The Weeknd’s Red Terror music video combines frightening stop-motion animation with a profound lyrical narrative to create a disturbing visual experience. Red Terror is a gloomy and symbolic song that repeats historical themes and contemplation and is part of Hurry Up Tomorrow, from The Weeknd’s most recent and last album of his trilogy.
The video, which was directed by Eddie Alcazar, shows a young person in a terrifying other universe undergoing a bizarre metamorphosis. The ideas in the song, which appear to address a child’s innocence from a parent’s point of view, are consistent with this eerie visual tale. The Ethiopian Red Terror, a violent era of political repression in the late 1970s, is referenced in the title.
