Songs that feel like The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Deadpan, melancholic absurdist horror where small-town Americana sleepwalks through the apocalypse with ironic detachment.
- The Dead Don't Die by Sturgill Simpson: It is literally the theme song that haunts the characters through their doomed rural existence.
- Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon: Captures the exact same droll, deadpan monster-movie irony and weary traveler attitude.
- People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band: Brings the same cynical, matter-of-fact cataloging of mortality to an upbeat punk beat.
- Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Conjures the ominous, shadowy dread lurking just outside the diner windows in rural America.
- Harvest Moon by Neil Young: Evokes the eerie glow of a strange, unnatural moon rising over an American small town.
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky by Johnny Cash: Channels the spectral, doomed wanderers roaming the American landscape.
- Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan: Reflects the tired resignation of characters who know the end is here and can't be bothered to fight it.
- Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen: Provides the exact brand of absurd, looping annoyance that plagues the film's radio soundtrack.
- Atmosphere by Joy Division: Lends a ghostly, grey cinematic expanse to the desolate, fog-choked Pennsylvania roads.
- Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus: Embraces the campy, stylish gloom of classic horror tropes brought into the modern mundane.
