Synopsis

White Zombie perform "More Human Than Human" amid a barrage of strobe lights, fisheye shots, slow motion, extreme close-ups, and rapid-fire edits. The band appears in a crowded rehearsal-room setting while the video periodically cuts to grainy Super 8 footage of childhood scenes, street imagery, and strange character vignettes. The result is a deliberately chaotic collision of industrial-metal performance footage, retro home movies, carnival-like absurdity, and Rob Zombie's fascination with monsters, machines, and pop-culture detritus.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was the first made to promote White Zombie's 1995 album "Astro-Creep: 2000."

• Its childhood footage comes from old family Super 8 films. Among those seen as children are Rob Zombie, his brother Michael Cummings - later known as Spider One of Powerman 5000 - and a cousin.

• Some of the footage was shot at Framingham High School in Massachusetts, while other material was filmed around Hollywood Boulevard.

• The production used a studio-built version of White Zombie's rehearsal room because the band's actual space was too cramped to accommodate the cameras.

• A shoot day focused on the band miming the song repeatedly, with the track reportedly played at least 30 times over roughly 12 hours. The footage was designed around slow motion, fisheye lenses, strobe effects, and close-ups.

• Additional segments were captured by a small guerrilla crew on cheap film stock, including planned "Ugly Clown," "Ugly Texan," and "Shriner" vignettes.

• Rob Zombie wanted the old home movies and newly filmed material to blur together, linking his childhood images of Halloween costumes with the video's futuristic and mechanical imagery.

• The video won the 1995 MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video.

• The song's title comes from the slogan associated with the replicants' creator in "Blade Runner," reinforcing the video's human-versus-machine atmosphere.