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Dreamcatcher Music 드림캐쳐

  • "Chase Me":
    • The ghost hunter's sudden nosebleed.
    • After the girls pull the eyes off a bear doll, the hunter hallucinates that his eyes have gone missing too.
    • All the ghostly behaviour the girls pull off counts as well - especially JiU and her habit of appearing and disappearing, then nonchalantly levitating. Then there's SuA and Siyeon doing their best impersonation of the twins from "The Shining", and the other girls encircling Dami in a manner that looks almost like they're intending to sacrifice her, and Handong appearing outside the ghost hunter's window.
  • "Good Night":
    • Yoohyeon and Siyeon are chased through the forest by a group of masked figures.
    • Gahyeon seemingly falling through a never-ending chasm.
    • SuA is pinned down by multiple tree roots that have taken the form of human hands.
      • In relation to this, we haveJiU burning a picture of a girl being pinned down by tree roots while Handong and Dami watch her with blank, dispassionate expressions, then we flash back to see SuA being burned alive with a strangely calm expression.
    • The sudden appearance of eyes on book covers and walls.
    • The girls use the mirror to call out to the ghost hunter, then trick him into taking their place on the other side.
  • "Fly High": Pretty much the whole video, as it's a prelude to how the girls came to be trapped in the first place.
    • The girls are living happily at the hotel or the school, at least until JiU finds a strange spider on the grounds. She catches it in a jar, and keeps it as a pet, and soon afterwards strange things begin happening.
      • Siyeon and SuA wander the woods in their nightgowns, returning with black capes on both of them.
      • Gahyeon wakes up in the middle of the night on the bed decorated with plants and flowers, seemingly unable to move, to find a strange tattooed figure approaching her, who reaches out to cover her eyes, possibly corrupting her.
      • SuA and Gahyeon stare at Handong throwing a paper airplane and later stand at the top of a staircase with Siyeon and stare directly into the camera.
      • Yoohyeon finds a vanity table outside and touches the spiderweb. As she does, a thick black liquid pours from the mirror.
      • Dami reading the book while rapping about being trapped in a dream (this changes to "nightmare" at the very end of the song), then looking up as a big gust of wind suddenly blows around her. What makes this scarier is Dami doesn't even seem to flinch or notice her surroundings, possibly signifying her corruption.
      • Handong lies in the bathtub staring blankly ahead - especially scary in that at first look, the water dripping from her hands looks like blood.
      • JiU wanders around and finds her double playing piano and figures out what is happening.
    • It's revealed that Yoohyeon lured JiU away and burned the spider to death with a magnifying glass, thus causing the girls to be cursed. JiU, who had resisted the curse the most strongly, realizes this and runs from her double out of the building. Meanwhile, Yoohyeon also tries to escape by running into the woods but suddenly turns back, signifying her corruption. JiU then runs to the gate only to and suddenly stop and close it instead, with her face acquiring the same blankness as the other girls.
    • Note that strange things had begun to happen even before Yoohyeon killed the spider - starting almost as soon as JiU captured it.
    • The girls' movements after they've been cursed count as this as well - they move in a manner that's almost a little too smooth.
    • SuA stabbing the painting of the girls and cutting it free of its canvas. Interestingly, JiU and Dami are watching her, while Handong and Gahyeon are staring at the painting instead.
    • Have a look at their ending pose - it's a pentagram.
  • "You and I":
    • The MV as a whole has a darker feel, with the girls all in leather.
    • There are some shots that it looks like some members are trapped. For example, Gahyeon, Handong and Dami.
      • Handong's solo shots are framed to make her look like an insect that has been pinned for display, although she is also beginning to be surrounded by webs as well.
      • Gahyeon, initially looking like she is trapped in the mirror suddenly looks into the camera with a very sly expression.
      • Dami is captured in the glass dome (although she breaks out of it).
    • Yoohyeon's solo shots are implied that she is still cursed and possessed or at least connected to the spider as unbeknownst to her she is surrounded with webs.
    • Yoohyeon goes to photograph an older woman in a photo studio, only for the woman to turn into a spider (a callback to Yoohyeon burning the other spider in "Fly High"). The woman then lashes out and knocks Yoohyeon to the floor, and it's implied she possesses her body and sends her real consciousness to another dimension and traps her there as revenge for killing the spider. Although the others try to free her, she's unable to make it to the portal before it closes.
      • Siyeon does something with (possibly Yoohyeon's) film, then Gahyeon and Handong joins her and giggle strangely before they burn the picture while smiling slyly.
    • JiU summons a creature made of smoke in an attempt to exorcise Yoohyeon and save her but fails, resulting in the monster chasing her through the halls.
    • JiU's blank stare after she sees a gyroscope-like device while running from the creature can also be counted.
    • The choreography is not to be taken lightly as well. In the opening, JiU attempts to bite SuA's neck, then SuA is dragged between Gahyeon's legs. Finally, It ends with JiU grabbing Yoohyeon's neck.
  • "What"
    • Some of the settings bear resemblance to something you'd see in a horror movie:
      • Members are trapped in a dark place while having a light shone on them.
      • Handong is hidden in a closet and singing about looking for something.
      • SuA keeps being in or around some building with "Danger" tapes sticked all around.
      • Yoohyeon's room, especially near the ending.
      • Some of the city scenes look like something out of Silent Hill.
    • In almost all of Gahyeon's scenes, there's some sort of weird wind blowing around her.
    • At one point Yoohyeon looks below her bed, then we see a scene where JiU has a weird sort of glitching effect.
    • Yoohyeon's dress is a normal, asymmetric floral dress. In certain lighting, however, it looks like a white dress randomly splattered by blood.
