A music video featuring someone carrying around a heart?
That sounds perfect for October!
Enjoy!
A music video featuring someone carrying around a heart?
That sounds perfect for October!
Enjoy!
For today’s horror song of the day, we have the main title track for 1980’s The Shining. Composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, this music perfectly capture the ominous grandeur of the Overlook Hotel and the snowy mountains that surround it.
It’s also a great song to play at the start of any road trip. Scare the Hell out of your friends. It’s fun!
This is not a Halloween song per se but it still feels appropriate for the season. Chloe sings that she’d rather go to Hell and have fun than go to Heaven and be bored. It sounds like someone just took a class on Paradise Lost.
I remember I saw a play in college where Hell was represented by lighting filters that were as red as my glorious hair. Unfortunately, someone screwed up and even the scenes that weren’t taking place in Hell were tinted red. Afterwards, I told the film’s cast, “You all were in Hell the entire time!” and they thought I was just referring to how much they disliked appearing in the play.
Anyway, where was I? It’s late. I’m rambling.
Enjoy!
Today’s song of the day is Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Barry Adamson.
This instrumental work appeared on the soundtrack for David Lynch’s 1997 film, Lost Highway, and its one of my favorite pieces of music. It’s amongst the songs that I tend to play whenever I’m dealing with writer’s block or if I just need an extra boost of energy to finish up a project. This song also seems like the perfect way to kick off the second half of October and our annual horrorthon!
I also have to say that the video below, which was put together by Jessie Essex, is amazingly cool.
This video definitely has a decadent Halloween sort of feel to it. One gets the feeling that it’s actually about an ancient pagan priestess come back to life, to the appreciation of her adoring fans.
Enjoy!
Technically, this isn’t a Halloween or a horror video, unless you live in California and you really hate the rain. But the foggy imagery and the deserted streets and the nighttime cinematography are definitely appropriate for the season.
Enjoy!
“The beat, the beat, the beat, the beat!”
Enjoy!
This has a psycho ballet vibe to it that I dug. It’s like “Come alive …. AND KILL!”
Enjoy!
Today is the 100th birthday of the pioneering indie director, Edward D. Wood, Jr!
Today’s song of the day is the theme from Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic of the director. In my opinion, this remains Burton’s first film. Burton also directed the musical video below while the great Toni Basil choreographed. And, best of all, the dancer is named Lisa Marie!
Happy birthday, Ed, wherever you may be.
Listening to this song, I thought it sounded exactly like the type of music that I like and that I wish more bands were performing. Then I read the comments on YouTube, full of people praising the band and video for embracing a retro aesthetic and I realized that, today, retro means anything that I thought was cool in the years before I hit 20
Never before have I felt so old. I know it happens to everyone eventually but I still had no idea that it would be the YouTube commentariat who would plunge me to straight into a midlife crisis.
Enjoy!