Exclusive CURSIVE “Life Savings” Video Premiere Shows One Bloody Backpacking Trip
Jonathan Barkan
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Recently, we’ve been doing quite a bit of music coverage and that trend continues today with an exclusive video premiere from Omaha, Nebraska’s indie rockers Cursive and their new clip for “Life Savings”! The video follows a duo of backpackers who stumble upon a bleeding man. As they learn from the situation, it seems that a group of criminals are after a LOT of money and everyone’s greed gets the better of them, resulting in bloodshed, death, and even some good old-fashioned dismemberment!
Cursive tells Dread Central, “We worked with friend Matt Hewitt to make this video, he’s been making amazing action/horror shorts since he was young. We gave him full license to come up with the idea and to be as violent and/or as gory as he wanted to be. I love this video.”
Director Matt Hewitt adds, “I brought up a few things with Tim as far as inspiration, namely the Scott Smith novel and the equally good Sam Raimi adaptation, A Simple Plan. It seemed to fit with snippets of the lyrics here and there, and while the “find money in the woods” trope is a little tired for a feature, we agreed it made a very jam-packed and interesting video. And gangsters with guns are traipsing around the woods, The Sopranos episode ‘Pine Barrens’ is never far from my mind either, so there was a dash of that too.”
You can snag Cursive‘s Vitriola right here.
