Coming off the soundtrack of 1969’s The Italian Job, “On Days Like These” by Matt Monro memorably opens the movie by playing in full over the opening credit sequence as a car speeds through a winding mountain road.

In celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary in 2018, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hit “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” had a music video shot for it featuring future The Boys co-stars Jack Quaid and Erin Moriarty, along with Sasha Frolova

Bram Stoker’s Dracula celebrated its 30th anniversary this past weekend, which seems like the perfect time to highlight its end credits song, “Love Song for a Vampire” by Annie Lennox.

When you have both Ice T and Ice Cube in your movie, like 1992’s awesome Walter Hill deep-cut Trespass, it would be criminal not to have them collaborate on a song.  Thankfully they did with the movie’s title track, “Trespass”. 

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.

Although it features the rocking tune “Devil’s Son” by metal band DC La Croix, 1988’s Hack-O-Lantern strangely isn’t a part of the surprisingly large heavy metal horror subgenre that includes movies like Trick r Treat, Black Roses, and Rock n Roll Nightmare.

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”.

For 2003’s The Haunted Mansion movie, Nelly contributed the song “Iz U” to the movie’s soundtrack and had a spooky music video to go along with it.

Although not included on an actual Red Hot Chili Peppers album until 2003’s Greatest Hits, “Soul to Squeeze” was included on the soundtrack album for Coneheads and became a hit single for RHCP.

Coming off her third solo album, The Voyager, She’s Not Me by Jenny Lewis features a music video directed by Lewis that pays homage to some of her past childhood acting roles, like The Wizard and Troop Beverly Hills, with some help from famous friends like Vanessa Bayer and Fred Armisen.