4. Health We Are Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toG4bHjPLEU This video merits inclusion on this list on the basis of a single, horrifying scene...but I'll get to that in a moment. Health is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. Their song We Are Water was released in 2009 from the album Get Color, and the music video was directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric fame. The video depicts a terrified girl fleeing across a snowy forest, being chased by a bloodied, muscled man in his underwear wielding a massive blade. But back to "that" scene...as she runs, the girl trips and falls and is reached by the psychopath. As he raises his blade to kill her, she suddenly produces a stick which she uses to stab him directly in the penis. We see a close-up shot of the strike as well as blood pumping from the wound. If that's not enough, she then picks up the man's weapon and chops off his head, which produces another fountain of crimson. Set against the pure white snow, the brutality of it all is only accentuated.
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