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The music video for "Come to Daddy" (released in October 1997) was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange.[8] The scene is shot around Tavy Bridge Shopping centre, Thamesmead, which was demolished in 2007.[8] Much of the dark underground car parking is now gone. The video opens with an old woman walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life. This unleashes an evil spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James' grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, trashing an alley and chasing a man into his car. The demon (played by Al Stokes[9]) emerges from the television, screams in the woman's face, then gathers the children around him. It is the only music video in the top 50 of The 100 Greatest Scary Moments as voted by Channel 4 viewers in 2003.[10] The video is included on the Directors Label volume, The Work of Director Chris Cunningham.[11] The video was also named the number one video of the 1990s by Pitchfork.[12] The video features a break that consists of a young girl singing that isn't originally in the song. This sample can also be heard on the first AFX Analogue Bubblebath EP in the track "Isoprophlex"