DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
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Turner Classic Movies will be running House of Dark Shadows at 12:00 AM (ET) on Saturday, October 20, 2006.
To clarify, that's late Friday night/early Saturday morning.
I know it's over two months away, but it's never too early to set the VCR, eh? ;)
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Thanks :)
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They are airing Lugosi exclusively on 8/18. Early for Halloweeny, but...
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Oh, this will be my first time seeing this.
I'll either have to make sure that TCM is among the channels in the cable package I'm ordering for my new apartment, or I'll have to make sure I make a trip home that weekend. XD
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To Ian and others who have never seen house of DS--
be aware that it's much more like a late Sixties low budget vampire flick (with a gore quota comparable to, say, Hammer's Taste the blood of Dracula, but far less stylistic finesse) than it is the series we all know and love. The movie is populated by people with names like "Barnabas Collins," "Julia Hoffman" and "Eliot Stokes" who exist as characters only because of the superb non-verbal acting ability of the artists portraying them. Nearly every scene, dialogue sequence or set-piece that actually established the people in the movie as characters was axed in favor of a higher gore content (slo-mo stakings, close-ups of blood running, etc.) I well remember that as I walked into the theatre back in the Summer of 1970, I heard one person ask his friend "So, what'd you think?" and the other man's reply: "Lots of teeth, lots of blood." I still think of this single sentence as the ideal review of house of Dark Shadows. They could use it in the New York Times television section.
Grayson does look fabou throughout, of course. Love the bed-head do! And the costumes in the ball sequence, though we see everything far too briefly, are the most lavish and exquisite yet. The one for Barnabas was used on the show subsequently, and I think one or two others as well.
G.
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Is it too much to ask TCM to show the film in L E T T E R B O X format?
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And the costumes in the ball sequence, though we see everything far too briefly, are the most lavish and exquisite yet. The one for Barnabas was used on the show subsequently, and I think one or two others as well.
They were used for the costume party sequence in 1970PT weren't they?
[spoiler]And who didn't want to slap Quentin when he had that little temper tantrum when Maggie appeared at the stairs wearing Angelique's dress? Seriously dude, if you still have that many problems with the ghost of your ex-wife you shouldn't have gotten married again![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]And who didn't want to slap Quentin when he had that little temper tantrum when Maggie appeared at the stairs wearing Angelique's dress? Seriously dude, if you still have that many problems with the ghost of your ex-wife you shouldn't have gotten married again![/spoiler]
That's what I'M talkin' about! He alone makes 1970PT almost unbearable! LOL re the bedhead-do, Gothick!