“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

A scene from the movie Judgment Night with insets of Faith No More and Cypress Hill.

The story of how the worlds of rock and hip hop came together has been well told, from Run DMC and Aersomith’s landmark reworking of Walk This Way, through Anthrax and Public Enemy’s landmark Bring The Noise, to the crossover collisions of Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine and their contemporaries.

But one album always gets overlooked in the history books – the soundtrack to a flop Hollywood movie that helped dismantle the last remaining barriers between the genre, contributing as much as anything to the rap-metal boom that followed.