Dark Shadows Original B/W Opening

from 1966-67

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1966
• opening
• dark
• shadows
• daytime
• serial
• gothic

[mistybabe5489]

Omg this is real? I heard about it on king of queens when spence mentioned it but I thought it was made-up.

[disabled1955]

@mistybabe5489 yep, for the last 45 years......

[shelbydawkins]

no question about it, this is the creepiest piece of music E V E R composed by humans.

[disabled1955]

@shelbydawkins and here it is 45 years later and it still works!!!..after not hearing it for a period of time, hearing it again takes me back to how i felt when i first started watching the show.....

[disabled1955]

@shelbydawkins the one piece of music i've heard more than *ANY* other!!!

[Aztexwarrior]

damn i remember that show as a kid man i feel old

[disabled1955]

@Aztexwarrior like music, any number of tv shows and movies, this is something i've watched the better part of 40+ years..doesn't seem like this much time has passed - then, suddenly, it occurs to us how much time has actually passed..kinda a good feeling to have this much time to look back on....where DID it go?!?!?!?......

[davecarvell]

True horror! Horror used to be subtle and make your spine tingle. Now they just bludgeon you with gore and screaming.

[geckogurl2u]

Loved that show as a kid. Better than the new vamps of today! Great theme song.

[AngelofMusic04]

@pernelldh I saw Danny Elfman speak last year along with Rick Heinrichs and Colleen Atwood. Someone asked him if he was going to incorporate the Dark Shadows theme into the score and he said Tim Burton will probably ask him not to.

[pernelldh]

Wondering if that theme song will be featured in "Dark Shadows" starring Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton coming to theaters this year?

[TeeBeeBad53]

@disabled1955 Like Spence I ran home from school to watch too. lol!

[emilyisashark]

CM Punk has good taste.

[dmcn307]

CM Punk brought me here lols

[hobo209]

CM Punks twitter brought me here

[telecastor69]

@shelbydawkins, you are AB-SO-LU-TE-LY right! All eight year old children (as I once was) should watch this masterpiece in order to learn what fear is, jajaja!

[vividwatch47]

When "Dark Shadows" went into reruns, I thought that opening with the crashing waves and Collinwood in B&W was videotaped!

[Imarightwing1]

I wish someone on you tube had the show dark shadows so we could watch it.the movie was on tcm last night.

[MrSpikesterman]

this video bring back some good memberies and good time I had when I was 5 and 7 year old when this show was on tv me and my babysitter always sat down and watch Dark shadow together

[btinsley1]

daaaaamn, did i just get goosepimples like i did 42 years ago !!!! ?

the (original) old episodes should be shown again on a network like ME tv (in chronological order).

[cosmonaut1100]

Johnny Depp better not completely fuck up Barnabas in the remake

[PatriciaTuugamusu]

My Mom got me loving this show when I was just 5 and now I'm 18. She would watch it EVERYDAY and I'd be like ''ooh, scary" especially the theme song and it became my favorite show. So every time we go swimming in the ocean and I see a huge wave, my sister and I would sing the song. and make the sounds of crashing waves. LOL We'd also compare how big the waves we see to the one in the series' theme.

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

I hear this music in my head every time something reminds me that we've reached that mysterious, far-future year 2012.

[oneill9875]

@disabled1955 Winchester Cathedral would have worked well as intro music!

[oneill9875]

A friend of mine has that theme as a ringtone on his fckn cell phone!

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

@davecarvell We saw that in the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. When you get to see Hannibal Lecter do his thing outside of prison, it becomes just another slasher movie.

[Aztexwarrior]

@disabled1955 holy crap where does the time go

[disabled1955]

@Aztexwarrior hard to believe this was 45 years ago..don't wanna make you feel worse, but there's The Flintstones: it's been 51 years since its start..oh, I Love Lucy: 60 YEARS!!...aaaa-mazing....