Strange Behaviour (1981)The qualification for the Scenes That Rock doesn't after neccesarily mean "Films That Rock" there are certain films out there I love scenes from like this one for example. An 1981 horror written by Bill Condon (who went on to direct Gods and Monsters and Kinsey as well as writing Chicago) it takes a similar plot to the later Katie Holmes film Disturbing Behaviour (and probably a million more movies), the film focuses on a scientist running experiments on teenagers that turn them into murderers, but the plot is not really important to this Scenes That Rock entry, the film is nothing more then a run of the mill slasher. What's important is probably what happens abou 20-25 minutes in: The teens all go to a party (as they do in slasher movies) but instead of a poor victim getting murdered the teens do a synchrosided dance number to Lou Christie's Lightning Strikes, wonderful because it looks completely out of place in a horror movie, and sets the film in a unknown era- What teens would put a not massively well known song at a party in the 80s and all dance in unision to who knows?- Anyway the song is wonderful and it help makes the entire film memorable because of it.
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