Music Video Of The Day: Soul Dracula by Hot Blood (1977, dir by ????)


Uhmmm …. I’m not sure what you just watched either.  Apparently, it’s Dracula with a disco tinge and, of course, if it’s disco and it involves vampires, there’s no way that I couldn’t share it.  But I have to say, having watched this video, that Dracula’s not looking too good.  And he’s kind of acting more like a zombie than vampire.  I’m kinda suspecting that maybe Dracula was out all night snorting cocaine at Plato’s Retreat because he looks seriously wasted in this video.  Hopefully, that blood will help him out.

That said, if there’s any creature of the night who seems to have been created specifically for the disco era, it’s Dracula.  Get down, Drac!

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Zombie Love by Lost in Atlantis (2018, dir by Raul Gonzo)


Awwwww!  Even zombies occasionally just need a night to go out and have some fun.

I like this video.  Far too often, zombie videos are too serious for their own good.  This video actually has some fun with the living dead and it ends with a nice little twist.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Zombie by Radiation City (2013, dir by Matthew Gamlen)


Apparently, the world’s ending but, fortunately, your boyfriend’s built an underground bunker!

Unfortunately, you now have to live down there with them and I don’t care how much you love someone, you still occasionally need some alone time.  Perhaps if he had built a bigger bunker, you wouldn’t be going as stir-crazy but, as usual, no one asked you how big the bunker should be.  Instead, they just said, “Get down there in case the world ends!”

And so, you flee.  You break out.  You confront the brave new world that is rising from the ashes of the old one.

Of course, a few weeks later, you lose all your hair and you die a slow and agonizing death from radiation poisoning.  Fortunately, your boyfriend will probably die too.  That’ll teach him to try to put you in a corner.

Anyway, this is an absolutely great video, both wonderfully directed and acted.  That’s Cori Benesh and Hill Hudson as the couple in the bunker and they’re so empathetic and believable that you really do cringe when you realize how radioactive the sand between their toes probably is.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Zombie by Jamie T (2014, dir by James Slater)


What if you turned into a zombie and nobody noticed?

Now, in defense of the pup patrons in this video, when was the last time you ever really paid attention to the band playing at your favorite bar?  I mean, I always do but that’s just because I don’t drink so I always have to find something to do while everyone else is getting drunk.  So, I probably would have noticed Jamie T. transforming into the undead but I doubt I would have said something just because it’s 2019 and who wants to be a snitch?

My favorite person in this video is the drummer, mostly because she’s not going to let anything — even a discarded arm — keep her from keeping the beat.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper (2009, dir by Daniel Elkayam)


If Cormac McCarthy was writing and directing music videos, the end result would probably be a lot like this brilliant video for Blitzen Trapper’s Black River Killer.

The song may be about a man who is thrown in jail on a whim and charged with the murder of a woman that was found on the Sunset Strip but, as soon becomes obvious, sometimes whims turn out to be correct.  The song’s narrator is a murderer, one who kills randomly and without giving it much of a second thought.  According to an interview Eric Earley gave to Rainn Wilson, the killer is actually a supernatural force that possesses one individual after another.  So, even if the current Black River Killer ceases his activities, a new one will take his place.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: American Horror by Speedy Ortiz (2014, dir by Peter Binswanger)


Needless to say, the part with the dancer being controlled and then transformed into something else totally freaked me out, mostly because I’ve had nightmares like that.

And then, of course, you have the tentacles and the graffiti, which feels like something that H.P. Lovecraft would have come up with if he had lived in New York City in the 1970s and had to travel on the subway everyday.  It’s easy to imagine old Howard Lovecraft, heading to an accounting job while staring at the graffiti all around him and wondering what type of monster was responsible for it.  Cthulhu tags his territory.

As for the wizard with the eyes — well, glowing eyes are always freaky.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: First Date by Danko Jones (2006, dir by Micah Meisner)


Today’s music video of the day brings us a little more vampire action.  I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised.  Vampires always seem to inspire musicians in a way that werewolves don’t.  This video came out two years before Twilight and it basically tells a less romanticized version of the same story….

Still, there is an odd romance to vampirism, though that might not be obvious from this video.  In this video, the vampire just comes across as being a pervy stalker but, in the popular imagination, there’s usually nothing sexier than a centuries-old vampire.  Maybe it’s all the ennui.

To be honest, I just like the bottles of blood in the refrigerator.  That makes me laugh every time I see it.

Enjoy!

Music Video Of The Day: Life As A Vampire by 8-Bit Heroes (2018, dir by ????)


Wow.  Apparently, life as a vampire is not all that it’s cracked up to be.

This video reminds me of the classic Andrew Parkinson film, I, Zombie.  That film followed a young man who is forced to deal with the fact that he’s slowly turning into a zombie.  Apparently, being a vampire is just as depressing as becoming a zombie.  Maybe it would be best to avoid fraternizing with the living dead all together.

Enjoy!