History NightmareFuel / Radiohead

** The video can be horribly unsettling sometimes, especially when the camera shifts to Thom's unreadable face or the terrified hunted man. The ending is probably the creepiest part; [[spoiler:the hunted man finds that the car chasing him has a gas leak, so he lights it with a match. The car eventually catches fire, and the driver frantically looks around before slowly turning back to look at Thom in the backseat. [[NothingIsScarier The backseat is empty.]]]]

* The music video for "No Surprises" is probably not for anyone with a fear of drowning. It depicts Thom Yorke singing "No Surprises" in close-up while wearing a dome over his head like an astronaut. As he sings, the dome begins to fill with water. When it is completely full, Thom goes limp and motionless for almost a full minute. [[spoiler: The dome drains, and he gets out alive. He was never in any actual danger -- they {{Over Crank}}ed the film in order to make it appear he was motionless. He actually only had to hold his breath for a few seconds.]] The kicker? The video took several takes to film, and each time Thom grew more and more stressed out and agitated. Horribly, eye-wateringly claustrophobic.
** "No Surprises" is actually quite horrifying to listen to if you pay attention to the [[LyricalDissonance lyrics]], ''especially'' during the ending, with the background vocals singing [[spoiler: "[[AndIMustScream Let me out of here]]"]]!

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2Ftq3hJoI The music video]] (which uses "Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors" as an intro to the song) may be one of the most disturbing things Radiohead has put out. Most of the video centers on a bizarre machine that pulses and flickers, and it's only toward the end of the video that the viewer sees [[spoiler:the crying babies inside the machine. We would call them Siamese twins, but that's a bit of an oversimplification. The babies' upper torsos are joined from opposite ends in some horrific ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''-esque procedure, and their legs jut out from their sides. The video ends with the babies' chests rising like a [[Film/{{Alien}} chestburster]] is about to come out, and '''their entire ribcage''' is ripped out of them]]. [[BodyHorror Yeah]].
*** The way the machine moves so gracefully takes on a disturbing quality once you realise it's basically a [[spoiler:centrifuge]], and the CGI look of the machine mixed with how clean it is and how white the room it's in gives off an uncomfortably sterile atmosphere.

* "How to Disappear Completely's" calm but dissonant string arrangement.

--->''[[{{Squick}} Cracked eggs, dead birds]]\\

* The meaning behind "Paranoid Android".

** During the final reprise freak out of "Paranoid Android", mixed quite low in the background, there are blasts of what sounds like White Noise on normal speakers, but on headphones you can hear that it's (presumably) Thom screaming his lungs out and babbling incoherently.

* "Karma Police" starts as calm song (even if something feels out in it) but it becomes downright scary when it pitches up and Thom seems to be in a MadnessMantra: the distorted "sirens" which close the songs are also pretty disconcerting.

* "Climbing Up the Walls" is arguably the one Radiohead song with an outright reputation for being terrifying. It's a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, noisy electronics, heavy drumming and loud guitars. About it, Thom has said:
--> ''This is about the unspeakable. Literally skull-crushing. I used to work in a mental hospital around the time that Care in the Community started, and we all just knew what was going to happen. And it's one of the scariest things to happen in this country, because a lot of them weren't just harmless... It was hailing violently when we recorded this. It seemed to add to the mood. Some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes they imagine in their heads every night burning through the glass. Lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms so they can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster.''

* The opening track, "Everything in Its Right Place", has strange synths which mix and Thom's distorted voice, combined with its constant build up.

--> "''never say anything''"
--> "''be instrumental''"
* "The National Anthem", when the instruments drop out and we're left with distorted samples of dialogue and an orchestra at the end.

** "[[https://youtu.be/QmTke9gAR7o Wanna Play?]]" starts with [[ChildrenAreInnocent a innocent little girl]] asking the viewer if they want to play with her as she holds a modified bear plush in her arm. The bear itself, in the other hand, is thinking about '''[[WouldHurtAChild killing the girl and her family with a hatchet]]'''. Even a Website/YouTube comment about the said blip is even more of a doozy!
---> "The things we buy will betray us at the end as we are blinded by consumerism."

*** The way the machine moves so gracefully takes on a disturbing quality once you realise it's basically a [[spoiler:centrifuge]], and the CGI look of the machine mixed with how clean it is and how white the room it's in is gives off an uncomfortably sterile atmosphere.

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** The freakiest part has to be the final frame, where you see [[AndIMustScream Thom's still, screaming face on the tree]]...

--> ''Steal all my children''
--> ''If I don't pay the ransom''
--> ''But I'll never see them again''
--> ''If I squeal to the cops''
--> ''[[BrokenRecord No no no no no no no]].''

* Thom Yorke's "Very 2021 Rmx" version of "Creep" - he basically took an old acoustic version of the song, drastically slowed down the tempo (to the point where it's just over 9 minutes long), and added some synthesizers and effects. The digitally slowed down vocal and acoustic guitar tracks have some deliberately left-in audio artifacts that land them in the UncannyValley, and the synthesizers are quite eerie too.

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** The music video is [[SurrealMusicVideo very surreal [[SurrealHorror and often confusing]], but the [[JumpScare guy that appears out of nowhere with blood on his face]] is at the very least unsettling.

