Editing I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies

{{Song
| Name        = I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies
| Cover       = The-High-End-of-Low.jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[The High End of Low]]
| Released    = May 20, 2009
| Recorded    = March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California
| Genre       = alternative rock, psychedelic rock, post-rock
| Length      = 9:01
| Label       = [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy]], [[Chris Vrenna]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Twiggy, [[Sean Beavan]]
}}
"'''I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies'''" is the eighth track from the 2009 release ''[[The High End of Low]]''. Its title was revealed on December 20, 2008, in the month's issue of ''Revolver''. The song is approximately nine minutes in length.

== Music details ==
According to a MySpace bulletin posted by [[Rudy Coby]]: "The original version of 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies' is eighteen minutes long and [Manson] did it one take freestyling - I hope he releases it as an extra or on the website because it absolutely hypnotizing. He was going to put it on the album but he couldn't put all 15 songs on if he did that." The version on the album was recorded hours after [[15]], when Manson was told he still had nine minutes left for the song. Manson told Spanish Kerrang that the take features "none of the bitterness, vulnerability or anger of the first take." He told the Australian News months later that the first version, which he claimed was 25-minutes long, "I would class as threatening. The take on the album I would say is bitter."

"I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" was one of the more positively reviewed songs by Thrash Hits' Hugh Platt. Platt asserted that the nine-minute song lives "up to its mouthful of a title," throbbing "malevolently like an engorged vein on a serial killer's forehead. With Manson hissing, “cut...cut...cut...CUT" over and over, it's humid, ghoulish in its oppressiveness, and will make you shudder like a murderous fever dream. It's magnificent."<ref>[http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/05/album-marilyn-manson-the-high-end-of-low/ Album: Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low]. Hugh Platt. Thrash Hits. May 25, 2009</ref>

Reviewing for The Quietus, John Robb described the song as an epic with "a bass-driven neo-soundtrack sprawl. It sounds like two basses at once which, for all those who believe that the bass guitar is the greatest of all instruments, makes this a real treat." He also compared the song to Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead", in terms of being an "atmospheric workout with lots of space." Robb further attested that "The outro is a great endless bass burp groove, one of those three note chugs as Warner screams about killing himself over and over again. Hypnotic."<ref>[http://thequietus.com/articles/01639-marilyn-manson-high-end-of-low-album-review Marilyn Manson's High End Of Low Reviewed Track-By-Track]. John Robb. The Quietus. May 12, 2009</ref>

In his review for Allmusic, Phil Freeman, who was unsatisfied by the album, described "I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" as "a one-riff trudge that never builds up any momentum," and noted that the song's title reads "like Manson-by-numbers."<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfoxzy0ldde The High End of Low]. Phil Freeman. Allmusic. May 16, 2009.</ref>

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[The High End of Low]]''

== Versions ==
* "I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" <small>— Appears on ''The High End of Low''</small>


== Lyrics ==
     I wanna fuck you like a foreign film
     and there's no subtitles to get you through this
     and 
     i'm a country you don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to visit again
     
     Line up
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut
        
     Line up,
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut
     
     I want to kill you like they do in the movies
     but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line
     
     I want to kill you like they do in the movies
     but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line
     
     Line up
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut
     
     Line up
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut
     
     I'm a strip strip strip and
     I flicker flick flick flick
     a flicker of celluloid
     and there's holes, holes, holes
     in my everything
     I'm a strip strip strip and
     I flicker flick flick flick
     a flicker of celluloid
     and there's holes, holes, holes
     in my everything
     
     you're just what i projected
     just what i projected
     it's just what i projected
     just want to project it
     
     come in, come in, come in
     come in, come in,
     come in, come in, come in
     come inside
     
     there's so much, much, much more skin to break
     I haven't even taken off my gloves.
     there's so much, much, much more skin to break
     I haven't even taken off my gloves.
     
     I feel a little sorry baby,
     I feel a little sorry baby,
     I hear the afterlife is poorly scored.
     I feel a little sorry baby,
     I feel a little sorry baby,
     I hear the afterlife is poorly scored.
     
     You're lucky you don't have to wake up,
     sick, sick, sick
     I'm sick of immortality
     I'm sick of immortality
     I'm sick of immortality
     
     I was only acting, baby
     only acting, baby
     you were only acting, baby
     overacting, baby
     
     don't confuse it with love
     don't confuse it with love
     don't confuse it with love
     don't confuse it with love
     
     everytime i kill you 
     i'm really just killing myself
     everytime i kill you 
     i'm really just killing myself
     everytime i kill you 
     i'm really just killing myself
     everytime i kill you
     i'm really just killing myself
     don't flatter yourself
     don't flatter yourself
     
     This is business not pleasure, baby
     This is business not pleasure, baby
     The business of pleasure, baby
     business not pleasure, baby
    
     this is business
     this is business
     
     I want to kill you like they do in the movies 
     but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line
     
     I want to kill you like they do in the movies
     but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line
     
     Line up
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut
     
     Line up
     Roll camera
     you pretend
     I'll pretend
     and 
     cut, cut, cut, cut

== Trivia ==
* ''I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies'' has only been performed live on two occasions: [[2009/09/07 Portland, OR]] and [[2009/09/08 Victoria, BC]].

== References ==
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[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from The High End of Low]]
[[Category:The High End of Low era]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs featuring guitar solos]]