Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

By far one of the most FU#$ED UP videos I've ever seen. The Aphex Twin has been long known to be strange, unique and his own genre. Here he teams up with legendary director Chris Cunningham to make a dark and grimy surreal world with midgets that all have the face of Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin).

Music video

The accompanying music video (released in October 1997) was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange.[1]. The scene is shot around Tavy Bridge Shopping centre, Thamesmead , which is now being knocked down[when?]. Many of the Dark underground car parking is now gone.

The video opens with an old woman walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the sidewalk, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life. This unleashes a poltergeist from the set, accompanied by a set of small children (all which bear the face of Richard D. James), that constitute the inhabitants of the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, such as trashing an alley, and chasing a man into his car.

At one point, the monster (played by Al Stokes) is birthed out of the television and screams in the old woman's face. After this, he gathers the children around him in a manner reminiscent of a scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.[2]

The acclaimed music video was voted 17th Greatest Music Video Ever by Q Magazine Readers, and one of the 100 Greatest Scary Moments by E4 viewers.