Horror Movie Theme Songs Remix

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Making a list of songs based on horror movies is dead easy. I could do a top twenty just based on The Misfits, Anthrax and Rob Zombie. And once I begin casting my net into weird doom metal or songs written for horror movies, game over. It's a book.

So I decided rather than include the usual - Nightmare on My Street or Man Behind the Mask or Pet Sematary - I would come up with a list of lesser known, possibly weirder songs. All are based, in one way or another, on horror movies. None are horror movie theme songs, none are covers of horror movie theme songs. All, I hope, are unique.

Lizzy Borden - Red Rum

Rightfully unknown Hollywood hair metal/shock rock band Lizzy Borden released this song on their debut album, Love You To Pieces. The band was uncomfortable in the glam metal scene, also being closer to the likes of Alice Cooper, but they never truly took off. They're featured heavily in the rarely-screened Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, where they cover Born to Be Wild.

Red Rum is a pretty on the nose song about The Shining that even namechecks Room 237. It's not a great song, but I love the opening drums.

S.O.D. - Freddy Krueger

Off the incredibly brilliant album Speak English or Die, S.O.D.'s Freddy Krueger actually paints a creepier Freddy than the movies do -

His teeth are black
Flex metal knuckles with a crack
Maggots crawling all throughout his skin

and it's the best song associated with the character (sorry, Dokken). The band, by the one, is one of the first groups to crossover between metal and punk, and it's essentially an offshoot of Anthrax (who also blazed crossover ground with hip hop). Freddy Krueger is one of the lesser songs on the album - Chromatic Death and Milk and Fuck the Middle East are some of the highlights.

Kate Bush - Hammer Horror

Kate Bush's first album produced two hit singles. This was her third single, off her second album Lionheart, and it kind of fizzled. It's also a weird song to include on this list because while it's called Hammer Horror, and is about actors making a Hammer Film, there is no Hunchback of Notre Dame movie in the Hammer canon (at least not that I've been able to identify). I like the theatricality of this track, and the video has Bush looking scarier than most horror movie monsters.

Bobby Bare - Vampira

Bobby Bare almost didn't have a career; his first hit song somehow went out into the world under the name Bill Parsons. Thankfully he recovered, and he eventually gave us the Christian football song Dropkick Me Jesus (Through The Goalpost of Life). But before that seismic country hit, Bare tried his hand at a little bit of rockabilly. For some reason he decided to record this ode to Ed Wood's wooden starlet, Vampira. It's pretty good, actually, and he manages to name drop a lot of generic monsters in there.

My Chemical Romance - Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

I'm not a fan of this band by any means, but this song is a delightfully subtle tribute to Dawn of the Dead. The title alone gives you a sense that it might have something to do with George Romero's classic zombie movie, and the lyrics nicely skirt around the concept without getting too explicit:

Up and down escalators, pennies and colder fountains
Elevators and half price sales, trapped in by all these mountains
Running away and hiding with you
I never thought they'd get me here
Not knowing you'd change from just one bite
I fought them all off just to hold you close and tight

If you didn't know the meaning, you might assume some of the lyrics are metaphorical ('And there's no room in this hell,' and 'But does anything matter if you're already dead?'). It's super shitty song, but I have to give them credit.

Dave Edmunds - Creature From The Black Lagoon

You know Dave Edmunds from one song that gets played on classic rock radio all the time - I Hear You Knocking. Edmunds has had a long career besides that, playing with a bunch of bands (with names like Rockpile and Love Sculpture) and was producer for a huge number of major British acts in the 1980s (Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, etc). Creature From The Black Lagoon isn't as good as I Hear You Knocking, but it does force me to ask a question: why are there not more Gillman songs? Listening to Edmunds' track you realize that the tragically horny Creature is the ultimate rock n' roll monster. He just wants a lady.

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'Ave Satani' is the theme song to the film The Omen (1976) composed by Jerry Goldsmith.^[1]The Omen won the Academy Award for Best Original Score,^[2] with Ave Satani nominated for Best Original Song,^[3] one of the few foreign language (Latin) songs ever to be nominated.

History[edit]

The Latin title of Ave Satani (correct: Ave Satana) translates to 'Hail Satan' in English. In an interview,^[4] Goldsmith says that his idea was to create a kind of Satanic version of a Gregorian chant and came up with ideas while talking with the London choir-master of the orchestra who was helping him. He decided to create something like a Black Mass, inverting Latin phrases from the Latin Mass.^[5] The choir-master, according to Goldsmith, was an expert in Latin and helped him come up with phrases; instead of saying 'Hail Mary', they decided on 'Hail Satan', and so on. The song contains various Latin phrases inverting Christ and the Mass, such as 'Ave Versus Christi', meaning 'Hail Anti-Christ', and 'Corpus Satani', an inversion of 'Corpus Christi', the body of Christ. The resulting lyrics are an inversion of the Roman Catholic rite of the consecration and elevation of the body and blood of Christ during the Mass (see Eucharist in the Catholic Church).

A version of the song has been produced by the band Fantômas, who altered some of the lyrics so that they mean 'smallest blood, body spirit' rather than 'we drink the blood, we eat the flesh,' and added the word 'Rotted'. Other versions of the original song have been performed by the Italian vocalist Servio Tulio, and by Gregorian. It has been used in mixes of sinister music^[6] and such a concept was made into an album by Van Helsing's Curse involving Dee Snider and other musicians, entitled Oculus Infernum.^[7]

Lyrics[edit]

The choir master's Latin contains a number of errors. Below are the Latin phrases which are repeated throughout the music,^[8] with their intended meaning, and a more correct Latin version: