We were surprised to hear, earlier this summer, that Shia LaBeouf is making a documentary about Marilyn Manson. But, two months later, it seems the Transformers star has gone native — LaBeouf has directed a “short film” set to “Born Villain,” a track from Manson’s as yet unnamed eighth studio album. To our eyes, it’s a pretty standard Marilyn Manson music video: a cast of freaks, dark lighting, naked breasts, blood, a heap of casual misogyny. There’s a vague child molestation/revenge subplot, as well as some shots that have Manson and others listlessly reciting the most over-quoted passages of Macbeth. The song, meanwhile, is basically the same post-industrial rehash schlock we’ve come to expect from the 21st-century Manson. If you can stomach a scene where an eyeball is sewn into a woman’s vagina, then we invite you to watch the clip after the jump.
[via NME ]