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Marilyn Manson, "The Beautiful People." Directed by Floria Sigismondi, this video takes place in a Frankensteinian lab, where evil experiments (and scary video shoots) take place. When Mr. Marilyn Manson is not sitting on his throne--an electric chair--he sings into a contraption that looks like a cross between an old microphone, a scooter from "Quadrophenia" and a turn-of-the-century torture device. In other shots, he wears a complicated dental contraption that stretches his mouth wide enough to fit an entire KISS show--and we lucky viewers get the close-up shot! Pretty sick. The large cast of characters wear cumbersome metal body apparatuses, while people dance ritualistically outside the bleak stone walls of the Manson lab. The coolest effect: abnormally tall, distorted figures shrinking to fit under doorways, then shooting back up to awkward heights again in a matter of seconds. This video is as eerie as any seat-producing nightmare, yet as frightfully entertaining as a high-tech house of horrors.