The clip comes from the music written for John Wick, the 2014 action film starring Keanu Reeves as a retired hitman forced back into violence. Electronic producer Dylan Eiland, performing as Le Castle Vania, contributed original club music for the film, including the Red Circle sequence where Wick confronts his targets in a bathhouse nightclub. Short excerpts later circulated online as a shorthand for the character, and editors kept reusing the beat for parodies, entrances and edits that borrow Wick's calm, lethal reputation without needing dialogue or explanation.