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So I was watching Cheech & Chong's Nice Dream's when Paul Reubens shows up and says, "You're the guy from the Hamburger Train, right?" That was used in a Primus song, which I never knew was from this movie.

It reminds me of the time I was watching the Full Moon production of The Pit & the Pendulum, where the woman involved cries "Liar! Blasphemer!" which was used in Ministry's "Psalm 69."

So, how many movies can you name that have been sample for music? I know the movie Amityville 3-D has been extensively sampled by the group My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. What movies have you seen that you know because a band put them in their song?

List below.

Batdance - Prince


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Overkill's "New High In Lows" features a clip from Carlito's Way

White Zombie uses a ton of samples from great flicks in their music such as  Faster p***ycat Kill! Kill! , Dawn Of The Dead , Hellraiser, etc.

Ministry used the gir's scream from Hellraiser in Just One Fix.  The quote in that song, "never trust a junky" was in Sid And Nancy.

Industrial band N17 begins their song "Grip" with "Who put this together, me thats who" from Scarface.  Also in that song are quotes from the Twilight Zone episode "He Lives". 

MC Chris uses quite a few. I've heard the "Tears" from Blade Runner, as well as a bunch of Star Wars sound bites. He uses sound bites from video games also. There are a few other bites I've heard in his songs that may also be from movies, but not one's I know.

Ozzymandias speaks: "Weird Science" by Oingo-Boingo used Colin Clive screaming "It's Alive" from Frankenstein. "Testify" by the Damned uses dialog from Not of This Earth and somewhere on The Wall is part of a Gunsmoke episode where James Arness says something like "As long as I'm sheriff of Dodge..."

Of course, some people reinact parts like the Fuzztones recreated the news broadcast from Blood Feast at the begining on their cover of "Jack The Ripper." Roky Erickson recreated most of Creature with an Atom Brain on the song of the same name (and threw in the old CBS Radio News sounder). We can't forget Dee Snider's recitation of Douglas C. Needimeyer's lines from Animal House at the very end of "We're Not Gonna Take It."

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

Wow there are lots of bands that use samples from weird/horror cinema. Probably foremost in the horror genre would be the Canadian band Skinny Puppy around since 1983 - notably Roman Polanski's The Tenant, and Fearless Vampire Killers - Maniac w/Joe Spinnell - The Legend of Hell House - Andy Warhol's Dracula - Evil Dead 2 - Twilight Zone episodes - and a bunch of others. Still going today albeit with less samples.

Front Line Assembly as well, but they use stuff more in the sci-fi vein. Robo-cop, Event Horizon, At the Mountains of Madness etc...

My own music project Monster Jungle X-ray (named after president Harry S. Truman's pet boa-constrictor!!) uses samples and dialogue from a lot of Z-Grade sci-fi and horror films/ kaiju shows/ and whatever else I can splice together with electronics. Its a whole lot of fun to do, and it gives me as new appreciation of some of these films. Its interesting sometimes without the visuals to go along with it a piece of dialogue takes on a whole new meaning, like it can infer a different emotion than it was originally meant to.

Amon Tobin's "Like Regular Chickens" is titled after a line from ERASERHEAD, and samples that line in the song.

Skinny Puppy for sure, tons of sci fi, horror and b-movies in their songs.

I recently got Shaolin and WuTang on DVD, lots of samples from that one used in the Wu Tang's first album. Shaolin vs Lama and the dubbed version of the Killer are used alot in Raekwons Only Built for Cuban Links.

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a punky-surf-rock group that sings about Lovecraft's universe, samples a wide variety of films, from The Dunwich Horror (1970) to Star Wars to stuff I haven't managed to identify just yet, but sounds like it would come from B-movies (an example of this being, "Well, the monster is gone, but no one will believe our story!")

On Pink Flyods the Wall album,you can hear Gomer Pyle saying 'Suprise,suprise,suprise!" Not a movie...still...it's film.

