TV
Shows are good because they're short
and
capture a (usually kitchy) theme in a minute or so.
-
The Addams Family
(Funeral March Of
A Marionette)
-
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
-
Bewitched
-
Dark Shadows
-
The Munsters
-
Scooby Dooby Doo
-
Tales From The Crypt
-
The Twilight Zone
-
X-Files Theme (see also
the remix by
DJ Dado)
Also, Butch Patrick
(Eddie Munster)
recorded a novelty song called "Whatever Happened To Eddie?" to the
theme
of his show.
Soundtracks
There's nothing better for setting
the
mood for a creepy scene than finding music written just for that
purpose,
and that's what film music is all about.
-
The Exorcist - Mike
Oldfield - Tubular
Bells
-
Theme from Halloween -
John Carpenter
(see also cover by Rob Zombie from his remale of the movie)
-
Hellraiser and Hellraiser
II: Hellbound
- Christopher Young
-
Jaws Theme - John Williams
-
Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
Classical
Many classical pieces have found
their
way into use in movies and other media precisely because they're like
soundtracks
for visuals before the fact. For parties, electronic/techno
mixes/covers
work well.
-
Tocatta & Fugue In D Minor
- Bach
-
Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)
- Carl Orff
-
Funeral March - Chopin
-
Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky
-
Requiem (Lacrimosa in
particular) - Mozart
Musicals
These are great for folks (like me,
admittedly)
who love to not only dress up but also to get into character and
perform.
-
The Nightmare Before Xmas
- Danny Elfman
-
Phantom of the Opera -
Andrew Lloyd
Webber
-
Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Richard
O'Brien
Rock
and Pop
This ranges the gamut of styles, so
it
depends on your purpose. Here again we have kitchy, fun songs,
but
there are plenty of darker offerings as well, especially for the metal
crowd.
-
AC/DC - Hell's Bells
-
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
-
Alan Parsons Project - The
Tell-Tale Heart
-
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My
Nightmare
-
Alice Cooper - Feed My
Frankenstein
-
Alice Cooper - Go To Hell
-
Alice Cooper - Poison
-
B-52s - Rock Lobster (more for
the music than
lyrical context)
-
Beck - Devil's Haircut
-
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
(heh! Get it?)
-
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
-
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody
Sabbath
-
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear
the Reaper
-
Bobbie Boris Pickett & The
Crypt-Kickers
- Monster Mash (see also cover by the Misfits)
-
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
-
Britney Spears - Toxic
-
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
-
CCR - Bad Moon Rising
-
Classics IV - Spooky
-
Cranberries - Zombie
-
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
- Fire (Stereo
Version)
-
Cream - Strange Brew
-
Cure - Lullaby
-
David Bowie - Scary Monsters and
Super Creeps
(see also live bootlegs with NIN for harder versions)
-
Dead Kennedys - Halloween
-
Depeche Mode - Waiting for the
Night (more
Halloweenish mixes of this also exist)
-
Depeche Mode - The Dead of Night
-
Diana Ross - Eaten Alive
-
DJ Bobo - Vampires Are Alive
-
Doors - People Are Strange
-
Duane Eddy - Ghost Riders in the
Sky
-
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the
Wolf
-
Eagles - Witchy Woman
-
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
-
Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft
-
Garbage - Queer
-
INXS - Devil Inside
-
Iron Maiden - The Number of the
Beast
-
Judas Priest - Living After
Midnight
-
KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm
Your Boogie
Man (see also White Zombie's cover of this)
-
Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong, the
Witch Is Dead
(from The Wizard of Oz)
-
Kiss - Creatures of the Night
-
Laura Brannigan - Self Control
-
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
(see also his/their
cover of "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Xmas)
-
MC Hammer - Addams Groove (from
the Addams
Family Values sndtrk)
-
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
-
Metallica - Enter Sandman
-
Metallica - Of Wolf and Man
-
Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween
-
Misfits - Halloween
-
Michael Jackson - Thriller
(preferably the
dance mix from the video)
-
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
-
Nine Inch Nails - Reptile
-
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
-
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
-
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
-
Ozzy Osboune - Bark at the Moon
-
Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie -
Zombie Stomp
-
Pat Benatar - Hell is for
Children
-
Peter Gabriel - Digging in the
Dirt (Halloween
mix)
-
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
-
Ramones - Pet Sematary
-
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
-
Rick James - Super Freak
-
Rob Zombie - Dragula
-
Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
-
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
-
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for
the Devil
-
Rush - Witch Hunt
-
Santana - Black Magic Woman
-
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A
Spell On You
(see also Manson's cover on the Natural Born Killers sndtrk)
-
Sheb Wooley - The Purple People
Eater
-
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My
Reflection
-
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With
Butterfly
Wings ("The world is a vampire...")
-
Smashing Pumpkins - We Only Come
Out At Night
-
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
-
Sting - Moon Over Burbon St.
-
Twisted Sister - Burn In Hell
-
Van Halen - Running with the
Devil
-
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of
London
-
The Who - Boris The Spider
-
Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on
You
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