“We ended up dripping Old Spice cologne onto filter masks and bandanas due to the horrific stench.”ĭespite inspiration from a lot of sources, it is the artist most commonly cited in reference to this video is American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, who creates complicated tableaux in the style of Victorian medical daguerreotypes, frequently featuring people with disabilities or disfigurements, and occasionally actual corpses. “The entire crew was overwhelmed by the smell,” remembers Romanek. He was a hugely influential figure in the Dadaism movement alongside figures like Salvador Dali. The pig’s head comes from a photograph by Man Ray, who has a name like a minor Aquaman villain but isn’t. Production designer Tom Foden is in the front centre. Tool’s Maynard James Keenan is also a huge fan, as are Hollywood big-shots Terry Gilliam and Christopher Nolan. This sequence with the seven men behind the screen is lifted from Street Of Crocodiles, a massively influential animated short by the Brothers Quay. You can fuck to it, you can dance to it and you can break shit to it.” Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst is a huge Nine Inch Nails fan, incorporating the signature line from this song as well as two other NIN tunes into the line, 'You wanna fuck me like an animal, You'd like to burn me on the inside, You like to think that I'm a perfect drug, Just know that nothing you do will bring you closer to me' from the song Hot Dog. Those are pure fuck beats – Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. Tommy Lee, on one of those endless talking-head shows, said "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'? That's the all-time fuck song. Stylist April Napier later worked on The Cell, Thumbsucker and Lady Bird.ĭespite the song being about self-hatred and obsession, the signature line, 'I wanna fuck you like an animal' makes people think it’s a bangin’ tune. The curved mic stand was made especially for the video, designed to resemble the vertebrae of a snake. Reznor’s microphone here was actually designed for a bass drum – Romanek liked it because its silhouette reminded him of a nipple. Romanek thought the opening drumbeat sounded like a heart accompanied by an industrial hissing, which inspire the half-organic, half-industrial creation.
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Behind the scenes the heart was very lo-fi, with three men hiding behind the wall blowing, pumping and spraying freon gas through the tubes to make it beat. He also created Slipknot’s masks, based on ideas by the band – initially the masks were homemade, but after 2000 or so George got involved.
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This heart was built by musician turned artist Screaming Mad George, who created effects for entries in the Nightmare On Elm Street series and the original Predator. “I wanted it to feel like a found object, almost like some old film found in a closet somewhere, in a science institute in Prague or somewhere.”
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“It seems obvious now, because it worked, but it was a hard sell for Trent and others to have these vintage-looking images on such a new-sounding song,” said director Mark Romanek. Straight away it’s old, knackered and scratched.