?. Knowing the words doesn't help much, either. Roughly translated, the chorus goes something like this:
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* Music/PorcupineTree: The title track off of ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is already creepy enough as a SanitySlippageSong from the viewpoint of a overmedicated, media overloaded teenager. The video features BrainwashedAndCrazy [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]] with GlowingEyesofDoom, [[BrokenSmile Broken Smiles]] or blank expressions doing a [[{{Gorn}} variety of destructive things]] while the music video continually moves from [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs surreal image]] to [[MindScrew surreal image]].
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* Music/PorcupineTree: The title track off of ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is already creepy enough as a SanitySlippageSong from the viewpoint of a overmedicated, media overloaded teenager. The video features BrainwashedAndCrazy [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]] with GlowingEyesofDoom, [[BrokenSmile Broken Smiles]] or blank expressions doing a [[{{Gorn}} variety of destructive things]] while the music video continually moves from [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs surreal image]] image to [[MindScrew surreal image]].
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 MopeMope]]" starts out as a cute song with dancing flowers, but there's a ''very'' good reason why the message [="//!--- This movie is NOT for children. ---!//"=] was in the video description. Halfway into the video the flowers will [[SurpriseCreepy suddenly]] transform into [[FoulFlower terrifying, semi-realistic monstrosities with hands as petals]], and the music will turn into distorted noises. The song seems to end by reverting back to its cheerful self, but [[LastNoteNightmare drops one last scare at the end]] in the form of a static sound, a ScareChord, and the "おわり" ("end") text suddenly turning red. In fact there was an incident where [=YouTube=]'s content detection system [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids mistakenly flagged it as a kids' video]], likely subjecting many kids online to the horrors of seemingly-innocent flowers.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 MopeMope]]" starts out as a cute song with dancing flowers, but there's a ''very'' good reason why the message [="//!--- This movie is NOT for children. ---!//"=] was in the video description. Halfway into the video the flowers will [[SurpriseCreepy [[DisguisedHorrorStory suddenly]] transform into [[FoulFlower terrifying, semi-realistic monstrosities with hands as petals]], and the music will turn into distorted noises. The song seems to end by reverting back to its cheerful self, but [[LastNoteNightmare drops one last scare at the end]] in the form of a static sound, a ScareChord, and the "おわり" ("end") text suddenly turning red. In fact there was an incident where [=YouTube=]'s content detection system [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids mistakenly flagged it as a kids' video]], likely subjecting many kids online to the horrors of seemingly-innocent flowers.
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** The Cars video [[https://youtu.be/KXpJ0bM5zbM "Hello Again"]] was really bizarre and over the top.
*** The Cars video [[https://youtu.be/DmFdW1JyccA "You are the girl"]] The imagery was a bit creepy and the alien women at the end of the video were horrifying.
*** The Cars video [[https://youtu.be/DmFdW1JyccA "You are the girl"]] The imagery was a bit creepy and the alien women at the end of the video were horrifying.
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** The Cars pure 80's weirdness of their video [[https://youtu.be/KXpJ0bM5zbM "Hello Again"]] was really bizarre and over the top.
*** The Cars videofor [[https://youtu.be/DmFdW1JyccA "You Are The Girl"]] quickly descends from black comedy to blatant {{Body Horror}}.
*** Ric Ocasek's girlfriend on Earth gives him hell over a video call. They don't get a chance to patch things up before they are abruptly cut off by thegirl"]] The imagery was Earth disintegrating in [[WorldWarIII a bit creepy and the alien nuclear holocaust]].
*** Greg Hawkes passes by a chamber filled with sleeping womenat in [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic stasis]], and begins fiddling with the control dial to try to bring them out of it. Unfortunately, he doesn't see or understand what he's doing, and [[ContrivedClumsiness inadvertently breaks the dial]] after bringing it from FREEZE to DEFROST to MELTDOWN. The women are brought out of stasis, but [[CryonicsFailure their flesh melts rapidly to where they resemble zombies]]. Greg shrugs and sneaks off as they presumably continue to burn to death.
*** Ric sneaks off to see the [[SexBot "Emergency Pleasure Droid"]], but he breaks the remote and loses control over her. Her head blows off and lands on the floor, where we see her facial expression.
