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[Dark Shadows] House of Dark Shadows: Let’s Not Play Insane Games
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Ubiquitous
2017-10-30 13:42:28 UTC
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“I haven’t seen the light of day in almost two hundred
years.”

Right this minute, teenage bad boy John Yaeger is in the basement of
the Old House, pulling apart the locks and chains that keep Barnabas
Collins shut up tight in his coffin. Six weeks ago, the Dark Shadows
cast took off for Tarrytown to shoot a feature film, leaving the
newcomers and second-stringers to keep the show warm while they’re
gone. Now they’re cracking open the mystery box, and once more
unleashing Barnabas upon the populace. Dark Shadows is back at work.

To celebrate, I’ve invited actual famous grown-up film critic David
Edelstein to come watch the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows. David’s
the film critic for New York magazine, NPR’s Fresh Air and CBS
Sunday Morning, and he’s also a lifelong Dark Shadows fan and a
friend of the blog.

Five years ago, David wrote a very funny review of the Tim Burton
movie, which he figured was his only chance to write about Dark
Shadows. But it turns out he’s got more in the tank, so we’re going
to watch the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows together, and discuss
the whole thing from start to finish. David saw HoDS when it first
came out, and he’s always loved it, so yeah, I know, just another
example of bias in the mainstream media.

Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.

https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
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Bill Steele
2017-10-31 19:04:24 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At
the time, it was fantastic.

I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.

The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
anim8rfsk
2017-10-31 19:19:47 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At
the time, it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
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Ubiquitous
2017-10-31 19:39:18 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At
the time, it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember Vicki
hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived and David
talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
anim8rfsk
2017-10-31 20:05:41 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At
the time, it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember Vicki
hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived and David
talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
Still no ghosts in the beginning. It was all "who is her mother and
what is the dark secret" stuff.
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Bill Steele
2017-11-01 20:08:54 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At
the time, it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember Vicki
hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived and David
talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
Still no ghosts in the beginning. It was all "who is her mother and
what is the dark secret" stuff.
Yes, at the beginning it was all family intrigue and skeletons in the
closet. You could presume any ghosts were in the children's
imaginations. I they might have been borrowing from The Turn of the Screw.
Ubiquitous
2017-11-01 21:04:24 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today's journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it's daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday bookstore
to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and Quentin vs
the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one with outer
space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At the time,
it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember Vicki
hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived and David
talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
Still no ghosts in the beginning. It was all "who is her mother and
what is the dark secret" stuff.
Yes, at the beginning it was all family intrigue and skeletons in the
closet. You could presume any ghosts were in the children's
imaginations. I they might have been borrowing from The Turn of the Screw.
That's exactly what Dan Curtis, who loved The Turn of the Screw, did for the
begining of the Quintin story. The blogger discusses it more detail.
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have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
anim8rfsk
2017-11-01 22:04:21 UTC
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Today’s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it’s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday
bookstore to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and
Quentin vs the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one
with outer space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers!
At
the time, it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull out
all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember Vicki
hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived and David
talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
Still no ghosts in the beginning. It was all "who is her mother and
what is the dark secret" stuff.
Yes, at the beginning it was all family intrigue and skeletons in the
closet. You could presume any ghosts were in the children's
imaginations. I they might have been borrowing from The Turn of the Screw.
heh
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Ubiquitous
2017-11-01 23:26:20 UTC
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https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
Today's journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it's daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
David: I loved them. When you wrote about the mummy one, I was reminded
of how bad they were, but — I’d just run to the local Doubleday bookstore
to see if the latest had arrived, and, oh my god, Barnabas and Quentin vs
the Mummy! I could barely wait to get home! And there was one with outer
space invaders — Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers! At the time,
it was fantastic.
I remember Jonathan Frid on a talk show saying "We borrow from
everything." By the end they were doing Lovecraft. Once they had done
thentime-honored soap opera routine of "redeeming the character" to
maken Barnsbas the hero they had to bring inn new menaces.
The show started as a gothic: Young girl comes to be a governess in a
spooky old mansion. Lots of ghosts. Then Dan Curtis said "Let's pull
out all the stops!" and they opened the coffin.
Actually there were no ghosts in the beginning. When the first one
showed up there was a lot of discussion with the writers and directors
as to if they were really going supernatural. They decided they were
going to be cancelled if they didn't, so what the Hell.
It's been awhile since I watched from the beginning, but I remember
Vicki hearing the ghosts of Widows' Peak pretty soon after she arrived
and David talking to Josette while playing in the Old House.
Still no ghosts in the beginning. It was all "who is her mother and
what is the dark secret" stuff.
Yes, at the beginning it was all family intrigue and skeletons in the
closet. You could presume any ghosts were in the children's
imaginations. I they might have been borrowing from The Turn of the Screw.
heh
He did it twice, in fact.
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have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
Stephen DeMay
2017-10-31 20:57:23 UTC
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�I haven�t seen the light of day in almost two hundred
years.�
Right this minute, teenage bad boy John Yaeger is in the basement of
the Old House, pulling apart the locks and chains that keep Barnabas
Collins shut up tight in his coffin. Six weeks ago, the Dark Shadows
cast took off for Tarrytown to shoot a feature film, leaving the
newcomers and second-stringers to keep the show warm while they�re
gone. Now they�re cracking open the mystery box, and once more
unleashing Barnabas upon the populace. Dark Shadows is back at work.
To celebrate, I�ve invited actual famous grown-up film critic David
Edelstein to come watch the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows. David�s
the film critic for New York magazine, NPR�s Fresh Air and CBS
Sunday Morning, and he�s also a lifelong Dark Shadows fan and a
friend of the blog.
Five years ago, David wrote a very funny review of the Tim Burton
movie, which he figured was his only chance to write about Dark
Shadows. But it turns out he�s got more in the tank, so we�re going
to watch the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows together, and discuss
the whole thing from start to finish. David saw HoDS when it first
came out, and he�s always loved it, so yeah, I know, just another
example of bias in the mainstream media.
Today�s journey involves Hammer movies, overstuffed sets,
inadvertent love triangles, how you can tell it�s daytime, cameos,
cannons, the color of blood, and the age-old war between actors and
scenery, and it ends with the extermination of everything that you
love.
https://darkshadowseveryday.com/2017/03/29/house-of-dark-shadows/
--
Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
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