Mummy Came In My Room - A Manchester Morgue Compilation

Here's my latest compilation featuring 19 songs that appeared in various genre films. Some obscure, some not so obscure. I call it Mummy Came In My Room. Thanks to Eugene for inspiring the title.

I've made two covers for this one. The first, using a lovely piece of artwork from the film Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy. The second, a racy "Adults Only" version with topless hooters and a boogieing down mummy.

The tracklist (Artist - Song Title - Film in which song appears)

• Mike Armstrong - House of the Devil theme - House of the Devil
• Greg Stone - Here in the Darkness - Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama
• I'm A Monster - Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
• Lectro Shock - Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
• Carol Browning - Edge of Forever - The Forest
• Cocco - Lay Down My Arms - Kairo (Pulse)
• Keith Mansfield - Summers Coming - Rabid
• The Yellow Monkey - Girlie - Otogiriso aka St. John's Wort
• Gloria Lee - Falling Into You - American Zombie
• I'm a Zombie Too - American Zombie
• Lisa Rypdal - En Spennende Dag For Josefine - Rovdyr (Manhunt)
• Mark Blankfield - Hyde's Got Nothing To Hide - Jekyll & Hyde...Together Again
• World Sinks Except Japan - End Credits (not sure of the title or artist)
• Mama Don't Cry - Your Smile - Marronnier
• Hillbilly Hellcats - Dead Man's Party - Dead & Breakfast
• Suzanne Solari - Saviour - Roller Blade Warriors & Roller Blade
• Tomoyasu Hotei - Save Me - Samurai Fiction
• Harry Manfredini & John Carridi - Slaughter High Theme - Slaughter High
• Kou Nakagawa - High School Murder Case - Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl

Here, in the darkness

Some notes on most of the tracks:

Mike Armstrong - Opening Theme from House of the Devil. For some reason this excellent Cars-inspired track (performed by Ti West's friend Mike Armstrong) is not on the soundtrack release. I've ripped it from the DVD, so this should be one of the few places to find it online.

I'm a Monster & Lectro Shock from Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein. I can't remember the name of the band so I'll just call them Frank & The Steins until someone corrects me.

Carol Browning - Edge of Forever from The Forest. Plays over the end credits of Donald "The Love Butcher" Jones' 1982 cannibal slasher film The Forest.

Cocco - Lay Down My Arms from Kairo. This is an alarmingly upbeat song to end such a downbeat movie with.

Keith Mansfield - Summer's Coming from David Cronenberg's Rabid. Credit to this track goes out to Franco from the HorrorDVDs forum. He found it and posted in online, it's an excellent track that I really wanted to include on this compilation.

Gloria Lee - Falling Into You from American Zombie. Falling Into You doesn't really have anything to do with the movie, I'm thinking Gloria Lee is related to director Grace Lee.

I'm A zombie Too also from American Zombie.It turns out zombies are just a bunch of damn hippies. There are two versions of I'm A Zombie Too in the film. First is an acoustic hippy version during Live Dead and there is also a hot-rockin' version at the beginning of the end credits. Out of boredom, I just roughly edited the two versions together.

Lisa Rypdal - En Spennende Dag For Josefine from Norwegian slasher Rovdyr (Manhunt). Known as Naked: Booby Trap in Japan.

The World Sinks Except Japan - The credits are entirely in Japanese for this one so I'm not sure the artist/title. Any help on this will be appreciated.

Suzanne Solari - Saviour from Roller Blade Warriors. I ripped this from Roller Blade Warriors, but it looks like it's also in another movie called Roller Blade. Somehow they decided this is the official anthem for any Roller Blade themed post-apocalyptic films. Warning on this one, ripped from an .avi file. Not the ideal source for ripping, obviously, but I'm pretty sure Suzanne never put out an album.

Hillbilly Hellcats - Dead Man's Party from Dead & Breakfast. While is shares a title with Oingo Boingo track this is not a cover of that song. Note: this track is tagged as being from Dead & Buried. Ignore that, I wasn't paying attention when I typed that.

