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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNItU7wiCw end theme] of ''The Lawnmower Man'' is only a couple notes off from being the ''[[Terminator]]'' theme.

* [[Jerry Goldsmith]]'s theme for the ''[[Supergirl]]'' movie intentionally matches the style of [[John Williams]]' ''[[Superman (Film)|Superman]]'' theme. In fact, [[Smallville|almost]] every adaptation of Superman after 1978 has used a Suspiciously Similar Song to the Williams theme: see under [[Suspiciously Similar Song/Live Action TV|Live Action TV]] and [[Suspiciously Similar Song/Western Animation|Western Animation]]. The same goes for parodies of course, e.g. as part of a cartoon episode.

* The cultists performing a human sacrifice in ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' (not to be confused with the ''other'' [[Sherlock Holmes (Film)|Sherlock Holmes movie]] with cultists performing a human sacrifice) chant a song which also rips off "O Fortuna".

* In the movie adaptation of ''[[Ghost World]]'', the character Doug blares some heavy metal from his car stereo - it sounds a lot like an instrumental knockoff of [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]]'s "Master Of Puppets".

* The famous ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4 theme] is actually very similar to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZcCNYF6-4 beginning of the fourth movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony.] The two sound completely different after the first few notes, however.

* The original version of French Canadian film Elvis Gratton used many songs by Elvis Presley. It has been replaced by instrumental Suspiciously Similar Songs.

* ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgzQvIKynM "Treasure Island"] piece seem to have inspired some of the music in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': the middle segment of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-BeFi58tQ The Black Pearl] (skip to 52:00) and, less clearly, the violin playing at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBBKfw59kA He's a Pirate].

** Speaking of Hans Zimmer, the soundtrack from ''[[The Rock]]'' is very similar to the score from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. (For those not in the know, Zimmer worked on both).

* The fight theme from the unreleased ''[[The Fantastic Four (Film)|The Fantastic Four]]'' by Eric and David Wurst is basically John William's "Here They Come" from Star Wars. While the Theme song is more or less shades of "the Main Theme" from Jurassic Park.

* Somewhat averted in the DVD release of ''Where The Buffalo Roam'', as the new songs don't sound anything like the ones used in the original movie. Still pretty lame, though.

* A home-video trailer for the second ''[[The Mighty Ducks (Film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' film uses a painfully obvious Suspiciously Similar Song to the theme from ''[[Back to The Future]].''

* The theme from Kinji Fukasaku's ''Blackmail Is My Life'', which appears throughout the film, is a wordless soundalike of "Over Under Sideways Down" by the Yardbirds.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqLcEtt368 This] trailer for the 2011 ''[[The Muppets (Film)|Muppets]]'' movie -- which parodies a ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]'' trailer -- [[Lampshades]] this, with intertitles that read:

{{quote| We couldn't / get the rights / to the real / song / so we had / some dude / write / this one / but we / had to / put him / in the / movie. / Here he is. / ''(shot of crowd scene with one person in the background circled)'' Totally/ [[Worth It]]}}

* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' theme sounds suspiciously like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2VKbm2hp0o 2 Unlimited's "Twilight Zone"]. Of course they're the same [[Orchestra Hit Techno Battle|orchestra hit stadium techno]] style so there's bound to be resemblance.

* The opening credits to ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' features music that sounds '''very''' similar to "Night On Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky. Almost to the point, that you'd swear it actually was "Night on Bald Mountain."

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