Someone Turned ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Into a Lyrically Accurate Crime Thriller

Well, he does confess murder. To his mother, no less.

December 6, 2016 9:00 am

Mama, just killed a man/Put a gun against his head/Pulled my trigger/now he’s dead…

When you think about it, Queen’s classic singalong is a really dark tale. So no surprise that someone’s taking them at their word(s).

YouTube channel Corridor — creators of high-concept parody videos like “The Wolf of Meme Street” and “Jason Bourne Teaches Cooking”— just unleashed “Literal Bohemian Rhapsody,” a police/hostage procedural that, like the title says, follows the song’s operatic plot word for word.

At least it wasn’t “Tie Your Mother Down.”

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