Halloween starts on TCM Dark Shadows, The Haunting

Steve, House of Dark Shadows is fantastic. There was another movie made Night of Dark Shadows, not so much. If you enjoyed Dark Shadows and have never seen House of Dark Shadows, watch it. I don't have TCM, so I don't know if they edit. It is very gory compared to the tv show. It was released on dvd some years ago, for a cheap price.

I have the entire Dark Shadows series on DVD. It came in a coffin shaped box and when you opened it the DVD's jewel cases where printed as if Barnabas was laying in it. Every October I bring it out and watch from where I left off. I am up to his ring.

I have never seen the movies though! Something I am loath to admit being a die hard Dark Shadows fan!

SNAFU, My brother has the same collection. He bought it when he was on a kick, watching the reruns. I think he got bored of it after several hours. You have to watch House of Dark Shadows. Growing up, I found a really cool ring and wooden box in my grandparent's house. I stuffed a glove and put the ring on one of the fingers. That was my hand of Count Petoffi. (sp) Remember that plotline?

Wise's (well, Jackson's) "The Haunting" is the gold standard. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom. One might say, "say no more," but in fact, both are particularly brilliant here, even considering stellar (and more praised) work elsewhere. Bloom's performance is so effortlessly spot-on, a smug, complex, maddeningly narcissistic yet oddly compassionate era-specific bohemian, devoid of a whiff of caricature. But Julie is the heartbeat, and once you settle into her eccentric outre rhythms early on, you get quite a ride.