Zombieland uses an edited version of Metallica's For Whom The The Bell Tolls in the opening scene, a much welcome break from what appears to be the norm of films that use licenced music for there soundtracks, while most will use some sort of inferior rap song (see Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield 3 adverts), piece of modern pop music or grunge (see the vast majority of films), this goes for old school metal that fits the film extremal well, as society falls to the zombie horde we hear For Whom The Bells Tolls...
(Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for thee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I
Queen starts playing when the zombiefied pub landlord appears, creating a hilarious fight scene to the theme of Don't Stop Me Now as they try to fight him off using pool ques and a fire extinguisher.
What i believe deserves an honourable mention are the horror style sounds associated with WWE wrestler the Undertaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDeM8xoXjs&feature=related
While not part of any horror movie the Undertakers theme, gong and sound effects still send chills down peoples spines (mine included), the character of the Undertaker likens himself to the Devil, claiming to be even more powerful than the Beast (he built the house the devil lives in, brick by fiery brick, and when he comes calling, the Devil still answers to him with "sir"), and its surprising a movie based around the Undertaker hasn't been made, the gong is iconic and, due it being just a single bell toll, a sound not a piece of music, is not copyright and so i am planning to use it in my film, the static is pure horror as it interrupts anything electronic, almost all the sound effects on display here I consider pure horror, hos theme has and will always freak people out, and due to that being a copyrighted piece of music, i cant use it as part of the film, but the static sound and gong can be used.
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