i'm also confused as to why daniel is so "aged" and "senile"...


by 1840 only about 40-odd years had passed since the events of 1795(96?97?)when he was just a small child.


everything about this storyline throws me off.

we definitely didn't see david's room in the film. from the picture it looks like a cool set...

if i'm recalling we only saw bedrooms for victoria and carolyn. and i guess the room barnabas was using.


the collinwood set was huge and splashy but we didn't actually see too much of the house really. what did we see? the entrance/foyer/grand hall space with the stairwell. elizabeth's study. the dining room. julia's laboratory. the cavernous basement space where the jewelry/valuables were hidden. the labyrinthine upstairs hallways where vicki followed josette's ghost around...

is that it?

Conceptual artwork for Carolyn's werewolf. It seems some people are offended because the artwork  reveals breasts inappropriate for the actor's young age. http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=61421

i can certainly see why one might find an artistic rendering of a 15 year old girl's breasts highly distasteful.


the entire carolyn/werewolf business was the film's most colossal misfire. "woof".

as a stand alone series it really does nothing for me.


if it weren't for it's connection to OS mythology it wouldn't interest me in the least.

yes i agree this new 300 million dollar figure has got to be a gross overestimation of costs.


the film is visually opulent to be sure but nothing that would suggest those types of numbers. and while the cast is large much of it was relative newcomers(mcgrath, moretz, heathcote)who simply do not command astronomical salaries.


unless that's factoring in international promotional costs maybe? the cast imagery that blanketed new york for a few weeks can not have been cheap.

oh if i have to shell out $$$ to upgrade to a blue-ray setup just to get a couple deleted scenes i'm going to be SO annoyed.

i hope it's on DVD too.

i don't watch alot of contemporary films. but didn't a film used to run for a proper two hours or even more?


when did studio execs start demanding that a film clock in at "under two hours"?

i'm not talking about a "gone with the wind" running time but the film could easily have had another five or ten minutes that helped flesh it out to no ill effect.


on my first viewing i was stunned at how much nonsense ran before the film itself actually started. apart from coke ads and "please turn your cellphone off" reminders there were at least ten trailers. one was sitting in the theater for over half an hour before the film got underway.