@@IceKicker18 Ironically enough, I considered Goosebumps the scarier show as a kid since it almost never had episodes with happy endings. This intro though, still works very well to this day.
the show itself is still terrifying as an adult. the one with the cold ghost or the episode where the photographer steals peoples faces? absolutely haunting, as an adult
I don't know why, but the first image of the abandoned boat in the water combined with the first few notes of the theme was enough to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Hell, I think its still creepy to this day
Yea I would turn the TV off for like 30 seconds just to avoid the intro as a kid. The show itself didn't scare me too bad but that intro was too much for me
I couldn't grab the remote fast enough to change the channel! It's easy to see why. A body of water at night is always creepy. The picture is colorless and grainy. Plus the boat looks abandoned, which implies something bad happened here. Then you have that low moaning sound. It's hard to think of a creepier way to start a show.
Somebody invent a time machine and take me back to the 90's... Goosebumps, Are you afraid of the dark and Tales from the crypt were my favorites shows to watch back in the 90's😊
There was nothing like being a kid in the 90s and watching Nickelodeon, Snick, and Nick at Nite. I would love sometimes spending Friday nights alone watching shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark and eating a pizza lunchable. Simple pleasures but that’s why it was an amazing period of time to be alive!
Who else remembers this intro feeling longer than its 29 second runtime would suggest? I guess time is perceived to go by slower as a kid and faster as an adult.
When I watched this opening sequence as a kid, I'd imagine myself arriving at the shore and climbing out of the boat, then running past the swings from whatever was chasing me, through the rain, into the old building, and up the attic similar to Bastian in The NeverEnding Story. I narrowly avoid the evil clown doll, lock myself inside the closet and light a match.
Wow I imagine my self sneeking out of my house for some stupid reason then I'm all alone out there by myself and as I wolk by the boat the boat is floating in the dark eerie water with a creepy vibe then I go by a abandoned school and the wind blows up my back and my hair stands upon the back of my neck and the wind haves a spooky atmosphere to it I feel there's someone or something watching me then I see the swings moving by there self then I go to a creepy old abandoned haunted house and I hear something from the basement coming upstairs to me so then I run up to the attic and I I heard it coming upstairs to the attic so I locked my self in the basement closet and light up my lighter In the eerie darkness as something said are you afraid of the dark
the scariest show is when theres all smiles in the public's view but dan schneider molests behind the curtains and flaunts in plain sight his foot fetish.
As a child I was always fascinated with horror and the fear of the unknown. I still am. Whenever Are You Afraid of the Dark would come on, from the very moment the opening credits started my eyes were glued to the screen with intrigue. Simple but effective. I absolutely love it.
The shot of the swingset with the swing swinging ominously in the breeze creeped me out as a kid watching this and still gives me chills as an adult. There's something oddly terrifying about the scene that makes you feel alone but also like something is wrong.
Every Saturday Night as a kid I would have had my homework done, convinced my parents to order pizza, sit on my couch and watch SNICK. I loved when new episodes played and wished for a big orange couch.
@@eggbun1856 bittersweet. the dresses, settings, places in this show are simple yet enigmatically captivating your attention in a kind of incomprehensible way, which is a great feature of this program.
Some of the eps were creepy. Laughing in the Dark The one with the innkeeper and the life force draining mirrors The Dollmaker Dark Music Secret Admirer The Dark Servant Old Man Corcoran
And to think that we're so overly worried these days about what kids watch on TV I mean seriously look at what we watched on HBO and Nickelodeon especially tales from the crypt and some of those episodes were pretty gory and we all turned out okay, I think we create bigger issues and problems and they become more hidden when we try to censor things too much
Watching this again as an adult I was like, "Yeah... Not that scary anymore." Until I instinctively looked away when the clown came up, just like I did as a child.
Its like those shark pictures in old books you browsed as a kid. Seeing them so up close does make you flinch and look away instinctively, similar to how one looks away at that clown doll in the dark at the intro.
38 and same. Who thought this would be appropriate for kids? I remember the adult version of this show was Tales from the Crypt, and I actually liked that intro (still do). But this terrified me so much I didn't even watch the actual show for years. BTW, in case anybody is wondering, I didn't actually watch Tales from the Crypt as a kid. Just the intro and the opening segment with the puppet. I wasn't allowed to watch the rest and it seemed boring anyway. Back then I wished they would have made a show about the puppet.
Me and sisters would be so pumped when the show was about to start. We’d get the popcorn and our warm blankets ready, turning off all the lights (except for the kitchen light) sitting in front of the television. 😂 good times.
