House of Dark Shadows
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Oct 9, 2026
Melissa Ford ThorntonHOST
Okay.
Justin NewmanHOST
The House of Dark Shadows.
Melissa Ford ThorntonHOST
Ooh, that's right.
Melissa Ford ThorntonHOST
That's right.
Steven TurekHOST
I don't know why I said house again.
Steven TurekHOST
Oh, it's like House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
Steven TurekHOST
I always get those titles mixed up.
Steven TurekHOST
I guess it only made sense.
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Jeff ThompsonGUEST
Output the television horrors of Dan Curtis, of course, focuses on the horror productions and House of Dan Curtis looks at the mysteries and crime dramas and nights of Dan Curtis is all about Curtis's.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
epic productions, his adaptation of Dracula, his one Western, his two World War II miniseries, his UFO miniseries, Intruders, and the many nights that we sat in front of our TV sets watching these great productions.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
As you pointed out, House of Dan Curtis is a play on the movie named House of Dark Shadows, but it also is about the production house of Dan Curtis, Dan Curtis Productions.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
But then later a fan told me, well, if you wrote House of Dan Curtis, you're going to have to write Night of Dan Curtis.
Kelley JonesGUEST
Yeah.
John SiuntresHOST
House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
Kelley JonesGUEST
Well, the fir- the first film did.
Matt WagnerGUEST
First one's quite good.
ErikHOST
Yeah, so your first time you came on a couple years back for the first volume called Dracula the Impaler, which I have right here.
ErikHOST
We chatted about our top Dracula movies.
ErikHOST
Dracula only.
ErikHOST
Then for your second volume called Book Two, The Brides, you guys came back and we chatted about our top vampire movies, sans Dracula.
ErikHOST
And then your most recent visit was for the third volume, which just showed up on my doorstep a couple of days ago.
ErikHOST
Dracula, Book Three, The Count.
Kelley JonesGUEST
Now
ErikHOST
you're back for your fourth time.
Bruce MarkusenHOST
So Jeff, we have two movies remaining, uh, both from the early '70s.
Bruce MarkusenHOST
First up is true favorite of yours and mine, House of Dark Shadows.
Bruce MarkusenHOST
The film summarizes the early storylines to the TV series that was airing concurrently on ABC TV, before then accelerating to a series of rousing new developments, and then this very strong conclusion.
Bruce MarkusenHOST
As he did with the TV series, Jonathan Frid takes the lead as Barnabas Collins, the reluctant vampire who's been allowed to escape his coffin by Willie Loomis, then becomes motivated to find a cure for vampirism so that he can marry Maggie Evans.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
So this latest, uh, change in the Barnabas character was, was, uh, it-- I was able to accept it because this was not the TV series.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
We knew that immediately when we saw Lyndhurst, the real historic home on the banks of the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, and not the, uh, uh, the TV sets, the f- the three-walled TV sets that we, uh, know so well from the TV show.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
Um, and, and the bigger scope of the film, and as we were talking about the, the bright red blood from Horror of Dracula, we see that in House of Dark Shadows.
Jeff ThompsonGUEST
Um, so, um, what's interesting to me, and I, and I write about this in my three books, especially the television horrors of Dan Curtis, is, uh, that Curtis, uh, Curtis' o-original, um, imagine, uh, um, visualization in, uh, of the, um, of the vampire Barnabas Collins was, in Curtis' words, "A marauder." Um, all he was going to be was a, a, a villain, uh, a killer, you know, a menace to the people of Collinsport, Maine.
speaker_0HOST
Her credits go back to the original Dark Shadows television show, where she provided the opening voiceover for at least some of the episodes, as well as appearing as the character Sabrina Stewart from 1969 to 1970.
speaker_0HOST
She also appeared in the film House of Dark Shadows as Daphne Budd.
speaker_0HOST
Here she plays a widow who has known very little else but the stage, which she shared with her late writer-director husband.
speaker_0HOST
Now she has to try to argue to the courts that the agreement allowing her to stay in the theater's apartment is a valid one, while her brother-in-law tries to sue her out of the building.
Philip DukeHOST
But it is funny where you're the horror girl.
Philip DukeHOST
So you're like, yeah, I'll do House of House of Dark Shadows.
Philip DukeHOST
I'll do Psycho Two.
Philip DukeHOST
And then I'm like, who wants to do the oblong box? And you're like, I do.
Ken DalyPANELIST
There's two movies.
Ken DalyPANELIST
One is, uh, Night of Dark Shadows, the other is House of Dark Shadows.
Chris TallmanPANELIST
Oh, wow.
Ken DalyPANELIST
One is terrible, 'cause it's very edited and choppy, and the other one is very entertaining.
Joe McCormickHOST
I watched Dark Shadows also, original TV run.
Joe McCormickHOST
The two movies made from the series might be of interest to you, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
Joe McCormickHOST
They are definitely weird.
Joe McCormickHOST
Grayson Hall always swings for the fences in her performances, and she was a major player in the movies and the TV show.
Cindy FranklinHOST
A direct reference to one of your favorite series.
Chris FranklinHOST
Dark Shadows, yes, which we, of course, covered the House of Dark Shadows a few years ago on this very show.
Chris FranklinHOST
And, of course, Barnabas was played by Jonathan Frid.
Chris FranklinHOST
In fact, I wonder if Whisper Hill took some inspiration from Dark Shadows' Widow's Hill.
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