Film:
DVD:

Directed by Ken Andrews, Adam Jones & Fred Stuhr

Features:

• Five videos: "Hush," "Sober," "Prison Sex," "Stinkfist," "Ænema"
• Bonus CD with eight tracks

Released by: Volcano
Region: 1
Rating: NR, but don't let your kids pop it in
Anamorphic: N/A; videos appear in their original 1.33:1 format.

Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format.

My Advice: Own it.

Many, many moons ago, when I was in a band, Tool's Opiate EP was one of the CDs I would use as a vocal warm-up on my way to gigs. People would ask me if I listened to Tool, due apparently to lead singer/vocal god Maynard's influence on my particular stylings. That would always fill me with a sense of pride. When their next album, Undertow, came out, they had this disturbing little video for their single, "Sober," which fascinated me. Featuring a deformed stop-motion puppet being tormented in a what appeared to be a blasted-out shell of a dead house, it was something I could watch over and over again, always finding some little bizarre nuance I had missed before.

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