Halloween theme music used in the non horror world

John Carpenter is best known as a director, but he also has a second career as a musician. He composed many of his early movies, and has gone on to release non movie specific songs in his two "Lost Themes" albums.



His most famous song is the main theme he composed for his 1978 film “Halloween”.



The iconic music is a staple in horror film history, but it’s also found it’s way into the non horror world.

In the late 1980s, the Halloween theme was used as entrance music in World Championship Wrestling for the tag team The Samoan Swat Team (SST). What the horror theme has to do with Samoan pro wrestlers is beyond me, but they looked pretty bad ass walking to the ring with that music blaring.



In 1991 rapper Ice T remixed the theme for his song “The Tower”. The slowed down Halloween theme works well with the lyrics about violent prison life.



The SST ring entrances and “The Tower” music video can be found on Youtube.