*** At the end of thevideo were horrifying.video, the band's [[RetroRocket phallic starship]] docks with a strange alien vessel, its docking port equipped with [[VaginaDentata vaginal dentata]]. Boarding the vessel, the band is met by a group of bizarre-looking but (seemingly) friendly alien women.
*** The Cars video
*** Ric Ocasek's girlfriend on Earth gives him hell over a video call. They don't get a chance to patch things up before they are abruptly cut off by the
*** Greg Hawkes passes by a chamber filled with sleeping women
*** Ric sneaks off to see the [[SexBot "Emergency Pleasure Droid"]], but he breaks the remote and loses control over her. Her head blows off and lands on the floor, where we see her facial expression.
*** At the end of the
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* Duran Duran's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ09HcvYQTY "Waiting for the Night Boat"]] may seem silly now but watching the guys turn into 'zombies', the creepy music, and listening to Simon LeBon's 'soliloquy' definitely set chills down this fan's spine back in the day.
* Music/{{DyE}}'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters an Eldritch Location and sees a gigantic Eldritch Abomination, then her head explodes.]]
* Music/{{DyE}}'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters an Eldritch Location and sees a gigantic Eldritch Abomination, then her head explodes.]]
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* Duran Duran's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ09HcvYQTY "Waiting for the Night Boat"]] may seem silly now but watching the guys turn into 'zombies', the creepy music, and listening to Simon LeBon's Le Bon's 'soliloquy' definitely set chills down this fan's spine back in the day.
* Music/{{DyE}}'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters anEldritch Location EldritchLocation and sees a gigantic Eldritch Abomination, EldritchAbomination, then her head explodes.]]
* Music/{{DyE}}'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters an
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** "Mein Teil" was more than 'just creepy'; it's like a trailer for a psychological horror. And "Mein Herz Brennt" - there's something seriously unnerving about that whole thing...
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** "Mein Teil" was more than 'just creepy'; it's like a trailer for a psychological horror.horror film. And "Mein Herz Brennt" - there's something seriously unnerving about that whole thing...
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* Bestial Mouths are basically a NightmareFuelStationAttendant for music videos. Case in point: [[https://youtu.be/0ygPBaSodHk Earth]], in which a [[HornyDevils demoness]] with BlackEyesOfEvil and FemmeFatalons, portrayed by frontwoman Lynette Cerezo, is summoned via TomeOfEldritchLore and proceeds to enthrall the other band members with her FanDisservice-y song and dance.
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* Bestial Mouths are basically a NightmareFuelStationAttendant for music videos. Case in point: [[https://youtu.be/0ygPBaSodHk Earth]], in which a [[HornyDevils demoness]] demoness with BlackEyesOfEvil and FemmeFatalons, portrayed by frontwoman Lynette Cerezo, is summoned via TomeOfEldritchLore and proceeds to enthrall the other band members with her FanDisservice-y song and dance.
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** "Love Like Winter," which is a very happy song by AFI standards, is pretty freaky in video form because the band are all chasing this extremely hot girl through a frozen forest, freezing every member of the band to death until only the singer is left. Then he finds the girl, who is actually evil, and is pushed into the frozen water to drown.
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** "Love Like Winter," Winter", which is a very happy song by AFI standards, is pretty freaky in video form because the band are all chasing this extremely hot girl through a frozen forest, freezing every member of the band to death until only the singer is left. Then he finds the girl, who is actually evil, and is pushed into the frozen water to drown.
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* Music/{{Pat Benatar}}:'s video [[https://youtu.be/sXatoCG13tw "Anxiety"]], is definately nightmare fuel, when she in in that doctor's office that definately would make anybody nervous!
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* Music/{{Pat Benatar}}:'s Benatar}}: Her video [[https://youtu.be/sXatoCG13tw "Anxiety"]], "Anxiety"]] is definately nightmare fuel, when she in in fuel; that doctor's office that definately office definitely would make anybody nervous!
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%%** "[[https://youtu.be/crbFmpezO4A Leave me alone]]" video was pretty freaky, those huge chomping teeth at the beginning of the cave was pretty scary! Also the part when Michael was dancing with the elephant man's skeleton.