Creature Of The Wheel By WHITE ZOMBIE Features A Clip From THE OMEGA MAN

The American Witch By ROB ZOMBIE Features A Clip From HORROR HOTEL

Super Charger Heaven By ROB ZOMBIE Features A Clip From THE HAUNTING


There Is A Bunch More But I Can't Think Of Them A t The Moment

Ozzymandias speaks: I forgot about that one. There also maybe a piece of a Family Affair show in their too. I just remember the Gunsmoke one. I need to go back and listen to it all the way through.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

I listen to a lot of drum'n'bass, here's a few samples of dialogue I've recognized used in tracks. - this is off the top of my head, probably loads more though.

DJ Evol - Texas Chainsaw - (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
DJ Pleasure - The Cube (Transformers)
Lock Up - The Matrix (The Matrix)
Serjah 9 - Death Proof (Death Proof)
DJ Hazard - Machete (fake trailer 'Machete' on Grindhouse)
Eddie K - Planet Terror (Planet Terror)
Chameleon - Link (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Benny Blanco - Remember Me From The Bronx (Carlito's Way)


there's a lot more film samples in other tracks Ive got, but where I dont know what the film is

In the song "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver' by Primus, they use a sound sample of Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 laughing and saying "Dog will hunt!"

that reminds me, about 6 months ago I made a drum'n'bass track and used a bit of dialogue from one of the wavs uploaded on the b-movie reviews on here.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/screamers/

I used the first clip in the dialogue section:

Jose: "This island is inhabited by zombies, the living dead. That's why the graves are empty, there are zombies here!"
Claude: "Stop it Jose, you're talking nonsense. Zombies don't exist, they've never existed."

if anyone wants to hear the track I could upload a clip...

Beyond The Valley of The Dolls- a sample is used in the song "Smoke Two Joints' by Sublime

Overkill's "Battle" uses a sample from Batman Returns, when Max Shreck is about to push Selina Kyle out of the window.

there is 'blood embrace' by bonnie prince billy and matt sweeney. it goes on for ages and just when the melodrama almost gets too much, they chuck in a sample from 'rolling thunder' that hilariously defuses it. brilliant.

Pop Will Eat Itself in the 80s used this aplenty I'm pretty sure...can definitely remember them sampling from THE WARRIORS and the TV theme from "The Twilight Zone" in particular.

MAN OR ASTROMAN does it a lot. Pretty cool choices.

Blood Duster has used bits from  "Driller Killer" and "Bad Taste".

acid baths samples some horror movies most notably in when the kite string pops the sample kubricks a clock work orange in the begginng saying
"id like to have a right down bloody shag with her on the floor real savage like"

Skinny Puppy does it a lot. Only one I can think of at the moment is in the song "Cage". It has a sample from Maniac (1980), where Frank Zito goes "but it's just a little blood...it'll wash out".

Pop Will Eat Itself also used BLADE RUNNER in their song "Wake Up, Time To Die".

That's from my favorite PWEI album. I miss their humor, but Clint Mansell is doing very well for himself as a film score composer. I only managed to see them live once very energetic show. Skinny Puppy I've seen probably four or five times. The Too Dark Park tour had tons of horror footage spliced together as the backing film. 

How I envy you. I'm Canadian and I've never seen Puppy live. I know the video for "worlock" was banned because of the horror clips in it (I guess they weren't cleared or something).

Speaking of Skinny Puppy, anybody know where I can find a list of the samples used in their music? My Google searches have turned up web pages that promise a list and deliver dead links.

There used to be a big database for this sort of thing online, but I cannot find it either. Here though is a link to Radion's page who is doing a neat SP album by album run down with video clips of where the samples originated.

http://radion.livenet.pl/sp.php (http://radion.livenet.pl/sp.php)

Thanks, I'll have to spend some time on that page.

Another quote, the group Revolting Cocks sampled the "pig" scene in Deliverance for their song "Beers, Steers and Queers."

