Massive Attack teamed up with Young Fathers for this creepy tune, with an even creepier video, from their Ritual Spirit EP.

This is one of the most creepy and claustrophobic music videos ever made. It’s disturbing, and scary, and dare I say just a little bit sexy as well. 

It’s maybe not the most creepy and claustrophobic music video ever made – that award surely goes to The Cure for the wardrobe video for Close To Me. But it’s definitely next-best.

Rosamund Pike is the woman in the subway, paying homage to Isabelle Adjani’s even more terrifying subway scene in the 1981 cult horror film Possession.

When the golden orb eventually opens you – and Rosamund – get the shock of your life. And then it only gets weirder; as you might expect from a film so disturbing that, despite Adjani winning Best Actress at Cannes, it was banned in the UK until 1999.

The video’s director, Ringan Ledwidge, apparently managed to see it at the age of only 12, setting him on the road to becoming a horror fanatic before getting behind the camera himself as a director.

“That particular scene in the film is insane,” he says. “It’s so riveting yet so disturbing at the same time, it’s so original and different and… strange. It’s still to this day a film I’ll implore anyone I see to go and watch.”

Ledwidge was also obsessed with Isabelle Adjani, which makes two of us, and says he would watch “absolutely anything” she was in (ditto). 

Horror buffs will also recognise a homage to another horror film, the 1979 cult classic Phantasm, with the intimidating golden orb representing technology.

The song, a collaboration between Massive Attack and Young Fathers, is perfect for the video, with the simmering tension of its its insistent beat and skittering rhythms. It was released on their 2016 Ritual Spirit EP.

The lyrics talk about voodoo and possession and the video echoes its themes with its parallel depiction of technology taking humans over as a different kind of possession.

The video was shot at what is apparently known as “the Joe Strummer underpass” at Edgware Road station, with its queasily sweet ’70s colour palate of yellows, pinks and oranges.