Kou Nakagawa - High School Murder Case - Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. I don't know what's more offensive in this film, the Wrist-Cutters Club or the extreme Ganguro girls with giant lips and bones in their hair.

Harry Manfredini & John Carridi - Theme from Slaughter High. I love Harry, I do, but this song really kind of gives me a headache. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it though.

Mad Disco

If you're still longing for more terrible novelty disco after the one two punch of Sesame Street Fever and Sesame Disco, it doesn't get much more terrible, or more disco than Mad Disco.

Sound quality isn't the best, but then I think this record was one of those flexi records that were stuck in the middle of the magazine, so thats to be expected.

1. DISCO SUICIDE
2. SORRY, NO WORDS
3. THIS TIME, THIS NIGHT
4. BARELY ALIVE
5. THE DISCO CLAP
6. IT'S A GAS

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Fun fact: Disco Suicide is the greatest song title in the history of mankind.

Peter Steele Dead at 48

And another completely out of nowhere death:



Stolen from Rolling Stone:
"Peter Steele, the deep-voiced singer, songwriter and bassist for Brooklyn’s goth-metal outfit Type O Negative, has passed away at the age of 48. In an e-mail to CBS News, the band’s manager Mike Renault confirmed Steele’s death, writing “Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure. That’s all the details we have right now.” Steele was rumored to have been ill in the days leading up to his death, Blabbermouth reports.

News of Steele’s death was initially received with disbelief as Steele pulled a hoax in 2005, posting his picture and the years “1962-2005″ on the group’s official website. Soon after, Steele all but disappeared as he battled drug problems and a prison stint. But today as members of Steele’s circle began to confirm his passing, the Type O Negative message boards opened this morning with the message, “Please play nice and expect statements from the band and family later today. Thank you for your understanding and support.”

Type O Negative became one of the most unlikely bands to break into the mainstream in the 1990s with their third album Bloody Kisses, which became the first album released by Roadrunner Records to go platinum. The album boasted rock radio hits “Christian Woman,” a cover of Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze” and the Beavis & Butthead-approved “Black No. 1.” (”These guys are like a cross between Danzig and Megadeth,” Beavis said at the time.) The 6′ 7″ singer recorded seven albums with Type O Negative, the most recent being 2007’s Dead Again, which entered the Billboard 200 at Number 27, the band’s best debut."

As a huge fan of TON's Bloody Kisses and October Rust albums (and their Black Sabbath cover, that scared the hell out of me when I was 13) this is pretty devastating news. I never got too into their later albums but Pete seemed like a great guy with a tremendous voice and a wonderfully dark and bizarre sense of humor. Obviously, he will be missed.

Shock 'Em Dead on DVD!

Director Mark Freed has taken it upon himself to unleash his heavy metal horror masterpiece Shock 'Em Dead on DVD.

Those of you unlucky enough to have not seen this brilliant piece of crap, a brief synopsis. The film stars Stephen Quatros (this Steven Dorff/Dennis Quaid looking motherfucker right here) as Angel Martin, a down on his luck, pizza making weenie who dreams of having Yngwie level shredding abilities. Unfortunately, Angel, like myself, just doesn't really have the chops. Not having access to a time travelling phone booth which he can use to attend a 16-month extensive guitar traing course Angel does what anyone would do. He sells his soul to a demented voodoo lady in the name of Rock 'n' Roll immortality. You can probably figure out the direction the movie takes at this point.

I'm not sure if Mark Freed intended this to be this campy, but I swear this movie is one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen. Add in Traci Lords as Angel's band's manager and scenes of one-man twin guitar action and you've got a surefire recipe for heavy metal horror success. I put this one right up there with Black Roses or Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare.

Anyone who is interested can order the Director's Cut DVD here for $14.95 + $2.95 shipping.

Extra features include:

• Audio Commentary with Director Mark Freed and the Associate Producer
• Deleted & Extended Scenes (5:21 minutes running time)
• Original Audition Tapes, with Picture-in-Picture comparison to the actual scenes in the film. (6:24 minutes running time)
• Two Photo Galleries (Production Stills & Wardrobe Photos)

My question, how has Warm Up With Traci Lords not had some sort of DVD release. I mean seriously, they would sell millions of these. A bunch of millions.

