Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (video) →

The video is famously "ridiculously glorious" for its seemingly random assortment of characters. It wasn't just a simple performance clip; it was a carefully storyboarded collaboration between Mulcahy and the song’s writer/producer, . The "scenery-chewing splendor" includes:

Shirtless athletes performing modern dance and combat in the dark. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Video)

Perhaps the most "80s" addition, performing acrobatics in the school corridors. The video is famously "ridiculously glorious" for its

A direct nod to the film Village of the Damned , their glowing eyes sync with the "bright eyes" refrain. Perhaps the most "80s" addition, performing acrobatics in

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

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.