I personally have felt every time I've watched the film that Angelique was a Witch--or certainly had magical powers.  Nothing in the movie makes any sense unless this was so.

I think sometimes people think the narrative points to her having been wrongly accused of witchcraft and I'm not sure where they're getting that.

Of course if the seance scene had been included in the theatre edit, it might have helped clarify the plot. 

G.

youtube only charges for certain licensed content.

G.

btw, in the new book FOLK HORROR REVIVAL: FIELD STUDIES edited by Andy Paciorek, there's an amusing article by Tina Rath, an authority on the scholarly study of vampire lore (particularly in fiction, films, video games etc.).  It's called "All you ever knew about vampires is wrong:  a transcript of a Fortean Meeting talk."  She spends several pages discussing the mythic powers of silver over vampires and explores various possibilities about how this notion came about.  It's a fun read.

G.

I wish the Gregory scene had been included.  But it was entirely about character development so of course, it had to go.

G.

I've never heard of vampires being allergic to silver.  There's been debate about when the idea that a vampire could be killed by a silver bullet came into media vampire lore.  No basis for it any of the European folklore, if I recall correctly.

It's almost not worth bothering trying to make sense of that movie because it was so heavily cut by studio mandate that a lot of it, especially once BarnaDepp returns to the street, is just plain incoherent.  At least it was to me the one time I watched it.

I would think of it as punishment being made to watch the thing again.  The Roger in the cloakroom scene was one of many that made no sense at all.

G.

Jason Shaw seems to have been a very talented young man.

G.

He's so gorgeous.

G.

I'm sure the polka-dot "dress" (I'd call it a housecoat) was something Joan wore for comfort while rehearsing.  We've seen Grayson's smocks many times but this is the first glimpse I've ever seen of what Joan wore for this.  Great photos.

All the photos say Getty Archive and presumably can be viewed if one searches DS on their site.  It's incredible some of the things that have turned up there in the past couple of years.

Today was a day of sorrow and mourning ... FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.  How the hell did THAT happen??

G.