10 Songs You Probably Didn't Know Were Inspired By Horror Movies
2. Rob Zombie – Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)
Rob Zombie has made a career of horror-inflected artistic visions, industrial metal beats and extreme stage design.
Many of Zombie's songs overtly state their influences from the off, including audio samples ripped directly from classic chillers and monster movies, but sometimes his approach applies a little more nuance.
Just from listening to it, you might not realise that Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy) was influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 1971 dystopian horror hit A Clockwork Orange, especially as there is a red herring during the opening: the line 'Use my body to keep you alive!' from 1969's sexploitation horror The Curious Dr. Humpp.
More than this, the lyrics themselves are delivered in Zombie's quintessential growly drawl, so that, while they use the vernacular of the film's protagonist Alex DeLarge and his Droogs - 'horrorshow' and 'in and out, real savage', for example - their meta-meaning can quite easily go unnoticed.
While the subtle notes and obscured lyrics might slide over your ears and escape definition, they are starkly contrasted by the video, which makes its influences blatantly clear, drawing on the visual style of the film to replicate Clockwork's scenes, sets and outfits.