The Nightmare on Elm Street series has had an ecclectic mix of music on the various movie soundtracks from The Fat Boys to Dokken and for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, rap group Whodini performed “Anyway I Gotta Swing It”.

With Saw X out this coming weekend (and our Saw II commentary this week), it seems like the perfect time to highlight Mudvayne’s “Forget to Remember”, which was featured on the Saw II soundtrack.

Kicking off the insanity of the cult 80s musical comedy Voyage of the Rock Aliens, the movie’s star Pia Zadora joined Jermaine Jackson for “When the Rain Begins to Fall”. 

Eric Clapton helped set the tone for the music of the Lethal Weapon series in the first movie of the franchise and he returned to help out Sting with the Lethal Weapon 3 soundtrack song “It’s Probably Me”

Coming out in 1999 to coincide with the movie Man on the Moon, alternative rock superstars R.E.M. contributed “The Great Beyond” to the movie’s soundtrack. 

The Meteor Man celebrated its 30th anniversary this past weekend. While it featured artists like Naughty By Nature, Luther Vandross, Cypress Hill, and Big Daddy Kane in special appearances, the leading single from the movie’s soundtrack was “It’s for You” by Shanice. 

When you name your movie after a song, you definitely need to have a version of that song on your soundtrack and luckily 1994’s I Like It Like That had a killer cover of Pete Rodriguez’s “I Like It Like That” from the supergroup The Blackout All-Stars.

Superhero movies like Daredevil and The Punisher weren’t the only genre embracing nu metal in the early 2000s with horror movies like 2002’s Ghost Ship, which featured Mudvayne’s “Not Falling” on the soundtrack.