On Halloween, I wanted to feature the classic Scream Queen / Final Girl, Jamie Lee Curtis. However, for reasons that will become apparent below, I decided to go with Bela Lugosi on Monday instead. I still love you, Jamie Lee... but you just deserve a far better musical legacy than I was able to dig up.
Jamie Lee Curtis has now survived umpteen encounters with Michael Myers and his crap William Shatner mask... and managed a respectable career outside of horror movies too. Then again, horror must have been in the genes - her mum died in Norman Bates's shower, after all. And, slightly less impressively, her dad appeared in The Manitou, a movie best summed up as "A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit". Bet you want to watch that now, don't you? I'd stick with Halloween or Psycho, personally. Or if you're not in a mood for horror, you could watch Jamie Lee's performance alongside John Travolta in Perfect, "one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made". Here's a link to a song from that movie... gentlemen of a certain age are advised not to watch the video though. You might find yourself having an unfortunate moment.
There is a contemporary metal band who have taken Jamie Lee Curtis's name for themselves, but having exposed my ears to 5 seconds of their satanic shrieking, I decided to spare you. Slightly easier on the ear are this lot...
They also have songs named after Robin Williams and Patrick Swayze... but I still think it's unlikely we'll hear from them again.
Perhaps you'd prefer some Pale Roses?
Sea Rabbit...!?!
Not doing very well today, am I? Still, it is Halloween... and those were appropriately scary.
What about lyrical references? Well, besides a hundred rappers who all think they're Michael Myers, I did find this...
To be honest, I only included that because I like A Catcher In The Rye. The lyrics are bobbins, but they do mention Ms. Curtis.
Thank goodness for The Huntingtons, who are obviously big fans of The Ramones, and also of the movie Halloween...
Twenty years ago he took away his sister's life
There's still one left that's still alive
And he's on the loose tonight
Run run Jamie Lee
Run as fast as you can
Run run Jamie Lee
Away from the boogie man
Go go Donnie P
Go catch him if you can
Go go Donnie P
And catch that boogieman
Extra points for getting in a verse about Donald Pleasance. I only found one other song that mentions him, though it's arguably better than most of the nonsense above...
I do love Jamie Lee. She is growing old(er) gracefully too which is unusual for Hollywood. Had forgotten about Perfect - don’t see many ladies that shape nowadays. Or was it the impossibly high cut leotards that made it look that way.
ReplyDeleteA really funny and entertaining piece of writing from you as ever.
Alyson