Turbo Killer is a science fiction music video written and directed by Seth Ickerman and produced by Carpenter Brut and (if I have this right) No Quarter Prod(uctions?). The music is by Carpenter Brut. I tweeted about this video not long ago, but as I’ve kept watching it and thinking about it, I decided to jot down some of the thoughts buzzing around in my skull.

[Spoiler alert!] The video starts with a cross-shaped spaceship approaching Earth. Inside the ship are two passengers, a woman who I’ll call Corvette girl for reasons to be revealed shortly (played by Noémie Stevens), and a mysterious hero wearing a gas mask and cloak (Guillaume Faure). The video cuts to the villain, played by Marc-Antoine Frédéric, watching another woman, who I’ll call Pyramid-Dancer Girl (Joëlle Berckmans), whom he holds captive in a force pyramid. The villain triggers a purple gas inside the pyramid which corrupts/contaminates/stimulates Pyramid-Dancer Girl who begins dancing in a fairly provocative way (the villain seems to appreciate this, and perhaps this is what he was after to begin with- he even creepily nods to the beat at one point).

At this point, I should mention that Corvette girl and Pyramid-Dancer girl both have glowing, upside-down crosses etched on their foreheads. Once exposed to the gas, Pyramid-Dancer Girl’s cross goes dark (not a good sign, right?). This seems important, although I haven’t figured out its full significance other than being similar to the aforementioned cross-shaped ship. Meanwhile, as the villain gloats, the hero and Corvette girl bond/merge so that the hero is now driving a Corvette that somehow is Corvette girl such that he steers by holding her hands and jerking her in the desired direction. After driving (and somehow soaring over) the villain, despite his blasting them with a shotgun, the hero and Corvette girl rescue Pyramid-Dancer girl by driving through her. They then continue driving towards the ship with the villain and his henchmen in hot pursuit all driving various sports cars.

Pyramid-Dancer girl is now inside the Corvette with our gas-mask wearing hero. They drive off a cliff, as do the villain and henchmen, all landing while still driving inside the ship. As the ship begins to ascend, the villain tries to ram the Corvette, but it evades him and is absorbed into the ship’s rose-heart interior. The henchm ens’ cars are peeled off of the ship, succumbing to gravity. Pyramid-Dancer girl seems to replace Corvette girl at this point, then she collapses into the hero’s arms, apparently unconscious but presumed safe. The villain’s car falls off and plunges back towards Earth from space (he is not presumed safe since his Lamborghini Countach is probably not designed for atmospheric re-entry). The video concludes with the hero carrying Pyramid-Dancer girl into the ship’s glowing heart as the ship itself departs from Earth into a glowing, rose-like energy distortion.

Now that I’ve summarized the plot, I’d like to make some random observations:

The ship has a rose-shaped, chapel-like “heart” chamber which contains crimson, phallic (or possibly vaginal?), organ-like, moving structures in the background while the hero and Corvette girl are somehow simultaneously there holding hands and also on Earth driving and being a Corvette, respectively. Coupled with the ship’s interior, the hero’s driving of Corvette girl seems to hint of sexual symbolism. Do you agree?

This also begs the question: does a 1970s Corvette require a sentient being aside from the driver to operate? No, so perhaps Corvette girl really is the Corvette projected materially onto Earth’s surface by the ship.

Why project a Corvette so far from where the villain and Pyramid-Dancer girl are located? The ship itself can be seen in the distance settling to Earth’s surface in the direction the Corvette is driving and much closer to Pyramid-Dancer girl. My guess is this probably allows for cool driving shots through which we learn how the hero “drives” Corvette girl and get to see the Corvette driving furiously with a fiery wake and awesome music.

Why is the villain able to imprison Pyramid-Dancer girl in a force pyramid, but his only weapon is a shotgun? Is the purple gas “sexy gas”?

Who is Pyramid-Dancer girl? A captured ship spirit/AI? The hero’s girlfriend? His daughter? And why does she try to wrench the steering wheel away from the hero at one point? Maybe she’s really his escaped dancer slave (sort of a Jabba-Princess Leia thing).

I assumed the hero was male, but perhaps not. Being completely masked and cloaked, as he/she/it is, the hero could be a woman, android, or even an alien for all I know.

What is the moral of the story? Don’t date unshaven Earth men with aggressive driving habits? That good will prevail over evil? That Christianity (or its upside-down cosmic religion equivalent) is best practiced while exceeding the speed limit and entering orbit?

These questions will probably remain unanswered, but that’s okay. More importantly, will there be a sequel? A full length theatrical feature? No matter what happens next, this is my kind of scifi sexy crazy! More please.