So, are any cousins out there watching this very surreal spoof of the series, "Dank Shadows," on Youtube?  I just learned of its existence today although it's been running for several months now and they are up to episode 13.

There are some softcore gay porno references woven in--nothing actually X rated, but some off-color humor.  The wildest bits involve Scorcha Burns Ballins (the Laura character) who is portrayed by three different performers in different episodes, including a whacky "To Tell the Truth" dream sequence that a traumatized "Gayvid" has after Scorcha's flaming demise.

I hesitate to actually recommend this stuff, as the humor is beyond the surreal and offbeat, but I've already become addicted.

G.

Vaguely amusing, but I don't like the site's gratuitous ads or the fact that the "bitch" who writes the site copy referred to a lovely Aunt Harriet-like dowager in full regalia as "an ugly fat cow."

Honestly, when did Americans become so bloody rude? 

Johnny is dreamy.  But I read somewhere, Goddess only knows where, that "Brad Pitt is the man straight guys want to go to bed with."  I have no idea who decides these things...

G.

Hope it all goes well and you get the job! 

Best,

Gothick

Nice little review.  Daughters of Darkness IS the ultimate lesbian vampire movie... and it's got John Karlen at his most pornstar-gorgeous.

G.

Just a very short note from someone who became a fan in June-July 1968... I LOVE all the campy, crazy, and bloopery moments on DS.  I don't jump in my seat every time the series is referred to as a "campy" Gothic soap opera (or whatever).  Part of that is because the word "campy" is used so loosely in the US that unless I have first-hand familiarity with the material, I have no idea what, if anything, the writer means by it.  The Susan Sontag essay about Camp from the mid 1960s is an excellent summing-up of the ORIGINAL meaning of Camp during the period when DS was in production, and she attributes some magical, positive value to the concept of Camp. 

I for one will be delighted if the new film makes some witty allusions to some of the moments in the series where they were going for a camp and/or humorous tone.  Contrary to what the stars recall ("we always did it with TOTAL seriousness!!!") it's obvious if you watch carefully that they WERE sometimes having fun, deliberately, with the material.  Just think of the scene where Carl first meets Barnabas in 1897.  LOVE that kind of thing.  Or Julia's response when Barnabas informs her he's had a "talk" with Megan. 

I'm actually wondering if the tone will at times be more reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live skit on DS... if so, then I will be disappointed.  As others have said, I am holding back judgements or expectations until the movie actually comes out, however.

G.

I think Ruth Buzzi played a Witch in this outrageous skit that was originally aired on Night Gallery (but for some reason wasn't included in the season 2 DVDs, at least not any of the ones I received from Netflix).  A couple of the short "vignettes" seem to have gone missing, but perhaps they'll be restored if the studio ever releases season 3.  I wonder if this person could have seen this on television and not knowing vintage TV very well, somehow thought they were watching DS?

Mitt Romney does bear a certain resemblance to Sky Rumson--unscrupulous, wooden, shellacked hair, in the pay of Netherworld creatures.

G.

What a marvelous story, KMR.  I just love moments like that.

G.

Theodore and Benjamin??? Is there a previously unrecognized Collins/Chipmunk (as in Alvin &) connection???

G.