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“Cry Little Sister” has become a staple of Halloween playlists, which is odd because it’s from a summer vampire movie, and the song isn’t about anything remotely Halloween, and it never even had a music video… but yet it lives on, and it works.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IbE_eXaQhV4 Danny Elfman, to me, is right up there with Vincent Price as one of the kings of horror/gothic cinema. He wrote the scores for Night Breed, Beetlejuice, Sleep Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, the list goes on. But...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zthChjUe1II Every great movie character deserves his own 80s synthpop song. Here, Psycho's Norman Bates gets the treatment in Landscapes "Norman Bates". If you haven't seen Psycho, go see it. Right now. I'll wait. Welcome back. Good...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/n74rrj1WN6s Sooooooooooooo good Hopefully 1000 years from now, some future civilization will rediscover Ghostbusters and think it really happened. And their hearts will still begin pounding fast and their fists will pump the air when the...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TICZWrb3s2Y Yep, Tom Petty has a Halloween song. While most think his holiday output ends with "Christmas All Over Again", they're dead wrong. Or undead wrong, amirite? Tucked at the end of arguably Petty's greatest album, Full Moon...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tGVX033PiDA While "IT" gets all the credit for making clowns scary (or maybe John Wayne Gacy does)... the original "scary clown" movie was 1988's cult classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. If you haven't seen it, go see it. Spoiler...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HJWFsZ_YUc4 It's just a sad fact that there aren't enough punk songs about reanimated cats. Surely the most famous of these is "Pet Sematary" by the Ramones. The song was is the title song for the film adaptation of Stephen King's "Pet...