Posted by Jim Jarmusch’s 2019 horror comedy The Dead Don’t Die is now streaming on Netflix, but what’s up with the Sturgill Simpson song in the film? The stars Adam Driver in an incredibly star-studded cast that includes Selena Gomez, Bill Murray, Austin Butler, and Tilda Swinton, among others.
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Dead Don’t Die Official Installer Overview
Although The Dead Don’t Die is technically a zombie movie and follows some familiar beats, it also breaks with the genre in myriad ways, because at its core,really a parody of zombie movies.
Key Features
- This is full of dry humor and meta-satire, and this song is no exception.
- In fact, Adam Driver’s character, Officer Ronnie Peterson, offers a meta commentary on this song very early on in the movie.
- While Officer Ronnie and Chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray) are patrolling in their police car, Ronnie turns on the car radio and “The Dead Don’t Die” comes on.
- After a beat, Cliff says, “Wow, this sounds familiar. What is that song, Ronnie?” To which Ronnie replies, “It’s by Sturgill Simpson.
- Cliff says again: “Sturgill Simpson… Why does that sound so familiar?” At this point Ronnie gets completely self-referential and says: “Well, ’cause it’s the theme song.
- The two then listen to the song in a somewhat awkward silence.
- This is far from the only use of “The Dead Don’t Die” in the movie.
- In fact, the song is played so frequently throughout the movie that near the end of The Dead Don’t Die, Officer Mindy Morrison (Chloë Sevigny) hears the song once more and exclaims, “Oh, God! Not this again!”
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System Requirements
- OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)
- Processor: Intel 2.6GHz quad-core.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM.
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960M or equivalent.