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Warning: Graphic themes and violence
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Everybody gets into Halloween in different ways. Some people take the opportunity to revisit a classic Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons.
Some get into their scary-movie collection and relive a few jump-scares for old time's sake. Others … well, they leave nice notes for children to read.
Over here at Junkee Music, though, we're going to be playing the music video.
Ahead of the spooky season kicking off in earnest next week, here's a look at some of the more disturbing, frightening and nightmare-inducing Rage unannounced.
Consider yourself warned.
We can not get off the beaten track with a double-shot of an artist, but we can not avoid it.
Chris Cunningham transmogrified into a twitching, coke-snorting, wheelchair-bound alien. As for the latter, you're probably already in this freakshow if you've read this far.
It's filled with bearded schoolgirls, rabid dogs, televisions that give birth and a poor old grandma who has to witness this hell unfurl before her very eyes. Rarely has an artist celebrated the grotesque Aphex Twin does.
Slayer's twelfth studio album, the thrash metal veterans expanded their vision with a trilogy of music directed by BJ McDonnell, who's normally a camera operator for big-budget stuff like Ant-Man and HBO's Ballers.
The videos are an exercise in ultra-violence – even B-movie legend Danny Trejo gets in on the action and the fake blood waterfalls down and various crooks, Nazis and prisoners get their just deserts.
It's not a particularly enjoyable watch by any stretch of the imagination, but you can see the band rip it up with their bodies literally getting rid of the metal show.
Only '90s Kids Will Understand: we should have listened to our parents and gone to bed when they told us to.
Remember this for the first time No. idea what was happening? Crocodiles, creepy-crawlies and both frontmen getting right into the camera's grill made this one of the darkest, unsettling clips to terse the mainstream in the '90s.
It might seem like a little tame and even more, but you need to appreciate the fact that this is the first time in the world. As a dipped toe on the dark side, it works perfectly.
In the same spirit, a new generation was inevitably freaked – ahem, freeked – out by the South African hip-hop duo going all out on this single from their second studio album.
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For a group that always thrived off tension – ahem, Ten $ ion – it's no surprise that this still stands as one of their most intense audio-visual experiences.
Another terrifying offer from Chris Cunningham, who complements this drum-n-bass cacophony with a tribute to Japanese horror.
It's a slow-build, and you might be wondering for the first couple of minutes if there's an endgame. Trust us, there is – and you'll want to stick around for the whole thing.
There's a dark humor to this one, which in other circumstances would relieve a bit of intensity. The way Cunningham paces and matches the song's breakneck rhythm, however, means you're transfixed from the second the Amen break drops. Twenty years from its release, 'Selector' keeps on coming on.
Here, the Swedish metal merchants offer a five-minute fever nightmare that is bound to be yours when you play.
At first it's unclear how the protagonist ended up in this freakish underworld of screaming trees, meditating overlords and some sort of undead flange. Eventually, however, all of the pieces fall into place – making this one of the only videos on the discernible plot.
The band itself may have been memed into oblivion, but they are still sharp as a tack on those jump-scares.
This offering from Australia's own Portal is a throwback of spells – it's an adapted visual interpretation by Edgar Allen Poe's The Conquerer Worm. Do not let that lull you into a false sense of security, however – not even for a second.
Truth be told, this mostly black-and-white video has some of the most disturbing and dark imagery out of this entire list. As Portal's separate take on death metal chugs along, you're transfixed on their multitude of characters and the woes that befall them.
It's entirely compelling, often frightening and a great example of a vintage horror executed widely well.
By means of contrast, there is nothing inherently – at least, classically – horrifying about this beloved Jonathan Glazer video. There's no witches, gold demons hellfire to be seen. Instead, this is staunchly, primarily realistic – a reflection on inhumanity and bystander apathy.
The video's central figure is wandering down to a tunnel in the midst of oncoming traffic. He's getting a few hits, getting back up and continuing on his path.
If you're a music video player, you know where this leads. If you do not, take the journey.
Between their huge debut album Pretty Hate Machine and the even-bigger follow-up The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails put out the incredibly-underrated Broken EP.
To push the boundaries even further, a short film was made to accompany the EP in its entirety. This is the opening minute of that – MTV and never given an official release.
Trust us when we say that one minute with this. This is truly nasty business.
No musically-inclined Halloween list would be complete without the Mash.
It's 55 years old this year, and is still as big as it was. It's certainly very tame, however – that is, until Funny Or Die uncovered rare footage of the original version. It's performed by Leon Karpatze, the song's co-writer who bares more than a passing resemblance to Doughboys'Nick Wiger.
You'll be spooked and horrified by what was going on in the night – it's quite the shock when the big reveal goes down.
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David James Young is a writer and podcaster who could never think of a spooky version of his name to use for Twitter. Make suggestions: @DJYwrites.
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