Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Gothic Fever Dream of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
If there is one music video that encapsulates the over-the-top, "more-is-more" aesthetic of the early 1980s, it is Bonnie Tyler’s Released in 1983, the video is a bewildering masterpiece of Gothic melodrama, surrealism, and enough wind machines to cause a local weather advisory. The Setting: A Haunted History Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Video)
Perhaps the most "80s" addition, performing acrobatics in the school corridors. Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Gothic Fever Dream
The video’s haunting, academic atmosphere wasn’t built on a studio lot. It was filmed at the near Virginia Water in Surrey, England—a massive Victorian Gothic hospital that once served as a mental institution. "more-is-more" aesthetic of the early 1980s
Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Gothic Fever Dream of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
If there is one music video that encapsulates the over-the-top, "more-is-more" aesthetic of the early 1980s, it is Bonnie Tyler’s Released in 1983, the video is a bewildering masterpiece of Gothic melodrama, surrealism, and enough wind machines to cause a local weather advisory. The Setting: A Haunted History
Perhaps the most "80s" addition, performing acrobatics in the school corridors.
The video’s haunting, academic atmosphere wasn’t built on a studio lot. It was filmed at the near Virginia Water in Surrey, England—a massive Victorian Gothic hospital that once served as a mental institution.