Eschewing the Grand
Guignol elements of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, music video director Romanek opts for the ticking - time - bomb, antiseptic, wide - angle creepiness of mid-career Kubrick.
The paranormal is the least disturbing of the
elements here, played with a gleefully operatic excess, and more than a whiff of the disturbing exoticism of Grand
Guignol at work in the passions unleashed.