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.
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.
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 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!
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! :)
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!
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
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!
A high point in human creativity the 80s was. That is going from apparently clear to undeniably clear as time marches.
Same
Absolutely!!!!!
Same
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this is one of the creepiest songs ever
+eduardo loera I know right, this still creeps me out!
+Old Dirty Gamer oh!yea!💀😱👽
*Eduardo Loera* ::: : :See that you aren't too much the browsing type here on YT.
Yes it is, But so brilliant
Perfectly atmospheric for the show too. I loved watching it in the 80s late at night.
God! Reminds me of the weekends, being a kid and staying up late at night in the summer! Miss my childhood.
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!
What do "LIDS" have to do with it ?
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@@darktrooper2099 it's a typo.
Patrick Peralta ---- You don't say
The dark side baby
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..
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Man remember this as a kid in the 80s! Use to come on late at night! Good ol days! Good memories
so ominous! always scared me when i was a kid.
The only this intro can make nice and peacefully scenery become super unsettling.
Amazing that a few notes can creep you out. Music is the height of emotional expression.
I use to watch this all the time! 80s was the best!
Me too!
I agree!
Ive always been a lifelong horror fan but Maaan as a kid this theme song scared the shit outta me!... and I loved it!
The best!
The intro was scary when I was a kid!!
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.
I still never watch stuff like this alone and my apartment is not even haunted.
I’m 44 and this intro is still creepy af
I"m 39 and I absolutely refuse to hear it. Had to turn my computer volume on Mute! I don't want to hear one NOTE from this song! 😅
This show was genuinely creepy. The intro plays that angle of how uncertain reality can be.
Still gets me to this day.. this show was fire when i was growing up bro
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.
Up all night was with Rhonda Sheer
@@conservative3130 Yes, but she often said “Up! All night” as she pointed her index finger up… innuendo.
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…………
Now, say all of those words in the same voice as the narrator. Lol!
Is a bunch of guys or bullshi.... 😂 made my night
This would scare me everytime as a child! 😱
Still creeps me after years.... 😱😨
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 as a 4 yr old in the late 80's..... this show playing late at night before I went to bed..... Nightmare fuel.
Same. I clearly remember watching it in the attic on a black and white TV, on a bed me and my family shared when I was 4 YOA.
Tales From The Darkside was never really my thing, but this intro always gave me chills
Loved the series growing up. Thank u for posting this.
I still love this till this day
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.
I still watch it! ❤
im 37 , and these song continues scared me :C
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.
My favorite intro ever.
Born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s. Scary stuff was better then.
This is sampled by a rapper who goes by the name of Necro. His song "Head -Neck Apartheid" is all the buzz on the streets of Bensonhust Brooklyn, N.Y.
I need to check that out for real.
I believe Tech N9ne used it too
This scared tf out of me as a kid
In this situation we're dealing with, this should also be the theme song to caronavirus
Yes, and what's crazy is people choose to be scared and refuse to take the vaccine. I guess they just don't mind being hospitalized or dying.
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.
Love this intro.
My childhood memories to me 1990 1991
Omg. So many great memories of staying up late to watch this.
Oyeeee escare me!
lol
Helps me sleep....
one of the creepiest intros ever. This and The Twilight Zone always got me in the mood back then.
tales from the darkside show - 40 years ago! - i miss this show!1
Totally terrified me as child growing up in the 80s
The heart beats on intro dub on some shows
This intro scared the shit outta me when I was a kid.
Lol watching this when I was a kid used to scare the poop out of me now I laugh cause I can tell it was filmed in Canada
Gail Lewis how can you tell?
Western Pennsylvania
This music used to scare the hell out of me
I remembered as a kid in the 80s, I ran fast underneath my bed every time this intro went on.
THIS IS THE CREEPIEST MUSIC I'VE EVER HEARD!
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!
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! :)
This used to be a part of my Friday Night TV lineup.
1st) Monsters
2nd) TFTD
3rd) Friday The 13th
Same here! Lol
I remember watching this at my parent's house in Detroit. Channel 20 at 9:30 pm on Sundays.
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
80s tv was the best.
Wish we could get that time back the 90s was good too
As a kid, this and Night Gallery used to scare the crap out of me.
night gallery?
This intro used to scare the piss out of me when I was a little kid...
Me childhood 😖
The episodes didn't bother me but this song did!
Tales from the Darkside intro is very terrifying & scary
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!
This intro used to scare the shit out of me as a kid.
I miss watching this on Chiller
Yeah....totally had the intro & outro memorized. Anyone remember the episode where the woman was actually a blackwidow spider? She ate the encyclopedia salesman.
I loved this show when it was out
Yeah,has nothing on Tales from the Crypt though.
God I love this show so much
MANNN LIVSSSS
THAT HAS TO BE THE EERIEST THEME EVER!!😱😱😱😱 THAT THEME ALWAYS SENT A CHILL DOWN MY SPINE!!
This here is a good trap sample. RUclips producers where you at???
This show intro was scarier than the entire movie.
The most memorable & scariest intro of all time, this scared me when I was a kid
Ridin in a monster truck
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 i wish i wish and i wish that they so would bring this back on tv and release this on to blu-ray discs
Tis the season of unbelief was ah scary ass episode
This shit used to scare the shit outta me
Good anthology show, 80's style.
IM A PROJECT GHOST
IM A HOOD APPARITION
You know it was bedtime when you heard this tune come on.
Just found out about this series, 1980's, kid,
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.
loved that show as a kid
The guy coughing after is much more scary
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
Wow.. My girlfriend just told me she wasn't allowed to watch this as a child hence she's never seen an episode. Can you even imagine!!!
This intro by itself kinda fucked me up as a kid.
This song was the reason why I stayed in the light at night time walking outside 😢😢. But I wanted to watch Hunter on NBC thanks mom🤣
When it goes black and white I think there’s a car moving down the street in the background
Absolutely perfect intro!
When I was little & saw it on reruns, I thought that it was possible to accidentally go to the darkside
the song is like 😳
Listen to Queensway- Fuel for the darkest man.
The Military complex...
Can still recite the opening to this show, someone needs to make a metal song out of it.
Watch Tales From The Crypt: Funny hilarious humor
Watch Tales From The Darkside: Scared me so frelling bad as a kid
I got the Tales from the Darkside series and its movie at Best Buy.
I just wrote a Wattpad Tales from the Darkside short story entitled Wild Wishful Vengeance. I put it up on Twitter and LinkedIn.
yo, check it. it's the year 2020 & still this music is creepy as heck. don't care how creepy this is, i love it. please put this back on 📺----a.s.a.p.
Way scarier then Outter Limits, X- Files and Unsolved Mysteries😂😂
Awesome shows
I wonder if nostalgiaween can do the version of this
This is pretty good
The abyss is always there ..waiting for us to enter..waiting to enter us..until next time try to enjoy the the daylight...repent
Have a Good rest of the day God is Good
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