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Top 10 Most Terrifying Music Videos


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these music videos gave us nightmares
and we love them for it
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 scariest music videos
for this video we’ll be looking at the
most terrifying and horrifying music
videos of all time
any disturbing imagery is welcome here
the scarier the better
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number ten breathe
The Prodigy mostly confined in a
decrepit house that fosters the
claustrophobic tone the music video for
breathe uses lighting imagery and sound
design to prey upon a variety of phobias
in order to garner the desired response
in addition to paint peeling off the
walls and jagged chunks alligators
slithering around the floor and roaches
scudding about in the sink
The Prodigy also make use of centipedes
rats and hair sprouting curtains to turn
up the fear factor
like it
then there’s also the case of the simple
yet effective levitating shoe combined
with the unsettling theatrics of maxim
and Keith Flint breve delivers the
creepy in spades number nine the perfect
drug Nine Inch Nails although we also
could have gone with the music video for
closer we feel the more refined approach
to the perfect drug is just as scary in
what it suggests rather than what it
shows outfitted with enough gothic
trimmings to make Tim Burton proud Nine
Inch Nails this video for the perfect
drug contains no shortage of the macabre
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with Trent Reznor playing an absent
addicted father grieving the death of
his daughter the videos increasingly
dark tone seems to suggest that his
sanity is slowly withering away as
Reznor divides his time up between
cuddling up with a bearskin rug and
cooling off in a fog shrouded pool the
perfect drug also offers up creepy
looking kids and stoic servants to add
to its classier style of subtle horror
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number eight prison sex tool
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while we also could have chosen tools
video for anima the video for prison sex
is arguably even more terrifying for
it’s gruesome undertones and frightening
implications as the song’s title
suggests the video explores the harsh
reality of rape but also puts tools own
unique spin on the topic by avoiding
explicit depictions of the act and
focusing rather on the unbalanced power
dynamic at work within it
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Prison sacks provides a metaphorical but
no less ugly representation of a truly
scary and very real subject
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number seven kids
MGMT one of the more controversial
videos on our list
MGMT’s kids is every kid’s worst
nightmare come to life with a
protagonist being played by a toddler
who is terrorized by people in some
pretty grotesque monster costumes you
can be sure that things get more than a
little uncomfortable aside from the fact
that the monsters in the video are
pretty terrifying on their own
what makes kids even more frightening is
the fact that the toddler’s frightened
reaction to them appears to be very
genuine
combined with the lack of attention the
kids mother gives him the video
generates an intense concern for the
child’s safety making it one scary video
that you won’t forget anytime soon
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number six six six sick Queens of the
Stone Age
there’s only a handful of Universal
taboos and one of them is cannibalism
sick sick sick takes a page out of
Hannibal Lecter’s playbook by dressing
up the consumption of human flesh as a
classy and refined affair
as Queens of the Stone Age play for an
elegantly dressed woman during her
dinner the video cuts between their
performance and the preparation of her
meal which happens to include human
fingers as each member of the band is
carted off by a creepy mask figure her
appetite only increases and she soon
discards her table manners to Gorge
herself
a modern retelling of menea Grimm’s
fairy tale sick sick sick might make you
want to consider becoming a vegetarian
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number five over Neath the path of
misery Marilyn Manson
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those sweet dreams are made of this was
also a contender Marilyn Manson Shia
LeBeouf directed short film born villain
takes the singers knack for horror to
the extreme beginning with an ominous
scene of Manson giving two women a
haircut Bournville and jumps headfirst
into the grotesque all to the v8 of over
Neath the path of misery from the
singers 2012 album
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the scene in which Manson drives a
needle through the cheek of a woman and
then playfully pulls it in and out
before kissing her epitomizes the videos
blurring of the lines between pleasure
and pain number four one Metallica
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a song and a video about the horrors of
war Metallica’s one is as grim as it is
poetic in its narration of a wounded
soldiers agony using scenes and dialogue
from the 1971 film Johnny got a gun to
emphasize a songs message
Metallica plays one sombrely and a
deserted warehouse as both the band and
the film’s footage convey the
unspeakable agony of a voiceless amputee
who wishes for death
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it’s Wars code
describing the feeling of sheer
helplessness of not being able to walk
speak or even have the strength to take
your own life one is even more powerful
considering it tells a story of only one
scarred soldier which leaves its
audience to ponder how war affects the
thousands it touches
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number three I think you freaky D advert
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a celebration of all things freaky D
adverts video four I think you freaky
revels in its subject matter and
disturbing imagery from sexually
explicit drawings on the wall to the rat
to the accidental cooking of cockroaches
I think you freaky has a fairly
tongue-in-cheek style that is less about
genuine horror and more about creating a
sensation of unease have some real
optimism yes furthermore the intensity
and seriousness in which ninja and
Yolandi Visser deliver their lyrics do
possess an unsettling vibe which
combined with the black and white
palette of the video may make your skin
crawl just a bit number two if I had a
heart fever ray
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opening with a torch lit boat ride
through a river at night if I had a
heart establishes its gloomy tone from
the beginning which foreshadows the
chilling things to come with recurring
images of witch doctors dead bodies and
suffocating shadows fever rays ghoulish
exploration of a lifeless estate is made
all the more haunting by the fact that
it has never made clear who or what is
responsible for the massacre
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the combination of its ghostly chants
gothic undertones and unnerving calm
make if I had hearts all the more scary
because it leaves its story open to
interpretation making it a kind of
Rorschach test for its audience worst
fears
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before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
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as not as golden as memory or the age of
the same
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number one come to Daddy apex twin
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dripping with insane and eerie
atmosphere from the get-go effects twins
come to Daddy is a nightmare come to
life after an elderly woman’s dog
urinates on a discarded television it
comes to life with a malevolent face
hungry for souls
the old woman flees in terror only to
come upon a group of frightening
children with identical faces of effects
twin himself
while the gang of man children go on to
rampage through the neighborhood and
terrorize whoever they come across an
inhuman monster emerges from the
television and takes physical form to
the children’s delight he also proceeds
to scare the you-know-what out of the
old woman and just about everyone
watching
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so do you agree with our list what’s
your favorite scary music video
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