Cult movies that ruin perfectly good songs

That face you make when the wrong song comes on
or when you've just been Rick Rolled, again

 If you're horror-mined like me, the simplest of things can take you back to a horror movie... when I'm at work it's typically the music... sometimes that's not always a good thing depending on the song or my own mood... here are some classics of shudder-worthy songs if you've seen the right movie:
This can be because of his theme song of impending doom or just when someone is getting their sick jollies with a sharp object... on that note... how about a little fire scarecrow?



Reservoir Dogs

"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that."

 Song: Stealer's Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You [Scene: NSFW]

After a botched jewelry heist, psychotic Mr. Blonde is left to his own devices, namely a straight razor alone with a cop. The results are something similar to the outcome of the Tyson/Holyfield fight... intense for it's time and even now for it's brutality


I Know What You Did Last Summer

Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibes anyone?

LeadBelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night 
What is it about old tinny music being played in a horror movie that does it every time? Jennifer Love Hewitt goes looking for clues about ol Billy Blue and this happens to be playing on the record player shortly before being threatened by a knife wielding Anne Heche.You might be more familiar with the Nirvana cover version from Unplugged in New York [And this version is fucking brilliant too if you ask me]


Blue Velvet

"CANDY COLORED CLOWN!"

Roy Orbison - In Dreams [NSFW: Dennis Hopper's Language]

Everything about Lynch's Blue Velvet is completely surreal and dreamlike/nightmarish already.. Seeing Dean Stockton lip sync this one while watching the twitching raw nerve that is Dennis Hopper's mood shift from complacent to near violence all in one as Kyle MacLachlan stares on in confused horror, we're right there with him. Later Kyle gets his face worked over to this song before being humiliated at the hands of Hopper to this tune.

American Psycho

"Do you like American Psycho, Al?"

Huey Lewis - Hip To Be Square [NSFW: Violence]
After being slighted and mildly offended on more than one occasion, Christian Bale takes coworker Jared Leto out for dinner, gets him drunk and takes him back to his apartment. Then while discussing the merits and message behind Huey Lewis and Hip to be square calmly dons a plastic rain slicker. He then pops an unknown prescription pill, grabs an axe, and casually moonwalks back to his victim and buries said axe in his face without so much of a hint of expression save for a quick glance in the mirror before killing time.
HEY PAUL!


[Huey Lewis himself would parody this scene getting his revenge on Weird Al for I Want A New Duck

Pulp Fiction

"Bring out the gimp"

The Revelers - Commanche

Watch every straight male in the room clench in fear when this comes on if they're paying attention. Violent gangster Rhames suffers being hit by a car and beaten by boxer Willis, then kidnapped by a redneck shop owner and sodomized by his cop friend. Bad day. Thankfully Willis does the right thing and just-so-happens to find a Hattori Hanzo sword just sharp enough to get some revenge with...


Kill Bill

Bernard Herrmann- Twisted Nerve [Whistling Song]

Nothing like a one-eyed whistling psychopath signaling your imminent doom if you've heard them do it a hundred times before... plus I've heard enough weirdos downtown doing this trying to be hip or cool and I get it everytime, it was clever once. Now, not so much anymore. All the same still creepy the one time I heard it reverberate across a few floors of the plaza I was working in serving coffee once upon a time.

Fallen

The Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side

Great. A pyscho with a taste for the classics. This time it happens to be the (literal) immortal anthem of a serial killer played by Elias Koteas (Casey Jones, how could you??) or by anybody (again, literally) his spirit happens to be inhabiting at the time much like Wes Craven's little known classic Shocker

Jeepers Creepers

Why thank you, they're from That Apple Guy

Four Modernaires- Jeepers Creepers

Forget classic rock and roll. See aforementioned comment about old tinny music being played at a time of terror. This song announces the coming of The Creeper. With the ending of poor Justin Long and hearing the same tune playing over and over throughout the movie, we should've... seen it coming


A Clockwork Orange

                               


Malcolm McDowell - Singing in the Rain [NSFW, TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual violence, rape]

Malcolm and his droogs ransack a writers flat and beat him senseless all the while in time and tune to Singing in the rain before making him watch as they rape his wife. Later in the film when he is miraculously rescued by the same writer some years later, he belts it out in the bath this making the man remember just who he is. Suffice to say its the most disturbing musical scene in a movie but a Kubrick classic nontheless but still hard to stomach.