is way creepier than “Thriller”. Stiffly-animated stop-motion and collage animation?
Check. Two hand-like…things from the bottom of the Uncanny Valley? Check. A boat floating down a cavern river into a chomping pair of jaws? Check. • On the topic of MJ, It’s a sin that Thriller isn’t mentioned at all. The music video would’ve given those who watched it a few sleepless nights. Heck, this troper was scared to the point where he shat bricks and never wanted to see that music video ever again since first encountering it about 20 years ago. He was only a pre-schooler then, but then… • The video for Interpol’s Evil offers yet further proof that Uncanny Valley and Nightmare Fuel aren’t mutually exclusive. An oddly-lifelike child Muppet is rescued from a car-wreck, and sings whilst undergoing surgery, which is creepy enough. It’s the dance on the operating table at the end that does me in, though * shudder* . • Brick By Boring Brick by Paramore starts off as a bright and cheery video with a little girl dressed as a butterfly fairy princess thing who stumbles into a magical
