Movie Samples in Music

[Mofo Rising]

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.

[Doggett]

Batdance - Prince

[Psycho Circus]

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

[Mr. DS]

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". 

[ghouck]

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]

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!!!

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

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.

[Rev. Powell]

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

[inframan]

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.

[Saucerman]

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!")

[RCMerchant]

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

[metalmonster]

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]

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

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!!!

[zombie no.one]

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

[HappyGilmore]

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!"