There was a trend in 80s horror movies thats origin sort of eludes us; producers commissioning uncomfortably specific pop songs written with the intention of being preformed in the film they're too specific about. Reasons this might have been a trend could involve the birth and raging success of MTV around the same time. It could also have to do with deals between movie and record execs. But whatever the reasons, big name producers jumped all over the idea like a dogs over scraps of meat.
What we do know is that trend left us with some AMAZING 80's music gems, including Power of the Night featured in Critters.
Written
and preformed by Terrence Mann (though he isn't credited on the
original soundtrack) the song was entirely removed from later
reissues (possibly because they weren't crediting the right
musician). Lucky for us, we live in the age of the internet, where
you couldn't obliterate anything this amazing if you tried! Please enjoy (as
we have been all week) Power of the Night:
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