Dawn of the Dead (1978, dir by George Romero, DP: Michael Gornick)
Dario Argento not only produced and edited the European cut for 1978’s Dawn of the Dead, he also introduced George Romero to Goblin. The Italian band, famous for their horror movie soundtracks, provided the classic score to Dawn of the Dead.
(Admittedly, the score is is used far more prominently in Argento’s cut of the film than in Romero’s.)
For today’s horror song of the day, here is Goblin’s Main Theme From Dawn of the Dead.
It may be tempting to keep your demons but personally, I recommend going out to a field several states over, releasing them, and then running away as fast as you can. There are some thing that you just don’t need to keep with you.
Enjoy!
As I mentioned earlier, there have been many covers of Donovan’s Season of the Witch. This one is from Lana Del Rey.
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.
Today’s music video of the day is for the haunting piece of music that we all know from Requiem For A Dream and countless Olympic ice skating routines.
Anyone who says this is not a horror song has somehow forgotten watching Ellen Burstyn get electroshock treatment while Jared Leto loses his arm.
Enjoy!
I kind of feel like I didn’t give enough love to the vampires this Horrorthon. I’ll make up for it next year.
For now, though, allow me to offer up this Love Song For A Vampire, which was recorded by Annie Lennox for 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula!
Today’s horror song of the day is the only hymn to Satan to have been nominated for an Oscar. From 1976’s The Omen, here is Ave Satani. Don’t sing along as much as you may be tempted too. We’ve all seen Hellraiser.
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith, this version of this song was performed by the Tenerife Film Orchestra and Choir.
Todays music video of the latest from Raven Numan. Raven is the daughter of Gary Numan of Cars fame but she’s also a talented singer and performer in her own right.
This song is about obsession. It may start like your typical pop love song but listen to the lyrics and …. yikes!
Enjoy!
Did you know that Joan Jett did a cover of Season of the Witch?
I didn’t, at least not until the YouTube algorithm decided to let me know. For once, the algorithm was a force of good. (Apparently, this song was used on the soundtrack of Netflix’s Son of Sam documentary. I did watch that documentary and I do remember this song being used in it but I didn’t realize that it was Joan Jett performing the song.)
Here’s Joan Jett and the Blackhearts with their cover of Donovan’s Season of the Witch.
It’s Sunday and today’s horror song of the day comes from a film that I plan to watch later.
Mike Oldfield didn’t write Tubular Bells specifically for The Exorcist but it’s a song that works perfectly for the film. Oldfield’s song, which was rumored to have originally envisioned as being a Christmas instrumental, become an iconic horror them.
Through the Shattered Lens 