Possible Movie Details: SPOILERS
I found this information on a soap-opera website which features American soaps. I'm not sure if it is reliable, however, it is interesting. I've copied the entire post. I tried to hide the spoilers, but I couldn't get it to work with cut-and-paste -- sorry. If you don't want to read spoilers, please do not read any further. It is faily lengthy. Here is is:
Spoilers below! Don't read, if you don't want to know!
Got this several days ago. Haven't had time to share until now. It appears to have been floating around from person to person. Take it worth a grain of salt, I suppose. Still interesting.
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Byron, thought you might enjoy this information. Saw it printed on Gadabout sometime last week. Enjoy!
[spoiler]Angelique, not Barnabas, is the major villain of the film.
Barnabas becomes a sympathetic character almost immediately after being released in 1972.
Angelique is killed near the end of the film.
During the course of the movie, Barnabas is briefly cured of vampirism, but is re-cursed by the dying Angelique.
The 1972 Collins family is accepting of strange Cousin Barnabas, partly because they have lost their fortune, and Barnabas appears to be wealthy.
Victoria Winters is a student of the occult, and has chosen the employ of the Collins family intentionally.
In a 1972 scene, Barnabas has a violent reaction to the decrepit condition of Collinwood Manor.
Barnabas does not kill any of his victims in the script, and no new vampires are created (other than Barnabas, himself).
Angelique kills an important character.
Angelique can fly.
When Angelique initially curses Barnabas in 1772, she does not summon a bat, but a vampire named Cornelius.
Barnabas attempts to escape Cornelius on horseback, while Cornelius pursues him on-foot. Cornelius leaps onto the horse from behind, and attacks Barnabas. The two fall off the horse, which continues to speed away without them. On the ground, the vampire violently and repeatedly bites Barnabas, rendering him life-less. This, in my opinion, is the only truly frightening scene in the script.
David has a brief phone conversation with his mother, but her face is not shown.
In an humorous segment, Barnabas is taught to drive an auto.
Barnabas despises Roger and plans to kill him. Someone talks him out of it.
Barnabas’s costume includes a cape, ring, cane, and oddly, a wide-brimmed hat.
A major character falls from Widow’s Hill in 1972.
Barnabas is chased through the forest by a group of towns-people wielding wooden-stakes and hammers. He finds a strange hiding-place.
An on-going gag, throughout the script, includes a group of hippies who find themselves squatting in several very unfortunate locations.
If one pays attention, some very familiar art-work is seen in the halls of Collinwood Manor.
Angelique and Julia hate one-another for reasons other than Barnabas.
Three actors from the daytime-serial version of Dark Shadows play cameo roles. One is quite a surprise.
A 1970s rock-star also has a cameo, as does a well-known vampire author.
Barnabas can transform into mist and a bat, but has difficulty mastering these powers.
In a 1972 scene, Angelique informs Barnabas that there are other vampires in the world, and that Cornelius is still (for lack of a better word) “alive.”[/spoiler]
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