** "Thriller". The most famous music video of all time, directed by John Landis, has haunted generations of children. Michael's [[TransformationTrauma transformation]] into a werecat (some people say it was a werewolf, while the making of movie says a cat creature) at the beginning was pretty terrifying, especially because nothing at the start of the video suggests that something that gruesome will occur.
*** Then there are the scenes with the zombies rising from the graves with expressionless faces and rotting bodies. Michael transforming into a zombie himself, with that huge forehead and bulging eyes is frightening in itself, but the very idea that his girlfriend is now completely alone and chased into an abandoned house, where she is driven into a corner is mind boggling scary. Thankfully the whole thing was [[AllJustADream just a bad dream]] the girlfriend was having. OrWasItADream -- and then Michael turns to the camera with those demonic eyes, followed by the evil laughter of Vincent Price. So you realize she is still not safe. Also note that everything takes place in the dark.
** Michael's later "[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]" (1997), based on a plot he and Stephen King hashed out (and currently the record-holder for the longest music video at 38 minutes), has its own troupe of dancing, increasingly ugly ghouls who, led by Michael's "Maestro", entertain/torment an angry mob and their bigoted leader (Michael in heavy makeup). (Why are they angry? [[RealitySubtext Maestro was apparently living all alone in a spooky mansion and telling local kids ghost stories in secret.]]) The weird thing is that even when Maestro physically turns into a ghoul, possesses the helpless mayor by forcing himself in liquid form down his throat, and ultimately turns ''him'' into a ghoul temporarily and painfully, you're supposed to be rooting for him!
** "Thriller". The most famous music video of all time, directed by John Landis, has haunted generations of children. Michael's [[TransformationTrauma transformation]] into a werecat (some people say it was a werewolf, while the making of movie says a cat creature) at the beginning was pretty terrifying, especially because nothing at the start of the video suggests that something that gruesome will occur.
*** Then there are the scenes with the zombies rising from the graves with expressionless faces and rotting bodies. Michael transforming into a zombie himself, with that huge forehead and bulging eyes is frightening in itself, but the very idea that his girlfriend is now completely alone and chased into an abandoned house, where she is driven into a corner is mind boggling scary. Thankfully the whole thing was [[AllJustADream just a bad dream]] the girlfriend was having. OrWasItADream -- and then Michael turns to the camera with those demonic eyes, followed by the evil laughter of Vincent Price. So you realize she is still not safe. Also note that everything takes place in the dark.
** Michael's later "[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]" (1997), based on a plot he and Stephen King hashed out (and currently the record-holder for the longest music video at 38 minutes), has its own troupe of dancing, increasingly ugly ghouls who, led by Michael's "Maestro", entertain/torment an angry mob and their bigoted leader (Michael in heavy makeup). (Why are they angry? [[RealitySubtext Maestro was apparently living all alone in a spooky mansion and telling local kids ghost stories in secret.]]) The weird thing is that even when Maestro physically turns into a ghoul, possesses the helpless mayor by forcing himself in liquid form down his throat, and ultimately turns ''him'' into a ghoul temporarily and painfully, you're supposed to be rooting for him!
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%%** The "[[https://youtu.be/crbFmpezO4A Leave me alone]]" Me Alone]]" video was pretty freaky, freaky; those huge chomping teeth at the beginning of the cave was were pretty scary! Also Also, the part when Michael was dancing with the elephant man's Elephant Man's skeleton.
** "Thriller". The most famous music video of all time, directed by John Landis, has haunted generations of children. Michael's [[TransformationTrauma transformation]] into a werecat (some people say it was a werewolf, while the making ofmovie the video says a cat creature) at the beginning was pretty terrifying, especially because nothing at the start of the video suggests that something that ''that'' gruesome will occur.
*** Then there are the scenes with the zombies rising from thegraves graves, with expressionless faces and rotting bodies. bodies, and Michael transforming into a zombie himself, with that huge forehead and bulging eyes is eyes. Those are frightening in itself, by themselves, but the very idea that his girlfriend is now completely alone alone, and chased into an abandoned house, where she is driven into a corner corner, is mind boggling mind-bogglingly scary. Thankfully the whole thing was [[AllJustADream just a bad dream]] the girlfriend was having. OrWasItADream -- and then Michael turns to the camera with those demonic yellow eyes, followed by the evil laughter of Vincent Price. So So, you realize she is still not safe. Also note that everything ''everything'' takes place in the dark.
