And to give you something else to look forward to, on the 23rd I'll be sharing the very first article published for the film that features photos taken of some of the first scenes shot for the film. It you've never seen the article, you might be surprised which scenes were soon to be shot after shooting began with Angelique's funeral...
And here is the first page of the article:
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And here's the second page of the article:
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here for a clearer 1200X1609 version of the page.)
Most of the photos were never published anywhere else (only the photo of Angelique's hanging showed up again, which makes me suspect that the others *may* have been taken by Flip's own photographer, whereas the hanging is an 'official' still).
It was quite thrilling to find this article because up to that point we didn't really have much idea what
"Curse of Dark Shadows" was about. Although, I do think the photo captions give away way too much plot info, especially for a first look at the film. (But then the magazines did the same thing with hoDS and with every other film that they ever publicized.) And given that we were provided with prior knowledge of it, after we saw the film my friends and I were like "What happened to the seance?!" Of course, we soon figured it was left on the cutting room floor just like some of the scenes from hoDS that we'd been provided photos/descriptions (can you say Julia's walk with Barnabas, David hanging, among others) prior to the release of that film - but little did we know then the real behind-the-scenes circumstances of what had happened with this film...
And it's quite interesting to see that they say Angelique was executed for "adultery" rather than for witchcraft. And adultery is given as the reason in other articles as well, which further complicates the question of 'Was she or wasn't she a witch?' Not to mention it flies in the face of the stated reason given in the film...