Are You Afraid of Darkness? is a fantasy-themed fantasy Canada-American anthology television series. Original series created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel and was picked up by Nickelodeon in 1991. MacHale, Kandel, and Nickelodeon teamed up with Canadian company Cinar, and as part of the deal the show was filmed in Richmond, British Columbia and in the Montreal area of ​​Quebec, including their suburbs.
The series aired with the episode "The Tale of Twisted Claw" as a pilot on Halloween 1990 on the Canadian television network YTV and aired until June 11, 2000. The show also aired on SNICK Nickelodeon on August 15, 1992, and aired until April 20, 1996. The show success critically and commercially, garnered many awards as the series continues.
A series of resurrections with directors, writers and new players was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member of the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh season is Tucker (Daniel DeSanto), though Gary (Ross Hull) returns for the closing show, which mainly breaks out of the established format of the show by blurring the line between the story and "reality".
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Both series Are You Afraid of the Dark? revolves around a group of teenagers who call themselves "The Midnight Society". Every episode, in a secret location in the woods at night, one member will tell a scary story to the group. The real story, instead of telling it, is shown to television viewers. The story was shown between the arrival of the group at the location and their departure. Every storyteller will begin their story by saying "Submitted to the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, (the name of the story mentioned here)", at which point he will throw a handful of "midnight dust" from a leather pouch into a bonfire to boost fire and produces frightening white smoke.
MacHale wrote the line "submitted for approval" as a nod to The Twilight Zone, where creator Rod Serling will, after introducing the episode, says "submitted for your approval." The storyteller will continue by announcing the title (The Tale of...). The theme of the story usually revolves around various paranormal phenomena, such as demons, ghosts, magic, haunted houses, magical curses, aliens, witches, vampires, werewolves, and the like that come into contact with the average teenager. Typically, episodes are filmed in the forest, in abandoned homes, or in public places such as schools or libraries. The sources of these stories vary in various ways; many of which are adaptations of public domain fairy tales and short stories or urban legends. For example, the episode "The Tale of Twisted Claw" is an adaptation of the short story W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw .
Sometimes, the stories are inspired by certain events in the storyteller's life. In the episode "The Tale of the Crimson Clown," for example, Tucker blackmailed his brother Gary with a poem he found, which Gary had written for Samantha. Gary then tells a story in which a naughty and mischievous younger brother is brutally punished for his evil deeds. At the end of the episode, Tucker returns the poem to his brother. Many, but not all, of the horror stories about Are You Afraid of the Dark? ends with "happy ending" while some of them have a bad ending or a tortuous ending like "The Tale of the Lonely" Ghost "," The Tale of the Dark Music "," The Tale of Vampire Town ", and" The Tale of the Pinball Wizard ".
At the end of most of the episodes, one character (usually Gary in the first run and Tucker in the second show) will throw a red water bucket into the fire, stating "I declare the Midnight Society meeting is closed", and the group will leave the camp, ending the story. Sometimes, the story will be related to an event (for example in "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark," a Christian, who is afraid of a clown, runs away when Eric is wearing a clown mask, then everyone goes after him). This will cause Gary or Tucker to immediately throw water into the fire, and the Midnight Society will go wherever they go after the meeting.
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A few years after the Midnight Society's last meeting, Tucker returned to resume the meeting, inviting his own circle of friends to reform the Midnight Society. Quinn: Quinn usually gets into trouble at school and at home, but he's a smart kid who likes to make fun of Andy working with Vange.
Repeating character
One of the more significant recurring characters is Sardo (Richard Dumont), owner of "Sardo's Magic Mansion" (magic shop). He often tries to sell "valuable" characters, works almost every time. He often has items in his shop that contain real magic traits, but does not know until he is revealed in the story. One of the most memorable recurring jokes in the series happens when someone will call him "Mr. Sardo." He will then feel annoyed and exclaim: "That's SarDO! No mister, accent on doh!" Another recurring line is: "Have you ever seen our vomit?"
In addition, when selling goods to someone, he often asks for a rather high price. The main character will say how much money they have, and Sardo will take the money by saying, "But I lost the deal." Although he rarely gets what he wants, he will often help his character, often by accident. He appears in Gary's stories, though in later seasons, he appears in two Tucker and one of David in the episode "The Tale Of The Dark Dragon."
Other recurring characters are Dr. Vink (Aron Tager). He is a physically impressive man who often appears as a mad scientist, a shaman, and the like. When he entered, he introduced himself by saying, "Vink is a name, Dr. Vink." He would also make his name mispronounced, usually something like "Dr. Fink?" When this happens, he will answer "Vink With va-va-va !" Often, the protagonist will call it "nutbag" behind his back, assuming he can not hear it, just to reply later, "... and I'm not a nutbag."
