So if, like Katya, you are unfamiliar with the Brigadoon-esqueness that is Dark Shadows (it'll suck ya in, har har), please allow this post to guide you, visually speaking, through some of the references that we make. Also, please remember that I am a giant nerd.
Ben Cross from the 1991 revival series. I thought he was kinda hot when I was 12.
Who are these people? This is how the movie starts. One of them in named Daphne; will you be able to figure out which one?
This is Laura Collins, the phoenix, who marries a Collins, has his offspring, then tries to burn them up in a fire that also consumes her. Since she inevitably fails, she eventually marries her own descendants. As one does. Does she look at all like a bird? Maybe a little around the nostrils.
Dr. Sideburns.
This is exactly what it looks like. Driving a stake into the chest of a young female vampire.
The "old Barnabas" makeup on the series ...
... and in the film, courtesy of the late Dick Smith. Check out Maggie's bite wound, by the by.
Dr. Julia Hoffman, baller, M.D.
The infamous bat. With the stick in the upper right hand corner. Hey, you try to churn out a live daily soap opera with no budget, beaucoup de special effects, and actors who can't remember their lines.
My husband and I at the 50th anniversary celebration at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, where they filmed House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows. That expression on his face is a hundred percent genuine.
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