After bonding over their love of The Haunted Mansion and ghosts/monsters in general, Ryan Gosling and his friend Zach Shields formed the band Dead Man’s Bones and put out an album in 2009 and also had songs featured on the soundtracks for movies like The Conjuring.

Part of both the album and movie True Stories, Wild Wild Life finds David Byrne and the Talking Heads impersonating a ton of other 80’s musicians and features one of the first ever major appearances of John Goodman.

The Cure contributed to a number of soundtracks in the mid-90’s but their particular goth sound didn’t really fit with the over the top world of 1995’s Judge Dredd when they contributed the credits song “Dredd Song”.

Since hitting the scene around 2001, Ramin Djawadi has already left a mark on pop culture with his iconic Game of Thrones score as well as excellent scores for things like Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim and more.

As a side project to appearing in great movies like Scott Pilgrim and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Mary Elizabeth Winstead teamed up with music producer Dan the Automator for the 60’s French pop inspired Got a Girl.

Howard the Duck, if nothing else, had some massive musical talent behind the scenes as Thomas Dolby created all the songs for the movie’s band, The Cherry Bombs, and co-wrote the title track with George Clinton.

We close out this month of spooky Musical Montage picks with the perfect song to celebrate the holiday with today, the Misfits’ Halloween and Halloween II.

Obviously when you have Bette Midler starring in your Disney movie, there has to be at least one big musical number and there is when the evil Sanderson sisters invade the Salem Halloween party and perform their own version of Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” in the cult classic Hocus Pocus.

Rob Zombie’s love of horror comes through clearly in the music video for Dragula, which takes it’s name from Grandpa Munsters’ hot rod but also features clips and scenes from classics of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.

As part of her domination of all forms of media since the 80’s, Elvira aka Cassandra Peterson put out a number of albums, including 1994’s Monster Hits that included the song Monster Rap.

At the height of Freddy Kruger mania in the late 80’s, perhaps the most ridiculous piece of merchandise released was Freddy’s Greatest Hits, an album full of cheesy 60’s inspired songs like dance song “Do the Freddy”