10 Scariest Videos In Rock Music History
3. Breathe - The Prodigy (1996)
The Prodigy have never been ones to hold back when making music. Always injecting a degree of alluring uneasiness into their music videos, you could expect no less with their energetic and dangerously exciting form of electronic synth-rock.
Maxim and Keith Flint have always cut a striking and intimidating image, with this video being no exception. The various hints at phobia-inducing imagery, flashing strobe lights, and erratic behaviour from Maxim and Flint all culminate to create a psychosomatic hell-scape.
Ever the man to inject punk rock sensibilities into dance music, Keith Flint prances around in an unnervingly infectious manner, complimenting the erratic break beats and eerie tone of the thudding guitar riff. Set in a broken down apartment, the camera frame always shows either Maxim or Flint crammed into a corner or to the extreme edge of a room, imbuing a claustrophobic element into the song.
With Flint and Maxim inviting you into the madness - as if your only options are to succumb to the fear of unspecified psychological terror, or surrender yourself to the party - it was a great example of when scare tactics work.