Master Of Dark Shadows Coming This April
Soap operas are notorious for their wacky twists and turns, but none of them had fully embraced fantasy or horror before Dark Shadows, the cult-classic daytime drama that premiered on ABC in 1966. Focused around vampire Barnabas Collins and the mysterious Collinwood mansion, the show didn’t have the ratings or the legs of its contemporaries, but has lived a long life since then in the form of reboots, re-interpretations and rebroadcasts of the original. The man behind Dark Shadows was named Dan Curtis, and soon a new documentary will be out that’s all about him, his famous creation, and what was involved in making it. Master Of Dark Shadows was filmed across three major cities and features a wide variety of stars, creatives and luminaries, all fans of the Gothic soap: Oscar-winning writer-producer Alan Ball (True Blood), screenwriter William F. Nolan (Trilogy of Terror), author Herman Wouk (The Winds Of War), veteran actors Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday), Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire), and Ian McShane (Deadwood) providing the narration. Plus, Curtis himself. The feature-length documentary MASTER OF DARK SHADOWS reveals