Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: In My Darkest Hour by Megadeth (1988, directed by Penelope Spheeris)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

This is one of Megadeth’s signature songs.

Even though this music video only features the band being interviewed and performing on stage, it was initially banned by MTV because it was felt that lyrics were promoting suicide.  Actually, Dave Mustaine wrote the song after learning of the death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.  Mustaine was hurt that no one from the band called him personally to let him know, despite the fact that Mustaine had been one of the original members of Metallica.  Mustaine has often spoken very candidly about how getting fired from Metallica inspired him to start Megadeth but it also left him feeling isolated and insecure.

This video was directed by Penelope Spheeris and features footage from her documentary,  The Decline of Wester Civilization Part II: The Metal Years.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Devil Inside by INXS (1988, directed by Joel Schumacher)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Even if you did not already know it, you could probably guess who directed this video.  Everything from the back lighting to the color filters to the fog machine to the leather jackets and the gang of shirtless body builders identifies this video as being the work of Joel Schumacher.

This video, which was filmed in Balboa, California, was made during Schumacher’s Lost Boys/Flatliners phase.  His infamous Batman films were still several years away.  INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly has gone on record as disliking this video because he felt that, unlike the other videos that INXS was doing at the time, it was “too American.”  He was probably right.  The video’s mix of strippers, bikers, yuppies, and rent boys feels more appropriate for a film adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis short story than an INXS song.  Even if it isn’t an ideal INXS video, Devil Inside is still probably one of the better entries in Joel Schumacher’s filmography.  If I have to choose, I will always pick this video over watching Batman and Robin.

With the video’s help, Devil Inside was one of INXS’s most popular songs in America, reaching the number two spot on the Billboard Hot 100.  By comparison, it peaked at #6 in the band’s native Australia and only reached #47 in the UK.

Horror AMV Of The Day: Thriller (Various)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

And so the first four days of Horrorthon come to a close.  Why not celebrate with an AMV?

Song: Thriller by Michael Jackson

Anime: Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Everyday Life with Monster Girls, High School of the Dead, Interviews With Monster Girls, Rosario + Vampire, Rosario + Vampire Capu 2

Creator: mmcmahan11

Past AMVs of the Day

Horror Song of the Day: The Winner by Lance Owg, Gabriel Rohels, and David Cole

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song of the day comes from the 1981 slasher classic, Graduation Day!

Just try not to sing along!

Everybody wants to be the winner….

Music Video of the Day: Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) by Concrete Blonde (1990, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I just know that someone’s going to be like, “Actually, Lisa, this is song isn’t about vampires, it’s about someone sucking the happiness out of life.”

Listen, I don’t care.  It’s October.  It’s horrorthon.  The lead singer of Concrete Blonde says that she was inspired to write the song by Interview with a Vampire, which is something that’s very obvious when you watch the video.  And today would have been Anne Rice’s birthday.  For our purposes,  it’s a vampire song.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Fright Night by J. Geils Band (1985, directed by Paul Justman)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

There’s a vampire living next door to J. Geils!

This song was recorded for the original Fright Night and, of course, the music video is full of clips from the film.  It does a pretty good job of mixing scenes of the band with the film.  I miss that days when music videos were often commercials for movies.  I discovered some of my favorite movies through music videos.

This video was directed by Paul Justman.  He also did videos for Deep Purple, Rick Springfield, Diana Ross, and The Cars.

Enjoy!

Music Video of The Day: Burn The Witch by Radiohead (2016, dir by Chris Hopewell)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, we have the video for Radiohead’s Burn the Witch.  Through the use of stop motion animation, Burn the Witch tells a disturbing little story, one that deals with an inspector who comes to a seemingly idyllic English village and who eventually ends up getting trapped in a wicker man.  If any of this sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen either the original Wicker Man or the remake starring Nicolas Cage.  The video for Burn the Witch is actually a bit more positive than the film that inspired it.   In the video, the inspector escapes at the end.  Neither Edward Woodward nor Nic Cage were quite as lucky.

As for the song itself, it deals with the dangers of groupthink and blind obedience to authority.  Since Radiohead’s music has always possessed a libertarian streak, that’s certainly not a shock.  The video condemns not only those who would demand blind obedience but also on those who are foolish enough to give it.  First released in 2016, this video easily predicted much of what would happen in 2020s, from the COVID hysteria on down.

Of course, with The Wicker Man theme, it’s also perfect for October!

Enjoy!

Music Video Of The Day: Female of the Species by Space (1996, dir by Gerald McMorrow)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Shock, shock horror, horror, shock, shock horror

I’ve always liked this song and it feels like exactly the right choice for the first music video of our October horrorthon!  The story behind this song is actually rather sweet.  The lead singer of Space knew that his father didn’t care much for the music that he was producing so he wrote this song as a tribute to the type of music that his father did like.  The end result was one of the band’s biggest hits.

The video has a certain James Bond feel to it.  And by that, I mean this song would be great for one of the Sean Connery/Roger Moore films.  Not the Daniel Craig films.  The Daniel Craig movies suck.  I’ll never get over what they did the world’s greatest secret agent.

Enjoy!

Horror Song of the Day: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Barry Adamson

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song of the day is Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Barry Adamson.

This instrumental work appeared on the soundtrack for David Lynch’s 1997 film, Lost Highway, and its one of my favorite pieces of music.  It’s amongst the songs that I tend to play whenever I’m dealing with writer’s block or if I just need an extra boost of energy to finish up a project.  This song also seems like the perfect way to kick off our annual Horrorthon!

I also have to say that the video below, which was put together by Jessie Essex, is amazingly cool.

Music Video of the Day: The Bubblemen Are Coming! by The Bubblemen (1988, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

A side project of Love and Rockets, the Bubblmen only released one single and video but they later made cameo appearances in the videos for Love and Rockets’ No New Tales To Tell and Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man).

The Bubblemen Are Coming was issued by Beggars Banquet Records and came with three additional tracks, Bubblemen Rap, Bubblemen Rap (Dub Version), and Bees.  The video perhaps achieved its greatest exposure when it was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead, where it really freaked out Beavis.