I remember this as a kid, personally it hyped me up, mostly because I knew I was in for a good show. But I also remember an alternate intro to this, it went the same but no music until the title, also it lingered on the door, in which the handle started turning.
Kinda late but I remember too. I think this version is a newer one that was used in reruns. I don't remember that much tho. Most of my childhood is just hazy memories but I'm sure that intro is in RUclips as well.
The first six episodes of AYAOTD when it first aired in 1992 used the introduction you are referring to. There were faint moans with heartbeats. It also had a hand with a match sliding from the left which disappeared with lightning. I thought that intro was scarier than this version.
wow, your comment retrieves my memory about Courage the Cowardly Dog that was on too when its almost at midnight, which suits its theme and atmosphere soooo well. lol
Same here! But I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep because it was too scary for me, so I would end up watching I Love Lucy on Nick At Nite with my grandma 👵🏾 ❤️
I can remember trying to catch this show on TV in the late 90s-00s era but it had a weird airtime like 5pm and that was generally the time you wanted to be outside with friends after school before dusk..still gives me that nostalgia feeling never the less..
i vividly remember how this came on after inspector gadget and how it would scare the crap outta me. Always ran to my mom immediately so she could change the channel to something else haha
I remember there are three versions of the intro. The one we see here. The second one is the same in visuals, except there are no music which adds more creepiness, because the sound of the from the elements. The third is just a short version, but it shows a cloud with the door coming up and opens and then the title shows up. The theme song is a little faster and the end chorus is sung a bit higher pitch.
9:30pm Saturday, the last show on the SNICK lineup and for good reason. It was the only time deemed appropriate to watch a relatively spooky show such as this as a kid. At 9:30pm my adrenaline was pumping. The fear and excitement you got watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? Nickelodeon capitalized on that idea very well. That you were up past your bed time and something not meant for little kids was about to come on. By 10pm I was always scared enough to dread having to turn the tv off and go to bed in the dark.
How? Dude you was like 3 when it went off air 😂😂 it premeired 92 went off 96... in 92 I was only 8-9 96 I was 12-13 I am 36 now so how was you watching this then??????
@@BigDyse maybe he's from a different country. Like, I'm from Russia, was born in 1992 and yet also watched the show - because here it was aired later. I was about 6 or 7, I think
@@BigDyse the series returned briefly from 1999-2000. That's how I remember it, though don't remember any details other than it scared the hell out of me
DYSE RUNZ JERZ It was shown in the late 90s too dumbass. Just because they stopped making episodes in 96’ doesn’t mean they stopped showing it entirely. I was born ‘93 and remember it.
OMG I just had a moment... Me and my sister used to watch this every week, and my dad would say "What are you watching?" And we'd say "AYAotD?" And he'd say "No I'm not, what are you watching?" 😂😆😂😆 Only a dad could make that joke funny every week for years.
I was ten when it debuted on nick and been a fave as its on par with tales from the crypt, tales from the darkside, twilight zone both sixties and eighties sequel and more anthologies of horror
I watched this show back in 2010 -11, it used to come at 9 or 9.30 pm at night. For that past 6-7 years i have been trying to find the show as i had forgotten the name finally i found it.
It's funny how these shows like this and Goosebumps and their intros, were actually more scary than the adult TV show Tales From The Crypt. it just goes to show how good of a job Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Goosebumps really did.
@@homeblue7667 I disagree. People grow up at their own paces, and it's always been that way. I don't know how old you are, but I'm 44 so as I grew up in the 80s and 90s, I can tell you that there's always been people who've been mature at 18 compared to someone who was only 15. My point had nothing to do with people maturing as they grow up. My point was that when I was watching Tales From The Crypt and Goosebumps back in the late 90s in my late teens, even then I realized that Goosebumps put forth a lot of effort into the scare/horror factor, whereas Tales From The Crypt was more about practical effects and suspense and unhappy endings. Goosebumps and Are You Afraid Of The Dark gives a horror feel to people of any age.
@@Steveman27 I agree that people grow up at their own pace and am I not arguing against the reality that people can mature at 18. You misunderstood my points greatly. Back then in the 90s, society were very harsh and tough onthe youth compared to today, so because of that factor, alot of them in general manage to grow up faster than those of the youth of today. This is particularly why some shows back then for kids are very mature that would not be appropriate for kids of today. Our maturity is greatly affected based on the environment we grew up in.
That mud monster in the high school swimming pool episode scarred me for a long time. One of the reasons I got goggles. Wanted to spot that fucker before he spotted me.
God I miss the 90's. Musicians who could actually sing and play instruments, movies that had plots, watching Are you afraid of the Dark after playing outside all day.
I have fond memories of this show coming on when I was alone in the basement and me running out of the basement and onto the stairs plugging my ears until the theme was over 😂
An intro that does not need CGI Ghost or gore. Just the creepy dark places, dark storms and eerie music that conveys the mood. This show is just so iconic.
There's just something about fog, leaves blowing in the wind at night, takes me back to my childhood when I was young & curious. The world was still brand new. 🎃💜👻🌘
What makes this intro so great is how subtle it is. Did anyone else notice that in the swingset clip, only ONE swing is moving? The others are perfectly still. That's easy to miss, but it really heightens the viewer's sense of unease. (Perhaps the moving swing is occupied by a ghost?) Those little details are great at communicating, without coming right out and saying so, that things are off and you should keep your guard up.
I haven't seen this show back in 1997 when I was a kid in New York before me and my family moved into Georgia goosebumps was my scariest show in the early 2000's
The intro always had me thinking that some monster from the woods was looking for me at night when everyone was sleeping. First it comes out the woods by some eerie lake, then it goes to my school playground searching for me until it finally reaches my house and stands outside the window. Somehow it's made it's way through the attic and now...... WAIT......are those footsteps outside my doo-... wait... OMGSH! The doorknobs turning guys!!! OMGSH somebody hel-... AAHHHH!!!!!!!! 🚪😈🛏😱⚰ Remember... even locked doors can't save you...... muahahaha...
I love it 💖 I never get tired of watching and hearing this fabulous intro and series 👌 In my country here in Spain it became very popular and I never missed any episodes 💖
The most messed up episodes was with the kid that got stuck in the vr game, and Tia and Tamera episode with the chameleon, and the wrong sister got sprayed
First, this show holds a very near and dear place for me in my childhood memories… as well as a solid thing to look back to before everything got so rapidly unrecognizable and unpredictable like things are today, especially in entertainment. That being said, it is interesting to notice how mild the scary aspects of this show are, yet how simultaneously powerful and permissible it was for kids. We were offered this show as relatively young children (I was born in 85 so I was watching this show form about 6ish to about 11ish or so…), really without any reservations or concern for what it would do to our psyche… or, of course, if there were conversations among adults regarding those concerns at the time, I certainly was too young to be aware of them. “Darkness”, as a psychological, societal, spiritual, artistic, and yet very real if not sometimes subtle force is still a force to be reckoned with. Most kids, and even adults, have no idea what dark forces are at work against us. Yeah, I certainly was afraid of the dark. I was terrified of evil as a kid. And I still don’t like it, though I’ve learned to face it more bravely. As a fun, proverbial campfire in the living room sort of childhood romp, my faint recollection of the feeling this show gave me are bar none (particularly on a very memorable trip to Charleston as a kid with my family, who are all dead now except my uncle and my sister, where we somehow got lucky and there was also a marathon of this show playing that night. My internal excitement was surging… I can almost still feel it)… but as for the seeds it planted along with other encounters with evil as a kid that I experienced, let me just say, it’s not all fun and games. On another note, I remember seeing the dolphins swimming in the ocean from the beach on that trip, and how my mom praised what she saw. What a juxtaposition it was.
This intro used to scare the crap out me when I was a kid. I came back to watch it again and after not seeing it for so many years it brought the chills back. It amazes me this is what scared most of us a children
Omg this made me feel like a kid all over again I use to watch this all the time I was so sad when it was taken off the air it’s one of the most unique shows ever to be put on Nickelodeon next to the Secret world of Alex Mac
Haven't watched this since the 90s, aka the last great decade? I'd forgot the intro and theme song. Song sure was creepier than the intro and the show.
aaaaaAAAAAHHHHH, I LOVE IT! Always loved horror, since i was, like, 3. Used to also love the supernatural or extraterrestrial episodes of Unsolved Mysteries when i was a kid.
Dear 1990s,I'm ready to go back now.
I wish... 😥
Evelio Escalante
The new “ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?” Is out
Same here 😕🥺😢
Jess olivia
Someone build a time machine so we can go back!
Yes.
This intro is still chilling to listen to as an adult, especially towards the end! 😱
The memories it brings up. Never watched much as a kid bc the opening scared me lol
@@IceKicker18 Ironically enough, I considered Goosebumps the scarier show as a kid since it almost never had episodes with happy endings. This intro though, still works very well to this day.
BOOOOOOOOOO.......NOPE
Jesus saves 🙂
the show itself is still terrifying as an adult. the one with the cold ghost or the episode where the photographer steals peoples faces? absolutely haunting, as an adult
This intro was way creepier then the Goosebumps theme
This was Nickelodeon's personal *Goosebumps*
This show was way creepier than Goosebumps in general.
TheDarkarrow7 what do you think of the 2019 then?
ruclips.net/video/ecAadxzO3Ak/видео.html
I agree with ya's but that's why I love it UvU
@@fredyrodriguez8881 This intro can still beat the new one UvU
Not often that an intro to a 90s children’s show is still actually chilling to adults in 2019.
Right 😊
Jesus saves 🙂
It's so simple, but effective. Always wondered who left the stranded boat and thought the worst, all before that clown doll appeared
This intro STILL turns my stomach with the same terror it did when I was 10
I love it lol
Im in my 30s and this intro still give me chills... man I miss the 90s..
Imagine being a kid in the 80s listening to Robert stack on Saturday night to unsolved mysteries.
yes this still creeps me out! In 2023
You are not alone
@detech8149
We 90s kids watched unsolved mysteries too. Had the pleasure of experiencing the chills from this show and unsolved mysteries.
We all miss it so much.
I don't know why, but the first image of the abandoned boat in the water combined with the first few notes of the theme was enough to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Hell, I think its still creepy to this day
Same here. As soon as this intro started at night on TV back in those days as a kid, always gave me the creeps.
Yea I would turn the TV off for like 30 seconds just to avoid the intro as a kid. The show itself didn't scare me too bad but that intro was too much for me
I couldn't grab the remote fast enough to change the channel! It's easy to see why. A body of water at night is always creepy. The picture is colorless and grainy. Plus the boat looks abandoned, which implies something bad happened here. Then you have that low moaning sound. It's hard to think of a creepier way to start a show.
It’s funny what music and lighting (or lack thereof) can do
@@josellebolden578
Yeah the boat and swing are the creepiest but coolest
Somebody invent a time machine and take me back to the 90's... Goosebumps, Are you afraid of the dark and Tales from the crypt were my favorites shows to watch back in the 90's😊
I want to join you when you get that time machine!
I'll bring the popcorn!
I’ll bring the tv
Man its sad to know cryptkeeper died.. I remember he was ganged op on by bloods man :(
Save room for me too
There was nothing like being a kid in the 90s and watching Nickelodeon, Snick, and Nick at Nite. I would love sometimes spending Friday nights alone watching shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark and eating a pizza lunchable. Simple pleasures but that’s why it was an amazing period of time to be alive!
you just described paradise my friend lol
Who else remembers this intro feeling longer than its 29 second runtime would suggest? I guess time is perceived to go by slower as a kid and faster as an adult.
Oh bro this bitch felt twenty minutes long as a kind
Yeah
This!
Time goes faster as we get older. Einstein had a theory about it.
It does.
great show but as a kid i was always creeped out when i saw the doll in the theme.
The doll and the swings creep the hell out of me when I was younger.
Up to this day, I closed my eyes when that doll showed up in this clip. And I'm 25.
That's interesting, the swing moving on its own always creeped me out.
The boat and swings creeped me out.
Jesus saves 🙂
When I watched this opening sequence as a kid, I'd imagine myself arriving at the shore and climbing out of the boat, then running past the swings from whatever was chasing me, through the rain, into the old building, and up the attic similar to Bastian in The NeverEnding Story. I narrowly avoid the evil clown doll, lock myself inside the closet and light a match.
That's pretty rad, bro!
@@elliottvaughn700 I am surprised that I'm not the only one to come here and revive those memories again.😄😄
And did you find "whatever was chasing you" was in there with you?
Wow I imagine my self sneeking out of my house for some stupid reason then I'm all alone out there by myself and as I wolk by the boat the boat is floating in the dark eerie water with a creepy vibe then I go by a abandoned school and the wind blows up my back and my hair stands upon the back of my neck and the wind haves a spooky atmosphere to it I feel there's someone or something watching me then I see the swings moving by there self then I go to a creepy old abandoned haunted house and I hear something from the basement coming upstairs to me so then I run up to the attic and I I heard it coming upstairs to the attic so I locked my self in the basement closet and light up my lighter In the eerie darkness as something said are you afraid of the dark
Be imaginative and take initiative
I honestly think this is the scariest show on Nickelodeon.
It was the only scary show on nick
@@bezoticallyyours83 Legends of The Hidden Temple was kind of creepy at times to me when I watched it as a kid.
Doran Mitchell for real, when the temple guards popped out from behind hidden doors and snatched kids. Shit was crazy lol
Duh
the scariest show is when theres all smiles in the public's view but dan schneider molests behind the curtains and flaunts in plain sight his foot fetish.
As a child I was always fascinated with horror and the fear of the unknown. I still am. Whenever Are You Afraid of the Dark would come on, from the very moment the opening credits started my eyes were glued to the screen with intrigue. Simple but effective. I absolutely love it.
Khaotic
I also like Creepypasta and kids horror
i think the greatest feature is its way of filming is, like you say, simple but effective, which really impresses its audience.
The shot of the swingset with the swing swinging ominously in the breeze creeped me out as a kid watching this and still gives me chills as an adult. There's something oddly terrifying about the scene that makes you feel alone but also like something is wrong.
how about how only one swing is moving on its own? Kind of makes you wonder doesn't it?
I know what you're tolking about it simply scares me good😢 that intro and everything in that scene
@@josellebolden578 i wonder why these classic oldies could so deeply impress us all. how wonderful we have a chance to watch it. lol
Every Saturday Night as a kid I would have had my homework done, convinced my parents to order pizza, sit on my couch and watch SNICK. I loved when new episodes played and wished for a big orange couch.
Man if I ever get a place of my own that has an extra room I'd make a man cave and put a big orange couch in it.
I was the same way minus the couch and homework
the nostalgia fucking hurts 🥲😭
@@eggbun1856 bittersweet. the dresses, settings, places in this show are simple yet enigmatically captivating your attention in a kind of incomprehensible way, which is a great feature of this program.
The theme song was creepier than the actual show
Some of the eps were creepy.
Laughing in the Dark
The one with the innkeeper and the life force draining mirrors
The Dollmaker
Dark Music
Secret Admirer
The Dark Servant
Old Man Corcoran
So funny lol 😂
@@bezoticallyyours83 quicksilver scared the hell out of me lol
The frozen ghost scared the shit out of me
@@Vic292
There's also The Quiet Librarian.
I want to be a kid again.
Same here man
Same here
Jesus saves 🙂
Who doesn't? Adulting sucks. 😒
And to think that we're so overly worried these days about what kids watch on TV I mean seriously look at what we watched on HBO and Nickelodeon especially tales from the crypt and some of those episodes were pretty gory and we all turned out okay, I think we create bigger issues and problems and they become more hidden when we try to censor things too much
It all makes me a little uneasy but when the part of the theme kicks in 0:17 Puts chills down my spine 😬
Watching this again as an adult I was like, "Yeah... Not that scary anymore."
Until I instinctively looked away when the clown came up, just like I did as a child.
The clown in the intro is the creepiest part.
Its like those shark pictures in old books you browsed as a kid. Seeing them so up close does make you flinch and look away instinctively, similar to how one looks away at that clown doll in the dark at the intro.
Coulrophobia.
Everyone say thank you Canada
Thank you Canada
Thanks Canada
Thank you Canada
thank you china for the best tv show ever
Some of my absolute favorites come out of Canada....I wonder why they do most of the filming there even when it’s US based 🧐
Im 38 and its 2021 and this intro still gives me the creeps! I Loved this show growing up.
Awesome show
now your're already reaching/being in your early 40s, and i hope everyone body leaving comments here, including you, would still enjoy this show.
Haven’t heard this is 20 years. It’s actually quite beautiful piece of music.
I was so damn lucky to of been born in the early 90's. Such a beautiful time! 💛
Damn right
i second dat.
Those who disliked must’ve been AFRAID OF THE DARK.
I LOVED watching this as a little kid, even though the intro always creeped me out 😂
Gaby D same 😂
90's was hands down the best time to watch tv, the intro creeps me out even today.
I am nearly 35 years old and this intro still elicits a deep fear from within me 😨😖
Im 39, and same! 😂
38 and same. Who thought this would be appropriate for kids? I remember the adult version of this show was Tales from the Crypt, and I actually liked that intro (still do). But this terrified me so much I didn't even watch the actual show for years.
BTW, in case anybody is wondering, I didn't actually watch Tales from the Crypt as a kid. Just the intro and the opening segment with the puppet. I wasn't allowed to watch the rest and it seemed boring anyway. Back then I wished they would have made a show about the puppet.
@@DevineInnovations
This is the only live action Nickelodeon show I like
0:10 30 years later, I'm still scared of this doll
jho
Me too
Wat doll is that
NiGelodeon - the haunted clown in this intro I think. Too scared to watch it right now lol
yeah, it comes across my mind INSTANTLY whenever i have a thought of this show.
Me and sisters would be so pumped when the show was about to start. We’d get the popcorn and our warm blankets ready, turning off all the lights (except for the kitchen light) sitting in front of the television. 😂 good times.
I remember this as a kid, personally it hyped me up, mostly because I knew I was in for a good show. But I also remember an alternate intro to this, it went the same but no music until the title, also it lingered on the door, in which the handle started turning.
Kinda late but I remember too. I think this version is a newer one that was used in reruns.
I don't remember that much tho. Most of my childhood is just hazy memories but I'm sure that intro is in RUclips as well.
def prefer with the music in background then the
The first six episodes of AYAOTD when it first aired in 1992 used the introduction you are referring to. There were faint moans with heartbeats. It also had a hand with a match sliding from the left which disappeared with lightning. I thought that intro was scarier than this version.
Hella late, but I found which episode this intro was on. The Tale of Laughing in the Dark.
So I wasn't just misremembering the scene with the handle shaking as if some invisible force tried to open it.
This intro of this classic show is from the 90’s and it is awesome
I had to see it one more time, makes me smile again
This show was on right at the perfect time too! Right when it's getting dark, at the end of SNICK.
wow, your comment retrieves my memory about Courage the Cowardly Dog that was on too when its almost at midnight, which suits its theme and atmosphere soooo well. lol
Damn. 30 years old and I still love this intro.
Oh Canada we thank thee for the many tales that made our childhood memorable and fun!!!
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this “The Tale of Good Horror Title Sequences from the 90’s”
Fr fr I approve this story in the name of the midnight society
that haunting echo at the beginning witht the boat sends me into chills to this day.
This literally ALWAYS give me goosebumps (no pun intended). Every single time.
This scares me more than modern day horror movie trailers.
as a SUPERB fan of horror movies of different types, most particularly slasher films, I can proudly say, 'well yeah I probably second that.'
The sound of a Saturday night that's almost over. This aired at 9:30pm on Saturdays and my bedtime was 10ish.
OMG STOP 😭😭😭 the nostalgia is too much!!!! this comment brought me back
Same here! But I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep because it was too scary for me, so I would end up watching I Love Lucy on Nick At Nite with my grandma 👵🏾 ❤️
Yep. All lights off in the house for that brief period of time
Our Generation isn't cooler than it was in 90s
🎶DUCKTALES , WHOO WHO, EVERYDAY THEIR OUT THERE MAKING DUCKTALES, WHOO WHO.....🎶
Are you saying that you think you suck?
Intro was so eerie, loved it! Wish I could go back to 90’s sometime..great times
hope your wish would come true someday. and yeah, it would be a fun trip to that period of time, full of amazement and wonders.
The beating heart effect adds to the terror
I love this show! It’s one of many shows I watched when I was a child. Watching this brings me nostalgia.
I can remember trying to catch this show on TV in the late 90s-00s era but it had a weird airtime like 5pm and that was generally the time you wanted to be outside with friends after school before dusk..still gives me that nostalgia feeling never the less..
I must be a little older than you, during its original run it came on Saturday nights at 10/9 central. It was final show on the SNICK lineup
@@iceboxovercoat Yeah I'm on the east coast too
This looked so good on a big screenk tv as a kid . I mean I was poor but we just had a b g tv and honestly this show was a big highlight
This intro still holds up - pretty creepy for a 90’s Nickelodeon show
Me @me: hey, remember how scared you get when you see the AYAotD? Intro?
Me: yes, thanks for reminding me......
@me: go watch it!!!!!
Dear 1990s, sorry I took you for granted.
I always felt the intro was scarier than the show itself.
among all those horror shows/movies I'd ever watched, i can say its every episode is uniquely impressive.
i vividly remember how this came on after inspector gadget and how it would scare the crap outta me. Always ran to my mom immediately so she could change the channel to something else haha
I remember there are three versions of the intro. The one we see here.
The second one is the same in visuals, except there are no music which adds more creepiness, because the sound of the from the elements.
The third is just a short version, but it shows a cloud with the door coming up and opens and then the title shows up. The theme song is a little faster and the end chorus is sung a bit higher pitch.
9:30pm Saturday, the last show on the SNICK lineup and for good reason. It was the only time deemed appropriate to watch a relatively spooky show such as this as a kid. At 9:30pm my adrenaline was pumping. The fear and excitement you got watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? Nickelodeon capitalized on that idea very well. That you were up past your bed time and something not meant for little kids was about to come on. By 10pm I was always scared enough to dread having to turn the tv off and go to bed in the dark.