New Compilation at Illogical Contraption

Miss me? I've been absent of late for a good reason this time. I've gotten, not really a promotion in that there is no monetary increase, but a different title/position at my job. More responsibility, more chances for me to screw something up - plus it's technically two jobs in one - why woud I think they'd give me more money? What am I, an asshole? With this job(s) comes more hours than I've worked in the past few years - since I started Manchester in fact - so I don't have a lot of extra time to do what I feel like doing.

This new job title is good because I get to deal with way less people and their bullshit. I'm not a team player, I'm a "give me a list of shit to do, and leave me to do it by myself" kind of employee. However it's bad because it is absolutely exhausting. A mysterious kind of exhausting where it doesn't seem like you've really done all that much but by the time you get home you are just wiped for the rest of the night and you just feel sleepy, bored and kind of angry. It's the exact same feeling I get when I try to get through an episode of The Cleveland Show.

I've been a bit zombified lately. Not in a cool "infected by experimental military toxins, so I've stopped living and become a mixed-up, flesh-eating zombie" way, more in a Fido worker/helper/drone kind of way. To sum it up, I'm not going anywhere, but until I adjust to my new schedule my posting will probably be less frequent. Of course I've been pretty relaxed with my posting schedule for some time now, so this doesn't really affect anything.

That said, I do have something you guys should dig. I'll now point you towards something I'd been working on this past month for Illogical Contraption - a blog of unparalleled badassery. Shelby Cobras, proprietor of Illogical invited me to take part in their "Bromantic Interludes" series in which they give guests from other blogs a theme and let them have a go at a compilation. My theme was the fine art of "Murder", and I'm kicking myself now for not using the Malevolent Creation song The Fine Art of Murder on my compilation. Drat. Maybe they'll let me do a sequel? Anywho, head on over and check it out.

4 out of 5 serial murderers prefer Burger King's 1/4 lb. Double Cheeseburger

You don't see many ads these days with bound cheerleader corpses. I wonder if he fed her first?






Me, I would've used Leatherface over Ghostface. But then maybe a guy who eats human meat isn't the best guy to use to advertise for your hamburger franchise.

Yes that's a toy, I couldn't find an actual picture where his hand could be holding a cup.

Z-z-z-Zwap! Batmania: Songs Inspired By The Batman TV Series

This is Batmania, a compilation of songs inspired by current cartoon mayor Adam West's Batman TV series. Adam actually sings 3 of the tracks himself, you also get to hear Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin have a go at it. This, as you'd imagine, is essential listening for any and all Batmaniacs.

1. "Batman Theme" - Neal Hefti

2. "The Story Of Batman" - Adam West

3. "The Capture" - Burgess Meredith

4. "Batman To The Rescue" - LaVern Baker

5. "Batman Theme" - Al Hirt

6. "Ratman And Bobin In The Clipper Caper" - The Brothers Four

7. "Batman A Go Go" - Combo Kings

8. "Miranda" - Adam West

9. "That Man" - Peggy Lee

10. "Batman Theme" - Davie Allan & The Arrows

11. "The Joker Is Wild" - Jan & Dean

12. "The Riddler" - Frank Gorshin

13. "The Escape" - Burgess Meredith

14. "Batman And Robin" - Adam West

15. "Batman Theme" - Joel McNeely/Royal Scottish National Orchestra And Chorus

Rozz Williams - Pig

Rozz Williams' music from the experimental short film Pig. In addition to acting in the film he also co-wrote and directed it with filmmaker Nico B.

1. The Apartment
2. Desert
3. Abandoned House
4. Why God Permits Evil
5. Why God Permits Evil Part 2
6. The Conversation
7. Death

PIG

I snatched this one from Cinemaggedon, so thanks to the original uploader for making this available.

