Counter Culture Songs Of The 60s And 70s, Possible Themes For Writing Modern Horror Movies

This guy is a real killer musician!

Rather or not you are a writer, have you ever listened to a song that inspires you to write script of some sort? Rather it be a movie script or a manuscript (book)?  If so, you rock!

Being a professional writer for more then a few years now, I have found inspiration in all sorts and kind of ways! Some times when it comes to something as simple as thinking up a fun title, and then crafting a story around it! But there is a way to do so that just dawned on me recently... That being using songs to write movies! Or, well in the context of this blog, using music to inspire one to write a horror movie!

An unfortunate, yet valid example of this is, 'Charles Manson'... Ok so maybe Charles Manson never got published... He may not have ever even written anything (I suspect that if he has written a biography, that it was probably actually ghost written...) But the reason why I use this as an example is because unfortunately he found inspiration from The Beatles song, 'Helter Skelter', and where as I do find all of that to be absolutely disgusting... A great song, I think can truly inspire some one to write a great movie!

The right song can inspire some one to write a great horror movie!

In my opinion, a great place to start would be to listen to some of the awesome counter-culture music of the 60s and 70s, such bands as: Iron Butterfly, or Led Zepplin, or Black Sabbath, and that is just to name a few!

I mean have you ever sat and watched one of the older horror movies, (like, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974),) and just thought that this movie thematically seems kind of similar to say: 'The psychedelic nature of Iron Butterfly's (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)', or say: 'Black Sabbath's (Iron Man) or maybe it is just something as simple as wondering if perhaps this movie was inspired by a particular song...

If you haven't thought with that concept in mind, check out one of these older horror movies and really look at it from the musical concept, I think you will find it to be most illuminating, and may actually be a source of inspiration for your next project!

Black Sabbath. Iron Man (1971) - Song Review

[caption id="attachment_557" align="alignright" width="307"] Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]

It goes with out saying that as far as monsters of metal go, that Ozzy Osbourne is one of the godfathers of the genre! I mean rather he is biting the heads off of bats, or doing that reality show that he did with his family a few years back, this guy personifies everything that is truly exceptional of not just heavy metal music, but his style like the look that the types of horror movies that this music attracts as well!

But before Ozzy went on to do his epic solo career around the 1980s, he started off in the band, 'Black Sabbath' (a kick ass band that takes it's name from the classic 60s horror movie!)

Anyway, there is a ton of great music that came out of that band during the time that Ozzy was with them, but there is one song that I wanted to single out here because it is truly awesome, and that song is, 'Iron Man' (1971), a song that was later turned in to it's own single from their second studio album, 'Paranoid' (1971)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Ozzy Osbourne doing, 'Iron Man' in Paris with, 'Black Sabbath' in 1970![/caption]

Now this song is truly a spectacular song that... Well if you like truly, 'Heavy' metal, then you are going to love this song... And you know what you would think that this song would go on perfectly with Iron Man the movie right? Well the truth is, is there is a misconception about this song and its tie to the movie... You'll have to see the movie to find out what I am talking about!

This song has also been used in the movie, School Of Rock (2003), as well as having been redone by Frank Zappa at a concert that they actually attended!

In the end, this song rules, and if you have a chance to check it out, well then I highly recommend doing so, it is a fun one and well worth it!

http://youtu.be/nsa2F9F1BBk