** Michael's later video, "[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]" (1997), based on a plot he and Stephen King hashed out (and currently the record-holder for the longest music video at 38 minutes), has its own troupe of dancing, increasingly ugly ghouls who, led by Michael's "Maestro", entertain/torment an angry mob and their bigoted leader (Michael in heavy makeup). (Why are they angry? [[RealitySubtext Maestro was apparently living all alone in a spooky mansion and telling local kids ghost stories in secret.]]) The weird thing is that even when Maestro physically turns into a ghoul, possesses the helpless mayor by forcing himself in liquid form down his throat, and ultimately turns ''him'' into a ghoul temporarily and painfully, you're supposed to be rooting for him!
** "Thriller". The most famous music video of all time, directed by John Landis, has haunted generations of children. Michael's [[TransformationTrauma transformation]] into a werecat (some people say it was a werewolf, while the making of
*** Then there are the scenes with the zombies rising from the
** Michael's later video, "[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]" (1997), based on a plot he and Stephen King hashed out (and currently the record-holder for the longest music video at 38 minutes), has its own troupe of dancing, increasingly ugly ghouls who, led by Michael's "Maestro", entertain/torment an angry mob and their bigoted leader (Michael in heavy makeup). (Why are they angry? [[RealitySubtext Maestro was apparently living all alone in a spooky mansion and telling local kids ghost stories in secret.]]) The weird thing is that even when Maestro physically turns into a ghoul, possesses the helpless mayor by forcing himself in liquid form down his throat, and ultimately turns ''him'' into a ghoul temporarily and painfully, you're supposed to be rooting for him!
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** There's also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4ZGYNxdXk Saint Veronika]]", which features a humanoid sock puppet girl with a [[UncannyValley painted on face]] fleeing from her even creepier sock puppet family. For extra fun, the room the band is playing in is also full of disturbing puppet people. The video ends with [[spoiler:the girl getting tangled on a fence and coming unraveled in a rather gruesome manner.]]
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** There's also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4ZGYNxdXk Saint Veronika]]", which features a humanoid sock puppet girl with a [[UncannyValley painted on face]] face fleeing from her even creepier sock puppet family. For extra fun, the room the band is playing in is also full of disturbing puppet people. The video ends with [[spoiler:the girl getting tangled on a fence and coming unraveled in a rather gruesome manner.]]
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* Cult of Luna: The post-metal band's video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoVt-CUCiw Leave Me Here]]." Watch the video, and you wade into a seriously [[MindScrew screwtastic]] UncannyValley.
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* Cult of Luna: The post-metal band's video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoVt-CUCiw Leave Me Here]]." Watch the video, and you wade into a seriously [[MindScrew screwtastic]] UncannyValley.scene.
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* Dr. Ring Ding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kehEiUchVZo "Mafia"]]. Grotesque violence, rather UncannyValley-rific people (but maybe just because of the mimics and blood) and all in all extremely cruel...
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* Dr. Ring Ding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kehEiUchVZo "Mafia"]]. Grotesque violence, rather UncannyValley-rific creepy-looking people (but maybe just because of the mimics and blood) and all in all extremely cruel...
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* Music/DavidGuetta: On its own, "Turn Me On", featuring Music/NickiMinaj, seems to be an IntercourseWithYou song with some FlorenceNightingaleEffect. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM music video]] however, features a doctor making [[UncannyValley animatronic dolls]]. When we first see Doll!Nicki Minaj, specifically during the first chorus... she looks ''horrifying''. The rest of the video isn't better, even after she materializes into looking human; she is the only doll who has "life", and she escapes, resulting in the other dolls rioting so they can get "life". It then turns out the doctor himself is a doll... ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
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* Music/DavidGuetta: On its own, "Turn Me On", featuring Music/NickiMinaj, seems to be an IntercourseWithYou song with some FlorenceNightingaleEffect. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM music video]] however, features a doctor making [[UncannyValley animatronic dolls]].dolls. When we first see Doll!Nicki Minaj, specifically during the first chorus... she looks ''horrifying''. The rest of the video isn't better, even after she materializes into looking human; she is the only doll who has "life", and she escapes, resulting in the other dolls rioting so they can get "life". It then turns out the doctor himself is a doll... ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
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* Music/{{HEALTH}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1qvEr9bC6c "STONEFIST"]]. An otherwise normal PerformanceVideo, but with a catch: the video randomly cuts to (extremely graphic) close-up shots of a plastic surgery. It turns out at the end that the entire band was going under this surgery, and the result falls squarely into the UncannyValley.