Creepshow - Now a Very Scary Graphic Novel

Here is the graphic novelization of George A. Romero's film Creepshow published by Penguin imprint Plume in July 1982, a month prior to the film's release. Written by one Stephen King, and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson with Michele Wrightson while the cover art is done by Jack Kamen. Special effects by Tom Savini.

Everyone visiting this site has seen Creepshow, so there's no real point in recapping the short stories contained within, but here you go anyway:

• "Father's Day" - Will somebody please get this guy some fucking cake?
• "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" - Stephen King is Swamp Thing
• "The Crate"
• "Something to Tide You Over"
• "They're Creeping Up on You"

I was a little upset that my favorite line of the movie "Meteor Shit!" is different here. "Meteorcrap!" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Still, this is worth a look if you're a fan of the film.

I drove out there with the remains of three human beings... well, two human beings and Wilma.

Tangerine Dream - Heartbreakers

This is Tangerine Dream movie soundtrack number 11,942, from the 1984 film Heartbreakers

1. Heartbreakers (02:30)

2. Footbridge To Heaven (02:56)

3. Twilight Painter (04:15)

4. Gemini (03:38)

5. Rain In N.Y. City (03:23)

6. Pastime (02:57)

7. The Loser (03:19)

8. Breathing The Night Away (02:27)

9. Desire (05:35)

10. Thorny Affair (03:10)

11. Daybreak (04:07)

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Phelpster's Custom Covers - Vintage 80's VHS Style

I haven't posted any of my custom covers lately, but I've certainly been making them. Especially now that I'm equipped with a Canon Pixma and can print these things out at will.

Lately I've been making DVD covers based on old VHS cover designs. Sort of a "What if Vestron or Cannon were making DVDs today while still using their old cover designs?" It's kind of a pointless thing to do, but I'm sure some of you VHS art adorers will understand what I'm trying to do here.

Day of the Maniac - This is actually for Sergio Martino's film All The Colors of the Dark, under a alternate title. The VHS was put out on the Super Video label, which I'm not familiar with, but I loved the logo and the lines at the top so I had to do something with it. I know this one is a bit less than simplistic with the grunge effect and the unusually large amount of stuff on the back but I really think this one came out solid.

Yog The Space Monster - aka Space Amoeba, the cover I used for this template was Vestron's release of a film called Truck Stop Women. I dropped the Truck Stop Women art (although I did make a DVD cover for that one as well), added an awesome Yog poster and decided to leave the VHS wear marks on there.

Street Trash - I believe VTC was a UK based label, but I'm not certain. This one looks accurate enough onscreen, however my printing of it didn't come out too hot, looks more brown than gold. I still think it's a pretty sharp looking design they used for their covers, although their clamshell design was a bit nicer looking.

Silent Scream - Media has one of my favorite VHS logo screens, probably due to some Elm Street films I wore out as a kid being put out by Media.

The fun thing about these is you can also see what they might've done with a current release:

Sesame Disco!

And here's the 1979 follow up to Sesame Street Fever. They call it Sesame Disco. Me, I would've gone with another disco reference, something like We Are Sesame perhaps. Rhymes with Family, it doesn't work on paper, but it makes sense if you're saying it out loud. Right? Who knows, maybe Sly and/or the Family Stone would've sued... But as simple a title as Sesame Disco is, it gets the job done. Wicked cool cover though.

Rumor has it Robin Gibb had creative differences with Grover while recording Sesame Street Fever, which is why he was not asked to appear on this album.

Side One

What Makes Music? - The Entire Cast

Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco - Cookie Monster and the Girls

The Happiest Street in the World - Big Bird, the Kids and the Girls

Sing - The Girls

Side Two

Disco Frog - Kermit the Frog and the Girls

Doin' the Trash - Oscar the Grouch and the Girls

Bein' Green - Kermit the Frog and the Girls

Sesame Street Fever

Like Kermit D. Frog? Like disco? Here you go, the Grammy nominated album Sesame Street Fever. Six tracks of white hot disco action. Or something like that.

This album is goofy as all hell - as expected - but I will say Robin Gibb's track Trash is actually quite good as far as novelty children's disco goes.

