So that's where they come from!

December 8, 2008 8:20 PM

All Nightmare Longis a nine-minute-long alternative-history science fiction/horror fake documentary with stop motion animation, rotoscoping and Soviet propaganda thrown in. There's also a Metallica song attached to it, but you might not even notice it's a music video. (Or watch it on Youtube)
posted by Bookhouse (15 comments total)

I know we've done a Metallica video recently, but seriously ... it's frickin' sweet.
posted by Bookhouse at 8:21 PM on December 8, 2008

Thumbs up.
posted by autodidact at 8:40 PM on December 8, 2008

That was so much more awesome than Metallica really deserves.
posted by xthlc at 8:56 PM on December 8, 2008 [1 favorite]

Metallica,

You have done a lot of ill as of late, and I still haven't forgiven you. But this is a step in the right direction.

P.S. S & M rocked.
posted by The Power Nap at 9:09 PM on December 8, 2008

This is a video game I want to play.
posted by D_I at 9:09 PM on December 8, 2008

OK, so I just watched Shaun Of The Dead last night, but I have a hard time taking these communist zombies very seriously. If they'd been Nazi zombies, now that would have been something else altogether.
posted by Loudmax at 9:44 PM on December 8, 2008

I have a hard time taking these communist zombies very seriously. If they'd been Nazi zombies, now that would have been something else altogether.

Did someone say Nazi zombies?
posted by Rangeboy at 9:52 PM on December 8, 2008 [1 favorite]

Did someone say Nazi zombies?

Oh yeah. See, that has the element of realism so I can take it seriously.
posted by Loudmax at 10:07 PM on December 8, 2008 [1 favorite]

An alternative history with alien bugs and the Tunguska event. Clearly Metallica have been playing a lot of Resistance and Resistance 2 on the PS3.

And why not? They're awesome. Just like this music video. Makes up for the travesty that was the Day That Never Comes music video.

The irony though is that All Nightmare Long (the song) is what I consider one of the least interesting songs on Death Magnetic, whereas Day That Never Comes (the song) was one of the better ones. So they've given the good song the crap video and the bad song the good video. Which is a shame.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:18 PM on December 8, 2008

I'm afraid I'm going to dream about kittens tonight....

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posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 12:24 AM on December 9, 2008

A fruit is your friend!


An alternative history with alien bugs and the Tunguska event.

No no no no. It's an alternate soviet history with alien bugs, the Tunguska event, zombies, and chemtrails.

It's like my alpha-dream state made a movie!
posted by The Whelk at 7:32 AM on December 9, 2008 [1 favorite]

That's incredibly awesome, regardless of what one may or may not think of the music. This is the direction in which music videos as a whole need to be headed...
posted by Brother Dysk at 9:51 AM on December 9, 2008

The chemtrails thing was kind of... useless, and makes it seem like they're either conspiracy nuts, or just trying to pick up something cool from a subculture without understanding it or how dumb it is.

But the rest of the video was great. The song, not so much.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:39 PM on December 9, 2008

I disagree, chemtrails are the perfect end, an insane internet theory now given a real history and backstory and it's kind of a brillliant re-working of narrative threads inot a whole. I really really really like this.
posted by The Whelk at 6:23 PM on December 9, 2008

Youtube says: "This video is not available in your country."
posted by eccnineten at 8:45 PM on December 15, 2008 [1 favorite]