What music videos have scarred you for life?

Peter Christopherson's videos were like that. Hell, everything Peter Christopherson did was kind of like that. Like his unused 1976 promo photographs of the Sex Pistols.

I'd also like to add Bjork's "Pagan Poetry" video (NSFW) to this thread. Graphic rotoscoped images of who knows what? Check. Images of Bjork's skin getting impaled by needles? Check. A very close shot of seven rings sewn onto her back that's shown at the end? CHECK. Imagine those rings getting caught on a door handle.

I will give her credit for being very brave, though.

Seconding "Ohrwurm," "Right Now" and "Happiness in Slavery."

I love that video.

Seriously, I think it's beautiful.

TLC's Waterfall. I saw it when I was young and have NEVER been able to listen to that song without cringing.

Also, while I LOVE Black hole sun by Soundgarden, can't watch the video. Too creepy.

I can't watch "Waterfalls" because of that stupid-looking "dance" they do.

I always found the "Black Hole Sun" video more grotesquely ridiculous than unsettling, but I can definitely understand why it could creep someone out.

Due To my uncanny wanting to click every link I see on Game FAQS: Soccer Practice

Catherine Wheel's "Waydown" video. Not helping matters is my acrophobia.

edited 1st Jan '13 8:35:23 AM by FromtheWordsofBR

I see somebody mentioned Daft Punk's "The Prime Time of Your Life".

Let me describe what the video is about.

There's this girl surrounded in a world filled with skeletons. And she has skin. So then she turns off her TV. She looks into a picture of her and has a flashback of her as a little kid. And then she sees a picture of herself, and she thinks she is overweight. She turns on the lights in the bathroom and we see that she has a skeletal picture of the Britney Spears album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. She goes into the bathroom and looks depressed, and then she finds a razor..and then she PEELS her whole skin off. And then she begins to have flashbacks of her life (at this point the song encounters an extended Last Note Nightmare where the beats get REALLY REALLY FAST) and she faints. The skin-full parents find her and they cry at her daughter. As the song gets incredibly fast and turns into static noise, we pan over her photos, and her parents are now humans, and then the TV turns on and we see two skeleton girls who invite the girl over. We only see the girl's back, but she waves at them and reveals she has a skeletal hand. Wikipedia doesn't say that the video has parts "that can be considered graphically disturbing" for no reason.

I see the video for “No Money Down” by Lou Reed has yet to be mentioned. Well. allow me to show you to your nightmares for the next month!

Nine Inch Nails' "Pinion". It's only a minute and a half long and the disturbing part doesn't happen until The Reveal at the end, but that image haunted me for several days after I saw it.

I'm aware that NIN has much more graphic videos than this (I'm never watching the Happiness in Slavery video), but this video is so full of Fridge Horror that it's hard to stop thinking about it.

edited 9th Jun '13 1:25:11 PM by djbj

any tool video?.

for now I've yet see a music video that freaks me out.

Rammstein's video for Pussy which is pretty much What It Says On The Tin.

It starts as normal a Rammstein video then turns into literal harcore porn involving the band (apparently some used body doubles, but it's not like that really helps...).

I was not exactly expecting what I got when I sat down to watch it. O___O

edited 19th Jun '13 5:25:08 AM by TopographicOcean

Pretty much everything by Aphex Twin. Oh God.

"Monkey Drummer" is not that bad, at least compared the ones below, but the eponymous Drummer is right from the deepest depths of Uncanny Valley.

"Windowlicker" has less unsettling music, but the Nightmare Faces towards the end are... well, nightmarish. The worst part probably is that you really don't expect them from a video that looks like your average 'Parties, Limos and Girls in Bikinis' vid.

The real fun starts with "Come to Daddy", which Dave Grohl quite fittingly described as "The Most terrifying music video ever". Creepy children with adult faces, weird horror movie style skeletal figure and distorted blue face. Worse than it sounds.

And the worst of all, "Rubber Johnny". Fetus-like wheelchair bound... thing, night vision camera filter and a whole lot of something that looks like series of rapid transformations. The music just makes it worse.

Why did I watch these again just before my night shift?

edited 19th Jun '13 12:19:08 PM by Xeroop

I found "Rubber Johnny" a lot creepier than "Come to Daddy", myself...the first time I saw it, the opening sequence almost made me get up and leave the room in a panic.

I agree. It takes real talent to make a freaking chihuahua that scary.

Billy Talent's Devil In A Midnight Mass. The first time I saw that, I was traumatized by the mouthlessness in the video. Although the more I watch it, the more it loses its scariness.

edited 29th Jun '13 3:49:41 PM by Samuel

(5x) not... really? I mean, not anymore than most porn, anyway.

I think that the video for Kanye West's "BLKKK SKKKN HEAD" is the most intentionally disturbing music video I've seen in a while, mainly due to its embrace of an Uncanny Valley Kanye West character model and the strange things they do with it near the end. His muscles look really overdeveloped (sort of like the Tank from Left 4 Dead) and he has a strange texture on his arms and scars on his body, I think? This video's pretty weird, and they tend to cut quickly between the weird images to the beat of the music for maximum impact. Not quite life scarring, perhaps, but... morbidly interesting.

I realized that the song and video remind me of a couple of other things, which may be more disturbing than the song/video itself: a Marilyn Manson song, which I can't remember the title of for the life of me, and "Fukuro", the very strange, disturbing video made for "The Art of Silent Hill'' DVD in Japan (which could also qualify for a life-scarring video). The percussion in "BLKKK SKKKN HEAD" reminds me of both of "Fukuro" and the Marilyn Manson song, but the video especially reminds me of the Fukuro.

Cradle of Filth's "From the Cradle to Enslave." Thanks Nightmare Fuel page for introducing me to that. I'll never look at violin bows the same way again.