JOHNNY DEPP AND DARK SHADOWS

RoccoMom · Jan 30, 2008

From the Dark Shadows official website:

http://www.collinwood.net/news/index.htm#depp

Jonathan Frid also had a posting on his website. If i can find it, i'll put it up.

I was obsessed with this show as a teen - so much so that I actually started a fanclub for Frid. We made up a scrapbook, and I actually got to visit the studio and present it to him. He gave us a tour and everything. Real exciting for a 15 year old girl at the time

OK, here's the link to Frid's website. You have to scroll down a bit to see the Depp article. It's scanned in from another paper.

http://www.jonathanfrid.com/main06.htm

Toothpaste · Jan 30, 2008

So what is Dark Shadows?

HeronW · Jan 30, 2008

HELLYEAH!

I loved that show! Angelique was the best as being sooooo evil. The remake with Ben Cross wasn't half bad.

Toothpaste · Jan 30, 2008

Seriously! Someone - what is this show about?

melaniehoo · Jan 30, 2008

I just wanted to add my drool for Johnny.

*drool*

Calla Lily · Jan 30, 2008

Vampire soap opera, toothpaste.

Really. Lots of scenery chewing, atmospheric sets, angst, creepiness. I loved it as a teen too. Didn't much like Ben Cross' remake. Johnny Depp as Barnabas... hmmm...

Toothpaste · Jan 30, 2008

Hmm . . . sounds interesting. Not a big vampire fan myself, but if Johnny Depp is in it, count me there!

RoccoMom · Jan 30, 2008

the acting was incredibly bad but back then we all thought it was great! They stole the plots from all the famous horror movies (or, rather, borrowed) Dracula, Frankenstein, Turn of the Screw, etc.

they tried to remake it as a nighttime soap in 1991 with Ben Cross and Joanna Going but it flopped big-time. Dan Curtis had another remake he was pitching up until he died last year.

ChaosTitan · Jan 30, 2008

One of my guilty pleasures last summer was rewatching the remake series on DVD. Melodrama at its best. And a pre-The Pretender Michael T. Weiss. Yummy!

veinglory · Jan 30, 2008

OMG cool. I just rewatched the original. I bet this is a remake that will be better than the first time round!

RoccoMom · Jan 31, 2008

Anyone ever watch the movie, House of Dark Shadows?

DaddyCat · Jan 31, 2008

Toni1953 said:
Anyone ever watch the movie, House of Dark Shadows?

LOL, that takes me back! My junior high school decided to give the 8th grade students a treat (I don't remember what for), it was an assembly in the school gym to watch "House of Dark Shadows"! Naturally all the girls made a game out of screaming their heads off at any moderately scary scene.

As for the movie, well, it was better than civics or math.

chartreuse · Feb 8, 2008

Toni1953 said:
the acting was incredibly bad but back then we all thought it was great! They stole the plots from all the famous horror movies (or, rather, borrowed) Dracula, Frankenstein, Turn of the Screw, etc.

they tried to remake it as a nighttime soap in 1991 with Ben Cross and Joanna Going but it flopped big-time.

A friend of mine and I absolutely adored the 1991 version, but they left a huge cliff-hanger at the end of season 1 and then cancelled the show so we never got to see how it came out.

kristin724 · Feb 10, 2008

Love this show! Still watch my old vhs from time to time. Another series that I really have to upgrade to DVD someday!

grp1313 · Apr 15, 2008

That was the return of Laura

chartreuse said:
A friend of mine and I absolutely adored the 1991 version, but they left a huge cliff-hanger at the end of season 1 and then cancelled the show so we never got to see how it came out.

That would have been Laura Collins, David's Mother (The Pheonix). She was a fire elemental. She was like a vampire, but stole your bodyheat (life-force) until you were dead. That's what the firebird was, that came down the staircase. They had talked about david's mother being in a hospital (mental?) earlier, and I believe that david also recieved a letter from her.

RoccoMom · Apr 15, 2008

aha, i forgot about that.
The remake was good too. they had a pilot of yet anothe remake for the 2006-07 season for the WB, but it never made the cut.

RumpleTumbler · Apr 15, 2008

I can't believe Jonathan Frid is still alive!

I watched this show as a child....loved it....but he looked kind of old then.

Jenan Mac · Apr 15, 2008

Johnny Depp as Barnabas? OMG, that's too perfect.

I had the maddest crush on Jeb Hawkes in 5th grade, and my best friend (who was, admittedly, kind of odd) wanted to marry Barnabas. Quentin was too freakish for words, though.

cethklein · Apr 15, 2008

Ugggh, so Hollywood is just going to keep digging up old TV shows and making (sure to be) awful movies out of them. At least they haven't ruined The A-Team yet.

Anonymisty · Apr 15, 2008

ChaosTitan said:
And a pre-The Pretender Michael T. Weiss. Yummy!

I completely forgot he was in that!

I used to watch the original Dark Shadows when I was a kid, but I had to sneak to watch it, so my mama wouldn't catch me. She thought it would give me nightmares.

ChaosTitan · Apr 15, 2008

cethklein said:
At least they haven't ruined The A-Team yet.

Give them time.

Gina_Marie · Apr 15, 2008

Rockin.

I loved the remake show when I was younger. Dunno if its still good or if it was just fond memories. Never could get into the original series though. Their costumes drove me insane. As a historian I just couldnt deal with the hair/dresses.

BenPanced · Apr 15, 2008

cethklein said:
Ugggh, so Hollywood is just going to keep digging up old TV shows and making (sure to be) awful movies out of them. At least they haven't ruined The A-Team yet.

ChaosTitan said:
Give them time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/

cethklein · Apr 16, 2008

Woody Harrelson ... Capt. H.M. 'Howling Mad' Murdock (rumored)

Ice Cube ... Sgt. Bosco 'B.A.' Baracus (rumored)
more

I think I'm going to be sick.

JOHNNY DEPP AND DARK SHADOWS

RoccoMom

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