Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl

What this video is

Released as the second single from Hellbilly Deluxe (1998), Rob Zombie's debut solo album following the dissolution of White Zombie, 'Living Dead Girl' arrived at a moment when industrial metal and horror-themed rock were receiving unprecedented mainstream MTV exposure. The video is a landmark artifact of late-1990s horror cinephilia intersecting with heavy metal visual culture: its sustained, technically…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of late-1990s industrial metal video production, 'Living Dead Girl' is among the most cinematically literate music videos of its era, deploying a sustained German Expressionist aesthetic framework at a time when horror homage in music video was predominantly surface-level. Its…

The director

Joseph Kahn (born Ahn Jun-hee, October 12, 1972) is a South Korean-born American director. He was raised in Livorno, Italy and later Jersey Village, Texas. He attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out to direct music videos. He has directed…