10 Hauntingly Weird Music Videos From The 1980s

2. Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo The creepy Grammar School at night setting of Total Eclipse of the Heart is like something out of a Scooby Doo cartoon. Yikes! Written and produced by Jim Steinman for Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, the song proved to be the smash hit from her album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Drawing on inspiration from the 1976 sci-fi film Futureworld, the video was shot at the Holloway Sanatorium €“ famed for its gothic architecture €“ in Surrey. Tyler passes by ninjas, gymnasts, fencers and other students engaged in activities on her trip round the faculty in the dark. She later encounters choir boys telling her to turn around and gets spooned by someone dressed as a bird. Audiences on both sides of the pond lapped it up, however, as Total Eclipse of the Heart topped both the UK and US Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1983. It spent three weeks at number one in the States.