The Greatest Horror Movie Music Hits?
October 15, 2014 3:18 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for songs that aren't objectively scary or spooky, but due to their use in horror/slasher/whatever movies/TV, they're now associated with scary times. "Goodbye Horses" in Silence Of The Lambs would be the ideal with "Red Right Hand" in Scream just squeeking in.
Cry Little Sister from The Lost Boys.
posted by fshgrl at 3:29 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by fshgrl at 3:29 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Tubular Bells from the Exorcist.
posted by doctor_negative at 3:30 PM on October 15, 2014 [8 favorites]
posted by doctor_negative at 3:30 PM on October 15, 2014 [8 favorites]
All nursery rhymes, ever. Gregorian chants.
(My phone corrected to misery rhymes several times - spooooky!!!)
posted by Lesser Shrew at 3:32 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
(My phone corrected to misery rhymes several times - spooooky!!!)
posted by Lesser Shrew at 3:32 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Beethoven's Ninth in Clockwork Orange -- for a meta-example of this kind of association.
posted by third rail at 3:36 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by third rail at 3:36 PM on October 15, 2014
It's not a horror movie, but Stuck in the Middle with You will forever only make me think of bloody, ear gettin' cut off, dousing in gasoline, chillingly blasé dancing-while-you-torture.
posted by phunniemee at 3:38 PM on October 15, 2014 [12 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 3:38 PM on October 15, 2014 [12 favorites]
Stuck in the Middle with You will forever only make me think of bloody, ear gettin' cut off, dousing in gasoline, chillingly blasé dancing-while-you-torture.
Hip to be Square (from American Psycho) has the same effect on me .
posted by fshgrl at 4:06 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Hip to be Square (from American Psycho) has the same effect on me .
posted by fshgrl at 4:06 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Gremlins has resulted in my SO finding "Do you hear what I hear" creepy as hell.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:11 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:11 PM on October 15, 2014
Maybe Mad World From Donnie Darko?
posted by no regrets, coyote at 4:21 PM on October 15, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by no regrets, coyote at 4:21 PM on October 15, 2014 [3 favorites]
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana (largely associated with the movie The Omen even though it's not really heard in the film).
posted by fuse theorem at 4:47 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by fuse theorem at 4:47 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Also from Silence of the Lambs is American Girl. For Clockwork Orange my pick would be "Singing in the Rain". (Not linked due to graphic content.)
posted by Room 641-A at 5:02 PM on October 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by Room 641-A at 5:02 PM on October 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
Does anyone remember that (British?) flick where a bunch of office people were out in the woods? It might have only been in the trailer, but I want to say that one had some sixties pop hit in it...
posted by mr. digits at 6:13 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by mr. digits at 6:13 PM on October 15, 2014
Probably not enough people saw The Lady in White for this song to give people the appropriate amount of heebie jeebies.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:32 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:32 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around. Featured memorably in the opening to the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:34 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:34 PM on October 15, 2014
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste, but when Sports came out in 1983...
posted by Flood at 6:46 PM on October 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Flood at 6:46 PM on October 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
"Every Woman In The World" by Air Supply, as used in Slither.
"Mr. Sandman", as used in Halloween.
"I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper", as used in both A Clockwork Orange and The Maxx.
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:50 PM on October 15, 2014
"Mr. Sandman", as used in Halloween.
"I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper", as used in both A Clockwork Orange and The Maxx.
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:50 PM on October 15, 2014
The super scary music from the movie Jaws.
posted by Aha moment at 6:51 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by Aha moment at 6:51 PM on October 15, 2014
There is an X-Files episode called "Home" in Season 4, where a horrific murder occurs while a cheerfully sappy Johnny Mathis song called "Wonderful" plays. "Home" was probably one of the most gruesome and disturbing episodes in the series.
Also, the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" in the fantastic film "1408" (based on the Stephen King short story) is now permanently linked to sheer, undiluted terror in my mind.
posted by partly squamous and partly rugose at 6:56 PM on October 15, 2014 [5 favorites]
Also, the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" in the fantastic film "1408" (based on the Stephen King short story) is now permanently linked to sheer, undiluted terror in my mind.
posted by partly squamous and partly rugose at 6:56 PM on October 15, 2014 [5 favorites]
"Sweet Child O' Mine", as covered by Taken By Trees, as used in the trailer to the otherwise unmemorable Last House on the Left remake.
Not a famous example, but Patti Smith's "Horses" was used very well on the TV show Millennium.
"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", as used in In Dreams.
The first Final Destination movie had a grimly funny running "gag" about John Denver songs.
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:58 PM on October 15, 2014
Not a famous example, but Patti Smith's "Horses" was used very well on the TV show Millennium.
"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", as used in In Dreams.
The first Final Destination movie had a grimly funny running "gag" about John Denver songs.
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:58 PM on October 15, 2014
"In The Beginning", by the Statler Brothers, as used in Se7en.
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:00 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:00 PM on October 15, 2014
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) in 2001.
posted by oneear at 9:31 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by oneear at 9:31 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Orinoco Flow by Enya, used in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
posted by mefireader at 12:07 PM on October 16, 2014
posted by mefireader at 12:07 PM on October 16, 2014
"Looking For The Magic" features prominently in You're Next.
posted by lakemarie at 12:08 PM on October 16, 2014
posted by lakemarie at 12:08 PM on October 16, 2014
Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" from Zodiac.
posted by doctornecessiter at 9:33 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by doctornecessiter at 9:33 AM on October 17, 2014
Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around yt . Featured memorably in the opening to the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:34 PM on October 15 [+] [!]
Interesting -- haven't seen DotD, but the song's also used to great effect in the first season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ("What He Beheld").
posted by McCoy Pauley at 11:10 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:34 PM on October 15 [+] [!]
Interesting -- haven't seen DotD, but the song's also used to great effect in the first season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ("What He Beheld").
posted by McCoy Pauley at 11:10 AM on October 17, 2014
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posted by McCoy Pauley at 3:24 PM on October 15, 2014 [4 favorites]