All time scariest TV intro. As a kid in the 80's, it was much worse! The deceptively peaceful, if mundane images of a countyside bereft of people matched to an eerie, haunting score culminated terrifyingly into images also bereft of color, right when we see the ash forest with no ground, but just an inexorable fade to darkness contrasting with the bleak, smothered daylight of the sky at the top. I've thought long and hard about that into for decades. It's haunted me from elementary school through college and beyond. The transition from color, to black and white, and finally to a negative exposure of black and white is a preternatural masterpiece. Thank god for the 80's!
Man lives in a sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But there is unseen by most an underworld. A place that is just as real, but not as brightly lid. A darkside!
i remember this show, i was maybe about 5 or 6 years old, and this intro always had me checking under my bed, and my closet just from this eerie ass theme music..
Used to be afraid to watch any scary stuff in the house I spent my teenage years in, because it was haunted. Watching this alone at night used to terrify me, lol.
There is a world as tangible as our own… Impossible to see, yet… Unavoidable to sense… A world enveloped by a seemingly unending ocean of forest… Buried deep in that forest, tucked away neatly within a blanket of twilight… Lies a quaint little cabin… A n d I n T h a t C a b i n…………
I was early teens when this came out. I always loved Outer Limits, classic Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Monsters, Up All Night with Elvira, and as a Mississippi Gulf Costian - Morgus Presents out of New Orleans. I was raised on hoo-doo, voo-doo, and all things undead. But, this intro used to scare the living shit out of me! Loved the show, and all of them really! Still do.
I remember sometimes at night as a kid in the 80s latenights not being able to turn the TV station in time before this would come on lol it would always catch me off guard late at night sometimes if I was laying down and this would come on I would jump up and snatch the TV cord out of the wall lol this intro to this show was super scary to me as a kid lol after that it had me checking rooms and my closet before i would go to bed lol😂
LMFAO!!! Do you realize how many kids woke up when they heard this theme song and scrambled to change the channel or turn the t.v. off! I bet they never moved so fast! 🤣🤣
I remember being 11 and 12 Years Old. Back in the 1980s and watching this Show, now a Middle Aged Man. Are a Horror writer, soon to begin publishing my works. This show DEFINITELY influenced me a LOT.
Yes, used to scare me as a kid. I grew up in Queens, Jackson Heights. I'd hear this and then stay up all night scared looking out the window towards the subway, Roosevelt ave.
When I was a little girl I used to watch this with my dad. It was tales from the darkside, the twilight zone, and I think night gallery. When I heard this intro, I knew my night was starting. The intro used to scare me, so I had to be in the living room to watch it because my dad would shut all the lights off.
Even though I was too scared to watch it at night, there I was starting to pay bedtime watching this. Scared I was gonna get caught watching tv and scared of the monsters outside my window. Haha!
I remember watching this as a kid and then I would immediately watch the 60s batman show after to be less afraid. Then again I used to have a crush on the woman who played Catwoman. Weird I know lol
Some info: George Romero composed this theme himself, and this is actually HIM doing the spoken-word. Also, the reason why, in the public eye, George Romero is only associated with his two Night of the Living Dead films was that he spent much of the following years working on the short stories in this wonderful made-for-TV series. But really, on an artistic and even Spiritual level, Romero should be included with the likes contemporaries like David Lynch or Chronenberg. Hail to The Master!
Hey, thanks for this! This is such an excellent show with great childhood memories! I think it's time for a revival! I look forward to seeing more of your videos! You just earned a new subscriber! :)
Yeah....totally had the intro & outro memorized. Anyone remember the episode where the woman was actually a blackwidow spider? She ate the encyclopedia salesman.
There's a small town nearby and it has a stretch of road very similar to the one depicted in this intro. I remember as a kid we were coming home passing through that town at night I could see the road and trees in the dim light through the car windows. Fast forward to me in my early twenties and while channel surfing happen upon this program just starting. I was instantly taken back to that night many years ago in our car. For a second the room seemed to be non existent and I could almost smell the interior of that car.
I wish they would play this TV series on Halloween, of course I've been wishing for that all these years and other Halloween days too but nothing. When the theme song started I knew what time it was. And it was time for the show to come on.
Funny to think that this was originally suppose to be a Creepshow series, after the box office success of Creepshow in 1982. But cause Warner Bros. Owned certain rights for the movie, they chose to take the series to a different direction and changed the name to "Tales from the Darkside" instead