Side One

Sesame Street Fever - Robin Gibb, The Count, Grover, Ernie & Cookie Monster

Doin' the Pigeon - Bert and the Girls

Rubber Duckie - Ernie and his Rubber Duckie

Side Two

Trash - Robin Gibb

C is for Cookie - Cookie Monster and the Girls

Has Anybody Seen My Dog? - Marty and Grover

Look for the creatively titled follow up Sesame Disco shortly. That's right, they made more than one of these

Corey Haim - December 23rd, 1971 - March 10th, 2010

"Actor Corey Haim, who starred in “Lost Boys,” has died of an apparent overdose. The actor, 38, had a long history of substance abuse and once told Larry King of CNN that he would be a lifelong “chronic relapser.” According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, Haim died at 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 10, at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank.

The actor collapsed at the apartment he shared with his mother, Judy, around 1:30 a.m. and she called the paramedics. It is said that he had not been feeling well in recent days, exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Four prescription drug bottles were found in the home."

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Alyssa Milano - Do You See Me?

Now for something absolutely random, Alyssa Milano's 1992 album Do You See Me? Not a question. This was Alyssa's fifth and final album (although she did have a single in 1993) before stopping to focus on her acting career.

If you listened to any pop music from the late 80's or early 90's, you should pretty much know what to expect here - save for a killer guitar solo in track 6, I didn't see that coming.

1 Do You See Me? 4:43

2 Talk to Me 3:41

3 One Last Dance 4:53

4 Puppet on a String 5:02

5 Somewhere in Jamaica 4:30

6 Waiting for Your Love 4:34

7 If Only 3:44

8 Everything You Do 3:58

Angus - Extended Motion Picture Soundtrack

This post marks the 800th post I've made on The Manchester Morgue. To celebrate this monumental achievement (of doing nothing special, really), here is an extended soundtrack from the 1995 film Angus. Angus was the film debut of both Charlie Talbert and James Van Der Beek. It was directed by Patrick Read Johnson (Spaced Invaders, Baby's Day Out) who most recently directed a movie called '77 that I have been dying to see for about 3 years now.

Like with most soundtracks, several songs that appeared in Angus were omitted for various reasons. So I've put together a semi-complete collection of the songs that appeared in the movie - complete with CD cover. Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to find 3 tracks, so these 3 tracks prevent this from being complete. If anyone has them, please let me know:

• Squeeze Box! - Interstate Polka (did you know The Who has a song called Squeeze Box?)
• George Sandeur - Blue Way
• Sun 60 - Each and Every (the name Sun 60 is almost impossible to search for)

Since I went through and found all of these from various sources the quality ranges from 128 to 320, but everything sounds fine. I've also ripped the version of Love Spit Love's Am I Wrong from the DVD that has a marching band playing along to the song. There is some background noise and maybe a bit of dialog, but I think the marching band sounds pretty cool so I wanted to include it on here.

1. Green Day - J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)
2. Ash - Jack Names The Planets
3. Dance Hall Crashers - Enough
4. Ash - Kung Fu
5. Riverdales - Back To You
6. Smoking Popes - Mrs. You and Me
7. Weezer - You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
8. The Goo Goo Dolls -Ain't That Unusual
9. The Muffs - Funny Face
10. Tilt - White Homes
11. Pansy Division - Deep Water
12. Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong
13. Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong (Marching Band Version)
14. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
15. Smoking Popes - Rubella
16. Peter Gabriel - Washing Of The Water
17. Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You
18. Buster Poindexter - Hot, Hot, Hot

Jock Itch

Mall Madness Massacre - A Manchester Morgue Compilation

Well, I did miss another day of work, which means I've been more or less trapped in my house for 4 days now - I think I'm starting to see where Jack Torrance was coming from. I've yet to attack my annoying wife with an axe, nor do I have an annoying wife or intend to attack this nonexistent person with an axe, but being stuck in my house with nowhere to go and no way to go there is definitely starting to get to me. It's boring and depressing here, and to make matters worse I've had Dee D. Jackson's Meteor Man (featured on the last compilation) stuck in my head for about 3 days. Who would've thought Space Disco could be so infectious? Damn you Cosmobells for introducing me to Mrs. DD Jackson's work.

