10 Music Videos Scarier Than Horror Movies

The first single released for one of Gothic Rock's most acclaimed ever titles, Lullaby is a 1989 hit by the British band The Cure from their eighth album, Disintegration. One of the band's most successful songs, reaching the top five in the UK and the top ten in countries like Italy and Germany, the music video for Lullaby would also go on to win British Video of the Year at the 1990 Brit Awards and establish a legacy as one of the most genuinely creepy and eerie videos of all time.

With its themes of depression and substance abuse, Lullaby opens with lead singer Robert Smith pinned to his bed, haunted by a giant spider that has his face but a huge body that eventually entangles him in a web and devours him. The other band members also appear to play old toy soldiers, in what is easily the most terrifying example of sleep paralysis at work that anyone is ever likely to find.

Everything from the Burton-esque gothic look, the sombre tones and haunting music to the killer 'Spider-man' haunting its prey help to make this one music video so much more effective in creating a truly unsettling atmosphere better than most horror movies manage to convey.