Watch The Weeknd’s Disturbing Short Film for ‘After Hours’

variety.com:

Fans may have noticed that every video and television performance released by The Weeknd in the run-up to the March 20 release of his next album, “After Hours,” is thematically linked and part of a larger story that is gradually unfolding.

That continues with the release of a “short film” that bears the name of the album and its recent title-track single — although the music in this new film is almost all instrumental and, well, we can only guess at what’s going on here.

The clip, again directed by Anton Tammi, begins with The Weeknd smiling onstage at “Jimmy Kimmel,” as the audience cheers after he completed his performance of his recent single “Blinding Lights” — he’s wearing the same red suit jacket that he wears in other clips, and he’s