I love it!  Thanks so much, Midnite, for reposting, and many thanks to Prof. Stokes for writing it all down with her inimitable flair.  Excellent!

I attended several DS festivals in those years but only heard her speak of this once, so it's quite strange that I missed hearing her tell the story. 

The night watchman sounds a lot like Thayer's character in "A Darkness at Blaisedon" ...

xo Steve

Has Chastain done any other horror/fantasy/supernatural projects beyond WB DS '04?  I'm surprised she's being interviewed in Fangoria, somehow.

Someone needs to make a feature length documentary about Barbara Steele. I could listen to her tell stories for hours.

G.

Fans, a newish penpal has been asking me all sorts of questions about the original early 1970s DS films and Lyndhurst.  The latest question is about hauntings at Lyndhurst.  I remember Diana Millay talking about spending the night there and encountering some sort of phenomenon, but I only heard her saying something like "it happened and later, I'll tell you the story sometime."  I'm pretty sure that she did tell the story a number of times at various fan meetings, but I never got to hear it.

Does anybody have any info about Diana's specific experience, and the more general topic of hauntings at Lyndhurst?  Does anyone know if there is a video out there of Diana recounting her story?

Thanks, Goth Ick

Just now seeing this thread.  Those two photos of Jonny are awesome.  It looks as if he's fully naked in the top one (which I guess is not from Elementary).

Nice that you cater to one's artistic interest in the beautiful proportions of the unclothed male form.  Yeah, that's the ticket.  Artistic.  I'm all about supporting the arts...

winking, G.

I'd enjoy seeing Not fade away, with the Sixties music theme, and as you know MB, I always enjoy a more character-drive story than something with lots of flash and glitz.  It's really too bad if the movie isn't getting a crack at a wider market.  There doesn't seem to be room in US theatres any longer for the kind of picture that is about average people with average dreams trying to make something out of their lives--one thinks of Marty in the Fifties.

I do hope Heathcote can get more work.  I think she's very talented even though I have no comment to make regarding her work in the Burton-Depp project.

G.

Nice to see she's getting such upscale exposure.  Evidently she can use it.  Her one other major 2012 title is something called "Not fade away," an indie film from a guy named David Chase, who is a Sopranos alumni (not sure in what capacity).  Heathcote played the lead character's girlfriend, another supporting role.  It sounds as if she did have slightly more screentime in that than was the case in Depp Shadows.

She has no 2013 or 2014 titles listed on IMDB which seems odd for such an attractive, obviously talented actress.  Maybe she needs to get a new agent.

G.

You might want to look through the thread here, I think the title is "Yet another slideshow," with old posts about screen captures from the 1991 series.  MB kindly included images from the deleted scenes that were included in the MPI VHS release, but not included in MGM's barebones DVD issue.  Not only can you see snapshots from those scenes, but he's also included script excerpts so you can follow along.

For episode one, I really do wish they had included those scenes.  I saw the tape for episode 12 and the extra scenes on that didn't really add very much from what I can remember [spoiler](Sarah's deathbed scene seemed to go on forever...  that is really all I remember about it).[/spoiler]

Obviously, you'll want to watch the episode first, then check the board for anything about deleted scenes.  I can't recall just which episodes had extra scenes included in the VHS.  I think maybe episodes 1, 2 and 12?  There was also a book published, DS Resurrected, that gave more info about plot threads that were either left undeveloped or were scheduled for development in the aborted second season.



cheers, Gothick