Its Halloween! Even better, IT'S SHOWTIME!!!

Jump in the line... of cars, this Friday for a special Halloween viewing of Beetlejuice(1988) at Blue Starlite. 

  There are plenty of outstanding attributes to "Beetlejuice" (Michael Keaton's performance, the special effects, the sinister humor,etc), but it’s the brilliant use of Harry Bellefonte’s calypso tunes that have always stood out for me.

The songs Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) and Jump in the Line(Shake Senora) easily  became quintessential Halloween songs because of the movie.   
 Their inclusion is a perfect fit to the odd charm of the film, and its bizarre to think it Day-O wasn't the  first choice for the dinner party poltergeist scene. 

So, in the spirit of "Beetlejuice" and the spooky holiday, here are some of my other favorite music moments in horror films.

 Jeepers Creepers (2001) – The persistent     presence of the song of the same    name provides a momentum of intrigue in the  film, having you guess its purpose until the  very last frame.

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Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Nothing says creepy like a nursery rhyme used in a horror film, and to personalize it to the movie's main baddy is even creepier.  

 

Halloween (1978) – There have been a  lot of memorable villain-theme scores in horror films since the Michael Myers theme, but nothing beats its synthesizer ominousness.

 

 Life After Beth (2014)  – Smooth jazz may  annoy you when you are living, but it will calm you when you are dead!

 Hocus Pocus (1993) –  Bette, partying 
 moms and dads in the film are not the only  ones your musical number puts a spell on...  

Psycho (1960) – Not much explaining is needed here. So,  just  feel free to make that  “reet reet” noise now.