Night of Dark Shadows

new blood comes home to Collinwood house. it stars David Selby as Quentin Collins and Kate Jackson as his bride Tracy.in her first staring role. When Quentin and his bride move into his ancestral home he begins to have strange and violent visions of the past in his dreams he sees one of his family member being hanged for being a witch. The witch comes to him in his dreams because Quentin looks like her lost long love. more of supernatural tale .than full blooded horror

Brilliant package of the classic movie Night of Dark shadows, released on Blu Ray. Brilliant picture quality. Extremely enjoyable and entertaining

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It's well known that Night Of Dark Shadows suffered extensively from pre-release cutting, and those cuts severely compromised the film. The storyline became confusing, and the editing looked choppy in places. However in spite of these drawbacks, this follow on from House Of Dark Shadows - it's not really a sequel in the conventional sense - remains worthwhile, both for fans of director Dan Curtis' original Dark Shadows TV series, and casual viewers.One obvious aspect that causes disappointment is the absence of Barnabas Collins. Actor Jonathan Frid had refused to play the vampire again through fears of typecasting, so Curtis was forced to take a different tack. Night focuses on Quentin Collins and his wife Tracy as they inherit the Collinwood estate. Slowly, the couple become aware of the malevolent spirit of Angelique, a witch hanged 200 years ago, and Quentin is posessed by the spirit of his own ancestor, Angelique's lover. The films lacks the blood and thunder of it's predecessor, opting instead for a slow, brooding build up of menace and a surprisingly dark tone of sexual violence in some scenes.Hopefully, one day the cut footage will be restored, but in the meantime this flawed gem is more deserving of it's place on your shelf next to House Of Dark Shadows than Tim Burton's new movie.

Highly enjoyable continuation of the House Of Dark Shadows saga.

It's a difficult film to review in one way. Had I simply watched it on television, knowing nothing of the daily soap opera Dark Shadows and knowing nothing of the production history of the film, I would likely have given it a single star and dismissed it as a badly-written, badly-directed film that looked like it had been edited with a pair of rusty scissors. Knowing the background – that James Aubrey, the head of MGM, ordered the director to remove 32 minutes from the film and gave him one day to do so, then subsequently removed another four minutes without the director's knowledge to secure a lower MPAA rating – means I will inevitably look at the film in a similar way to other hacked up films such as David Lynch's Dune and William Peter Blatty's Legion (aka Exorcist III.)What we are left with is an interestingly shot film, made in wonderfully bleak location, witty some solid acting performances. But the wholesale removal of chunks of the film means characters change behaviour abruptly for no apparent reason (I get the impression David Selby's Quentin Collins is being possessed by his ancestor Charles at times, but the gradual possession has been removed,) Lara Parker as the evil, ghostly Angelique, flits in and out, apparently with most of her dialogue cut and Kate Jackson, pre-Charlie's Angels, vainly tries to hold things together as Quentin's wife.It's like watching a clip reel rather than a proper film. I've picked up the screenplay (The Dark Shadows Movie Book is available on Kindle) and it makes far more sense. Worst of all, it's gutting to know that the complete 129-version exists. It was found some years ago, but was missing a substantial amount of sound. The surviving actors and soundalike voice artists re-recorded all the missing dialogue, but Warner Bros, having announced the release of the full version, subsequently pulled the plug around the time the Tim Burton Dark Shadows film failed to make much impact. More annoying on this release is that the audio is a terrible mess, with iffy lip synch and terrible music jump cuts.That aside, even imagining the complete version was released, there are still issues. First is the complete lack of humour. The TV show benefited from some arch performances and was always tremendous fun. Sure I understand a movie has different requirements, but like its predecessor, House of Dark Shadows, Night suffers from taking everything so seriously that there's no warmth apparent between characters who are supposed to be great friends. Secondly, both movies use a different location for Collinwood (the Collins' house) from the TV show, further alienating even this fan of the show. Instead of the Collinwood known and loved by the fans, the cathedral-like Lyndhurst Estate is austere and looks like a museum location the production team have hired out rather than a mansion people actually live in.Thirdly, at least House of Dark Shadows, in retelling the original Barnabas Collins storyline, gave us the regular castmembers in their TV roles. This film is aggressively standalone: the only characters familiar from TV are Angelique and Quentin. However, this is a completely different Quentin and the only commonality with any of the TV show's Quentins is actor David Selby. Lara Parker, as Angelique, is harder to judge as she's barely in the hacked up cut of the film. Also, by tying her with Charles Collins, there's not Barnabas Collins for her to interact with. Other familiar TV show faces such as Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett and John Karlen all play completely different roles. Also, there's no evidence of the town of Collinsport: the house seems to be miles from anywhere and the one mention of the familiar Blue Whale bar actually makes the house see all the more isolated.So, I'm glad to have seen the film and, as a fan of the TV show, it was interesting to watch, but for anyone whose knowledge extends at most to the Johnny Depp comedy film, skip it!

Happy

Not having seen the othjer episodes of the dark shadows adventures i found this a little boring,not up to the standared of the previous motion picture presentation "The house of dark shadows"and a little slow for this type of movie,i still do not know or in fact really care about the plot line what ever that is,i felt like an outsider to a big franchise that we did not have here in old blighty,yeh we had "Emerdale farm" as a soap they had "Dark shadows".If you are a fan you will like it im sure,if not avoid,go watch The original movie,yeh folks even has vampires in it,or best of all retry the old Hammer classics,old blighty knew how to do Vampires,werewolfs,and all.

