NEW RELEASE: The Killers "Bones"

Killers Many music video directors make the transition to the big screen — David Fincher, Brett Ratner and Spike Jonze, just to name a few — but it's not too often that a big name movie director does a music video. And, even when they do, there's no guarantee it will be on par with their best work — for example, Martin Scorsese's video Michael Jackson's "Bad" is certainly memorable and incorporates the some of the filmmaker's hallmarks, but nobody's gonna mistake it for Taxi Driver. Director Tim Burton's clip for The Killers is a similar deal. It's good. Really good, in fact. But, anybody wishing for something that can resonate like Edward Scissorhands or Big Fish is going to have to settle for something less ambitious, yet perfectly appropriate to the video medium.

    The easiest comparison here is Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas due to the skeleton motif, but the video is more an exercise in camp, like Mars Attacks. The action takes place in a drive-in where both The Killers perform, and daters enjoy a B-movie which is a weird mix of the walking skeletons effect from Jason & The Argonauts, the creepy horror progenitor Creature Of The Black Lagoon, and the sex on the beach classic From Here To Eternity. As in any good movie within movie, the action in real life soon mimics what's on screen, so we're treated to footage of The Killers and the drive-in patrons stripped down to their  literal bones.-- watch "Bones" at MTV.com (now Mac & PC compatible) or in Real or Windows Media via islandrecords.com

The Killers "Bones" (Island Def Jam)
Tim Burton, director | JP Fox, producer | Refused TV, production co | Max Goldman, DP | Final Cut UK, editor | Moving Picture Co. UK, effects

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