Video Nasties: 15 Creepy Music Videos

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
'Off off off with your head / Dance dance dance 'til your dead'. A pretty strong start here from Yeah Yeah Yeahs if you ask us; the video features some kind of dancing wolf-man who – once he's finished his Michael Jackson-inspired dance moves – goes on to rip the band apart in an flurry of red glitter, and before you know it, Karen O has been decapitated.

Run the Jewels – Don't Get Captured
Don't Get Captured is essentially a grim look at poverty and corruption, opening with the line 'Hello from the Little Shop of Horrors'. The video is a stop motion animation created by Chris Hopewell – whose previous creations includes the music video for Radiohead's Burn the Witch – which sees claymation versions of Killer Mike and El-P riding around in a giant skull. Oh, and everyone else depicted in the video is a skeleton. What's spookier than that?

Pulled Apart by Horses – High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive
Leeds alt-rock band Pulled Apart by Horses unleashed this single on the world back in 2010 and it still stands up today – Tom Hudson's screeching vocals make this track, and once it's in your head you'll find it hard to not scream along. What's more, the video features the band wearing generic white Halloween-style masks as they rip their gear to shreds. At the end, one of the band is enveloped in a puff of pyrotechnics. Rock'n'roll!

Django Django – Tic Tac Toe
This is the latest single from Django Django, and the first to be taken from their upcoming album – Marble Skies – set for release on 26 Jan 2018. The video – inspired by Ingmar Berman's The Seventh Seal – was directed by John Maclean (brother of drummer David) and sees Djangos frontman Vincent Neff enjoying a rapid-fire day-trip to Hastings which takes a surreal and sinister turn on a ghost train. Chainsaws, skeletons, spider webs all feature.

Die Antwoord – I Fink U Freeky
South African hip-hop duo Die Antwoord are pretty odd at the best of times. I Fink U Freeky, taken from their second studio album Ten$ion, is an excellent example of their freakiness – the overall vibe is pretty grim, and Yolandi Visser is at times covered in rats while intensely singing, 'I fink u freeky and I like you a lot'. All round disturbing if you ask us.

Com Truise – Propagation
Propagation is taken from Com Truise's latest album, Iteration, and the video depicts an implied husband/wife relationship where the wife is more android than human, evoking Alex Garland's Ex-Machina. As the video evolves, the wife-bot slowly becomes self-aware and by the end has gone all murder mannequin. Worth the watch for sure; and the track's not bad either.

The Ninth Wave – Liars
Glasgow band The Ninth Wave recently released their debut EP entitled Reformation. Liars, taken from that EP, features the lyrics 'You are killing me / Again and again and again', and has a super cool video to boot. Said video features an incredible scream from singer Elina Lin three minutes and 21 seconds in, as the band become covered in some super thick and gloopy substance...

Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
When we asked around the office for favourite Halloween-themed videos, this one was on everybody's lips... it's a bloody pop classic and features Nick Carter and co. having to 'chill' in a 'creepy' gothic haunted house as their bus breaks down. Synchronised dance moves? Check. Brian Littrell dressed as a werewolf? Check. Howie D. thinking he's the Phantom of the Opera? Check. Nick Carter dressed as a mummy? Check. 'Nuff said.

Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
Okay, okay, we know, Robbie Williams isn't very good, but we couldn't not mention this video. It was banned in the Dominican Republic due to its graphic nature, and back in the heydey of music TV, not very many channels would get past the three-minute-mark. Why? Because it sees a cocksure Williams peeling his skin off, before ripping off his muscles one-by-one and throwing them to his adoring crowd. Terrifying in many ways we're sure you'll agree.

Daft Punk – Around the World
Around the World is classic Daft Punk taken from 1997's Homework album. The video for this single was directed by illustrious French filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep), and while the song is in no way creepy, and nor really is the video, it does feature dancing skeletons and dancing mummies. It's just really fucking cool, so it had to be on the list.

Michael Jackson – Thriller
Ah, the music video of all music videos. At almost 14 minutes in length, with a proper plot and a 15 certificate, Michael Jackson's Thriller is really more of a short film than a music video. Directed by John Landis (a man with musical experience with The Blues Brothers, and proven horror chops courtesy of An American Werewolf in London), we don't think we'll ever EVER get bored of this classic, and we're not sure anything will ever really live up to it either.

Fever Ray – To the Moon and Back
We're super excited that Karen Dreijer's solo project as Fever Ray is back, especially as her other project, The Knife, are no more. To the Moon and Back is her first new music as Fever Ray since 2010 and it's bloody great! Also, the video is super creepy, so perfect for Halloween.

Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People
Marilyn Manson is fucking creepy at the best of times, and The Beautiful People – taken from 1996's Antichrist Superstar – is probably Manson at peak creep. There's lots of weird shit going down in this video, so we just had to include it!

The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
It's hard to believe this song was released over 18 years ago; it's still as thrilling a listen now as it was when it first came out. It's almost as if the main protagonist of this video has X-ray vision – it's therefore rife with, you've guessed it, more skeletons.

Björk – Army of Me
'If you complain once more, you'll meet an army of me', Björk stresses quite frequently throughout this banger of a song from her 1995 record Post. Basically, don't mess with Björk and you'll probably be fine... The video for Army of Me is another Michel Gondry classic – one of several collaborations between the pair which also includes videos for Human Behaviour, Isobel, Hyper-Ballad and Crystalline – and although not strictly creepy, it's definitely weird and wonderful and features a giant tanker truck with massive teeth, and a gorilla dentist.