Saw the Dark Shadows trailer. WTFF?
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Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2012 3:12:38 am PDT #18814 of 30000
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sumi - Mar 18, 2012 7:43:16 am PDT #18815 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
If it weren't called Dark Shadows it would be a fun comedic vampire movie.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2012 7:50:24 am PDT #18816 of 30000
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The guy I saw it with had no idea what Dark Shadows was and thought it looked like great campy fun. Sigh.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2012 8:03:06 am PDT #18817 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But...Dark Shadows itself was great campy fun.
Polter-Cow - Mar 18, 2012 8:05:41 am PDT #18818 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, a friend of mine who's a huge fan of the show, which he described as "campy and melodramatic," is really excited about the movie.
sumi - Mar 18, 2012 8:11:08 am PDT #18819 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Are the originals out there in some format?
Because my history with Dark Shadows is this:
from the age of 5-7 I lived in south Jersey and my best friend's older sister was a huge Dark Shadows fan. (She was also the occasional babysitter for my brothers and me.) I don't know that I've ever actually seen an episode.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2012 8:52:59 am PDT #18820 of 30000
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Well, there's campy, then there's campy with a disco soundtrack.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2012 9:34:19 am PDT #18821 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Are the originals out there in some format?
They were all put out on VHS. Not sure about DVD. But I'd bet you could find it online.
Like the young Johnny Depp (we both grew up in South Florida in the same era), I used to race home from school to catch them on TV. (You had to race home because it came on at 3pm and school let out at 2:55. So if you were lucky you'd only miss ten minutes.)
First of all, they're super duper slow moving even by soap opera standards of 1970. Second of all, it was shot on video so the lighting is kind of harsh and crappy looking. And the styles are all Rich People Of the Early 70s (not a a good era for rich people fashion).
Also, Barnabas Collins was not introduced until the show was well into its run. But his character took off and it became incredibly popular and all the storylines revolved around him.
But it always had an awesomely gothic theremin theme. And Barnabas character was cool and the performance was interesting. But basically it was high cheese like Passions.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2012 9:41:20 am PDT #18822 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sumi, I just realized I've got the House of Dark Shadows (they did a movie with the regular cast in 1970, retelling the Barnabas story in condensed form) on MP4. I could send you a dropbox link if you want to watch it. It's actually less glacially paced than the series.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2012 9:50:01 am PDT #18823 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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