Easily one of the most unique aspects of the schlocky 80s horror movie Slaughterhouse Rock is the fact that Devo provided most of the soundtrack and “Mickey” singer Toni Basil co-starred.  Devo and Basil teamed up for the movie’s end credits song, “The Only One”. 

For Ridley Scott’s 1986 cult classic fantasy movie Legend, Bryan Ferry provided “Is Your Love Strong Enough?” for the movie’s end credits.

Although they actually recorded a song called “Halloween”, we’re featuring “Spellbound” by Siouxsie and The Banshees for this Halloween edition of Musical Montage. 

The Friday the 13th series has also had a good relationship with heavy metal and hard rock, with musicians like Alice Cooper and Lion providing songs to entries in the franchise.  For Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Takes Manhattan, the hard rock duo Metropolis provided “The Darkest Side of Night” as the theme song for the movie.

While “Nightmare” by A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master co-star Tuesday Knight is arguably the best-remembered song from that movie’s soundtrack (that or “Are You Ready for Freddy” by the Fat Boys), there were a ton of other songs and artists featured, including glam metal band Vinnie Vincent Invasion with “Love Kills”.

First released in 1985 off of her Hounds of Love album, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” has hit a massive new level of popularity thanks to its pivotal inclusion in Stranger Things 4, hitting #1 on the UK charts and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 along with being one of the most streamed songs on Spotify and other streaming apps.

One of the most wonderfully terrible music videos ever made, The Karate Rap extolls the virtues of martial arts and the prowess of husband and wife practitioners, David Seeger and Holly Whitstock Seeger.

Coming out around the same time as other hip-hop movies like Breakin’, Beat Street, and Wild Style, Krush Groove was a fictionalized take on the founding of Def Jam Recordings featuring a slew of 80s hip-hop superstars playing themselves, including Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, New Edition, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, The Fat Boys, Sheila E. and more.