When singer and actress Tuesday Knight was cast to replace Patricia Arquette in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, she pitched director Renny Harlin the idea of writing a song for the movie which became the movie’s intro, “Nightmare”.

When his heavy metal hero Sammi Curr dies, a young fan is given a copy of his unreleased final album from a radio DJ friend but he soon finds out that Sammi’s soul has returned from hell and is trapped inside the record and looking to get out and cause mayhem.

The first single off the album of the same name, “Bark at the Moon” was also Ozzy’s first-ever music video and features the rock legend as a Dr. Jekyll style mad scientist who creates a potion that transforms him into a werewolf.

While pretty much everything about Caddyshack II was a disappointment, especially its box office and critical reception, Kenny Loggins managed to score another top ten hit with the movie’s theme song, “Nobody’s Fool”.

A major hit for Queen in 1984, Radio Ga Ga became a staple of the band’s live performances and its music video heavily features the silent film classic Metropolis by German director Fritz Lang as the band flies above the future city of the film in a flying car and then performs for the working-class citizens.

While its theme song is still one of Phil Collins’ best known and loved singles, the movie it came from, 1984’s Against All Odds, is much more of an 80s deep cut starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, and James Woods.

When the 90s X-Men cartoon crossed the Pacific and aired on TV Tokyo from 1994 to 1995, it got a brand new theme song and opening title sequence featuring the music of Japanese rock band Ambience and their song “Rising”.

The follow-up to Top Gun, Days of Thunder couldn’t quite live up to the bar set by its predecessor, including on the soundtrack side as the main single from the movie, “Show Me Heaven” by Maria McKee, failed to chart in the US, although it was a pretty massive hit worldwide.

Although they are destined to unite the universe in peace through song, the Wyld Stallyns got some help on the soundtrack for this weekend’s Bill and Ted Face the Music from Weezer with the fourth single of their upcoming Van Weezer album, “Beginning of the End”.

A 90s cult classic, the first House Party cemented the fun and coolness of Kid ‘N Play and was filled with slamming 90s hip-hop, including the contribution of the movie’s stars to the soundtrack, “Funhouse”.

Along with a score by the great James Horner, 1985’s Cocoon also featured a song by soundtrack mainstay Michael Sembello called “Gravity”, which featured a video directed by Cocoon’s director, Ron Howard.