Synopsis

A lonely man follows a mysterious woman to Club Lupus, where TV on the Radio perform amid a crowd of dancers. After her intimidating companion attacks him, the woman consoles the injured stranger and bites him as moonlight triggers her transformation into a werewolf. The curse spreads through the club, sending the newly changed creatures into the streets. By dawn, the lovers have joined a roaming pack, abandoning ordinary society for a strange, liberated life in the woods.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video deliberately combines black-and-white silent-film melodrama with the look of an inexpensive 1980s horror movie.

• Its visual language draws on classic werewolf cinema, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Beat It," and stop-motion fantasy. The deliberately rough effects and exaggerated costumes are part of the joke.

• Spoken intertitles help tell the story, reinforcing the silent-movie presentation while the song supplies the video's driving emotional force.

• The protagonist is played by spoken-word poet Beau Sia. Naima Mora, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 4, also appears.

• The fictional concert venue is called Club Lupus, a name that openly points toward the video's werewolf theme.

• The video turns the song's imagery of desire, bodily change and loss of control into a literal transformation story, while keeping the tone playful rather than purely frightening.

• "Wolf Like Me" was the first single from Return to Cookie Mountain, the 2006 album that established TV on the Radio as one of the era's most prominent art-rock bands.

• The video later gained an unexpected behind-the-scenes connection to the Marvel films: Jon Watts and Tunde Adebimpe would work together again when Adebimpe appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming.