‘Dark Shadows’ Featurette: Strange Family + New Clip
Please click Here to watch the new feature “Strange Family” and here for a new Clip which aired at the Kimmel Show.
Magazines May 2012
Magazines from Mai 2012
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Still A-Frid of a Vampire
Title: Still A-Frid of a Vampire
Author: Michael Culhane
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
DARK SHADOWS changed not only TV, but your world. You live in a world where DS brought you sympathetic vampires, Anne Rice novels, and TWILIGHT. This was not simply horror. DARK SHADOWS was a unique pastiche of gothic suspense played out in the strangely appropriate format of soap opera with its need for daily addiction. In its wake, we have pulled horror storylines into the mainstream of our story as a culture.
We’ve spent many it fond moment with Jonathan Frid, who is relatively new to the art of taking credit for what his character, Barnabas Collins, has meant to audiences and to popular culture, but there’s nothing new about his generosity with fans. He gave us his time and kind attention, and here’s what he had to say to us about Barnabas Collins.
Famous Monsters. What did you discover at the heart of the character of Barnabas as you were playing him?
Jonathan Frid. Barnabas, at the beginning, is a displaced person with this terrible compulsion and fear of discovery. He is very much alone, trapped inside what he has become. Once the writers showed how it all came to be,
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Welcome to Collinwood: Dark Shadows 101
Title: Welcome to Collinwood: Dark Shadows 101
Author: Michael Culhane
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
DARK SHADOWS, if this is your initiation, is now the gold standard for atmospheric horror TV of the 60s—a show so influential to a generation that only now, with the upcoming Tim Burton/Johnny Depp cinematic incarnation, do we see it as the revered cultural reference that it was destined to become.
For example, if you saw this current remake of FRIGHT NIGHT and were paying attention, you may have caught the dialogue when Toni Collette wonders about strange new neighbor Colin Farrell and later why her own house is bedecked with garlands of garlic clove and crucifixes.
“It looks like that show Dark Shadows!” she says.
Think of it as a web series; a low-budget, live-theater experiment; or some kind of unheard of short-form television. But whatever it seems like to viewers now, the original DARK SHADOWS TV show (1966-1971) was a noir-gothic-turned supernatural soap opera, airing daily in the afternoon, with storylines freely and gleefully borrowed from FRANKENSTEIN, REBECCA, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Edgar Allan Poe.
The show was not just unusual but unique for its prime-time content (Vampires! Werewolves! Love-starved witches!), which aimed for advertising’s stay-at-home moms and captured a nation of kids dubbed “The Creepyboppers” by Newsweek magazine, who literally ran home from school with millions of other kids to catch the show.
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Tim Burton Steps into the Shadows
Title: Tim Burton Steps into the Shadows
Author: Justin Beahm
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
Tim Burton’s 13th birthday fell on a weekday in 1970—a Tuesday, to be precise. After trudging through another uninspiring school day, the young artist sprinted to his Burbank, California home, plating himself in front of the television. A quick Dr. Frankenstein-inspired twist of a knob brought the box to electric life, fading in to reveal the chiseled face of a ghost named Gerard Stiles forcing a terrified David Collins backwards across a room. Burton grinned from ear to ear as he navigated the following thirty minutes of his favorite television show, DARK SHADOWS, which, unbeknownst to him at the time, was helping cement a foundation on which he would one day build a bizarre cinematic empire.
“I was in the generation that ran home to watch DARK SHADOWS, which might be why I was such a lousy student.”‘ the director laughs of his afternoon preoccupation withCollinwood Manor and its inhabitants. “There was nothing like it on television.’” Nothing, indeed. Werewolves, vampires, graveyards, and haunted mansions were hardly the stuff of naptime filler for stay-at-home moms, but these genre staples were the lifeblood of ABC’s surprise hit soap, not to mention core imagination vitamins for dreamy-eyed aspiring filmmaker Burton. “Vampires in the afternoon? Who would have thought?” he considers.
In reality, the show’s appeal did have a relatively short first run as far as soap operas go,
May 2012, Charbonneau
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May 2012
Johnny in Albuquerque, probably May 2012
Cast and Crew
CAST
Johnny Depp
Paul Kemp
Aaron Eckhart
Sanderson
Michael Rispoli
Sala
Amber Heard
Chenault
Richard Jenkins
Lotterman
Giovanni Ribisi
Moburg
Amaury Nolasco
Segurra
Marshall Bell
Donovan
Bill Smitrovich
Mr. Zimburger
Julian Holloway
Wolsley
Bruno Irizarry
Lazar
Enzo Cilenti
Digby
Aaron Lustig
Monk
Tisuby González
Rosy
Natalia Rivera
Chenault’s friend
Karen Austin
Mrs. Zimburger
Julio Ramos
Intruder
TRafa Alvarez
Taxi Driver
Sasha Merced
Cafè Girl
Eduardo Cortés
Café Patron
Kamirah Westbrook
Papa Nebo
Guillermo Valedón
Xanadu Maître d’
William Charlton
Hotel Waiter
Javier Grajeda
Judge
Miguel Angel Reyes
El Monstruo’s Trainer
Terrance Harlness
Man in Hat
Andy Umberger
Mr. Green
Armando Pérez
Policeman
Bill Chott
Bowling Champ
Gavin Houston
Sailor
Lisa Robins
Bowling Champ’s wife
Noel Delgado
Morell
Jaime “Jimmy”
Soundtrack Info
| 1. Introduction (Titles) |
| 2. Storytime |
| 3. Castle On The Hill |
| 4. Beautiful New World/Home Sweet Home |
| 5. The Cookie Factory |
| 6. Ballet De Suburbia (Suite) |
| 7. Ice Dance |
| 8. Edward Meets the World: Etiquette Lesson |
| 9. Edwardo The Barber |
| 10. Esmeralda |
| 11. Death! |
| 12. The Tide Turns (Suite) |
| 13. The Final Confrontation |
| 14. Farewell… |
| 15. The Grand Finale |
| 16. The End |
| 17. With These Hands – Tom Jones |
This particular film was Tim Burton and Danny Elfman’s fourth collaboration. Elfman went on to score all but two of Burton’s films (Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd). The Edward Scissorhands score has a few prominent musical themes that appear throughout. It is more than background music and is quite beautiful and poignant, actually. It captures the emotional struggle and confusion that Edward feels, as well as his innocence.
Soundtrack Info
| 1. King Cry-Baby – James Intveld |
| 2. Sh Boom – Baldwin And the Whiffles |
| 3. Doin’ Time For Bein’ Young – James Intveld |
| 4. A Teenage Prayer – Rachel Sweet |
| 5. Please, Mr. Jailer – Rachel Sweet |
| 6. Cry Baby – The Honey Sisters |
| 7. Teardrops Are Falling – James Intveld |
| 8. Nosey Joe – Bull Moose Jackson |
| 9. Mister Sandman – Baldwin And the Whiffles |
| 10. High School Hellcats – James Intveld |
| 11. Bad Boy – The Jive Bombers |
| 12. The Flirt – Shirley & Lee |
| 13. I’m So Young – The Students |
| 14. (My Heart Goes) Piddily Patter, Patter – Nappy Brown |
| 15. I’m A Bad, Bad Girl – Little Esther |
| 16. Jungle Drums – Earl Bostic |
| 17. Cherry – The Jive Bombers |
| 18. Rubber Biscuit – The Chips |
There is a lot of barbershop 50s music in this soundtrack. Honestly, almost of the tracks are catchy and exciting. The oldies are combined with tracks that were made just for the movie, and they meld together seamlessly.