Glad to hear you have been enjoying it! 

Several of us here have a special enjoyment and appreciation of the "pre-Barnabas" period.  It's frustrating to see the hoary old chestnut repeated in some of the recent press around the movie implying that the series was tanking in the ratings until they unveiled Barnabas.  Some of us think that in some ways the series reached its artistic height with the original 1966-67 Laura Collins storyline.  (And then, there are the devotees, respectively, of the "bleeder valve" storyline, and ... indubitably ... THE PEN!)

Welcome again,

G.

An IMDB analysis posted sometime today (Sat.) predicts the Burton/Depp Shadows will "be lucky" to gross $30 million over the weekend.  The blurb cites the movie's total budget as $125 million which is almost twice the figure I had seen some months back of $65 million.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni28032740/

G.

That's very good, Bill Malloy's Ghost!  Did you start with the introduction of Barnabas, or episode 1?

Welcome to our funhouse!

G. (a viewer since June 1968)

LOL, DarkLady!

cheers,

Gothick

Penny, thanks for that delicious review.  "A hot mess!"  I love it!

Best,

Uncle Gothick

I really wish ALL the cuts from those first 7 or 8 volumes had been restored.  I don't think MPI wants to pay for that, though.

G.

Danger Will Robinson!  that particular review is more spoiler-laden than most I've seen to date.

For those who are going out to see it tonight, happy haunting!

G.

I have to say I found it a hoot that Alice Cooper thought the set for the Great Hall of Collinwood looked "just like the Playboy Mansion."

That comment, and the macrame bit in the one clip, are the funniest things to have emerged from this affair this far, at any rate so far as I am concerned.

G.