Synopsis

The video presents the end of the world through the 3D glasses of a lustful teenage comic-book fan. As the young viewer is drawn into an increasingly surreal fantasy, comic-book imagery, monsters, flames, dancers and apocalyptic scenes collide with shots of Timo Maas and Kelis performing. The visual style moves between live-action sets and graphic artwork, turning the song's anxious pleas for help into a feverish sci-fi adventure that feels part underground dance film, part pulp comic and part teenage hallucination.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video's central concept was described as the end of the world seen through a teenage comic-book geek's 3D glasses.

• Its production combined live-action photography with comic-book artwork, set design, sculpture, murals, graphic design and visual effects.

• The production credits identify Battlecruiser/Harry Nash, cinematographer David Ungaro, set designer Marco Bardochan, comic-book artist Pascal Valdes and VFX company Snarx-FX among the contributors.

• The video also involved a dedicated head-flame artist, Renaud Philipps, reflecting the deliberately heightened and surreal look of the piece.

• "Help Me" is the opening track on Timo Maas' 2002 debut studio album, Loud, and features vocals by Kelis.

• The track incorporates the title theme from the 1951 science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, composed by Bernard Herrmann. Its theremin-led atmosphere carries into the video's retro-futurist mood.

• The single was issued in 2002 and later appeared in extended club-oriented versions, including the Deep Dish "Attacks Mars" remix.