Given that the cast photo was taken before shooting actually began, it may have been the case that they decided to make Barnabas' look more pronounced for the film rather than toning it down for the photo. Who knows? Though there's certainly no denying that his face and eye makeup definitely looks more human in the cast photo:
Though the bangs are still pretty much the same - they were just pushed more toward the right of his face. And when one thinks about it, it's actually quite amazing that the position of his bangs stayed perfectly the same throughout the entire 1972 portion of the film. He must have discovered some great early-'70s hair product!
And changing reels somewhat, I'm actually quite glad that you brought up Barnabas' look because while I was going through stills to locate a good one to use for comparison I came across this scene with David and Barnabas from one of their scenes that isn't even in the film:
And presumably that took place in David's bedroom, which I don't recall ever even seeing in the film...
And changing reels entirely, I see that in the Quick To Judge Films Sweepstakes we have two new films that have already been judged to be duds:
Rock of Ages and
That's My Boy. The first was forecast to bring in $28.6 million this weekend, but based on Friday's numbers they're now saying it will only bring in $15.3 - and the second was forecast to bring in $24.5 million, but now they're saying only $13.1 million. And of course, how they can be so certain of those numbers at this early stage I don't know, but it will be very interesting to see how things really do play out for those two films this weekend. But if the estimates really do prove true, it just goes to show how much better DS did in reality vs. forecasts on its opening weekend because it was forecast to bring in between $35-$30 million and at least it ended up bringing in $29.7 million.
36 days 12 hours 22 minutes 31 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!