Michael Gallucci is the managing editor at Ultimate Classic Rock. His previous gigs include editor-of-chief at Diffuser.fm, managing editor of Cleveland Scene and writing about music and movies for All Music Guide, American Songwriter, the A.V. Club, Paste, ScreenCrush, Spin, the Village Voice and other publications and websites. @mgallucci
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No. 7 Halloween Video: Missy Elliott, ‘Get Ur Freak On’
Missy Elliott's super freaky jams always sound like something otherworldly -- so it's no surprise that one of her best songs sets its cameo-stuffed video in a dingy sewer populated by a bunch of dancing girls, lots of dry ice and a pasty leather-sporting freak...
No. 9 Halloween Video: Katy Perry, ‘E.T.’
The E.T. in Katy Perry's hit song has little to do with the Reese's Pieces-lovin' alien. But Kanye West does play a "big-headed astronaut" who floats through the sky in a glowing orb while spitting a couple of verses. Mostly, though, the sci-fi video stars a sex-hungry space girl (played by Perry, of course) drifting through a post-apocalyptic wasteland looking for love, or something lik
No. 6 Halloween Video: Backstreet Boys, ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’
The lyrics to this 1997 Top 5 hit -- basically a celebration of good times through ungodly amounts of body rockin' -- have nothing to do with the Halloween video's haunted house, which is filled with cheesy special effects, quick edits, strobe lights and a more casually attired version of the requisite ball dance...
No. 3 Halloween Video: Childish Gambino, ‘Bonfire’
'Bonfire' cuts a little deeper, and a little closer to real-life horror, than most of the other Halloween videos on this list, as the rapper awakens from a lynching with a rope around his neck and spitting up blood. He rushes through the woods to a group of girls sitting around a bonfire listening to a spooky story at camp (which also happens to be the title of Childish Gambino's debut album), onl
No. 4 Halloween Video: Skrillex, ‘First of the Year (Equinox)’
Skrillex's brief nod to Mike Oldfield's 'The Exorcist' theme perfectly fits the eerie mood of this three-minute Halloween video. The storyline revolves around an oily playground perv who corners a little girl in an abandoned basement. However, things don't turn out so well for the guy when the girl works some voodoo on the dude with her smoking fingertips, just as the songs shifts gears into an ab
No. 8 Halloween Video: Chris Brown, ‘Wall to Wall’
There's lots of scary things about Chris Brown: that neck tattoo, his hair, the whole rage thing he has going on. But in this tribute to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' -- complete with a movie-style intro -- Brown and his crew are terrorized by a gang of vampire women who can scale walls like the world's most limber spiders...