Death Valley 69

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Actors: Lydia Lunch , Kim Gordon , Thurston Moore , Lung Leg , Sonic Youth

Director: Richard Kern Sonic Youth

IMDB Rate: 6.6 out of 10 (120 votes)

Plot Summary:Death Valley 69 is a video for the Sonic Youth song of the same name. The song origionally appeared on the Bad Moon Rising album from way back in 1985, at about the same time as Kern was making those Super 8 gross-out masterpieces starring the lovely Lung Leg - I swear Im not making this up - who later graced the cover of the SY album EVOL. There is a great gorey sequence in the DV 69 music video that looks like pieces of liver or stomach (or something...) plopted down in front of a very crudly killed Steve Shelley (SYs drummer at the time the video was shot). Kerns very distinctive Super 8 style (gittery, high contrast, EXTREMELY low budget, and super gross-out) that was - and I know this is hard to believe - really, really popular in the New York art scene in the eighties is captured here in its full glory. Check out Hardcore, a collection of Kerns mid-eighties Super 8 porno(?) movies. Anyway, its a Sonic Youth music video that is collected on the Screaming Fields of Sonic Love music video compilation thingy. There you have it....