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Current Talk '03 II / Re:NODS
« on: December 04, 2003, 08:35:15 AM »I would imagine your parents wouldn't have been thrilled by Night of Dark Shadows, either, what with: ...
My mom didn't see hoDS until she took me and a friend to see NoDS, hoDS and Vincent Price's Cry of the Banshee as a triple bill at a local drive-in in August 1971. She hated the blood and gore of hoDS, but basically because that wasn't her sort of thing. But she enjoyed NoDS and never really saw anything wrong with having taken two 15-year-olds to see it. And mind you, we'd seen the R rated 97 minute version that was mistakenly circulated in many New England theaters instead of the 94 minute GP (PG today) version with which most fans are familiar.
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but all the sexual violence was creepier than the ketchup-blood spurting in HoDS
If anything, the level of sexual violence, indeed, sexuality in general was much higher in that 97 minute version, as anyone who has been lucky enough to catch the times Darren Gross' has shown some of the NoDS restoration footage knows..
(Personally I can't wait to see what Darren has planned for the Tarrytown Weekend. I'd love to see the seance sequence again. Even without its sound, it's incredibly enthralling and (no pun intended) haunting...)