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* Music/{{HEALTH}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1qvEr9bC6c "STONEFIST"]]. An otherwise normal PerformanceVideo, but with a catch: the video randomly cuts to (extremely graphic) close-up shots of a plastic surgery. It turns out at the end that the entire band was going under this surgery, and the result falls squarely into the UncannyValley.surgery.
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* Jamie T: "Zombie" shows him and his band turning into, well, zombies, along with detaching body parts and blood. This is particularly less extreme them most examples on this list, because it's all [[BlackComedy played for dark laughs]], but the result is still lodged firmly in the UncannyValley.
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* Jamie T: "Zombie" shows him and his band turning into, well, zombies, along with detaching body parts and blood. This is particularly less extreme them most examples on this list, because it's all [[BlackComedy played for dark laughs]], but the result is it's still lodged firmly in the UncannyValley.creepy.
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* LFO: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3og0oFiDO3U Freak]]". A music video featuring Asian schoolgirls dancing to the song before two of them get in a fight over a teddy bear and one is pushed to the ground, triggering a seizure. The video ends with this girl sitting up directly in front of the camera, revealing a CG face that looks incredibly ''[[NightmareFace o]][[UncannyValley ff]]'', and [[SlasherSmile smiling]]. Brrr. The video's predominantly [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting blue hue]] bears eerie resemblance to Chris Cunningham's work, and the schoolgirls share the same [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette offsetting]] [[StringyHairedGhostGirl look]].
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* LFO: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3og0oFiDO3U Freak]]". A music video featuring Asian schoolgirls dancing to the song before two of them get in a fight over a teddy bear and one is pushed to the ground, triggering a seizure. The video ends with this girl sitting up directly in front of the camera, revealing a CG face that looks incredibly ''[[NightmareFace o]][[UncannyValley ff]]'', off]]'', and [[SlasherSmile smiling]]. Brrr. The video's predominantly [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting blue hue]] bears eerie resemblance to Chris Cunningham's work, and the schoolgirls share the same [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette offsetting]] [[StringyHairedGhostGirl look]].
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* Manifesto: A CoverVersion of Joan Armatrading's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBHo-1dfLs "Love And Affection"]] from late 2001 falls somewhere between NightmareFuel, UncannyValley (and for those with a sadistic bent) fetish appeal. It's somewhat similar to ScienceFiction but the fact it's a [[Music/TaylorSwift love story]] between two shop dummies (that [[UncannyValley look incredibly lifelike]]) which makes it fall into this territory.
* Marcel Vanthilt: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyyCM-TNUo ''Paracetamol'']] is one of those where you do not know what is the most disturbing about it. Is it the fact that the guy is fully drugged, the fact that his organs are literally cut off the body of the patient or that the patient sees his organs as physical non-living objects? Even as a comedic showcase showing the horrible effects of drugs on your body it can indeed fall deep into the UncannyValley for some.
* Marcel Vanthilt: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyyCM-TNUo ''Paracetamol'']] is one of those where you do not know what is the most disturbing about it. Is it the fact that the guy is fully drugged, the fact that his organs are literally cut off the body of the patient or that the patient sees his organs as physical non-living objects? Even as a comedic showcase showing the horrible effects of drugs on your body it can indeed fall deep into the UncannyValley for some.
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* Manifesto: A CoverVersion of Joan Armatrading's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBHo-1dfLs "Love And Affection"]] from late 2001 falls somewhere between NightmareFuel, UncannyValley (and for those with a sadistic bent) fetish appeal. 2001. It's somewhat similar to ScienceFiction but the fact it's a [[Music/TaylorSwift love story]] story between two shop dummies (that [[UncannyValley [[UnintentionalUncannyValley look incredibly lifelike]]) which makes it fall into this territory.