2 Live Crew sampled lines from "Full Metal Jacket" including one of the line used in the sample as the title for the song "Me So Horny"

-The audio from the trailer for Deranged ("This is where the worst begins..") can be heard in it's entirety as an intro to the album '860 Some-Odd Pounds' by Railsplitter, who also used the pig head and chainsaw image from Motel Hell on one of their t-shirts.

-Portions of the Deranged trailer can also be heard as the intro to 'Midnight Murder Mania' by the band Frightmare.

-East Bay powerviolence OG's SPAZZ dropped a huge number of movie soundclips, though my personal favorite is a clip pulled from Style Wars: "The idea of style, and competing for the best style, is the key to all forms of rocking."

-A sample from Midnight Express ("Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't. I hate. I hate you, I hate your nation, and I hate your people. And I f**k your sons and daughters because they're pigs. You're a pig! You're all pigs..") can be heard as an intro on Severed Head Of State's self-titled one-sided LP.


This could go on for a while, hardcore punk was chock full of this sort of thing from the mid-nineties until just recently, so I'll just stop.

The titular cry from "You Know What You Are" by Ministry is taken from Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

One of the best tracks on that album imo. I can still remember my surprise on listening to The Land of Rape and Honey for the first time on cassette, I was not expecting such harsh noise as I was used to the heavily Adrian Sherwood influenced Twitch and (gasp) With Sympathy.

They also used several things from "Fistful of Dollars" in the Acid Horse track "No Name, No Slogan" a one-off Ministry side project with Cabaret Voltaire. One of my favorite Wax Trax 12 inch singles.

Wait, when does Pyle say that in Full Metal Jacket?

"Not a movie...still...it's film."

You lost me I'm afraid.

Sorry to revive my own old thread.

I was watching NIGHTBREED and was pleasantly surprised to hear a movie sample.

The crazy preacher in the jail cell at a certain point says, "Can you hear me?" and "Are you listening?"

This was sampled in a Revolting Cocks song, "Crackin' Up." Revolting Cocks is a side project of Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame.

I really enjoy finding this stuff. I know it's old hat now, but I really wish bands would go back to sampling crappy movies.

Me too, but sampling laws have become so strict that most bands no longer take a chance in doing it. If I had made a horror or sci-fi film I would take pride that someone would make the effort to use snippets from my work to enhance their own. Appropriation in art/music has been around for a long time, and while there are some abuses it is not always a bad thing.

I really miss the old days of hearing obscure dialogue in music and trying to figure out where it came from. The '90s brought about a lot of very obvious sampling (Hellraiser films/Event Horizon/ect...) that was just sort of lazy imo. I like it when the choices are not so obvious, it gives you a sort of chill when you do actually hear it in it's original form. I've been making electronic music for over 20 years now for my own entertainment, and I love using stuff from b-movies, lurid trailers, and educational films.

In Skinny Puppy's "Cage", there's a sample from Maniac (1980) where Frank Zito goes "but it's just a little blood....it'll wash out".

Twilight Zone - Def Con One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Wm4qXC_j4

The Warriors - Can U Dig It?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPJt-tXgpQ&feature=related

I had to resurrect this thread, because I just recently watched North by Northwest. I know, I should have watched it ages ago.

Imagine my surprise when one of the hitmen says, "It was only last night and still you do not recognize my voice?" I had been hearing that snippet for years on the track "Electrical Soul Wish" by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.

Another sample identified!

I quite liked the Day of the Dead sample used in M1A1 by Gorillaz.

Great opening scene to a movie, and a great intro to a song too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lTeW0ZmXM&feature=fvsr

When I was a jesus freak in high school I fell in love with this group Calibretto 13. Just as I fell out of religion, so did they. They changed to a random indie label and went from doing surf-rock into doing horror core. They used some random but also clips throughout their songs.

Come See the Meatboy contains an audio clip from Evil Dead 2 where Ash and various items around the house start laughing
American Psycho has a bunch of clips from American Psycho in it
Leader of the Frat contains a clip from Valley Girl of Nicholas Cage screaming "NO ONE TELLS ME WHO I CAN SCORE WITH!"
My TV Affair contains a clip from Suburbia

There was also a local band from my area in the late 90's called Lanemeyer who used clips from Better Off Dead throughout their first album. Their second album used clips from The Wonder Years and Kissing the Fool

Another sample from the Revolting Cocks.

