Synopsis

Krokus are presented as prisoners in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world. The band members are dragged through a desolate landscape in a quasi-religious procession, chained to a cart and eventually confined behind bars. Marc Storace performs while bound and tormented, until a sudden break from captivity sends him into a surreal diner setting. There, he discovers that the woman he feared was lost is still alive, creating a strange, dreamlike escape from the video's otherwise grim vision.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed at San Francisco's Baker Beach in early 1983, in the same production period as Krokus' "Eat the Rich" video.

• Its storyline was conceived as a dystopian fantasy influenced by the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of "The Road Warrior," with Storace cast as a persecuted survivor fighting against an oppressive force.

• The production recruited extras through a radio announcement. Many of the people who arrived were high school students skipping class, and they reportedly came from a school for troubled teenagers.

• A photographer appearing in the production was recruited to play a court jester. During the shoot, his camera was stolen, creating an unexpected problem amid the already chaotic production.

• The clip was placed in rotation on MTV in 1983, helping turn "Screaming in the Night" into Krokus' signature American hit.

• The song reached No. 21 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and remained there for 12 weeks.

• Marc Storace later recalled that the scene in which his chains are broken leads into a deliberately surreal transition: he puts on Nike shoes, climbs down a ladder, and enters a diner where he walks across customers' breakfasts before seeing his loved one alive on television.