Nine Inch Nails may not have contributed an original tune to 1994’s The Crow, but did they ever put their signature spin on Joy Division’s “Dead Souls” for the gothic comic book adaptation’s soundtrack.

Delivered mere weeks after the release of The Downward Spiral, the cover marked another soaring high point for Trent Reznor and Co. The sinewy bass groove is undeniable, the chorus’ distortion-compressed guitar sound is some top dollar work, and Reznor recasts Ian Curtis’ original lyrics with a brooding desperation and alley-crawling finesse.

This is all to say, Revolver readers keep callin’ for this one to be thrown on repeat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s playfully self-skewering and wildly meta-referential The Last Action Hero was not the blockbuster producers anticipated it to be in the summer of 1993. More fondly remembered, you could argue, is this devilishly winking leftover from Alice in Chains’ Dirt sessions.

There’s obvious connective tissue between this sleek, sitar-accentuated grunge rocker — the soundtrack’s third single, behind tunes from AC/DC and Queensryche — and Dirt’s profoundly manic “Sick Man” (this being, of course, the line “What the hell have I?”).

While it’s a song neither AIC or Jerry Cantrell have hit live in years, the hypnotically heavy swirl of “Hell” pushed it to No. 19 on the Modern Rock charts at the time, outperforming most Dirt-era singles, save top-10 hit “Rooster.”

While there are plenty of original jaw-droppers on The Crow soundtrack — a past Revolver fan poll gave praise to songs penned by Stone Temple Pilots, Helmet and the Cure — it’s the covers that dominated the vote this time around. And this includes Pantera’s raw take on Portland, Oregon, hardcore first-wavers Poison Idea’s super critical “The Badge.”

Pantera shoot straight with their cover — the quartet load up the tight and punky arrangement with a dangerously bluesy solo and faithfully pissed-off recitation of Jerry A.’s original growling of the “badge-wearing fascist villain” wreaking havoc in-song.

While bringing underground hardcore to a mass-marketed soundtrack release, Pantera let listeners feel the darkness of both themselves and Poison Idea.  

True, the original motion picture soundtrack release behind 2005’s Constantine — a film loosely based on the Hellblazer series of horror comics — technically doesn’t feature A Perfect Circle’s “Passive. But the song is, in fact, in the film, and it also received an official music video incorporating fiery visuals from the Keanu Reeves flick.

As far as APC songs go, “Passive” is one of the greats. Despite the lyrics about a cold and catatonic enemy, Maynard James Keenan puts on a moody masterclass above an embers-simmering glow of emotive alt metal.

Like the exorcism-themed action flick it’s attached to, it’s a song that possesses a lot of spirit.

Jim Carrey got really into metal in the early Nineties. He went on talk shows to praise Napalm Death, but most famously brought Floridian grotesquery to mainstream comedy audiences by having none other than Cannibal Corpse pound through “Hammer Smashed Face” in 1994’s Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

Like some of the greatest comedy bits, the concert scene works because of the way the seriously brutal Tomb of the Mutilated standout juxtaposes itself against Carrey’s cornball mambo dance moves — the latter perhaps laying the groundwork for his flashy “Cuban Pete” musical number in The Mask later that year.

Nevertheless, this is a fully furious but also funny-as-hell movie moment that has been pummeled deep into Revolver readers’ collective memory bank.