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Find and steal this article about Tim Burton from the hair salon, made it worth going there! #timburton #johnnydepp #helenabohancarter #darkshadows

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Time is running out for your chance to win a BluRay/DVD combo pack of DARK SHADOWS. The contest ends at midnight tonight, EST. ENTER NOW!

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2012/09/win-dark-shadows-on-blu-ray.html

IT’S OFFICAL! WE ARE GETTING ALL THE CUT SCENES PEOPLE! WARNER BROS SMILES ON US THIS DAY!

…well most of the cut scenes.

Tim Burton said that he was drawn to making “Ed Wood” because of the similarities between Edward D. Wood Jr.’s relationship with Bela Lugosi and his own friendship with Vincent Price late in the actor’s life. 

I really enjoyed Dark Shadows. I don’t see a lot of movies in the theatre that I like, but this was really good. The soundtrack was pretty killer too and I really liked all the detail in everything. And Alice Cooper, what’s not to like about him in a movie?

Dark Shadows and the original Barnabas Collins

Jonathan Frid, who died last month, originated the role of Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows in the 1960s. The original tortured-vampire TV series was truly a soap — daily airings, haphazard plotting, bad production values and all; Frid regularly stared off into the distance for long pauses, in what he admitted was an effort to remember his lines.

But its gloomy, sepia stories were still compelling; I sucked down most of them one high school summer, when I stumbled across SciFi Channel reruns. And Dark Shadows laid a lot of groundwork for Buffy and Twilight and True Blood. Frid was haughty, frightening, magnetically ugly and romantically tortured over the death of his lost love; there’s a lot of Barnabas Collins in Angel and Eric Northman, although both of those vampire antiheroes have been played by younger and prettier men.

All of which to say is that I am extremely skeptical about the movie version of Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp in his Willy Wonka drag and recycled Addams Family sets. Whatever aspersions you want to cast on the original series, and there are many you can, intentionally wacky slapstick was never its thing.

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Not only can I live with skeptical, I fully endorse skeptical and in most cases I actually expect skeptical. Skeptical mean calm, reasoned, often thought out to some extent 'prove this to me'.

People have a brain. People need to use the brain to reason. The Dan Curtis Purists out there are not only annoying, they come very close to infuriating for their childish behaviour, constant whining and OMG DARK SHADOWS IS HIGH ART.

You, OP are my friend.

I don't care if you don't like the new DS. At least you seem willing to give it half a chance and you are able to communicate your concerns using complete sentences. If you see it and you don't like it that's cool. Should you find it lacking you will, I hope, at the very least dislike it for it's own faults instead of some misremembered fondness of a show you once watched some forty decades ago.

To all else, Like it or dislike it as per your individual tastes in film. But, like it or dislike it for what it is, on it's own merits or faults.