White Zombie - I'm your boogieman HQ

What this video is

Released in 1996 as part of The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack on Miramax/Hollywood Records, this video exists at the intersection of mid-90s industrial groove metal, gothic cinema culture, and the commercial crossover of hard rock into Hollywood franchise soundtracks. White Zombie's inversion of a 1976 KC & the Sunshine Band disco anthem into a horror-inflected metal assault epitomizes the era's appetite for…

Why it matters

A landmark of 1990s industrial groove metal visual culture, this video demonstrates Rob Zombie's codified shock-rock aesthetic — horror iconography, rapid montage, exploitation cinema references — applied to a genre-inverting disco cover. It bridged MTV metal video conventions with cinematic…

The director

Born Robert Bartleh Cummings on January 12, 1965, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Frontman and co-founder of White Zombie (1985). Attended Parsons School of Design and briefly worked as a production assistant on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986). Directed White Zombie…