The cult that developed around the original, 1966-71 Dark Shadows was based on a camp enjoyment of the afternoon soap opera's cheap production values, poor technical quality, and amateurish writing and acting. So how has the concept fared after all this time in the coffin? Well, the prime-time version is a lot more professionally done, and particularly well acted by Ben Cross. Read More...

Things look grim in the bowling alley beneath the abandoned 55-room Doheny mansion in Beverly Hills. The tomb-like room is painted black, hung with cobwebs, lit with flickering tapers, and filled with smoke. A woman with bloody hands is standing between an open coffin and a man sprawled face down with a knife in his back when in toddles a fellow carrying a lollipop. The woman snatches the knife from its inert sheath and stalks toward the baffled intruder; demonically muttering in French, “Imbecile! Cretin!”

“Cut!” barks director Dan Curtis. “Give me more smoke.”
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