You know what modern horror needs more of, apart from well-rounded characters, original plots, and Tom Atkins? More dance scenes. I know, that's probably the last thing you were thinking. But horror movies and dance routines go together like peanut butter and pickles, which is to say that the pairing makes no sense, until you experience it and then wonder how you ever lived without it. Each of the following ten movies proves that a dance number -- group or solo -- can make a bad movie worth watching and a great movie greater.

10. Night Train to Terror
This movie makes no sense whatsoever, perhaps because each segment is culled from hacked-up bits of feature films that never saw the light of day. But what it lacks in scares, logic, production values, and anything else associated with professional filmmaking it makes up for with singing and break dancing. See, there's this group on a train with God and Satan, and they keep performing a music video over and over, and then the train explodes, and then it rides the rails into outer space, and then... I said it made no sense -- but there's a lot of breaking.

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