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Post by jeffmeister on Mar 6, 2012 8:15:32 GMT -5
 Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins & Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis  Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard  Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman  "Collinwood" All of these pictures came from: darkshadowsnews.blogspot.com/ |
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Post by jeffmeister on Mar 13, 2012 17:55:20 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 13, 2012 20:46:54 GMT -5
One has to wonder how director Tim Burton is going to handle the elements of the original series that involved the vampiric goings-on. Even while the series was still on daytime TV, the show's creator, Dan Curtis, made a pair of spin-off feature films, 1970's HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, and 1971's NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS, that had a bit more of what he couldn't show on TV because of censorship restrictions--which, of course, was sex and bloodshed. Hardly anything can be left up to the imagination anymore in horror films, so it's a question of whether Burton will succumb to splattering body parts around, or do a Hitchcock and imply a lot of it (IMHO).
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Post by Dianna on Mar 15, 2012 11:34:49 GMT -5
the photos look very nice and typical goth like burton/depp style, which imo, when I think of today and dark shadows, I think burton and depp.. Ialso think it will be very current with vampires ect. I havent seen all of burtons movies, but the ones I have, Alice in Wonderland, charlie and the chocolate factory, okay.. corpse bride??>Nighmare before Christmas.. I don't recall any gore or violence, or if there was, it was not disturbing to me.. and I avoid all slasher type movies. If anything, visually, the movie will be very appealing.
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Post by philly on Mar 15, 2012 19:17:21 GMT -5
Just saw part of a trailer for DS...I think it'll have little resemblance to the previous incarnations. It's set in 1972, and looks to have some fish out of water type gags. One I noticed has Barnabas, seeing Karen Carpenter singing "Top Of The World" on a TV, rips the back out, saying: "reveal yourself, tiny songstress!"
I think Linda doing "You're No Good" would have been funnier, although 1972 predates her version.
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Post by erik on Mar 15, 2012 20:27:34 GMT -5
Quote by philly:
So too does "Top Of The World", by about a year (LOL).
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Post by Dianna on Mar 16, 2012 11:32:36 GMT -5
Just saw part of a trailer for DS...I think it'll have little resemblance to the previous incarnations. It's set in 1972, and looks to have some fish out of water type gags. One I noticed has Barnabas, seeing Karen Carpenter singing "Top Of The World" on a TV, rips the back out, saying: "reveal yourself, tiny songstress!" I think Linda doing "You're No Good" would have been funnier, although 1972 predates her version. sounds like it will be a comedy too.  I'm not familar with the original dark shadows so I have nothing to measure it against. I know that rob (ronstadtfanaz) was a big fan of the original dark shadows. p.s johnny depp looks kind of creepy in the trailer, he looks like that "night stalker" richard ramirez, serial killer who terrorized LA in the mid 80's... creepy! |
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Post by rick on Mar 16, 2012 12:53:03 GMT -5
The first trailer --
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Post by jeffmeister on Mar 17, 2012 7:16:19 GMT -5
I like the scene where, after the rather rough tryst with Angelique, he says "that was a most regrettable turn of events". Also... Carolyn: "Are you stoned or something?" Barnabas: "They tried stoning me, my dear. But, it did not work."
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Post by Dianna on Mar 17, 2012 12:19:13 GMT -5
I also like how Barnabas is hanging upside down in the background. lol... (he is a vampire afterall)
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Post by vikingfan on Mar 21, 2012 7:40:17 GMT -5
Based on the trailer it seems they're going for a camp/spoof/comedic version that more resembles Leslie Neilsen's "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" than it does Dark Shadows.
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Post by mysteryguest on Apr 9, 2012 20:47:08 GMT -5
Maybe even "Beetlejuicy" which is ok for what it is but it isn't Dark Shadows the way some of us remember it. Funny is good but I would have preferred a more serious attempt. Maybe next time.
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Post by erik on Apr 9, 2012 21:33:49 GMT -5
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The two spin-off films from the original series that I mentioned before pretty much play it straight (and they have a lot of the original cast as well). It's just a tough thing to do to try and play it straight when you're dealing with a TV show that one of my friends once described as a cross between Peyton Place and Bram Stoker.
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Post by mysteryguest on Apr 10, 2012 16:23:36 GMT -5
Good actors are supposed to be able to make anything believable but it is another world.
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Post by rick on May 6, 2012 16:53:57 GMT -5
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