I agree arashi - the more I read, the more I like what I'm reading. I love that the film will be "soap operatic" and "heightened and grand" because that's exactly what the original DS is. And I have no problem if "there's not gore" and "there are no hardcore scares" because those elements weren't a part of the original DS either. Frankly, the last thing I want to see is another DS movie that's a blood and gore fest like hoDS was.
That being said, Grahame-Smith also says that "there's some crazy Barnabas vampire shit in this movie that will surprise people in terms of its ferocity," so it's not like Barn is going to be defanged and as meek as a kitten. And just because the film will be PG-13, that in no way means it won't be violent or bloody. It just won't be the type of violent blood bath that an R rating would allow, and that's more than fine with me. Not that I don't like that type of vampire movie - I do - but it's not DS. And also, as we've said before, a PG-13 rating opens the film up to a much larger potential audience - and there can't ever be anything bad about that.
And the funny parts of the film don't worry me either - particularly when Grahame-Smith says it's due to an "absurdist element". I mean, the original DS is nothing if not absurd. And I know I'm not alone when I say I often find myself laughing because of some of its absurdities - (I mean, how can you not at least giggle inwardly if not outwardly at lines like "I said I killed her - I never said she was dead"? Sure, it makes perfect sense within the storyline. But, hello - absurd nonetheless.
) - but never do I laugh at the show. And in no way am I not loving every second of the absurdity. When it comes to funny, even the original cast has confessed that once a scene was completed they often broke out in hysterical laughter because everything they'd just done was so absurd. And the fact that everything is played so straight/serious and we take it so straight/serious only makes it all even more absurd. So if that's the type of funny/absurd there's going to be in the film, it's going to be no different from the original show.
Thanks so much for posting the link, Cousin_Barnabas.
89 days 5 hours 21 minutes 49 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!