Helloween | Through the Shattered Lens

I did Halloween last year. I figured I should do a Helloween video each October. Why not? It’s especially fitting this year since they released a new lyric video on the 12th in preparation for a Pumpkins United World Tour.

I love the cover of the single:

I don’t have a lot to say about this video because what I like about it is the editing, which is not exactly something that I can get across in words. It also doesn’t make any sense to try since the video is only 4 minutes and 44 seconds long. That said, it reminds me of those music videos from the 1960s that had the band acting like silent comedians in time with the song. In fact, it reminds me of the video for Sound Of The Screaming Day by Golden Earring, complete with the going into the mouth shot.

Sound Of The Screaming Day by Golden Earring (1967)

As for this:

you got me. Perhaps it has to do with then vocalist Kai Hansen wanting out of the band. That’s what Wikipedia says that he said in an interview that they were kind enough not to cite. Or it’s just a thrown pumpkin asking, “And so?” It’s probably the first one.

Enjoy!

HELLOWEEN is the Band
HALLOWEEN is the Song
Anyone who confuses the two shall be turned into a Great Big Pumpkin.

I don’t own the 1987 cassette album that this song was on, but that’s what a YouTube commenter said is on it, and YouTube comments have never mislead me before. I tried to look it up, but it only lead me to a “Christian” website about the evils of Halloween. They even include that clip from The Pagan Invasion series that the general consensus says is just a guy reciting the plot to Hack-O-Lantern/Halloween Night (1988) as if it were his own experience.

I had no idea this band or song existed till I stumbled upon it in director Mark Rezyka’s filmography. He is the one who brought us the music video for Quiet Riot’s Bang Your Head (Metal Health). They are a German power metal band, not to be confused with the band Halloween from Detroit, Michigan. The band appears to have recognized that YouTube was a good thing for them as far back as 2006. This music video is on the official Helloween YouTube channel and was posted on August 14th, 2006.

I like that it references Charlie Brown, Linus, and The Great Pumpkin. Oh, and the opening line is “Masquerade, masquerade”, no matter how much it sounds like “Masturbate, masturbate.” It doesn’t help that misheard lyric when director Mark Rezyka is the one who also brought us the music video for Quiet Riot’s Cum On Feel The Noize.

Enjoy!