Will Wightman's debut music video is finally here and its a jawdropper. It's an outrageous, near-the-knuckle comedy-horror for Irish DJ-producer Tommy Holohan which preys on the sum of our worst, most irrational fears. Recovering obsessive-compulsive Jared is preparing for a date, when he's aware of another presence in his room - a persistently buzzing fly. As Holohan's banging rave track Show Me The Sky kicks in, Jared suffers an OCD relapse, and battle is joined. But there's only ever going to be one winner.Wightman has mined some primordial fears about bodily invasion, and his own experience of the condition of OCD, to deliver a no-holds-barred, anarchic comedy - a nightmarishly cruel version of the climactic scene in Ratatouille, as the sadistic Fly ruthlessly exploits Jared's vulnerabilities to become his gleeful puppet-master.From the excellent performances (Harrison Charles as Jared, George Osman as The Fly), to the zany camerawork, a practical build and old school VFX, plus medical diagrams dotted through a breakneck edit by Nick Armstrong, this is a breathtaking riot of cartoon-style mayhem. But it's also not for the squeamish or fainthearted. Will Wightman has stepped into the territory of wickedly gross-out cartoonish humour that was more common in dance music videos a few years ago - quite a brave thing to do in these days - and arguably gone even further.His first pop video is not only very funny, it's going to stay in your head a long time.
David Knight - 4 months ago