Anyway, I did finish another of the several compilations I've been working on. I like to call this one Mall Madness Massacre. This cover is a bit cheap and sloppy - just like I like my women (zing). I used some teens from a poster from the movie The Outing, real photo of a mall and Jason's knife from a Friday the 13th part VIII poster with a shadow that is a bit too big for where it is in relation to the teens from The Outing poster. But, for some reason, I like it and I think it kinda works, so I'm just sticking with it.

This compilation is full of songs that are featured in a movie. Usually songs that played over opening/closing credits, but there are also some musical numbers from some award winning actresses thrown in for good measure. The layout for the tracklist is Artist (if I know who it is) - Song - Movie song was featured in.

Gene Hobson - Opening Theme from Student Bodies

Jon Mikl Thor - Walkin' In A Graveyard - Graveyard

Michael Sambello - Monster Squad - The Monster Squad

Random Task Collective - Barricade - Wasting Away

Demi Moore - Don't Look Back - One Crazy Summer

Sally Dworsky - I'll Find My Way - The Wizard

Honeymoon Suite - What Does It Take - One Crazy Summer

Magneto Jones & The Extremes - Busterburger Jingle - Hamburger: The Motion Picture

Sukeban Deka - End Credits (Not sure who does this one)

Vixen - Runnin' - Hardbodies

Annie Ross and the Renzettes - Personality - Basket Case III

Bobby Vinton - Sealed With A Kiss - All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

Jason Scheff - Life Sux 4 Me - Netherbeast Incorporated

Jennifer Connelly - Sway - Dark City Director's Cut

Jennifer Connelly - The Night Has 1,000 Eyes - Dark City Director's Cut

Tony Darrow - We Do Things My Way - Street Trash

Depeche Mode - Pimpf - Mahakaal

Executvie Koalo - End Credits (not sure who does this either)

Phoebe Cates - How Do I Let You Know - Private School

Vantage Point - Slaughterhouse - Walk Through The Door

Slaughterhouse - End Credits

We need silver bullets, We need wooden stakes, Normal stuff won't stop 'em, Cause they live on hate

As usual, some notes (in no particular order):

Gene Hobson - Opening Theme from Student Bodies

While I feel that Student Bodies failed pretty astoundingly as a comedy (horsehead book ends, that's funny?), this opening score piece is quite spooky and effective.

Jon Mikl Thor - Walkin' In A Graveyard from Graveyard

It turns out Jon Mikl Thor actually really has an excellent voice that would've made him fit right in with a deathrock band circa 1984 - if he wasn't so busy bodybuilding and exploding rubber hot water bottles with his mouth. Interesting fact: J.M. Thor has acted in 7 movies, 3 of which have the word Nightmare in the title.

Random Task Collective - Barricade from Wasting Away

Wasting Away is an unusual zombie comedy from 2007. It's been released on DVD in the UK, I recommend checking it out. This song was ripped from the end credits so it's a bit shorter than the real version, but it's still most of the way complete. It's available to download at iTunes, but being a Zune owner I don't want to download iTunes just to buy a song. This song is catchy as all hell, probably my favorite on this collection. This thing is Dee D. Jackson catchy.

Joseph Garrison (?) - Theme + Vantage Point - Walk Through The Door from Slaughterhouse

I've got a couple from Slaughterhouse here. Starting with the opening theme music. How do you lose half of your audience right off the bat? Play wacky big band music over real footage of pigs being butchered in a slaughterhouse. I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat 3-5 times a day and have no plans of stopping, but even I found this opening scene to be in poor taste. The next song, by a group called Vantage Point is actually rather good, even though this version is the short version I ripped from the end credits. I'm not familiar with the band, but it looks like they had an entire album worth of tracks listed in the credits. If anyone has this album please share or let me know where to find it.

