As the credits rolled at the end of Dark Shadows, my father turned to me and said, “I don’t get it. Was it supposed to be a comedy or a horror?” I didn’t understand what he meant: obviously it was a comedy. There were some watered down PG-13 horror, but there was...
As the credits rolled at the end of Dark Shadows, my father turned to me and said, “I don’t get it. Was it supposed to be a comedy or a horror?” I didn’t understand what he meant: obviously it was a comedy. There were some watered down PG-13 horror, but there was...
Jonathan Frid and Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins Jonathan Frid, the actor who portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins in the 1966-1971 soap opera Dark Shadows, died on April 13, 2012, at the age of 87. Frid was recently remembered by Johnny Depp, who will put his own spin...
Dark Shadows was a 1966-1971 soap opera that science fiction/horror fans could sink their teeth into: instead of characters who were doctors and lawyers, some of the dwellers of Collinsport, Maine, were vampires, witches, and zombies. The show had a brief second life...
Kolchak, the Night Stalker, the short-lived 1974-5 television show that has been credited as the inspiration for The X-Files, is about to get a third life (the one after its even shorter-lived second life as a 2005 TV series). Johnny Depp’s production company,...