* Marcel Vanthilt: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyyCM-TNUo ''Paracetamol'']] is one of those where you do not know what is the most disturbing about it. Is it the fact that the guy is fully drugged, the fact that his organs are literally cut off the body of the patient or that the patient sees his organs as physical non-living objects? Even as a comedic showcase showing the horrible effects of drugs on your body it can indeedfall deep into the UncannyValley be creepy for some.
* Marcel Vanthilt: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyyCM-TNUo ''Paracetamol'']] is one of those where you do not know what is the most disturbing about it. Is it the fact that the guy is fully drugged, the fact that his organs are literally cut off the body of the patient or that the patient sees his organs as physical non-living objects? Even as a comedic showcase showing the horrible effects of drugs on your body it can indeed
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** "Gott ist ein Popstar". Maybe you can guess [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what it's about]]. The lyrics and the video is certainly unnerving, but at around 2:35, watch for... [[UncannyValley faces]]... doing things they shouldn't.
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** "Gott ist ein Popstar". Maybe you can guess [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what it's about]]. The lyrics and the video is certainly unnerving, but at around 2:35, watch for... [[UncannyValley faces]]...faces... doing things they shouldn't.
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** To say nothing of the [[UncannyValley appearance]] of the Spice Girls as stop motion-animated [[TheFairFolk fairies]], that goad/convince the kid into playing around with the cube that eventually traps him.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgF_FFBpfbk "Writing on the Walls"]] by Underoath. The music video takes place in a house that has a wall removed so that you can see the inside. [[MindScrew That's the only part of the music video that makes sense.]] Highlights include random close-ups of a woman's terrified face (said woman is wearing UncannyValley makeup for added effect), ''an apparent murder'', and several really creepy scenes where a guy who looked dead got up and hit his head on the walls for no real reason before lying down again.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgF_FFBpfbk "Writing on the Walls"]] by Underoath. The music video takes place in a house that has a wall removed so that you can see the inside. [[MindScrew That's the only part of the music video that makes sense.]] Highlights include random close-ups of a woman's terrified face (said woman is wearing UncannyValley makeup UncannyValleyMakeup for added effect), ''an apparent murder'', and several really creepy scenes where a guy who looked dead got up and hit his head on the walls for no real reason before lying down again.
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* Hawksley Workman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrc2wATvHF4 "Striptease"]] is a magical wonderland of surreal camera angles, [[UncannyValley sped-up movements that look disjointed and unnatural]], and a man whose singing -- visually, at least -- is disturbingly reminiscent of someone screaming in pain. Watch it, and see if you don't shudder.
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* Hawksley Workman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrc2wATvHF4 "Striptease"]] is a magical wonderland of surreal camera angles, [[UncannyValley sped-up movements that look disjointed and unnatural]], unnatural, and a man whose singing -- visually, at least -- is disturbingly reminiscent of someone screaming in pain. Watch it, and see if you don't shudder.
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** From the same, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnSc0bczg0 "Laura Palmer"]]. A group of [[CorruptHick rednecks]] kidnap Dan Smith. It's not helped by the shaky, cheap footage, or the fact that the song itself is a {{Homage}} to ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
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** From the same, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnSc0bczg0 "Laura Palmer"]]. A group of [[CorruptHick rednecks]] rednecks kidnap Dan Smith. It's not helped by the shaky, cheap footage, or the fact that the song itself is a {{Homage}} to ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
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* Author & Punisher: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlBOPLWZyw The video]] for "Terrorbird" features the title creature making a [[BrownNote deadly sound]]. The sight of those people vomitting blood as they try to escape the monster in particular makes this video feel like a horror film. The lack of color to the whole thing doesn't help.
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%%* Lindsey Buckingham's video Go insane was really creepy! This troper was traumatized by it as a child "[[https://youtu.be/NF9fkXIqnis]]"
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* Duran Duran's [[https://youtu.be/M43wsiNBwmo "TheWildboys"]] is pretty creepy! That one scary goblin looking thing breathing smoke murmuring the word "boys" in the beginning of the video sends shivers up this troper's spine!
