Sounding more like the opening to an 80s sitcom than a horror movie, you nevertheless hear “Say the Word” by The Facade Band at least 3 times over the course of the ridiculous Primal Rage from 1988.

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris discuss the first trailer for the wrestling biopic The Iron Claw, Miramax getting the TV rights to Halloween, Saw X, the premiere of Loki Season 2, the 1999 creature feature Bats, the Christian Bale mystery The Pale Blue Eye and more.

Coming out in 2018 off the album Simulation Theory, Muse’s “Thought Contagion” has some creepy vibes in the music but it’s being featured in Musical Montage for its neon-drenched music video that is partially an homage to “Thriller”. 

The team behind Blumhouse’s Halloween trilogy is back this October to take on another horror classic, The Exorcist, with The Exorcist: Believer.

Black Adam remained on top of the box office over Halloweekend against all the various horror offerings also in theaters.

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.

The “final” chapter of the new Halloween rebootquel trilogy that began in 2018, Halloween Ends is a bizarre and terrible way to cap off this new series and potentially the eternal battle between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.