    • Towards the end, JiU looks up onto the rooftop of a house to find a ghostly Yoohyeon standing there.
    • While Yoohyeon's room was initially normal looking, a shot near the end shows it suddenly appearing to be very bloody with playing cards floating around it.
  • "Piri"
    • A majority of scenes throughout the video show the girls seeing or experiencing something scary or nightmarish.
      • Dami and Siyeon both appear to be lost. Siyeon is stuck in a room and sees a hand reach out from the wall, while Dami opens a door and someone pulls her in before slamming it back shut.
      • Gahyeon is on the phone when suddenly, a hand from behind covers her mouth and she disappears.
      • SuA finds a room full of dolls, said dolls turning their heads to look at her after she picks one up.
      • JiU sees two versions of herself sitting beside each other on a TV.
  • "Breaking out"
    • Many of the scenes invoke common phobias or nightmares, such as claustrophobia (Siyeon), or standing near the edge of a cliff (Handong and Dami). Gahyeon is shown in what appears to be a plastic bag, suffocating her, and Yoohyeon's scenes appear to represent an inner struggle, with two sides of herself conflicting with each other. Probably the creepiest of these scenes are SuA and JiU's, with the former swinging on a swing with the ropes on fire, and the latter holding her hair tied up with a rope, almost like a noose. The blank expressions on some of the girls faces during these scenes also adds to the creep factor.
  • "Deja Vu"
    • The music video appears to reference the story of Macbeth with Yoohyeon killing JiU to usurp the throne before killing or exiling the rest of their friends, only to be haunted by JiU's ghost pointing a sword at her. It also seems to imply her memories might've been warped to let herself believe JiU was the bad guy, as in one scene where it switches between one of them in a coffin while the other aims the sword at them. Are the ghosts of her friends truly haunting her, or is it all a delusion born out of her own guilt and/or madness?
    • Toward the beginning of the video, a dark shadow engulfs Yoohyeon. If we're to assume this darkness was inside her the whole time, was Yoohyeon possessed by an evil spirit that made her betray and kill all her friends against her will?
    • In one scene, as everyone is looking over JiU's coffin, her eyes open and stare directly into the camera.
    • Things become more apocalyptic towards the end, as we see Yoohyeon sit alone on a throne in a trashed palace, and the world outside shows the sky turn red with flaming swords floating in the sky.
  • "Scream"
    • To appropriately start the new "Dystopia trilogy" storyline, the establishing shot has an effectively mood shift from bright, sunny, and peaceful, to dark, creepy, and mysterious.
    • The song itself is about cyberbullying and criticizes online hate culture, and some of the lyrics are chilling, with the singer begging that they don't want to scream, and how the pain persists and they feel they can't escape. Eventually towards the end, it changes to the singer saying they want to make other people scream, showing that the pain they suffered has changed them.
    • SuA is shown being chased by a dark shadow, and later, Dami screams as that same darkness bursts out from her body. Could whatever that shadow is be trying to possess or corrupt the girls?
  • "BOCA"
    • The girls appear to be in a post-apocalyptic setting, walking through empty city streets. At one point, Siyeon is seen being chased by a figure wearing a mask.
    • Dami's scenes show her standing above or behind a crowd of masked people reaching out for her, but unable to touch her as she's either just far enough from their grasp or a wall is blocking them from getting to her.
    • As a reward for reaching the 15 million view milestone on Youtube, the group released a special version of the choreography video for the song in which the girls were dressed in traditional male Korean uniforms, and their backup dancers were zombies. Halfway into the song, the dancers attack the girls and they themselves become zombies in the end. The special effects makeup along with the acting from the backup dancers and the members is downright creepy, so much so that a disclaimer was given at the start of the video for anyone who might potentially feel uncomfortable while watching.
  • "BEcause"
    • The lyrics to the song are rather chilling as they portray someone who is obsessed with their object of affection. One line even says, "Your face turns blue, the look on your face is like an ocean view," which in some ways can be interpreted as someone's face turning pale when being choked.
    • The girls move and act very doll-like in the music video, and much of the choreography reflects this as well, such as one instance of Yoohyeon being picked up like a puppet on strings. Along with this, they seem to parallel aspects of the movie "Us", as if the girls are being replaced with doll-like doppelgangers one by one throughout the video.
  • "Maison"
    • As the song is about climate change, the music video depicts a post-apocalyptic world where the Earth is in ruin, and the surviving members of humanity wear rather creepy animal head masks.
    • At one point, Dami appears to lift seemingly dead bodies with telekinetic powers.
  • "OOTD"
    • More than a month in advance leading up to the comeback, fans discovered a social media account for a person named "ymenehcra99" (or simply "arch enemy") posting cryptic messages and images detailing their slow descent into madness and obsession over an enigmatic "crown." Coinciding with Dreamcatcher's teasers for the "VillainS" comeback, the ordeal became an online scavenger hunt as fans discovered repeated messages under the group's Youtube videos, hidden video links, directly messaging "ymenehcra99" themselves, and eventually searching for clues in the real world via pop-up stores and fan cafe events. All of this coupled with the official release of "OOTD," introducing another character named "Shasha" (whom most of the title track MV's POV is viewed from) informs the audience that whatever entity the "crown" represents feeds off a person's greed, driving them to obsess over it, and luring at least 100 people to being sacrificed to the crown by Dreamcatcher themselves. On top of that, with the comeback being confirmed a two-parter focusing on the concept of parallel worlds, could this version of Dreamcatcher that's working for the "crown" entity be evil doppelgangers from another reality?

Alternative Title(s): Dreamcatcher

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