List of songs based on a film

This is a list of songs partly or entirely based on a film. The list does not include songs that are related to a film as part of its soundtrack, original or not.

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List of songs based on a film

Song	Artist	Film	Ref.
"2HB"	Roxy Music	Casablanca	[1] [2]
"Alice"	Avril Lavigne	Alice in Wonderland	[3]
"The American Nightmare"	Ice Nine Kills	A Nightmare on Elm Street	[4]
"Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman"	The Tubes	Attack of the 50 Foot Woman	[5]
"Attack Ships on Fire"	Revolting Cocks	Blade Runner	[6]
"Brownswille Girl"	Bob Dylan	The Gunfighter	[7]
"Calvero"	The Pillows	Limelight	[8]
"Carlotta Valdez"	Harvey Danger	Vertigo	[9]
"Chain Saw"	The Ramones	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	[10] [11]
"Children of the Damned"	Iron Maiden	Village of the Damned	[12]
"Cinderella Man"	Rush	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	[13]
"The Clansman"	Iron Maiden	Braveheart	[14] [15]
"The Crimson Ghost"	Misfits	The Crimson Ghost	[16]
"Dawn of the Dead"	Michale Graves	Dawn of the Dead	[17]
"Day of the Dead"	Misfits	Day of the Dead	[17]
"Dead by Dawn"	Deicide	The Evil Dead	[18]
"Death of an Interior Decorator"	Death Cab for Cutie	Interiors	[19]
"Debaser"	Pixies	Un Chien Andalou	[20]
"DNA"	Gavin Dunne	Prometheus	[21]
"Dream Warriors"	Dokken	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	[22] [23]
"The Edge of Darkness"	Iron Maiden	Apocalypse Now	[24]
"Early Sunsets Over Monroeville"	My Chemical Romance	Dawn of the Dead	[25]
"Enjoy Your Slay"	Ice Nine Kills	The Shining	[26]
"Eyes Without a Face"	Billy Idol	Eyes Without a Face	[20] [27]
"Evil Dead"	Death	The Evil Dead	[28]
"Fidelity"	Regina Spektor	High Fidelity	[29]
"Fitzcarraldo"	The Frames	Fitzcarraldo	[30]
"Freak Flag"	Ice Nine Kills	The Devil's Rejects	[4]
"From Now On We Are Enemies"	Fall Out Boy	Amadeus	[19]
"Ghost of Frankenstein"	Misfits	The Ghost of Frankenstein	[31]
"A Girl Like You"	The Smithereens	Say Anything.. .	[32]
"Godzilla"	Blue Öyster Cult	Godzilla	[33]
"A Grave Mistake"	Ice Nine Kills	The Crow	[4]
"Gump"	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Forrest Gump	[20]
"Haddonfield"	Wednesday 13	Halloween	[34]
"Heartlight"	Neil Diamond	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	[35]
"Hello McFly"	Relient K	Back to the Future	[36]
"Hier kommt Alex"	Die Toten Hosen	A Clockwork Orange	[37]
"Home"	Breaking Benjamin	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	[38]
"How I Go"	Yellowcard	Big Fish	[39]
"I Can Transform Ya"	Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz	Transformers film series	[40]
"Imitation of Life"	R.E.M.	Imitation of Life	[20]
"It is the End"	Ice Nine Kills	It	[4]
"Jaws"	Lemon Demon	Jaws	[41]
"The Jig Is Up"	Ice Nine Kills	Saw	[4]
"Jurassic Park"	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Jurassic Park	[1]
"The Kelly Affair"	be your own PET	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	[42]
"Key Largo"	Bertie Higgins	Key Largo	[1]
"King Kong Song"	Abba	King Kong	[43]
"Kirsten Supine"	Swans	Melancholia	[20]
"Land of the Dead"	Misfits	Land of the Dead	[44]
"Leon"	The Japanese House	Léon: The Professional	[45]
"Lost Boys"	The 69 Eyes	The Lost Boys	[46]
"Love Bites"	Ice Nine Kills	An American Werewolf in London	[4]
"Man on the Edge"	Iron Maiden	Falling Down	[1]
"Matilda"	Alt-J	Léon: The Professional	[1]
"Meet Me in Montauk"	Circa Survive	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	[47]
"Merry Axe-mas"	Ice Nine Kills	Silent Night, Deadly Night	[4]
"Mortopsycho Nightmare"	Bob Dylan	Psycho	[1] [33] [48]
"A New Hope"	Blink-182	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	[49]
"Night of the Living Dead"	Misfits	Night of the Living Dead	[50]
"Nosferatu"	Hugh Cornwell	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens	[51]
"Ode to a Superhero"	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Spider-Man	[52]
"Of Wolf and Man"	Metallica	The Wolfen	[53]
"One"	Metallica	Johnny Got His Gun	[20]
"Ouch"	be your own PET	Dawn of the Dead	[54]
"Out of the Silent Planet"	Iron Maiden	Forbidden Planet	[55]
"Raped in Hatred by Vines of Thorn"	The Black Dahlia Murder	The Evil Dead	[56]
"Return of the Fly"	Misfits	Return of the Fly	[57]
"Rocking the Boat"	Ice Nine Kills	Jaws	[4]
"The Saga Begins"	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	[58]
"Savages"	Ice Nine Kills	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	[4]
"Scissorhands (The Last Snow)"	Motionless in White	Edward Scissorhands	[59]
"The Seventh Seal"	Scott Walker	The Seventh Seal	[60]
"Shining"	Misfits	Poltergeist	[61]
"Skinny Blues"	The Pillows	The Lost Weekend	[62]
"So Long, Astoria"	The Ataris	The Goonies	[1]
"Stabbing in the Dark"	Ice Nine Kills	Halloween	[4]
"Stranger in Town"	Toto	Whistle Down the Wind	[63]
"Sweep the Leg"	No More Kings	Karate Kid	[64]
"Thank God It's Friday"	Ice Nine Kills	Friday the 13th	[4]
"Twilight of the Dead"	Misfits	Land of the Dead	[65]
"The Union Forever"	The White Stripes	Citizen Kane	[66]
"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"	Metallica	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[67]
"Where Eagles Dare"	Iron Maiden	Where Eagles Dare	[20]
"Wind It Up"	Gwen Stefani	The Sound of Music	[68]
"The Wicker Man"	Iron Maiden	The Wicker Man	[69]
"The World in My Hands"	Ice Nine Kills	Edward Scissorhands	[4]
"Year 3000"	Busted	Back to the Future Trilogy	[70]
"Yoda"	"Weird Al" Yankovic	The Empire Strikes Back	[52]
"Youngster (Kent Arrow)"	The Pillows	Quadrophenia	[62]
"Your Number's Up"	Ice Nine Kills	Scream	[4]
"Ghost"	Billy Nigro	Scream	[62]

Music video

In certain cases, only the music video includes elements inspired by given films. ^[71] Examples include "Telephone" by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé containing references to Kill Bill ^[72] and "Kill Bill (킬빌)" by Brown Eyed Girls, with visual references to the same film. ^[73]

See also

Albums based on films

• Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, an album of songs by various artists inspired by the film

Other

• List of songs that retell a work of literature

See also: Category:Songs written for films

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