This opening used to scare the crap out of me as a kid 🤣 Not as scary now but still kinda creepy lol
I love listening to this on Sunday evenings around 4 pm for old times sake. Great intro 👍👍
I'll be honest here I'm 26 and the intro used to scare the crap out of me as a kid but I still watched it every week
How? Dude you was like 3 when it went off air 😂😂 it premeired 92 went off 96... in 92 I was only 8-9 96 I was 12-13 I am 36 now so how was you watching this then??????
@@BigDyse maybe he's from a different country. Like, I'm from Russia, was born in 1992 and yet also watched the show - because here it was aired later. I was about 6 or 7, I think
@@BigDyse the series returned briefly from 1999-2000. That's how I remember it, though don't remember any details other than it scared the hell out of me
dyserunsjerz Doesn’t mean they didn’t air old episodes moron. I was born in 1991 and remember this as a kid.
DYSE RUNZ JERZ It was shown in the late 90s too dumbass. Just because they stopped making episodes in 96’ doesn’t mean they stopped showing it entirely. I was born ‘93 and remember it.
OMG I just had a moment... Me and my sister used to watch this every week, and my dad would say "What are you watching?" And we'd say "AYAotD?" And he'd say "No I'm not, what are you watching?" 😂😆😂😆 Only a dad could make that joke funny every week for years.
I was ten when it debuted on nick and been a fave as its on par with tales from the crypt, tales from the darkside, twilight zone both sixties and eighties sequel and more anthologies of horror
0:17 that one part still gives me chills 😨
That ending part is so chilling I love it
I watched this show back in 2010 -11, it used to come at 9 or 9.30 pm at night. For that past 6-7 years i have been trying to find the show as i had forgotten the name finally i found it.
It's funny how these shows like this and Goosebumps and their intros, were actually more scary than the adult TV show Tales From The Crypt. it just goes to show how good of a job Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Goosebumps really did.
Agreed bud
because back then people mature alot and faster than today. People today think you're still a kid at 18 which would be laughable back then.
@@homeblue7667 I disagree. People grow up at their own paces, and it's always been that way. I don't know how old you are, but I'm 44 so as I grew up in the 80s and 90s, I can tell you that there's always been people who've been mature at 18 compared to someone who was only 15.
My point had nothing to do with people maturing as they grow up. My point was that when I was watching Tales From The Crypt and Goosebumps back in the late 90s in my late teens, even then I realized that Goosebumps put forth a lot of effort into the scare/horror factor, whereas Tales From The Crypt was more about practical effects and suspense and unhappy endings. Goosebumps and Are You Afraid Of The Dark gives a horror feel to people of any age.
@@Steveman27 I agree that people grow up at their own pace and am I not arguing against the reality that people can mature at 18.
You misunderstood my points greatly. Back then in the 90s, society were very harsh and tough onthe youth compared to today, so because of that factor, alot of them in general manage to grow up faster than those of the youth of today. This is particularly why some shows back then for kids are very mature that would not be appropriate for kids of today.
Our maturity is greatly affected based on the environment we grew up in.
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There's also The Haunting Hour.
Take me back to the 90s please!! Best horror show ever along side to gooesbumps 😂
Here I am 32 now.
Remembering watching this as a kid in the 90s.
We had it good!
The music or sounds that plays when I see the are you afraid of the dark gives me dare I say Goosebumps.
I still remember this one to this day!
It's my favorite intro and tv series.
The choir when the match set on fire was the creepiest out of the entire opening
That mud monster in the high school swimming pool episode scarred me for a long time. One of the reasons I got goggles. Wanted to spot that fucker before he spotted me.
The music that plays with the boat rocking in the creek uuuggghh STILL frightens me. :O
I remember the show being on Nickelodeon every time around 5 o’clock couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch this.
comeback for a revenge.I used to be scared at this as a kid.I automatically run upstair whenever this plays.
Got damn I miss being a kid in the 90s again.
God I miss the 90's. Musicians who could actually sing and play instruments, movies that had plots, watching Are you afraid of the Dark after playing outside all day.
I have fond memories of this show coming on when I was alone in the basement and me running out of the basement and onto the stairs plugging my ears until the theme was over 😂
An intro that does not need CGI Ghost or gore. Just the creepy dark places, dark storms and eerie music that conveys the mood.
This show is just so iconic.
I still tease my 33 year old dork of a brother who used to hide under the covers when this intro came on! 😅
There's just something about fog, leaves blowing in the wind at night, takes me back to my childhood when I was young & curious. The world was still brand new. 🎃💜👻🌘
Halloween is the best! Fall time at night is just different, even though I was terrified of the dark
Legit this is one of the best openings to a horror show ever!!
