Zombie Zombie - Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free

Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann's 3¾ inch recalibration of John Carpenter's The Thing traps a platoon of GI Joes in a scale Antarctic outpost, at the mercy of an infection that makes mulch of men. Rather than play the concept for a few retro nudges, Gesrel and Ehretsmann's short is pitched nihilistic, capturing the paranoid dread of Carpenter's movie, whilst also accounting for the machismo mind of the action figures.

The grim tone is matched by Zombie Zombie's music, a shrieking, buzzing, electronic cacophony that speaks to cold sweats and distress. Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free is taken from Zombie Zombie's 1998 A Land for Renegades album. The band have also released a covers album featuring music from John Carpenter movies. Disaster Year can personally attest that their take on the Halloween theme is funky as fuck, and, in their hands, the theme from The Thing becomes a vast, intergalactic dirge.