I remember a special that Alice Cooper did with Vincent Price in the early 1970s, when this movie is set.  Thinking back on it, it had a kooky-spooky quality that I can see appealing to Tim Burton.

I imagine the use of elements such as Alice Cooper and people passing joints will simply be to help set the scene--of a film set in the early Seventies.

To borgosi, if anything I had negative expectations.  To be brutally frank, I still don't know whether Depp can pull off the role of Barnabas Collins.  But I am now sufficiently intrigued by the project that I am at least keen to see the trailers.  The movie itself--we'll have to see.

I'm still waiting to hear firm, authorized news regarding the original films' DVD release.  For the sake of people here who I know want it so badly, I hope they include the little WB pilot as an extra, too.

G.

Heavens!  The green friend at Collinwood? What can be next--a sequence shot in a--a bathroom at the Great House??

G.

I'm a huge Forever Knight fan, and it's cool to see it mentioned here since I have recently been viewing some episodes again.  I remember when FK first appeared in a CBS late night slot, around 1992 I think... oddly, the first episode I saw was entitled 1966, and when I started to see how the show was set up, I did wonder if that title was meant to be a tribute of sorts to DS.

On FK, they incorporated both the central notion of the female doctor in love with the vampire trying to cure him, and the use of flashbacks in which the actors got to play other characters or, in most cases, earlier versions of their vampire selves.

That short lived show Blood Ties seemed as if it was in some ways a remake of Forever Knight; so did the one whose title I am forgetting where the vampires slept in deep freeze units.

G.

Oh, I can imagine BarnaDepp in Superfly duds and see-through platform wedgies getting down at the new Blue Whale disco with some fly chix.

We are talking Tim Burton, dears.  All bets are off.  And we are talking about an actor whose concept of an 18th century buccaneer was based on the drunken swaggering of Keith Richards in the final throes of a bender.

Although I am more impressed to date than I expected to be... with what I have seen...

G.

I always thought people in the production unit were having a bit of fun with Julia and her "Dr Feelgood" way with certain drugs in that scene where Julia offers to give a near-hysterical Carolyn Hawkes a sedative and Carolyn screams "I don't WANT a sedative, I want JEB!!!"

That was the same period that gave us Carolyn declaiming as the Collins family motto the deathless words:  "Hypocrisy above all."  Good times.

G.

Love the idea of a family fondue dinner, overseen by a dour Mrs J (who on Earth is playing Mrs J??).

If it's 1972, I wonder whether we will see Vaggie and Carolyn working on a macrame vest set.

G.

Nice to see that.  I've actually seen notes from various female fans over the years who said they got the idea as girls that they could grow up and become doctors or scientists as a result of seeing Julia on DS.

Even if she did goof now and then (I still cringe whenever that scene plays when she pronounces Liz dead--knowing the woman is prone to catatonic disorder and still not waiting to rush her to the hospital for tests).  Nobody does it like Julia!

G.