The bit of dialogue "What's in the bag?" is taken from the movie Dirty Harry, which I just watched tonight, and is in the song "Crackin' Up."

I recall EMF's "Unbelievable" used some samples from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

One of my favourite examples is "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash" by Ian Thomas. The whole song is a tribute to old movies, and contains bits of several classics toward the middle and end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EwAz1o2UU
This video was nicely done, and even tries to sync the original picture to the sound clips in the song.

THIS Gomer Pyle...the old tv show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_1Pw1xm9U

Napalm Death also sampled Full Metal Jacket with the quote "I am in a world of s**t" at the beginning of their song "Contemptuous" from the Utopia Banished album.

I can't think of the name of the track off the top of my head and I don't have the CD handy at the moment, but there's a song on Crimson Glory's ASTRONOMICA album that samples Pinhead's "Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?" line from the Hellraiser flicks...

I see Circus Circus has mentioned two instances where Overkill have used movie clips (Carlito's Way and Batman Returns)...they also used a clip from "Raising Arizona" in the track "It Lives" (on the FROM THE UNDERGROUND AND BELOW album)...John Goodman's voice saying "Looks like you've been up to the devil's business."

The Christian speed-metal band Deliverance used a sample from the film "King David" on the track "Slay the Wicked" on their WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE album..."for I am a jealous God, and I abhor their abominable practices! Therefore, spare nothing from the sword...NOTHING!"

The death metal band Mortician has used tons 'n' tons of obscure horror movie soundbites as intros and outro's to every one of their songs. In fact the soundbites are the only thing that make the band listenable.  :teddyr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo&ob=av2e
This song by the Smashing Pumpkins is about A Trip to the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Voyage_dans_la_Lune) from 1902.

I know there is no wealth of rap fans on the board. I'm not one really, either, but I do like me a little Wu Tang. Anyway, they used tons of samples from martial arts films, including:

Shaolin & Wu Tang (1981)
Ten Tigers from Kwangtung (1979)
Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
Invincible Armor (1977)
The Iron Monkey (1977)

There aare tons on Portrait Of An American Family by Marilyn Manson. To name a few:

Mink Stole samples from Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living
The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
and others from Willy Wonka and Twin Peaks and a lot more.

Baphomet's intro, Median, contains a sample from Nightmare On Elm Street 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZjhkY2kL0&feature=related

No ones mentioned MAN OR ASTROMAN? Why, the very idea...

You did in a previous post.

See.  :bouncegiggle:

D'OH! See, this is what happens when you're Cronologicly Overadvantaged...good though, wern't it?

In the late 90's (ah, the old days of downloading from Napster!) I heard a remix of the Ayumi Hamasaki song Kanariya.  Before the music starts, you first hear "You have 20 seconds to comply ... you have 20 seconds to comply... comply..." as spoken by the awesomely hyperbeastmode ED209 robot in Robocop.  I still can't find the remix, but it is one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanariya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJosv_ZxdA

About 95% percent of the songs by deathgrind band, Mortician have some sort of horror/cult/exploitation movie sample. Some of them are more sample than song. One of my favorite bands even though they border on being utterly corny,

Pantera's cover of "The Badge" has a clip from Taxi Driver


White Zombie's "Thunderkiss 65" has a sample from, I'm not sure what movie....Faster p***ycat maybe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1ptKcOlHE

I've become entranced with the output of Charles Band's Empire Films/Full Moon Studios. Don't get me wrong, a lot of these movies are terrible, but I think they are one of the lynchpins of the then burgeoning direct-to-video market.

Imagine my surprise when I watched Robot Jox and recognized the screaming sound from the crowd as the repeated sound in the Nine Inch Nails song "The Becoming."

Here's my favorite mash-up of that song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6esRi6owdFg