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Milla Jovovich Stars In Parcels’ ‘The Strangers’-inspired Music Video
Berlin-based Australian 5-piece Parcels are huge horror fans and have shown such with their new music video for “Withorwithoutyou”, which recreates Bryan Bertino’s classic slasher The Strangers with Resident Evil‘s Milla Jovovich starring! The difference here is that the vicious night carries a twist…
“This video is our celebration of the American slasher film, a genre which is fascinating in its traditionalism and strict maintenance of its classic tropes with each new rendition.
“The masks, the kitchen knife, the home invasion and of course the final girl – which in our case got to be Milla, the iconic queen of horror herself.”
Parcels play all live instruments and deliver “lush & funky grooves, and killer style,” explains the bio. Daft Punk heard the band live and were so struck they co-wrote/co-produced the band’s 2017 single “Overnight”. Now, on Oct. 12, the group will release their self-titled debut LP, the lead single of which already has over 11 million streams.
Here’s the video:
French illustrator Laurent Melki – best known for his early horror film images that have now become iconic such as Night of the Living Dead, Creepshow, Videodrome and Claws of the Night – has additionally created an illustrative poster, which perfectly encapsulates the cinematic theme of the video.
“The universe of Parcels has a strong, spontaneous identity, full of colours, rhythm and connected with a time that they have not known: the 1980s, with the beginnings of technology and of the artistic trends to which the world today refers.
“That’s why this analog meeting had to be! Having myself contributed to this movement with the advent of the new medium of VHS, for which I produced most of the posters at the time, including The Night of the Living Dead, Videodrome, Zombie and Creepshow, it was written that our two galaxies should meet.
“I made this poster with my own style because it is this fantasy image that the band wanted to find again. Because music and Milla Jovovich gave me carte blanche, so I imagined this poster as being that of a horror film and I illustrated it as I would have done for a “Freddy” or a blockbuster from the time when movie posters reflected an artist’s imagination and went as far as to challenge the spectator in the streets to force him into the dark rooms.”
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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