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A Salute to Monsters

Here are our ten clips inspired by monster trucks...well, all monster---no trucks.

1. Bobby Pickett sings Monster Mash.

2. Boris Karloff and O.P. Heggie in an iconic (if often misquoted) scene from The Bride of Frankenstein.

3. Warren Zevon's song Werewolves of London.

4. Maria Ouspenskaya and Lon Chaney, Jr. in The Wolf Man.

5. Godzilla, the song by Blue Oyster Cult.

6. Godzilla, the fire-breathing monster.

7. Edgar Winter and the classic rock instrumental, Frankenstein.

8. King Kong's roar.  You get credit if you guessed a lion's roar played backwards...because that's what it is.

9. Imagine Dragons' song Monster.

10. Bela Lugosi's Dracula doesn't lie...he just doesn't tell the whole truth.

Apologies to: Lon Chaney, Sr. (silent films are not good Sunday Montage fodder), the Creature From the Black Lagoon and Of Monsters and Men.  Maybe next time.

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.