** The music video is [[SurrealMusicVideo very surreal and confusing]], but the [[JumpScare guy that appears out of nowhere with blood on his face]] is at the very least unsettling.

* "Untitled" vl 1 2 and 3 are very dark, horrifying and ominous.

*** It's about par for what the artist [[https://www.johnnyhardstaff.com/ Johnny Hardstaff]] was doing at the time [[https://www.johnnyhardstaff.com/new-blog-1/sketchbook-no2 according to his sketchbooks]].

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* "15 Step" The intro track of this album keeps a consistent [[UncommonTime 5/4]] rhythm and consistent key until the very end of the song, which fades out on a distorted off-key chord. Also in the AnimatedMusicVideo, it's made even more scarier with a completely Off-Model gun zooming towards you.

* "The Numbers" ends with a reversed recording of people shaking shakers and some terriying laughing underneath the concluding notes.

* Oh yeah, but what about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOinMjQ9jo8 the trailer]] for the game ifself? could it really make this as a horror game to you?

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOinMjQ9jo8 This trailer]] for the ''Kid A Mnesia Exhibition'' video game. At some points, it could easily pass as a straightforward horror game.

* "Burn the Witch": Whilst the song itself is ParanoiaFuel, along with its' twisted, dissonant strings, what does Radiohead do for the video? A cutesy stop-motion animated version of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.

* "Burn the Witch": what does Radiohead do for the video of their new single? A cutesy stop-motion animated version of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.

* The music video is [[SurrealMusicVideo very surreal and confusing]], but the [[JumpScare guy that appears out of nowhere with blood on his face]] is at the very least unsettling.

* There's something extremely unsettling about B-Side "The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy". The weird synths, the pulsing percussion, and Thom's eerily [[ArousedByTheirVoice sexual]] singing.
--> "''Cease this endless chattering\\
Like everything is fine''"

--> ''Just a million mobiles and modems squawking and sputtering and hissing like piss on a fire like a million gallons of piss on an inferno just think of it, ok? Just think of that. '''Vertebrae being sewn apart sounds like this.'''

--> ''NOTHING NOTHING YOU JUST IMAGINED IT A NOISE NOTHING A SILENCE JUST THE HOUSE "SETTLING". WHO'S THAT WHO'S THAT NOTHING IMAGINED IT WHO'S THAT OUT THERE / IN THE KITCHEN THERE'S NOTHING IN THE COLD COLD LIGHT NOBODY BEHIND THE DOOR NOTHING''.

-->''EVERYBODY STOPS AND GAWPS''
-->''EYES POPPED OUT LIKE CIGARETTE MACHINES''

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* There's something disturbing about the quiet, traumatized-sounding, [[GratuitousPanning gratuitously panned]] backing vocal in "Pearly*" contrasted against the aggressive 'rawk' lead vocals -- it sounds like there's one Thom wailing away onstage and another one right behind you. The fact that the song is about a group of Japanese girls who prostituted themselves to get tickets to a Radiohead concert (much to Thom's horror) just makes it even more unsettling.

** [[DerangedAnimation Paranoid Android's official music video]], especially the part where the [[FatBastard fat evil businessman]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny strips himself completely naked in the middle of an open public road]] (prompting the black guy standing next to him to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments regretfully take a sip from his flask for every weird/ridiculous thing that he sees the businessman do]], naturally) and [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext starts trying to chop down a metal light pole with his axe, before finally accidentally cutting all four of his limbs off and sinking to the bottom of the ocean, where he is picked up by freakishly large-titted mermaids who then proceed to wrap him up in a blanket as if he were a baby and plant him in a nearby tree.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM "Like Spinning Plates"]] is extremely unsettling, from the distorted vocals in the first few lines to the fact that the music itself is another song played backwards.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2Ftq3hJoI The music video]] (which uses "Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors" as an intro to the song) may be one of the most disturbing things Radiohead has put out. Most of the video centers on a bizarre machine that pulses and flickers, and it's only toward the end of the video that the viewer sees [[spoiler:the crying babies inside the machine. We would call them Siamese twins, but that's a bit of an oversimplification. The babies' upper torsos are joined from opposite ends in some horrific ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''-esque procedure, and their legs jut out from their sides. The video ends with the babies' chests rising like a [[Film/{{Alien}} chestburster]] is about to come out, and '''their entire ribcage''' is ripped out of them]]. [[BodyHorror Yeah]].
*** The way the machine moves so gracefully takes on a disturbing quality once you realise it's basically a [[spoiler:centrifuge]], and the CGI look of the machine mixed with how clean it is and how white the room it's in is gives off an uncomfortably sterile atmosphere.
*** It's about par for what the artist [[https://www.johnnyhardstaff.com/ Johnny Hardstaff]] was doing at the time [[https://www.johnnyhardstaff.com/new-blog-1/sketchbook-no2 according to his sketchbooks]].
* "Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors". Not much of a melody to speak of, a hellish-sounding rhythm and sparse, ominous lyrics:
--> ''There are doors that let you in and out \ But never open \ But they are trapdoors \ That you can't come back from.''

--> ''Cease this endless chattering \ Like everything is fine''

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