New vid! "To the Grave," The Body Snatcher (1945)

[bironic]

Title: To the Grave
Fandom: The Body Snatcher (1945)
Music: "Secret" by The Pierces (edited)
Length: 3:12
Summary: "It's like Burke and Hare all over again!" Or, Boris Karloff's amazing leers and a cameo by Bela Lugosi.
Content notes: Graverobbing and murder for fun and profit. On-screen strangling and implied (below frame) surgery/dissection. A bread loaf gets stabbed and a cat is stroked evilly.
Physical notes: Lightning flashes ~2:54.
A/N: Made for jetpack_monkey, who won me in the 2016 Vividcon Auction. What a delight of a project. Thank you to heresluck and corbae for helping us search for songs; this gem was corbae's find.

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To the Grave from bironic on Vimeo.

LYRICS

Got a secret
Can you keep it
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead

Why do you smile
Like you've been told a secret
Now you're telling lies
'Cause you have sworn to keep it
But no one keeps a secret
No one keeps a secret

Why when we do our darkest deeds
Do we tell
They burn in our brains
Become a living hell
'Cause everybody tells
Everybody tells

Got a secret
Can you keep it
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead

[instrumental]

Look into my eyes
Now you're getting sleepy
Are you hypnotized
By secrets that you're keeping
I know what you're keeping
I know what you're keeping

Got a secret
Can you keep it
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead

You swore you'd never tell
You swore you'd never tell
You swore you'd never tell
You swore you'd never tell

Got a secret
Can you keep it
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead

Got a secret
Can you keep it
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead

Yes two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead
Yes two can keep a secret
If one of us is dead



Comments and concrit are always welcome as I try to improve my vidding.

Comments

[siegeofangels]

That was great! So delightfully creepy.

[bironic]

Whee, I'm glad you thought so! I had such a good time watching the movie after Jetpack Monkey put it on his list of possibilities and am glad others are enjoying the results. Boris Karloff FTW.

[stultiloquentia]

OH MY GAWD. This is fabulous. The song is perfect, and all the little lyric matches, especially with Boris Karloff's aforementioned leers, made me cackle from start to finish. The tempo change as the carriage went careening out through the storm was particularly cool.

[bironic]

:D Yay, I'm so glad you liked it! Boris Karloff's face was a highlight of the movie and a major factor in the decision to vid it, hee. Very happy the song choice, lyric matches and pacing worked for you! Thanks for stopping by to comment.

[kass]

I've never seen this film, but I did not need to; your vid was completely intuitive and I thought it was fabulous.

[bironic]

Excellent! Yes, when I asked heresluck and corbae for song search help, I mentioned that in an ideal world we'd find something that helped tell the story for the likely large part of the audience who wouldn't have seen the movie. So glad to hear that worked for you!

[deelaundry]

Ooh, great find for a song! (Thank you, Corbae) I love the pacing of the vid.

[bironic]

Thank youuu <3

[sixbeforelunch]

Ahhhh! I love this! I found this vid randomly on YouTube fortuitously when I was already planning on watching the movie for the first time (and was excited to see that it was one of your vids, because you are a vidder who does consistently good work).

I decided to save the vid until I'd watched the movie, and I'm glad I did because I enjoyed the movie, and the vid is a great coda to having watched it.

Great song choice and editing. You really captured the feel of the movie. Thanks so much for this!

[jetpack_monkey]

I'm rewatching the Val Lewton horror films right now, so I had cause to rewatch this and I still love it so much. AND IT'S MIIIIIINE.

Thank you again!