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI Kids]]" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular''. It starts with a toddler being accosted by realistic monsters in an otherwise pitch black room. Later it has the kid wandering alone on the street surrounded by monsters and deformed people. The animated section at the end goes UpToEleven. Of course... it was made by the same people who brought us ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csycpzaUsNQ Even]] WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead felt bad for the toddler.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI Kids]]" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular''. It starts with a toddler being accosted by realistic monsters in an otherwise pitch black room. Later it has the kid wandering alone on the street surrounded by monsters and deformed people. The animated section at the end goes UpToEleven.up to eleven. Of course... it was made by the same people who brought us ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csycpzaUsNQ Even]] WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead felt bad for the toddler.
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* Planet P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svl1t4b1RD4 "Why Me"]] takes the song's already-intense paranoia and turns it UpToEleven. Even so - sweet baby Buddha, that astronaut's poor girl ...
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* Planet P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svl1t4b1RD4 "Why Me"]] takes the song's already-intense paranoia and turns it UpToEleven.up to eleven. Even so - sweet baby Buddha, that astronaut's poor girl ...
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*** Speaking of Soundgarden,
Does anyone remember the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA "Jesus Christ Pose"]]?
Does anyone remember the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA "Jesus Christ Pose"]]?
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*** Speaking of Soundgarden,
DoesSoundgarden, does anyone remember the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA "Jesus Christ Pose"]]?
Does
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* [=DyE=]'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters an Eldritch Location and sees a gigantic Eldritch Abomination, then her head explodes.]]
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* [=DyE=]'s Music/{{DyE}}'s [[http://vimeo.com/30798517 "Fantasy"]] and its very NSFW music video. It begins as a pretty innocent video with four teens breaking in a swimming pool during the night. Halfway it switchs to a CosmicHorrorStory with BodyHorror. [[spoiler: The survivor of the gang escapes her mutated friends by diving in the pool, then reaches a portal in the bottom of the pool. She then enters an Eldritch Location and sees a gigantic Eldritch Abomination, then her head explodes.]]
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* Music/{{Genesis}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k Land of Confusion]]" is a pretty good song. The video, on the other hand, is set largely within the UncannyValley, featuring puppets done by the folks who made the satirical British program ''Series/SpittingImage''.
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* Music/{{Genesis}}: Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k Land of Confusion]]" is a pretty good song. The video, on the other hand, is set largely within the UncannyValley, featuring puppets done by the folks who made the satirical British program ''Series/SpittingImage''.
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* Music/Black Sabbath: This band has a few creepy songs including ''Mr Crowley'', ''Black Sabbath'' - appropriate name, ''Paranoid'' and ''Iron Man''.
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* Title Fight: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-lqmIBNr8 "Secret Society"]] ([[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]) is about a preteen girl who tries to confess her love to a biker [[MayDecemberRomance who looks to be in his 20s]], only for it to turn out that the biker has an (of-age) girlfriend. The preteen goes home heartbroken, tears up her room in a rage, and decides to [[IfICantHaveYou kidnap the biker and]] ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior stabs]]'' him to death as [[SceneryDissonance images of flowers flash in the background.]] She then cuts off his face and wears it like a mask while splattering blood all over the walls as the band rocks out in the background. Adding to the creepy atmosphere is that the video was filmed on [[AnalogHorror VHS]].
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* Title Fight: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-lqmIBNr8 "Secret Society"]] ([[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]) is about a [[{{Yandere}} preteen girl girl]] who tries to confess her love to a biker [[MayDecemberRomance [[LikesOlderMen who looks to be in his 20s]], only for it her to turn out discover that the biker has an (of-age) girlfriend. The preteen goes home heartbroken, tears up her room in a rage, and decides to [[IfICantHaveYou kidnap the biker and]] ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior stabs]]'' stab]]'' him repeatedly to death as [[SceneryDissonance images of flowers flash in the background.]] She then cuts off his face and wears it like a mask while splattering blood all over the walls as the band rocks out in the background. Adding to the creepy atmosphere is that the video was filmed on [[AnalogHorror VHS]].
