Random Music Videos We Didn't Know Were Made By Horror Directors (16 items)

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  (#7) 'Dancing in the Dark' By Bruce Springsteen, Directed By Brian De Palma

  There's nothing about "Dancing in the Dark" that suggests legendary horror director Brian De Palma (Carrie, The Fury, Scarface) had a hand in its direction, as it has none of his signature touches. The video is straight from concert footage recorded over two nights at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Minnesota.

  Toward the end of the video, Courteney Cox is invited on stage to dance with Springsteen, who had no idea she was an actress (this was pre-Friends) until after the fact. De Palma was brought in to direct as Springsteen was unhappy with original director Jeff Stein's work. 
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  (#9) More Human Than Human

  • White Zombie

  The director of the House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and the revamped Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie directed his own music video. Before his career as a filmmaker, Zombie was the lead singer of White Zombie, and his love of all things ghoulish and retro were apparent from the beginning.

  "More Human Than Human" is thought to be inspired by Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - and by association, Blade Runner - and was Zombie's first time in the director's chair. 
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  (#14) We No Who U R

  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

  Controversial director Gaspar Noe is the man behind Nick Cave's 2013 video "We No Who U R." Noe is known for Irréversible, a 2002 film that features plenty of graphic material, including a 10-minute-long sexual assault sequence that caused people to walk of the theater when it was released.

  "We No Who U R" is considerably less physical, but still makes the viewer uneasy as we follow a shadow making its way through a forest at night. There's no person to lead the shadow - it is its own entity.
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  (#15) 'Touched by the Hand of God' By New Order, Directed By Kathryn Bigelow

  Kathryn Bigelow directs a wide variety of genres, but took on horror with 1987's Near Dark. It was in the same year that Bigelow directed "Touched by the Hand of God" for New Order. 

  The band is dressed in the hair-metal finery of the era, and their glam performance is intercut with a young couple's (Bill Paxton and Femi Gardiner) fight and subsequent reunion at the end. While the look may have been mainstream, New Order didn't want their videos to be expected. That's where talented directors like Bigelow come in.
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  (#12) Rabbit in Your Headlights

  • Unkle, Thom Yorke

  Jonathan Glazer (Birth, Under the Skin) directed the international music video of the year. "Rabbit in Your Headlights" follows an unstable man (Denis Lavant) as he walks through a traffic tunnel talking to himself. Every so often, he gets hit by a car, but gets up and keeps going.

  As the last car approaches, he stands defiant with arms outstretched, and as it hits him, it falls to pieces. Glazer's best work is a bit surreal, and the way he bends reality is extremely prevalent in this music video.
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  (#10) 'Donkey Rhubarb' By Aphex Twin, Directed By David Slade

  Aphex Twin is known for his unsettling videos, so it's no wonder he enlisted director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days Of Night) to tackle "Donkey Rhubarb."

  The video features the electronic musician (Richard David James) as several not-so-cuddly teddy bears, all of which bear his maniacal grin.

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