Ice Nine Kills just hauled us deeper into the horror-rock rabbit hole with their freshly dropped trailer for ‘The Laugh Track’, and it’s a sick, twisted joyride. The clip leans hard into Joker aesthetics, madness, unsettling laughter, and theatrical dread, and insiders already know it’s not just a song drop, it’s the next chapter in the INK cinematic universe.
The trailer premiered only hours ago, teasing “DEATH IS NO JOKE. ‘The Laugh Track.’ October 9. It’s gonna be a gas. 💨🃏🦇”, setting the tone in one punchy line. The visual style is bleak, disorienting, and festooned with carnival flare, a funhouse mirror version of the macabre. What’s especially wild, Matthew Lillard (yeah, that Matthew Lillard) appears, tying in a new level of horror film gravitas and meta crossover appeal.
The trailer leans heavily into Joker iconography, smeared makeup, erratic grins, broken mirrors, queues of distorted laughter echoing in corridors. It feels less like a typical music promo and more like a horror short with a beat. If you blink, you might miss something, a twisted clown mask, a flicker of menace, the whisper of a scream.
This is a deliberate escalation from Ice Nine Kills’ past cinematic antics. They’ve always flirted with horror imagery, but here the integration is brutal, immersive. Lillard’s presence adds gravity, he doesn’t feel like a gimmick, more like a symbolic bridge between horror film lore and Ice Nine Kill’s mythos.
No track play in the trailer, no chorus dropped, the tease is slow burn, planting dread more than reward. The payoff is reserved for October 9, when the single and full video are expected to drop. Marks your calendar, sharpen your nerves.
As far as risks go, leaning this heavy into one aesthetic motif can backfire if it feels derivative. But knowing Ice Nine Kills and their fanbase’s appetite for horror spectacle, this might land exactly where it needs to, in the brains of die-hards, rattling them. Either way, The Laugh Track just made it clear, Ice Nine Kills are not playing.
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