Spectacular intro and TV series 👌🏆. I love it. Someone bring me back to the 90's 😃
What makes this intro so great is how subtle it is. Did anyone else notice that in the swingset clip, only ONE swing is moving? The others are perfectly still. That's easy to miss, but it really heightens the viewer's sense of unease. (Perhaps the moving swing is occupied by a ghost?) Those little details are great at communicating, without coming right out and saying so, that things are off and you should keep your guard up.
This show used to really creep me out back in the 90’s when I was a kid. That Nosferatu episode in the movie theater literally had me losing sleep.
I haven't seen this show back in 1997 when I was a kid in New York before me and my family moved into Georgia goosebumps was my scariest show in the early 2000's
The intro always had me thinking that some monster from the woods was looking for me at night when everyone was sleeping. First it comes out the woods by some eerie lake, then it goes to my school playground searching for me until it finally reaches my house and stands outside the window. Somehow it's made it's way through the attic and now...... WAIT......are those footsteps outside my doo-... wait... OMGSH! The doorknobs turning guys!!! OMGSH somebody hel-... AAHHHH!!!!!!!! 🚪😈🛏😱⚰
Remember... even locked doors can't save you...... muahahaha...
I knew the intro was coming after the Ren & Stimpy credits and it scared the crap out of me.
Ren and stimpy scared me lol
This is definitely what got me into the horror genre
The whole 90s to 2009 era was like being drunk and now we are living in the hungover.
Anyone else want to come back with me to the 90s? Please ensure you have a Deluxe Talkboy, a tamagotchi and corn pops cereal.
I'll bring my walkman, yo-yo and viewmaster with me too
I love it 💖
I never get tired of watching and hearing this fabulous intro and series 👌
In my country here in Spain it became very popular and I never missed any episodes 💖
The most messed up episodes was with the kid that got stuck in the vr game, and Tia and Tamera episode with the chameleon, and the wrong sister got sprayed
First, this show holds a very near and dear place for me in my childhood memories… as well as a solid thing to look back to before everything got so rapidly unrecognizable and unpredictable like things are today, especially in entertainment. That being said, it is interesting to notice how mild the scary aspects of this show are, yet how simultaneously powerful and permissible it was for kids. We were offered this show as relatively young children (I was born in 85 so I was watching this show form about 6ish to about 11ish or so…), really without any reservations or concern for what it would do to our psyche… or, of course, if there were conversations among adults regarding those concerns at the time, I certainly was too young to be aware of them. “Darkness”, as a psychological, societal, spiritual, artistic, and yet very real if not sometimes subtle force is still a force to be reckoned with. Most kids, and even adults, have no idea what dark forces are at work against us. Yeah, I certainly was afraid of the dark. I was terrified of evil as a kid. And I still don’t like it, though I’ve learned to face it more bravely. As a fun, proverbial campfire in the living room sort of childhood romp, my faint recollection of the feeling this show gave me are bar none (particularly on a very memorable trip to Charleston as a kid with my family, who are all dead now except my uncle and my sister, where we somehow got lucky and there was also a marathon of this show playing that night. My internal excitement was surging… I can almost still feel it)… but as for the seeds it planted along with other encounters with evil as a kid that I experienced, let me just say, it’s not all fun and games. On another note, I remember seeing the dolphins swimming in the ocean from the beach on that trip, and how my mom praised what she saw. What a juxtaposition it was.
I was always scared of the intro that had to be watched with all the lights on in the house no matter what room I watched it in lol 😂
That intro music is the whole reason why I was MOST DEFINITELY afraid of the dark as a kid
Memories!
This intro used to scare the crap out me when I was a kid. I came back to watch it again and after not seeing it for so many years it brought the chills back. It amazes me this is what scared most of us a children
I remember begging my mom to turn off the (mounted) tv when I was 6. I would freak out whenever it would come on.
Omg this made me feel like a kid all over again I use to watch this all the time I was so sad when it was taken off the air it’s one of the most unique shows ever to be put on Nickelodeon next to the Secret world of Alex Mac
This intro lives in my head rent free
Grew up with this ❤ why cant it still be like the 90’s 😢
Haven't watched this since the 90s, aka the last great decade? I'd forgot the intro and theme song. Song sure was creepier than the intro and the show.
Lolol you had about 10 seconds to pull that blanket over your head before the clown showed up
aaaaaAAAAAHHHHH, I LOVE IT! Always loved horror, since i was, like, 3. Used to also love the supernatural or extraterrestrial episodes of Unsolved Mysteries when i was a kid.