10 Movies That Used Great Songs To Trick You Into Watching Them

2. Highlander

If any film needed a chart-busting soundtrack, it was Highlander. The package could confidently be described as a tough sell - the concept of immortal warriors must have sounded good. However, wanting to cast Frenchman Christopher Lambert as a century-spanning Scot? Talk about a curveball! Factor in tartan titan Sean Connery, whose character inexplicably came from Egypt despite the Bond-esque brogue, and you have a recipe for the truly bizarre! Mind you, the producers were maverick outfit Cannon Films, which explains a lot... No memories of the movie are complete however, without the rock-oriented soundtrack, courtesy of Queen. Indeed, "There Can Be Only One" had a dual function, being both the movie's tagline and a major lyric in track A Kind Of Magic. Director Russell Mulcahy's background was in music videos, so he knew exactly what he was doing bringing Mercury and co into the picture. If they could make box office dud Flash Gordon fly out of record shops, they could do the same for this 1986 fantasy epic. Producers of the small screen Highlander: The Series ensured they were associated with the thumping drums and squealing guitars by including Princes Of The Universe as their main theme. In a quintessentially Eighties way Highlander set historical action to a contemporary soundscape, and this unusual offering wouldn't have survived if that musical move hadn't been made.