"The Return of the Vampire" had a wonderfully spooky graveyard set in the film. I wonder if the Dark Shadows set designers were inspired by that highly-underrated Bela Lugosi film, when they designed the Eagle Hill Cemetery set?
Bob the Bartender, I thought the same thing! I also see a similarity between the mausoleum that contained Tessla's coffin and the secret room of the Collins mausoleum, though the former's opened to the outside whereas Barn's has the anteroom. And the first thing we see as Lugosi comes out of his coffin is the hand wearing one large ring, which becomes important to the plot, though it's actually worn on his ring finger.
Midnite, yes that mausoleum in the film
did look very much like the secret room on Dark Shadows.
I loved the part in the film, when that Nazi plane bombed the cemetery and literally kayoed Tessla the vampire. I wonder if an American B-52 bomber ever accidentally dropped a bomb on the Collins mausoleum as Barnabas was about to bite Maggie, would Barnabas
too have been completely kayoed like Tessla was?
And, what about Andreas (sp?), the werewolf/slave of Tessla? Andreas was the first (and only) speaking werewolf, I've ever seen in a horror film. As I remember, Lon Chaney, Jr., Michael Landon, Oliver Reed and James Naughton all snarled in their respective werewolf fillms!