Category Archives: Music Review

Music Video of the Day: Preacher Man by Fields of Nephilim (1987, directed by Richard Stanley)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

A cemetery, an atomic wasteland, a chainsaw, a preacher with a bunch of mutant worshippers, it doesn’t get more 80s gothic than this.

Director Richard Stanley directed several gothic music videos but he’s best-known for his feature films, including The Colour From Outer Space, Hardware and Dust Devil.  (In many ways, the video for Preacher Man feels like a dry run for both Hardware and Dust Devil.)  He was also the original director of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau until his conflicts with both the studios and actors Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer led to him being replaced by John Frankenheimer.

Enjoy!

Horror Song of The Day: Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by Giorgio Moroder and David Bowie

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song comes the hypnotic soundtrack of Paul Schrader’s Cat People.  This song was so good that it later showed up and was used to equally strong effect in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Music Video of the Day: Anxiety (Get Nervous) by Pat Benatar (1982, directed by Mark Robinson)

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If you’re suffering from anxiety, it is nothing to be ashamed of.  As today’s music video of the day shows, even Pat Benatar can get nervous!  Of course, when your dentist is named Dr. Pain, who can blame you for getting nervous?

This video was directed by Mark Robinson, who also did videos for The Pretenders, Tina Turner, and Eddie Money.

Enjoy!

Horror Song of the Day: Demon by Claudio Simonetti

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Demons (1985, dir by Lamberto Bava)

For today’s horror song of the day, we have Demon, a track from the soundtrack for the 1985 film, Demons.  This song was composed and performed by Claudio Simonetti, who is best known as the keyboardist of Goblin.

The music video, incidentally, was directed by Michele Soavi, who also appeared in Demons as the mysterious masked man handing out free movie tickets.

Music Video of the Day: Braineaters by The Misfits (1983, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

It’s just a normal night as Danzig’s house in the video for Braineaters.  Everyone comes for dinner and the chef comes out with a pot full of brains.  If nothing else, this video is about as literal an adaptation of a song’s title as you are ever likely to see.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Lost In The Shadows by Lou Gramm (1987, directed by Joel Schumacher)

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Back in the 80s and most of the 90s, every movie came with an MTV-friendly music video.  For The Lost Boys, it was this video for Lou Gramm’s Lost In The Shadows.  Lou sings in what appears to be a wooden cage while scenes from the movie play.  Music videos that acted as advertisements for movies were a big thing and I always looked forward to seeing them on MTV.

Lou Gramm was the lead singer of Foreigner when he recorded this song.  He left Foreigner in 1990, rejoined in 1992, and then left again in 2003.  He rejoined the band for a few performance in 2025 during Foreigner’s farewell tour.  Lou has survived both drug addiction and a brain tumor and is still performing as a solo artist.

Enjoy!

 

Horror Song of the Day: Zombie Stomp by The Del-Aires

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

If you’ve ever watched The Horror of Party Beach, you’ll definitely remember this song, which was performed by a Patterson, New Jersey band called The Del-Aires!

Everybody’s doing the zombie stomp!

Music Video of the Day: Take It Off by King Kobra (1988, directed by ????)

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This song was featured in the horror classic Black Roses, which is a movie about teenagers driven to murder by heavy metal music. The Satanic band itself was played by King Kobra.

As for this video, it doesn’t feature any Black Roses footage but it does feature Larry Fine and Humphrey Bogart.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Love Kills by Vinnie Vincent Invasion (1988, directed by Nigel Dick)

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After a stint as lead guitarist for KISS, Vinnie Vincent went on to form Vinnie Vincent Invasion.  Though the band was only together for four years before the members split up to pursue their own projects (two members of the band would go on to form Slaughter), Vinnie Vincent Invasion had a number of minor hits during its existence.

Love Kills was featured in Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and Freddy repaid them for the song by appearing in the music video.  This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who I think has directed at least one video for every band that has ever existed.

Enjoy!

Horror Song of the Day: Season of the Witch by Donovan

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Since we are now almost halfway through October, it only seems appropriate to share what may be the most famous (and perhaps the most covered) song about witchcraft, Donavon’s Season of the Witch!

This song was originally recorded in 1966 and it’s gone on to become a Halloween mainstay.  One fan of the song was future director Martin Scorsese, who originally planned to borrow the song’s title for one of his own films.  However, George Romero beat Scorsese out the gate with a film called Season of the Witch and Scorsese ended up renaming his film, Mean Streets.