In the "Thriller" music video, Michael Jackson becomes a zombie and performs a dance routine with a horde of the undead.
"Waking the Witch" is the first in a series of three songs by Kate Bush about the hallucinations experienced by a woman slowly drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck.
After Phil Everly (of The Everly Brothers) watched the 1935 film Werewolf of London, he suggested that Warren Zevon adapt the title for a song and dance craze. Zevon and his bandmates wrote "Werewolves of London" in about 15 minutes, but none of them took it seriously until it started climbing the Billboard Top 40 chart and stayed there for over a month.
The inspiration for "Witchy Woman" about a seductive enchantress came from a number of women, although Don Henley had one particular woman in mind -- Zelda Fitzgerald, whose biography he was reading while writing the song.
Despite appearing on the soundtrack to The Lost Boys, "Cry Little Sister" does not specifically reference vampires, as it was composed before songwriter Gerard McMahon had seen any footage from the film. After hearing the track, director Joel Schumacher commented: "You nailed my theme song to The Lost Boys! I can't believe you wrote this without seeing a frame of film!"
"Monster Mash" is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening, rises from his slab to perform a new dance.
Robert Carlock and fellow 30 Rock writer Tami Sagher are to thank/praise/blame for "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah". Carlock wrote the episode "Jack Gets in the Game" which features the eight second video (yes, only eight seconds of the song made it into the actual episode) and Sagher wrote most of the lyrics.
Some critics have interpreted the Pet Shop Boys "Vampires" as a narrative of brotherhood among people living difficult lives. Or maybe they're just vampires.
The song describes a man seeking help to find love, so he talks to a gypsy who determines, by means of palmistry, that he needs "love potion number 9".
"Ghostbusters" was nominated at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Original Song, but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
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