10 Songs You Probably Didn't Know Were Inspired By Horror Movies
3. Kate Bush – Get Out Of My House
Get Out Of My House, from the 1982 album The Dreaming, is a typical offering of odd, dreamy avant-pop from Kate Bush, charting the simultaneous haunting of a building and person.
Bush (like Ice Nine Kills) has a predilection for interweaving film and literary references into her music, and here she draws substantially on The Shining, with its slamming doors, spooky concierge, spectral apparitions and subtler gender politics.
The composition of the song echoes the themes and moments of terror from the film, particularly with the native American chanting (after all, the Overlook Hotel is in many senses 'their house') and both the screaming and the crying of 'get out of my house', which harken back to Shelley Duvall's frantic, hysterical moments of fear.
Though Bush herself says she drew more influence from the Stephen King book than the film, it is difficult to ignore the sheer magnitude of cultural influence that the Stanley Kubrick flick had. Released just two years prior to Get Out Of My House, The Shining's imagery and themes pervaded western pop culture and both mainstream and horror art - and its influence is still alive and well today.