Yeah, I’m sure there are a bunch, but my brain always goes to the hospital complex over there.
In the first episode of Agatha All Along, they put Plaza into both a well-tailored suit and a leather catsuit with an assassin’s knife, to the point where I look back on her body of work and think “sexy/terrifying Aubrey Plaza” is just a single word.
What’s disturbing is that I see this sign and specifically think “21st & Lovejoy” even though I live on the opposite coast.
Oh, I kinda remember those ads as being eye-rolling, but the flagrant misapplication of “launch” didn’t occur to me at the time. Yikes.
Forgot to take a picture but I was in DC a week ago and the Dupont station had a concert ad that was pretty much just the words “Massive Attack” and a date. It seemed like maybe a slight misstep.
More just monster/villain than Halloween, but here’s the only thing that “remixes of Zelda songs” triggered for me: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQS3...
YouTube video by Blue Inferno
Which is why I didn’t bring up Total Eclipse of the Heart. You really have to be told that it was written as a vampire love song before you can see it in lines like “your love is like a shadow on me all of the time.”
This is the album with the terrifying Tom Waits cover of Heigh Ho, isn’t it?
Oh, of a similar era, The Alan Parsons Project concept album about various Poe works. I’m partial to The Cask of Amontillado.
Everything else I’m thinking of definitely requires an explanation about why it’s spooky, which probably isn’t what you’re looking for. I mean “I went to the toy store with my friend and we accidentally started World War III,” is the plot of 99 Luftballons, but that doesn’t make it a Halloween song.