Collinwood

[Monique Devereaux]

Seaview Terrace, Rhode Island, USA, exteriors for the 1960's Gothic television soap opera, Dark Shadows, which Tim Burton is adapting for the big screen. Seaview is modeled on a French chateau and is now a private girls school. The first two photos are internet source unknown, the other three are renderings of a computer generated 3D model that I created a few years ago in a cheap little program called Bryce. For those of you outside the US, Collinwood is a very icon image for many of us in our late 40s and older, as this was easily our first exposure to anything Gothic during the years 1966-1971. We love the TV series, we hate the paperback books by Marilyn Ross, but we collect them anyway along with our old videotapes and DVD sets!

   
   
   
   
   

[Gothic Tiger]

Dark Shadows! I used to rush home from school so I could watch it. So creepy when you're 10! Still love it today. I found it on TV many years ago when my daughter was young and she watched it with me and LHAO at the "cardboard bat of doom" to which I replied, "things were simpler back then...that was scary."

I like that it is being remade; I hate that it's Burton and Depp. I'm afraid it's going to have those over-the-top, ridiculous looking characters. And, I am a purist, so staying close to the original is also important to me.

I have read a few books; a couple written by the woman who played Angelique. I have the first 8 sets of DS on DVD. I want to get the Beginnings, which I have watched on Netflix and have enjoyed, too.

[debbie60435]

I love Dark Shadows, too! Who could possibly top Jonathan Frid as Barnabas? He was the best vampire ever!

Dark Shadows! I used to rush home from school so I could watch it. So creepy when you're 10! Still love it today. I found it on TV many years ago when my daughter was young and she watched it with me and LHAO at the "cardboard bat of doom" to which I replied, "things were simpler back then...that was scary."

I like that it is being remade; I hate that it's Burton and Depp. I'm afraid it's going to have those over-the-top, ridiculous looking characters. And, I am a purist, so staying close to the original is also important to me.

I have read a few books; a couple written by the woman who played Angelique. I have the first 8 sets of DS on DVD. I want to get the Beginnings, which I have watched on Netflix and have enjoyed, too.