Last week FEARnet reviewed the luxuriously heavy debut album Creatures from horror-driven melodic metallers Motionless In White (be sure to check it out if you haven't already), where I hinted we'd be circling back around this week for a little Halloween follow-up from frontman Chris Motionless. Chris has graciously worked up a super-cool list of his five favorite music videos of all time, and explained why each one of the clips made the cut – and how the visuals often inspired his own creativity. The selections run the gamut from classic horror-punk to melodic death metal to gothic rock, and we're betting some or maybe all of them will get you properly stoked for a head-banging Halloween. So hit the jump, crank the volume... and look out behind you!

Misfits: "Scream"

“I feel like if you've seen this video, then I don't need to explain why it's one of my favorites,” Chris says of this classic vid from the Misfits' 1999 album Famous Monsters – a clip directed by none other than horror legend George A. Romero, who also prominently featured the band in his film Bruiser. “I think it has everything you could want in a 'cheesy' zombie music video,” Chris added, “and I'm really happy they tied in the live performance with the actual acting part of the video. Blood and death all the way!”

Himsa: “Rain to the Sound of Panic”

While the theme of this track from Himsa's Courting Tragedy and Disaster deals more directly with grim real-life horrors, the grainy black & white look in the promo is what appeals to Chris the most. “The quality of this video has the whole early Universal horror movie feel to it, and that's one of my favorite style of horror movies... the old black and white grittiness,” he explained. “I can't stand all of this overly computer-animated shit they put in horror movies now – unless it's done the right way... Not to mention [frontman John] Pettibone's devil-lock shreds so hard in this video.”

Bleeding Through: “Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire”

I can totally identify with Chris on this unsettling clip from the chart-topping melodic metallers' 2003 album This is Love, This is Murderous. “I've always found something really creepy about mannequins, and this video definitely captures that,” he confessed. “This is also when Bleeding Through still wore makeup, which I loved about them since they were such a heavy band... and the whole presence of this video is dark as fuck. It really made the song better for me which few videos do anymore. One more reason why Bleeding Through is my biggest influence.”

AFI: “Days of the Phoenix”

Chris describes the filming of this epic single from AFI's The Art of Drowning as “a little ahead of its time,” citing its slick production values and camera wizardry as a great influence. “Of course I knew how much lighting and effects really matter in movies and photos,” he explained, “but when I saw this video for the first time and what they did with the lighting, I was blown away with the way it looked... and then if that wasn't enough, [during] the part where Davey [Havok] is in a hallway and there's three of him all singing different parts of the song with each other... I was like, WHAT!?!?!”

It Dies Today: “Severed Ties Yield Severed Heads”

“This video just reminds me the SAW movies,” Chris says of the mega-intense clip from the New York metalcore unit. “They're in a basement with pipes everywhere and the non-band shots are of a guy who is obviously insane and freaking out. One thing I really love that I mentioned before is the quality the video look and they did a great job at making this look scary and gritty. The orange-ish feel to the video is great and the band all in black and makeup really does it for me.” Chris also praised vocalist Nick Brooks (who left IDT after their 2006 release Sirens) for his contribution to the smash single “Abigail” from Creatures.