The second Dark Shadows movie is a genuinely creepy Gothic Horror. If you dig the series and Gothic Horror...buy it!❤️❤️❤️

Excellent

Even in its truncated (post-edited) form, it's a great, fun thriller. Damn Jim Aubrey ("the smiling cobra" of CBS in the early 1960s, the man who axed Judy Garland from her 1963 TV variety series after only one season because she refused sleep with him (Judy, separated from her husband, Sid Luft, was at the time romantically involved with David Begelman, one of her managers, whom she loved and hoped to marry---Begelman's own marriage of this period was hardly more blissful than Judy's---even though Begelman, six years after Judy's death, had the whistle blown on him by actor Cliff Robertson for forging Robertson's $50,000 "film location" expense checks; a thorough investigation revealed Begelman had bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars out of not only Judy but virtually every client he represented, for 15 or more years, and he was thereafter treated with contempt within the agency business, and consequently took his life in 1991), and the one who sounded the death knell, as presiding CEO(!)of MGM, in 1970 with the MGM auction, for ordering the film be cut yet another 30 minutes (which producer Dan Curtis had already done to the originally 150-minute film to a reasonable two hours), because Aubrey deemed it a mere "B-movie potboiler" (anyone who would fire Judy Garland in her prime could hardly be complimented with either good judgment or respecting the lady many show biz historians have christened "the world's greatest female entertainer" of the 20th Century (please note: "the world's greatest female ENTERTAINER---not just singer, dancer, and actress, but all three; of what's out there today, arguably, only Barbra Streisand stands alone, and Judy was both one of Barbra's earliest mentors and champions, insisting that Barbra be the sole guest star early in the season of her 1963-64 TV variety series---and Barbra, for all her other sterling qualities, is neither the natural nor trained dancer Garland proved to be throughout her entire profession life; however, Barbra's success as a film director more than makes up for not being a remarkable dancer) much less a judge of a class-A motion picture---but, I understand, a "length restoration" of the cut print is in progress.I went to see the picture (at a drive-in, which I loved) on, if memory for dates serves correctly, on Friday, August 11 or 13th(?),1971(it was my parents' birthday gift to me; on August 13th, I turned 11 years of age, and had literally grown up, along with a million other kids and adults of all ages, on the 5-year series, which had been discontinued four months earlier, in mid-April which, astonishingly, made the film even more of a box-office success). It was on the top of a double bill with "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967), starring Roman Polanski and the incandescently lovely (and talented) Sharon Tate (not a success in 1967 but a cult classic today), making for a perfect evening at the movies, compliments of what was left of poor MGM, which distributed both pictures. However, a restoration of the missing 30 minutes is reportedly in progress (I consider "Night of Dark Shadows" the horror/suspense example of what happened to the original, 1954 musical version of "A Star Is Born" which, due to the greed of Warner Bros., caved in to pressure---by equally greedy nationwide theatre owners---to have THAT diamond of a motion picture shortened by almost 30 minutes, six weeks AFTER its premiere and distribution across the country, during which the picture was being hailed by film critics as a musical-film masterpiece and box office triumph; it was the first picture to be restored under the funding, starting in 1983, to restore cut, poorly-marketed and/or "lost" classic motion pictures, starting a tradition that still rescues Hollywood art forms, thanks to the Motion Picture Association of Arts and Sciences, from further damage, obscurity, and/or extinction. Judy would have been so proud, since it has been cited as being her finest three hours on the screen, for which she received the first of two "regulation" Oscar nominations, having been awarded a "special" Oscar for "The Wizard of Oz" in 1940---and a "special Tony Award for her Palace Theatre Concert Engagement in 1952---the award for Best Actress of 1954 that year went to---of all people---Grace Kelly, for "The Country Girl", against other far more deserving nominees that year such as Audrey Hepburn, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Dandridge, and Garland herself. Film historians today Garland lost the award to Kelly because Kelly was under contract to her former nemesis, MGM, and simply, because most Academy voters were denied seeing "A Star Is Born" uncut and in its full glory, at odds with themselves for voting for a performance that, until 1983, was no longer there in its entirety, though it is agreed that, even in its truncated form, Garland acted Kelly off the screen nonetheless (including those who state that Kelly couldn't act at all, by comparison to the four other actresses nominated along with Judy).But now, Aubrey is long dead (let's hope, unlike at Collinwood, reincarnation is not an option for James Aubrey!) and "Night of Dark Shadows" will be restored to its own uncut glory, a classic of its genre, watched, rewatched, and remembered long after James Aubrey, show business assassin, has long been forgotten (which he already has been, in many respects, due to his gross abuses of power and his destructive mismanagement and mistreatment of the Hollywood art form of television, film, and the hugely talented people, in front of and behind the cameras, who made them special).Up yours, Aubrey! Time, wiser and more distinguished heads, unforgettably powerhouse talents and great entertainment will outlive the foul memory of you, forever.

Mal hecha y anticuada. De terrorífica no tiene nada. Más bien al contrario. De lo mal hecha que está te hace reir. No la recomiendo. Parece de otro siglo.

Great price for a section of the Dark Shadows saga