Depeche Mode - Pimpf from Mahakaal

This was kind of an Indian take on Freddy Krueger and the Elm Street films. Being Indian, this means the movie is 2 1/2 hours long, and has several full length musical numbers for no reason. This Depeche Mode song seems like a weird song to have in an Indian movies, it's in there because the makers of Mahakaal didn't actually have permission to include this song in the film.

Michael Sambello - Monster Squad from...well, you know

I've put Rock Until You Drop on two compilations, but I always overlook this track when I watch the move. Not sure why. It's not as fun as Rock Until You Drop, but I suck for not including this one like 5 compilations ago. If you ever wondered what King Tut era Steve Martin would sound like rapping about killing monsters, I think it'd sound a little something like this.

Jennifer Connelly - Sway + The Night Has 1,000 Eyes from Dark City

Jennifer originally performed the songs herself, but I guess producers wanted someone with a stronger voice, so they got Anita Kelsey instead. In the director's cut, Alex Proyas put Jennifer's vocals back in the film, these two short tracks are ripped from that DVD. Anita has the better voice - being a professional singer and all - but I do like Jennifer's take as well.

Demi More - Don't Look Back (Not a Boston cover) from One Crazy Summer

Apparently, pretty much any actress can sing, at least a little bit. One film studio that currently seems to really know this is Disney. It seems that any girl who has ever appeared in one of their shows gets to put out an album. Now, to prevent myself from sounding too much like a creepy weirdo I should say that I don't voluntarily watch anything Disney related, but having two little girls live in the same house as you, you're going to see a lot of Disney if you like it or not. And every one of those Disney girls has an album. Even the unpopular ones. I'm sure even Harper has one coming right around the corner.

Honeymoon Suite - What Does It Take also from One Crazy Summer

And another from the 2nd best movie ever made in which a man named Bobcat runs around in a Godzilla suit, terrifying Japanese people with his Kaiju-ian antics.

Tony Darrow - We Do Things My Way - Street Trash

This is one raunchy lounge tune, I wouldn't listen to it around anyone averse to fuck-bombs. It's also one of the rare songs where the singer "dies" during the song. The Guan-di song from My Name Is Bruce is another that comes to mind.

Vixen - Runnin' from Hardbodies

I actually found this and a couple others on a blog called Hard Rock/AOR Heaven. They have an excellent 13 volume collection of rare and hard to find music. Head on over, but plan to do some downloading.

Phoebe Cates - How Do I Let You Know from Private School

Credit to Hard Rock/AOR Heaven for this one too. I wanted to include this since I have the Demi Moore and Jennifer Connelly tracks on here as well.

Magneto Jones & The Extremes - Busterburger Jingle

I meant to put this on my very first compilation with companion piece Hamburgers For America, but I just completely forgot about it until revisiting the movie a few weeks back.

Jason Scheff - Life Sux 4 Me - Netherbeast Incorporated

This is a rather funny vampire film with Dave Foley and Judd Nelson. Check it out, the theory on why the Tortoise beat the Hare is pretty amazing.

Bobby Vinton - Sealed With A Kiss from All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

This 2006 film STILL has not officially been released in the United States - the very United States in which it was filmed. Of course any horror fan who was curious found a way to see the film way back in 2007-2008, but still, why sit on a movie for years before releasing it? While it's not a mindbending cinematic experience, Mandy Lane is more watchable than a lot of stuff that's been released theatrically in the past 3 years. At least throw the thing out on DVD advertising "featuring an actress who was in Zombieland for 120 seconds!" They'd surely make some money off of it if for no other reason than Amber Heard is really, really, not ugly. You'd be amazed how many people will watch something if they think an actor or actress in it is attractive. I've been guilty of this myself numerous times and we all know what a sophisticated, high-brow individual I am.

Annie Ross and the Renzettes - Personality from Basket Case III

How do you make a Henenlotter film weirder? Put in a musical number with Annie Ross of jazz vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (she was Ross) and a bunch of deformed mutants.

