As early as 1968, Curtis began pursuing the idea of making a Dark Shadows movie, even while the series ... fix up an old ruined house on the estate, and even feed on cousin Carolyn (Nancy Barrett ...

Two score and four years ago, I'd fly home from fourth grade for the 4 p.m. broadcast of Dark Shadows. In 1968 ... Barnabas, heir to the Collins estate on the Maine coast, sleeps with and then ...

He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark ...

A series of films based on the cult gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71). Each film re-tells a popular storyline from the show: in House of Dark Shadows, the story of the vampire Barnabas ...

Dark Shadows, their eighth collaboration to date ... The wreck of the Collinwood estate is run by the family matriarch, Elizabeth (a delicious Michelle Pfeiffer), who strains to control her ...

Helena Bonham Carter is the family's live-in shrink, while Jackie Earle Haley tends to the estate's ... problem is that Dark Shadows can't really figure out what kind of movie it is.

Dark Shadows ” was the brainchild of the late Dan Curtis, who went on to produce the original TV movies, ” The Night Stalker ... and starts construction on the opulent Collinwood estate. Years later ...

Barnabas is freed from his tomb two centuries later in 1972, only to find his once grand estate in shambles. Dark Shadows rises in theaters May 11.

In the early years of his career he was making movies that looked like nothing ... Now he’s bringing us an adaptation of the 70s soap opera Dark Shadows, and while I'm still confident that ...