A Request for Help

[Pumpkin_Man]

Hi Folks:

I need your help here. I am trying to compile a list of movies for another forum that I am in, and It hought I would ask to see if you can help me out. I am looking for horror movies with some sort of a musical theme to them. The criteria is simple, the movie can be about a monster of some sort who plays an instrument, or an evil musical instrument, or ane vil song, or a movie with a theme song that became a top hit on the radio. Examples I was thinking of are movies like

1. "The Changeling," which h ad that creepy music box song all through it.

2. "House of Dark Shadows" which had Josette's music box in it.

3. "The Exorcist," which had a theme song that made it big in the top 40.

4. "Phantom of the Opera"

5. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" There's a neat song sung by the gypsies during the festivel of new whine

6. "The Haunted Mansion" that creepy old organ and those guys on the posts who sing in harmony

If you can think of any others, I would really appreciate it.

Mike

[DemonSlayerMau]

Well...I know Sweeny Todd is a horror movie musical...but if you mean a theme song....
What about Jaws? Jaws has that "dun dun dun dun dun dun" like a theme with two tones that keeps getting faster and faster...

[Andybev01]

"The Phamton Of the Paradise" an incredibly cheesy 1974 movie that is very hard to watch, but is somehow a cult classic

'The Rocky Horror Picture show'..'nuff said.

'The Uninvited' (1948 original). Its song 'Stella By Starlight' became a jazz standard.

[jadewik]

"Ravenous" (1999) has a very stylized music for a horror film. What strikes me about it is that it doesn't quite fit the film and has the effect of making me laugh. (If I recall correctly it's a twangy music with a simple tune-- too simple if you ask me.) I saw it on the $5 rack and just had to buy it!

"The Ghost and Mister Chicken" is another film that's somewhat musical... the haunting in the film centers around an old pipe organ.

Strangely, there aren't many horror films I enjoy watching... so that's all I can add to your list.

[Andybev01]

'The Hunger' David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve...Vampires as lounge lizards getting their groove on to splendid euro-trash music in murky night clubs. God, I love that movie.

'Lost Boys' Keifer Sutherland and some post-punk vamps tearing up 'Santa Carla' (Cruz), CA.
Excellent 80's soundtrack. Also starred now middle-aged, then teen-heart-throbs...the 2 Corys. Those boys did not age well.

[Andybev01]

Don Knotts is a god to me "Atta boy Luther!"

"Ravenous" (1999) has a very stylized music for a horror film. What strikes me about it is that it doesn't quite fit the film and has the effect of making me laugh. (If I recall correctly it's a twangy music with a simple tune-- too simple if you ask me.) I saw it on the $5 rack and just had to buy it!

"The Ghost and Mister Chicken" is another film that's somewhat musical... the haunting in the film centers around an old pipe organ.

Strangely, there aren't many horror films I enjoy watching... so that's all I can add to your list.