Unlike Sardo, whose character is set in a magic shop, Dr. Vink has many 'unique endeavors' when he calls them, for his story. It ranges from staying deep within the forest doing strange natural experiments, being a retired film, owning his own restaurant as head chef and last barber. His activities are usually evil and are designed to put the character in danger and allow him the last laugh. However, in his last appearance, "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure" (told by Frank and Gary), he is allied with Sardo and the main character without his usual hate. He appears in Frank stories. Aron Tager also plays a carnival worker who stands in front of Funhouse and invites people to get into the episode "The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark".
The Zeebo the Clown character, also played by Tager, appears in "The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark" referenced in several other stories, for example, in the episode "The Tale of the Whispering Walls", two children mention seeing him in the park In the episode of "The Tale of the Mystical Mirror", a girl says she will look like Zeebo if she wears too much lipstick, and in the episode "The Tale of the Crimson Clown" in the boys video game room called Zeebo's Big House can be viewed on a table with a Zeebo image on it as a title character. The video game was also mentioned in the episode "The Tale of Train Magic." Finally, in the episode "The Tale of the Night Shift," a juvenile janitor called Zeebo by his boss several times early in the episode.
The villain, "Ghastly Grinner" (star of "The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner"), like Zeebo the Clown, appears in a comic book that reads "Dark" characters. In "Tale of the Ghastly Grinner", The Grinner is featured as a comic book star. Christian Tessier who appeared in "Laughing in The Dark" (1992) also appeared in "The Curious Camera" (1994).
In media
Television series spawn some licensed products. A PC game was created for an event titled Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse . A board game was made entitled Are You Afraid of the Dark ?: The Game . Perhaps the most prominent product of franchising merchandise is a series of books written by various authors between 1995 and 1998.
VHS Release
Three VHS tapes were released by Sony Wonder. Ghostly Tales which included episodes, "The Tale of Shiny Red Bicycle" and "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" plus bonus: "Feel the Fear" music video and released on March 22, 1994, > Nightmare Tales which included episodes, "The Tale of the Final Wish" and "The Tale of the Dream Machine" and released May 31, 1994, and The Tale of Cutter's Treasure released on June 13, 1995.
In addition, episodes of the series were included in two compilations of SNICK programming recordings, both released on August 31, 1993; "The Tale of the Lonely Ghost" is included in Nick Snicks Friendship , and "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds" is included in Nick Snicks the Family .
DVD release
Direct Source released all seven seasons Are You Afraid of the Dark? on DVD in Region 1 for the first time between 2006 and 2008. The first five seasons are released in Canada only during season 6 & amp; 7 was released in Canada and the United States. The company also released a combined collection of Season 1 & amp; Season 2/Season 3 & amp; Season 4 as a set of boxes. This release has been discontinued and is now out of print.
On April 8, 2013, it was announced that Berkshire Axis Media has secured the rights to the series (Canada only) and will release it again. Season 1 was re-released on May 28, 2013. Season 2 was re-released on October 15, 2013.
In Region 2, Revelation Films released the first four seasons on DVD in the UK in 2007/2008.
Nickelodeon also re-released the series to DVD in the US through the Amazon.com CreateSpace service starting with two random "volume" episodes released in 2013. However, the release was canceled and followed by a precise season release that begins in 2014.
On December 1, 2014, it was announced that Madman Films has secured the rights to the series in Australia, and will release a Via Vision Entertainment thinking series. in 2015 Via Vision released season 1-3 individually. It was announced on September 22nd, 2017 that Via Vision Entertainment has no plans to release the remaining season from Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Online distribution
On October 17, 2011, "Are You Afraid of the Dark: Volume 1" was released on iTunes and Amazon on Demand.
On January 30, 2012, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Volume 2" was released on iTunes and Amazon on Demand.
On April 30, 2012, "Are You Afraid of the Dark: Volume 3" was released on iTunes and Amazon on Demand.
On August 6, 2012, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Volume 4" was released on iTunes and Amazon on Demand.
On August 20, 2012, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Volume 5" was released on iTunes and Amazon on Demand.
In September 2016, All 7 seasons "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" provided free of charge on YouTube.
Movie adaptation
On November 13, 2017, it was announced that the film adaptation of this series is being worked on at Paramount Players. It author Gary Dauberman is set to write a screenplay with Matt Kaplan production. The film is scheduled to be released on October 11, 2019.
References
External links
- Are You Afraid of Darkness? (first series) on IMDb
- Are You Afraid of Darkness? (second series) on IMDb
- Are You Afraid of Darkness? on TV.com
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