Red Right Hand

Certainly there is... a really strong aesthetic to our generation, I think, especially with our horror movies, and I think you can really see that beginning with Scream.

And also, as you know, for me, Scream contains one of the all time best soundtrack use moments um that sort of continues to be one of the the greatest songs implemented across different uh tv and film ip and that's nick cave's red right hand yeah

It's funny.

I know it from Scream, of course.

At one point, they come into some money and they're like, whatever we do, we can't spend it.

And then Carrie immediately goes out and buys all this stuff.

And as he's walking down the street, Red Right Hand is playing.

And

I understand that one of my favourite franchises doesn't really, like, they use a lot of soundtracks.

You know, we've got the Red Right Hand and stuff like this.

Tiffany's Lament is a banger.

I don't know

Murder Ballads? Well, did Murder Ballads take off? 'Cause I felt like Scream was the moment that everyone recognized him.

Well, and Red Right Hand was not on Murder Ballads.

Well, no, no, no.

No.

[laughs]

... and TV shows-

Well, it's Red Right Hand-

... and movies and stuff, like

This week's last postcard is penned by singer-songwriter Nick Cave.

Huge hits have flowed from his pen, including Into My Arms, Red Right Hand, and Where the Wild Roses Grow.

When I spoke to him in 2025 however, he was keen to disabuse anyone of the notion that writing songs comes easily to him.

Mostly when I write, it's despairing in the fact that all I'm doing is writing bad stuff.

Mm.

You know? I mean, I, in this, I particularly loved the song Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, which of course would end up being used in Peaky Blinders, but I always knew it from this.

Mm.

That's why it's on my Halloween playlist Um, but yeah, so that was the Scream franchise, right?

Just a track which packs a punch.

I'm of course referring to Red Right Hand.

Where secrets lie in the border fires.

In the humming wires.

Past the mills, past the stacks.

On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man.

In a dusty black coat with a red right hand.

And yet, as good as both of those songs are, I still feel like the best use of a strong needle drop occurs over the closing credits, over what is now affectionately referred to, as I've heard in many film podcasts, as the victory lap.

And then the other thing that I always wanna talk about with this movie that is the, that I don't talk about a lot, we usually relied on Mattson to bring it up, but like the soundtrack of this film is outrageous.

Fucking School's Out for Summer, Don't Fear the Reaper, Red Right Hand, like it's so good.

And the timing of it all with the score that they've written on this movie, the music adds so much to this film.

And, and I don't, I don't, we don't talk about music enough, I think sometimes.

The, I think this movie, without the score and without the, the s- the t- the tracks from the soundtrack that are in it, I don't think it's as good because all the music is thematic, and it's all timed perfectly.

And like, like I love when they have like the whole curfew thing, and the next thing you know is it's panning by the school and everybody's getting out and it's, « School's out for summer ».

I'm like, "Fuck, this is so good." And then like Red Right Hand is such a great recurring theme throughout this movie.

Anyway, I just had to talk about the music, 'cause I think it's one that really stands out to me, is this film score and, and soundtrack, so.

That was good.

Also Red Right Hand.

Uh, we don't mention that.

We haven't mentioned that yet, but the Red Right Hand song-

Oh

... that's in all these movies.

It played in Scream 5, not Scream 6.

Yeah.