Idolator Halloween: The 12 Most Murderous Music Videos In Pop History

2. “Monster” – Kanye West featuring Jay Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Justin Vernon (2010)

Out of all the videos on this list, Kanye West‘s controversial video for “Monster” — off 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — embodies the horror film theme the most. Critics denounced the video as misogynistic and offensive, and it went on to be banned from MTV. Yeezy plays a sort of Doctor Frankenstein, as he rearranges corpses in his bed and nonchalantly holds a model’s head at one point. Nicki Minaj steals the show by playing a vampire who tortures her Barbie alter-ego. Gothic images of decapitated models, flesh-eating zombies that elude to films like Saw and American Psycho make for a chilling and provocative art piece.

1. “Pretty” – The Weeknd (2013)

The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesafye) may be the least well-known artist on this list, but his video for “Pretty” is definitely the grisliest of them all — thanks to a calculated bloodbath. It begins unassumingly peaceful, albeit somber, showing the singer cruising the Toronto streets in search for his girlfriend. But the tables soon turn as he shows up at her home and shoots her as she has sex with another man. The aftermath is a bloodied bed, two naked corpses and a satisfied Tesafye. It’s a cold-blooded act of revenge directed in such an unapologetic way that you can’t help but to gasp upon viewing it.

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