Subsequent trips to Chuck E. Cheese were somewhat nerve-wracking.
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― notfazed (notfazed), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cathy, Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)
there was a motorhead video they would show on mtv closet classics that was sort of scary. I think it was more they're presence/ presentation than the actual design/ subject matter of the video.
― Will (will), Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 31 May 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 31 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
I actually wasn't allowed to watch MTV (at least when my parents were home) until my teens because videos used to give me nightmares when my babysitter watched them when I was a toddler. There was one nightmare involving a cobwebbed church and a demon who pumped his fist at me that I later realized was inspired by "White Wedding." Thanks to Idol et al it was pure VH1 for Anthony for several years.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 May 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 May 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 31 May 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― man, Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― daria g, Sunday, 1 June 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
As for the original topic -- I don't get scared easily. I love horror movies and pretty much everything I've seen music video-wise that's supposed to be scary doesn't end up scaring me at all. A Flock of Seagulls' "Nightmares" video, for example, is a lovely, intriguing video for me, while some others might think that video might be a bit creepy. A lot of people offline whom I've talked with have stated that Tool's videos (ca. 1996, IIRC) creeped them out -- well, I think they're sad, not creepy.
Hmmm. I'll have to get back to you on this question.
― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 1 June 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
Pressure by Billy Joel always scared me really bad too. I was afraid that I would be hanging out at home trying to watch MTV and I would get sucked into the carpet. Also the old guy and the kid getting sucked into the screen used to scare me too.
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)
also, that Morbid Angel one that was on Beavis & Butthead
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)
The one with the Johnny Got His Gun inserts?
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
spooked the arse off me as a kid
― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 1 June 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 1 June 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Also for some reason, "Hudy Gurdy Man" by the Butthole Surfers. Something about that distorto-face thing I find creepy.
If you want disturbing in the "cause an epileptic fit from eye strain" sense then you cant go past every Severed Heads clip ever.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)
I forgot about when I first saw Prodigy's "Firestarter" at the tail end of a 120 minutes episode several months before it broke onto regular MTV. I was half-asleep and like WHAAAAAAAAAAT? I'm surprised I could recognize the Breeders sample with all the recoiling I was doing.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 2 June 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Bjork 'Pagan Poetry' - its the armpits...What was the one where she kept trying to stop herself from mutating into a shiny death robot?
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)
er, maybe 'Hunter' altho there she actually turns into a CGI polar bear, 'All Is Full Of Love' is ever-so-slightly disturbing in its power - no death robots to speak of tho, only full-on Tatutronic lezbots
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
Two videos that creep me out probably more than they should: Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities," what with Tennant crawling up from an access tunnel and every so often turning into a jerky-headed corpse (especially the bit where his throat swells up to deliver the vocodered bit) and his head rotting to dust at the end; and Royksopp's "What Else Is There" with the floating houses and levitating girl just rubs me the wrong way for some reason...
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)
i love 'into the great wide open'. johnny depp!
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)
The unedited version of Yes Owner of a Lonely Heart used to freak me out when I was a kid. All these disgusting shots of creepy bugs on the dude's head. EWWWWW
And Golden Earring's Twilight Zone used to creep me out, too. Those guys in trenchcoats. And the S&M Lady who comes out and injects the guy with the huge needle. Great great video.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)
Admittedly brilliant too though.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)
― raw sweaters annoying brother (raw sweaters annoying brother), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)
i alo remember being kind of weirded out and disturbed by hanson's "mmmbop". it was so...cheery.
― latebloomer scrabbly dabbly doo (skawreeng) (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)
― latebloomer scrabbly dabbly doo (skawreeng) (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)
― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)
― señor citizen (eman), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Saturday, 23 September 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)
― mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)
My favorite unearthed comment of the week.
"One" creeped me out like crazy at the time, but I never got up the cojones to watch Johnny Got His Gun itself (I'm told the movie is rather monotonous on its own merits - perhaps Metallica did it a few favors)
"Black Hole Sun" pushed it over the threshold after Howard Greenhalgh re-cut it the second time and did even more distortions on it.
I never saw that cut of the Pet Shop Boys video until many years later - The Americans got a different version of it with lots of weird neon stuff floating over a black screen.
And of the Residents' videos, I only found "Hello Skinny" to be all that genuinely disturbing - probably more to do with the song, but when they cut to the guy's eyes turning into black triskeles, it totally does me in. Now I'm going to have to pull out Video Voodoo and watch all those clips again...
I've never come across a copy of Coil's "Tainted Love", unfortunately, although its legend precedes it.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)
― tiit (tiit), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/csdaily/csdart/images/2006-02-Feb/Alien-Chestburster(300w).jpg
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 23 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah. Ugh.
My friend used to get freaked by Michael Huchence's devil mask in "Devil Inside" when he was like 7.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)
nevermind this livejournal is in russian, but the basement jaxx video remake that is posted there kicks some bejesus!
― nique (nique), Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FNg0c1-74
I have a hard time articulating why this is. There's something about her jerky motion and the way she commands the band to destroy instruments with really weird gestures.
― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)
You're not the only one. Trevor Horn himself had the video withdrawn from circulation and replaced with a fully animated version (itself not without some creepiness). Of course, it's Zbigniew Rybczynski's original which commands all the respect, and the "new" version survives mostly as the source of the images on the flip of the Edited 12".
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)
"Owner of A Lonely Heart" seconded.
― mike a (mike a), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)
as mentioned, Herby Hancock "Rockit"
also (watched these as a kid): The Grateful Dead "Touch of Grey" was oddly unnerving when the band morphs into lurching skeletons.
someone might laugh at this, but the singing taxidermy (especially the moose) from George Harrison's "Got My mind Set on You"--the only redeeming quality of that video was the squirrel sax solo on the outro.
also, His Name is Alive "Can't Go Wrong Without You" and "Are We Still Married" were fascinatingly disturbing (thanks to the Brothers Quay)
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/oliver8bit/dp.jpg
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)
Devo paved the way for ICP.
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)
― danzig (danzig), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Iago Galdston (Iago), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)
I was about to make a "Creepy music videos" thread and found this.
Prodigy's Girls obv didn't disturb me but it's hella creepy.
― Stevie D, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)
I found Kelis's video for 'Get along with you' though quite beautiful, to be slightly creepy as well. Especially the part where she turns into a puppet and then pulls herself apart; Tim Burton couldn't have done it better.
― Christyles, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)
When I was maybe 10, I fell asleep in front of the tv, and woke up to find the Laurie Anderson O Superman video on Night Flight, on USA. It freaked me out. Still does.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)
Johann Johannsson has a video for "The sun´s gone dim and the sky´s turned black" that's as much a gut punch as what happens to Ben in "Night of the Living Dead".
― scampering alpaca, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3t6R63Kaghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MM2CuJSI8
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:36 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-aKKYYkb4w
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:42 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:43 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:46 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PvcFOcm46Q
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:48 (seven years ago)
Note to self: stop watching music videos.
― oder doch?, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:49 (seven years ago)