30 Seconds To Mars The Kill Music Video An Ode To The Shining
Other than making music, Thirty Seconds to Mars does visually stunning music videos. The Kill is not only a Thirty Seconds to Mars song and one of my favorite songs but has an accompanying video that has influences from The Shining. This is one music video you need in your life. Images feature hallways and frantically paced montages. If you ever wanted to see horror music and film combined then you’ve come to the right place. Jared Leto also adopted the split-screen visual style from working with Darren Aronofsky in Requiem for a Dream (2000.) It’s hands down one of the best things I have ever watched.
If The Kill Was A Horror Music Movie with Music
A band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, moves into a hotel for three days and strange things begin to happen. Shadows move and figures in the hallways. Explicitly told not to enter room 6277 (MARS), they each are lured to the room. Each of them begins to see themselves differently. Jared’s peculiar behavior extends their stay forcing them to cancel some shows.
30 Seconds to Mars – Horror Music Videos
- Directed by Jared Leto. He has also directed many of the music video shorts for the band and two documentaries (Great Wide Open 2016, TV Series Into the Wild 2014, and Beyond the Horizon 2015.)
- Music by: Jared Leto.
- Released: January 2006.
- Starring: Jared Leto, Tomo Milicevic, Matt Watcher, Shannon Leto, and Matt Serletic.
- Produced by Josh Abraham and Jared Leto.
- Genre Video Short: Psychological Thriller | Mystery
- Album: A Beautiful Lie.
Shining Movie Themed Music Video Called “The Kill”
Like Kubrick’s film, the story is influenced by supernatural forces. The video short evolves into battles of self vs self. Each confronts fears and truths. Many scenes overlap with concepts taken from The Shining.
- Shannon finds a beautiful woman in room 6277 and the woman intermittently flashes into a corpse.
- Time lapses. The band stays for three days only to have a ‘one week later’ notice appear on the screen.
- Soulless (evil) apparitions in the hotel.
Best Music Videos With Jared Leto
Most of this music video cast with frontman Jared Leto (Morbius) resonates with the lyrics of the music and confronting the truth of the fears within yourself. Much of the imagery centers on each of the band members seeing versions of themselves dressed in tuxedos. The tuxedos highlight the difference between who they are on the outside and who they are on the inside.
The Shining Movie
The final scene has 30 Seconds to Mars entering a ballroom to play to a crowd filled with twins. Again flirting between “The Shining” where the psychic abilities of Danny and Dick (main characters in the movie) can see the hotel’s past. When the band plays in this scene they are all in tuxedos depicting the inner self has won out.
I love The Kill music video for its complexity and for the ability to gel with the lyrics while also telling its own story. The scenes themselves flow beautifully into one another to highlight the angst of either the characters they are portraying in the clip or are an insight into the band’s personalities and things they may struggle with. They all see themselves interacting with versions of themselves who are interacting with the spirits within the hotel.
Not only that, THE KILL is a killer song.
I give The Kill
4 Jared Leto’s out of 5
The Kill Inspired By “The Shining Movie”
Enjoy your stay and please stay out of Room 6277
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Kill Lyrics
I tried to be someone else
Thirty Seconds to Mars lyrics for The Kill
But nothing seemed to change
I know now, this is who I really am inside
I’ve finally found myself
Fighting for a chance
I know now, this is who I really am
Extended Music Film Clip for The Kill (Bury Me) 30 Seconds to Mars
True Story About Me and 30 Seconds to Mars
When Thirty Seconds To Mars was at peak popularity I had a very healthy obsession with all things Jared Leto. When they first toured Australia, I bought plane tickets to Sydney’s Thirty Seconds to Mars concert and saw them live. I have since seen the band at least once every time they have toured Australia. At the end of their first gig here, I heard an announcement for autographs. The friend I was with had no idea why I had grabbed her hand and was frantically running towards where the PA announcement had said to go.
I was one of the first 50 or so people to line up at the Thirty Seconds to Mars concert. Before I knew it, the queue had stretched around the block for the Hordon Pavillion.
I also saw them at the Soundwave Music Festival Sydney 2011, here is live footage from the mosh-pit of The Kill by Thirty Seconds to Mars. Shaky cam and all.
