List of Marilyn Manson's music videos
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This is a list of all official Marilyn Manson music videos.
| Year | Song | Additional information |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Get Your Gunn | The band’s first music video. Directed by Rod Chong and shot throughout Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |
| 1994 | Lunchbox | Directed by Richard Kern and shot throughout Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |
| 1995 | Dope Hat | Directed by Tom Stern. |
| 1995 | Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | Directed by Dean Karr. |
| 1996 | The Beautiful People | Directed by Floria Sigismondi. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario; the band had just arrived in Canada for the first time hours before filming the video, and if one looks closely, the guitarist, Zim Zum can be seen playing his guitar with a Canadian dollar coin, commonly called a Loonie, as a pick. The band’s personalized picks had not yet arrived with their touring equipment. |
| 1997 | Tourniquet | Directed by Floria Sigismondi. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario. |
| 1997 | Antichrist Superstar | Directed by E. Elias Merhige. Never aired on television or sold to the public, but did debut at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1997. |
| 1997 | Man That You Fear | Directed by W.I.Z. |
| 1997 | Cryptorchid | Directed by E. Elias Merhige. |
| 1997 | Long Hard Road Out of Hell | Directed by Matthew Rolston. |
| 1998 | The Dope Show | The band’s best-known video. Directed by Paul Hunter. Featuring a now-iconic performance sequence filmed at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, California in addition to futuristic scenes filmed in and around the Jewish Brandeis-Bardin Institute at Camp Alonim in Brandeis, California. The laboratory scenes were filmed in the House of the Book within the Brandeis compound, where Power Rangers was also filmed. The video strategically features 87 scene cuts, referencing the number 15 which was important to the Mechanical Animals album (8+7=15), as well as numerous other visual references in the video to the numerologically-significant 15. The video won numerous awards, both popular and technical. It features a distinctive colouring due to the cross-processing technique used in editing. Features costumes by Terri King and cameos by Billy Zane and Goddess Bunny. Bassist Twiggy Ramirez can be seen playing a vintage Gibson Ripper bass given to him by Gene Simmons who used it in KISS. |
| 1999 | I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) | The band’s most effects-laden video. Directed by Paul Hunter in an actual abandoned town in Southern California. |
| 1999 | Rock Is Dead | Directed by Marilyn Manson and Samuel Bayer. Filmed at the band’s tour rehearsal hangar at Los Angeles International Airport using remote cameras. Another version of the video has been edited with clips from The Matrix as the song was used in that film series. |
| 1999 | Coma White | Directed by Samuel Bayer. Never released as a single, and rarely aired on television due to the coincidence of its scheduled release with the mysterious disappearance and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. The video features a blatant re-enactment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with Rose McGowan, then Manson’s fiancée, playing the part of “Coma White,” a sort of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis figure. |
| 1999 | Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes | Created by the producers of MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch series. Directed by Pete List. A claymation, stop-motion video of the band performing live. |
| 2000 | Disposable Teens | Directed by Samuel Bayer. An alternate version exists which features only an extended variation of the performance sequence seen in the televised version. Contrary to popular misconception, Manson actually dons an authentic Episcopal archbishop’s sacramental robes in the video, and not those of a Pope. |
| 2001 | The Fight Song | Directed by W.I.Z. A visual pun on the song’s title; a fight song is a school football team’s rallying anthem, and the video features two football teams battling on a rain-drenched field, each representing an aspect of the Holy Wood album’s concepts. |
| 2001 | The Nobodies | Directed by Marilyn Manson and Paul Fedor. An alternate version features scenes from the film From Hell which used a remix of the song during its credits. |
| 2002 | Tainted Love | Directed by Philip G. Atwell. Also the subject of an MTV Making The Video episode. Filmed in Southern California. |
| 2003 | Mobscene | Directed by Marilyn Manson and Thomas Kloss. Also the subject of an MTV Making The Video episode. Filmed in a theatre in downtown Los Angeles, California. |
| 2003 | This Is The New Shit | Directed by Marilyn Manson and The Cronenweths. Filmed throughout Europe and featuring one of Adolf Hitler’s actual Mercedes-Benz limousines. |
| 2004 | (s)AINT | Directed by Asia Argento. The only video by the band to be banned by the record label and virtually all major music television networks. It was filmed in a suite at the MTV-owned Argyle Hotel in Los angeles, California. Manson stayed there an entire week, reportedly “exorcising [his] personal inner-demons” through the very real abuse of drugs (heroin and cocaine use feature prominently and realistically in the video), in addition to various sexual extremes, such as masturbation, bondage and cunnilingus, featuring Manson’s then-fiancée Dita von Teese. There is also continual footage of Manson vomiting. Eric Szmanda of CSI fame cameos in addition to Asia Argento herself, then-bassist Tim Skold, and former bandmate Gidget Gein, whose artwork alongside Manson’s own paintings also features in the video. The video was initially funded by Interscope Records, which then withdrew support upon learning of the abrasive and exploitative nature of the production, realizing its budget had gone not only to a hotel bill, but also to purchase drugs and alcohol and genuine prostitutes. Manson ended up personally financing what costs the label backed out of. He then distributed the video himself independently through his holding company, Marilyn Manson Records, by selling it online through his official website, MarilynManson.com. Only 3000 copies were manufactured and sold. Some versions of Lest We Forget’s bonus DVD feature the controversial video, while many do not. Officially, it has only been aired on television in Spain, Germany, and Italy, and only after midnight in each case. |
| 2004 | Personal Jesus | Directed by Marilyn Manson and Nathan “Karma” Cox. The video features rear-projection images in addition to subliminal images of many famous authority figures such as Jesus Christ, John F. Kennedy, and Adolf Hitler. Manson wears a custom Jean-Paul Gaultier suit worth reportedly $18,000 in the video and holds an infant in some scenes; Manson has stated that during filming, the infant urinated all over his expensive suit, but managed to stop crying whenever he would hold the child. It is the only band video not to feature a guitarist; Manson himself plays the guitar in the video, as guitarist John 5 had just been fired. Filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 2005 | The Nobodies: Against All Gods Remix | A re-release of the original video. Directed by Marilyn Manson and Paul Fedor. The video varies from its 2001 original only in that all scenes featuring the entire band have been deleted. The audio track is a reworking of the song as well. |
| 2007 | Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) | Directed by Marilyn Manson and James Cameron. The video is controversial for featuring racy, arguably realistic sex scenes between Manson and his current girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood who starred in the video for what Manson himself has declared to be “the highest salary ever paid to an actress in a music video,” though he will not quote the amount, he has confirmed that he paid the salary from his own funds. The video was originally intended to be a short film that Manson and Wood had scripted themselves, but due to creative differences with Cameron, the project was scrapped. Interscope Records negotiated with Cameron to debut his new 3-D stereoscopic camera technology he had developed, in order to make the world’s first 3-D music video. However, the technical limitations of the new technology did not satisfy Manson’s intended vision, so despite being filmed entirely with the new technology (which can only be seen via cinematic screening), Manson and Interscope released the video as-is. There is an edited version which deletes the sex scenes and inverts the colours of others; the edited version also cuts down on the already lengthy running time of the original. Filmed in Los Angeles, California and featuring the Suicide Girls as extras. It was the band’s first music video to premiere exclusively on the Internet; it debuted on the German music website SevenLoad.de. |
| 2007 | Putting Holes In Happiness | The band’s most recent music video. Directed by Philippe Grandrieux. Filmed in Berlin, Germany. Like Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand), it premiered online before on television; it premiered through Yahoo! Music. |
