For its time darkshadows was a very ambitious gamble as for it being scary no it is not but on the otherhand it is the only soap in history to show the darkside of the imagination.What I mean is what other soaps have you whached that have whitches werewolf or deomns in it.And also I have viewed the nbc remake which was a damn side darker than the origonal where as the origonal sereies was just plain funny at the time because of all the mistakes and props falling while filming.