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A track rescued from utter obscurity by its appearance on Halloween compilations: the one linked to below is at a real bargain price at time of writing, though presumably because it's July.
I think it's fair to say that even by the mid-80s, rap music wasn't taken very seriously by most people in Britain, and whilst this isn't in the same catagory as 'Stutter Rap' or 'Rat Rapping' and despite writing and production credits for no less than Kurtis Blow, it's much more obviously a novelty hit than even the track that precedes it. It is of course inspired by the famous book/film/lawsuit The Amityville Horror although in truth it doesn't actually pastiche the original story in any way, it just compiles the usual set of haunted-house clichés. And then half-way through, somebody does some Star Trek impressions. I'm not making this up, honest. The finished article is not so much scary or funny as tedious.
Available on: Monster Halloween Hits
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