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"I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" is the eighth track from the 2009 release The High End of Low. Its title was revealed on December 20, 2008, in the month's issue of Revolver. The song is approximately nine minutes in length.

Music details [ edit ]

According to a MySpace bulletin posted by Rudy Coby: "The original version of 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies' is eighteen minutes long and [Manson] did it one take freestyling - I hope he releases it as an extra or on the website because it absolutely hypnotizing. He was going to put it on the album but he couldn't put all 15 songs on if he did that." The version on the album was recorded hours after 15, when Manson was told he still had nine minutes left for the song. Manson told Spanish Kerrang that the take features "none of the bitterness, vulnerability or anger of the first take." He told the Australian News months later that the first version, which he claimed was 25-minutes long, "I would class as threatening. The take on the album I would say is bitter."

"I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" was one of the more positively reviewed songs by Thrash Hits' Hugh Platt. Platt asserted that the nine-minute song lives "up to its mouthful of a title," throbbing "malevolently like an engorged vein on a serial killer's forehead. With Manson hissing, “cut...cut...cut...CUT" over and over, it's humid, ghoulish in its oppressiveness, and will make you shudder like a murderous fever dream. It's magnificent."[1]

Reviewing for The Quietus, John Robb described the song as an epic with "a bass-driven neo-soundtrack sprawl. It sounds like two basses at once which, for all those who believe that the bass guitar is the greatest of all instruments, makes this a real treat." He also compared the song to Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead", in terms of being an "atmospheric workout with lots of space." Robb further attested that "The outro is a great endless bass burp groove, one of those three note chugs as Warner screams about killing himself over and over again. Hypnotic."[2]

In his review for Allmusic, Phil Freeman, who was unsatisfied by the album, described "I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" as "a one-riff trudge that never builds up any momentum," and noted that the song's title reads "like Manson-by-numbers."[3]

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"I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies" — Appears on The High End of Low





Lyrics [ edit ]

I wanna fuck you like a foreign film and there's no subtitles to get you through this and i'm a country you don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to visit again Line up Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut Line up, Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut I want to kill you like they do in the movies but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line I want to kill you like they do in the movies but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line Line up Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut Line up Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut I'm a strip strip strip and I flicker flick flick flick. a flicker of celluloid and there's holes, holes, holes in my everything I'm a strip strip strip and I flicker flick flick flick. a flicker of celluloid and there's holes, holes, holes in my everything you're just what i projected just what i projected it's just what i projected just want to project it come in, come in, come in come in, come in, come in, come in, come in come inside there's so much, much, much more skin to break I haven't even taken off my gloves. there's so much, much, much more skin to break I haven't even taken off my gloves. I feel a little sorry baby, I feel a little sorry baby, I hear the afterlife is poorly scored. I feel a little sorry baby, I feel a little sorry baby, I hear the afterlife is poorly scored. You're lucky you don't have to wake up, sick, sick, sick I'm sick of immortality I'm sick of immortality I'm sick of immortality I was only acting, baby only acting, baby you were only acting, baby overacting, baby don't confuse it with love don't confuse it with love don't confuse it with love don't confuse it with love everytime i kill you i'm really just killing myself everytime i kill you i'm really just killing myself everytime i kill you i'm really just killing myself everytime i kill you i'm really just killing myself don't flatter yourself don't flatter yourself This is business not pleasure, baby This is business not pleasure, baby The business of pleasure, baby business not pleasure, baby this is business this is business I want to kill you like they do in the movies but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line I want to kill you like they do in the movies but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line Line up Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut Line up Roll camera you pretend I'll pretend and cut, cut, cut, cut

Trivia [ edit ]

I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies has only been performed live on two occasions: 2009/09/07 Portland, OR and 2009/09/08 Victoria, BC.