Narcoleptic Sorcerer in the House of Eventual Doom - A Manchester Morgue Compilation

Today, thanks to a weird snow/ice storm I got to miss going to work. For most people, this is a good thing. Not me. Since I need to buy a new car very soon, missing a day of work is kind of a nuisance. I personally hate missing work due to bad weather because it combines two things I hate the most, losing money and calling a place to get out of doing something.

Oh well, the good news was that I was able to finish up a compilation I've been working on. I call this one Narcoleptic Sorcerer in the House of Eventual Doom. Because this dude is clearly asleep, and this lady - while her demise is surely imminent - will probably have a bit of time to kill before her offing. This kind of creative stupidity is the result of reading Famous Monsters of Filmland while watching Monster Chiller Horror Theatre on SCTV.

This compilation features songs that share a name with a movie (like The Thing With No Heads, Novelty Cigarette Lighter of Doom and Werewolf in Unnecessarily Short Gym Shorts before it). The variety on display here will probably give most people a headache. Jumping from Zao to early Ministry to Genghis Tron to Dee D. Jackson all in the span of about 80 minutes can't be good for you brain. But, if you're like me and you are on the verge of dementia, this should be a fun listen.

Looking at the forecast for Sunday and Wednesday I'll probably have those days off also (crap!), so I should be able to finish up a couple others I'm working on, tentatively titled Mall Madness Massacre and Mummy Came In My Room.

Ministry - Revenge

The Lillingtons - Caveman

God is an Astronaut - Zodiac

Zao - Autopsy

Omega Lithium - Stigmata

Abgott - Epitaph

Within Temptation - The Howling

The Birthday Massacre - To Die For

Glös - Sunshine

Artesia - Invitation

Constants - The Nameless

Ryashon - The Warrior

Agents of Oblivion - Dead Girl (Acid Bath Cover)

Los Straitjackets - Rockula (movie here, music here

Amorphis - Alone

Genghis Tron - Badlands

The Damned - She

The Ghastly Ones - Werewolves on Wheels

The Dead Elvi - Gothica

Scientist - Ghost of Frankenstein

Dee D. Jackson - Meteor Man

In the death of all that’s long been said and done before (Pt. 1)

We’ll wish that we were something more(Pt. II)

Couple of notes:

The Birthday Massacre - To Die For - Shares a title with several movies, the Nicole Kidman movie from 1995, the vampire movie that was in Fangoria a lot in the early 90s that nobody has actually seen, and even some kind of homosexual ghost film. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I know I put The Birthday Massacre on a lot of these things, I own a bit of stock in the band.

Constants - The Nameless - Okay, so the actual title is Los sin nombre, but it still counts. If you like this one, Constants album The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension is actually available for free from Gimmesound . It's pretty excellent, worth the minute to sign up for an account there. Also check out Junius from the same label.

The Dead Elvi - Gothica - I just remembered the movie title is spelled Gothika, but I've already gotten it uploaded, and it's a rather good song, so I'm going to just let the 'c' for 'k' mix up stand.

Abgott - Epitaph - Shares a title with the 1987 Joseph Merhi film. Merhi has directed and produced a shit-ton of low rent schlock like Fresh Kill, The Newlydeads and Magic Kid.

Dee D. Jackson - Meteor Man - Jackson's song came out in 1978, Robert Townsend's film came out in 1993, I think Robbie owes someone some money.

Genghis Tron - Badlands - These guys are insane, with some of the most menacing vocals I've ever heard - from a man named Mookie no less. Sadly being a brief instrumental piece this song doesn't show off their full badassery, be sure to check out their album Board Up The House. For example (really cool video, too):

Zelda Rubinstein - May 28th, 1933 - January 27, 2010

Goodbye Atrocia Frankenstone.

The life of a repo chick is always intense?

The Good:
Repo Chick is kind of a babe.
Marcelino from Seinfeld is a major character.

The Bad:
Green Screen. So much green screen.
Those computer generated "car driving" shots - holy shit, really?

The Ugly:
The huge terrifying broad from the totally real, and not at all fake show Operation Repo makes an appearance.