no.

but it was the cause of barnabas' downfall.

i agree that it's almost impossible to compare the two movies.


the general outline is similar but otherwise they might as well be from different planets.

given the outrageousness of the plots the show was rather traditional in it's attitudes about sex. i doubt the word itself was even uttered once in five years.

things were coded for the viewer.


no matter how late at night julia was working at the old house there was almost always a scene where she puts on her coat and returns to collinwood. why? because at the time it would not have been "proper" for an unmarried lady to spend the night in a house with two men. or even to leave the impression of it to the other characters in the series. for the sake of "propriety", to keep julia a "respectable" woman(even while she created artificial men out of dead bodies in the basement),it was essential that she remain at collinwood as the guest of elizabeth. things like that still mattered then.

whenever the plot necessitated that joe spend the night at the evans' cottage, they make a big deal of joe announcing that he'd just "stretch out on the couch", least the viewer get the impression he had slept in maggie's room. and then we see him there in the morning. maggie wasn't "that kind of girl". when vicki needed a place for jeff to stay she asked maggie if he could stay at her house, essentially a two room shack, rather than him staying in a forty room mansion. again, it wouldn't have been "proper" for the two characters, then unmarried, to live under the same roof. and vicki was nothing if not virtuous with a capital V.

in the DS universe extramarital sex was synonymous with vice and wickedness. so while the nasty characters like laura and quentin and angelique could hop from bed to bed(and even that was largely implied rather than spelled out in specifics)the "good" characters remained chaste outside the marriage bed. although the characters could have huge moral conflictions about other issues, sex was generally not one of them. things were pretty black and white.


even as attitudes about sex changed dramatically in the late 1960's an afternoon soap, sponsored by manufacturers of breakfast cereal and laundry detergent and marketed at housewives and adolescents, needed to maintain a traditional attitude in this regard.

given that NODS focuses so heavily on david selby and kate jackson, two of the series' later actors i never particularly cared for, this film never did much for me.


but i'm impressed with all of the passion and enthusiasm it's generating in this topic. i never really understood the power of it's fanbase.

i'll probably pick it up.

pretty much everyone in those 'side pics' seems to be cringing, crying, howling or otherwise anguished...


oh the DRAMA!

i guess there are different ways of looking at things and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


i mean jonathan frid was a 'distinguished' looking middle aged man who wore a smoking jacket like nobody's business but that doesn't really explain why every SYT and lady doctor in collinsport threw themselves at his feet.


yes depp's barnabas did look silly in the vampire state but our brief glimpse at him before he was cursed he was a looker. i mean didn't depp recently get "people magazine's" annual "sexiest man alive" cover?

so again perhaps that's what "angie" was seeing.

mrs. johnson was played by an actress named "ray shirley"...


the name "ray", combined with the actress's somewhat masculine appearance, lead to some speculation that it was perhaps a man playing the character. but that appears to be untrue.

i'm sort of stunned that this has actually come into fruition...


i mean 8 days is a long time. and isn't this going to be cost-prohibitive for the average fest-goer???

still i'll have to get more information before i make a final decision about it. could be fun.