#josette collins

[dancurtisowesmemoney]

Dark Shadows' Hottest Character?

#dark shadows hottest character #fuck that soap opera character #ds hottest character poll #ds round 4 #william loomis #josette collins

[flock-of-cassowaries]

24 years old? Josette Collins should’ve been at the club.

#dark shadows 1966 #josette collins #she should be at the club #dark shadows

[paperstarzz]

200 episodes in, favorite characters without falter. Weird kid and his cool ghost grandma.

#dark shadows #david collins #josette collins #art #my art #digital art

[dismemberment-on-a-tuesday-night]

Barnabas Collins when Victoria Winters reacts romantically and positively to the idea of being Josette Collins after he already wasted his time traumatizing and trying to murder Maggie Evans who wasn't interested in him in the first place:

#Abraham original: Hot off the press #Shit post #Dark Shadows #Barnabas Collins #Victoria Winters #Josette Collins #Maggie Evans #Dark Shadows 1966

[atimburtonfan]

The cliff in Dark Shadows is gorgeous.

#Dark Shadows #Tim Burton #Barnabas Collins #Josette DuPres #Johnny Depp #Bella Heathcote

[fitsofgloom]

I'll Be With You Always, Ever, Forever . . .

#dark shadows #barnabas collins #jonathan frid #music box #josette's theme #vintage afs

[greenscircus]

"You will never rest, Barnabas!  And you will never be able to love anyone-for whoever loves you will die.  That is my curse, and you will live with it-through all eternity!"

#dark shadows #dark shadows 1966 #barnabas collins #josette du pres #my art #fanart

[widowshill]

— I couldn't care less about your future. — Well, you'd better care, because you're part of it, and so is your wife.

r/v/b for @tortoisesshells.

#victoria devlin starring in: i gave up trying to find my father so i just got a few boyfriends old enough to be my dad. or my uncle. #tortoisesshells #➤ roger collins & victoria winters & burke devlin. ┊ to know how it ends‚ and still begin to sing it again. #➤ edits & art. ┊ the evans cottage art gallery. #gifs. #i've been accused of not exactly truth-telling when it comes to posting about r/v ... well. #this is lies. we made it up. but look at them! aren't they just darling! #thank you 60's daytime television. #this is my unethical polycule. the nonmonogamy is consensual and negotiated we're just evil in other ways. #(one of them framed another one for vehicular manslaughter and sent him to prison. #two of them have been the other one's employees at one point or another. #they have all — at some point — accused each other of murder; except for accusing vicki who is by all accounts an angel #and who would NEVER frame her boyfriend for her manslaughter on purpose. although this does happen in canon. accidentally.) #also that she stabs roger with a knife in the au but that's not *really* her fault because she's under hypnotic vampire influence. #(and – moreover that roger a. deserves it and b. enjoys it) #because they are doomed to reenact the machinations of collinsport's tripartite love story. #because a woman in possession of josette's (& laura's) locket; of an adventuring‚ prosperous husband who builds her a home in collinsport; #of a vampire-coded boyfriend also in love with her but doomed chiefly to yearning and the occasional bite; #of a foretold fate of falling from the cliffside; and on top of all that is a brunette – well‚ she must be josette.

[tortoisesshells]

511.

#IF I HAD A NICKEL EVERY TIME SOMEONE A COLLINS LOCKED UP ALIVE CAME BACK TO CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR THE FAMILY; #I'D HAVE THREE NICKELS NOW. #remember when it was a big deal when josette's ghost knocked a book off the table in ep. 50? pepperidge farms remembers. #anyway. love that trask can not just physically throw barnabas in an ersatz oubliette but metaphysically summon a chorus of the damned. #me when ghosts come back for revenge on ds: [HOOTING; HOLLERING; GARMENT-RENDING] #the news from collinsport #barnabas collins #reverend trask #feel like pure shit just want her [the 1795 arc] back

[spacebabe51]

(Slides into ur messages) can I hear what u have to say about Dark Shadows and the theme of reincarnated love being attributed to Dracula? 🍿👀

crying throwing up etc yes you CAAANN thank you. and sorry it took me forever to type up this reply. it is,,,very long i'm so sorry i don't know how not to write essays when asked for a fairly simple explanation.

First of all, let me just say I'm not a pop culture historian and i don't live in the heads of anyone who's adapted Dracula, so I can't say with 100% certainty that any one thing inspired anything else unless it was explicitly stated.

OK! SO! I won't bore you with the entire history of Dark Shadows the television show. All you really need to know was that it was a live-to-tape Gothic soap opera created by a guy named Dan Curtis, who was a huge fan of classic horror (such as Legosi's Dracula films). The show adapted various horror classics like Turning of the Screw and Jane Eyre into a long running narrative about a rich family called the Collins, on the coast of Maine.

Initially the supernatural elements of the show were more subtle; but the show wasn't really landing and when the ratings started to tank around '67 Curtis and the writers decided to do something a little more bold and adapt Dracula. Just like in the book (spoilers for those reading for the first time!!) the vampire, Barnabas Collins, was meant suck some blood, kill some people, and die after wreaking the appropriate amount of havoc.

The thing about loose adaptations and Dark Shadows is that everything about it was made in an extremely adaptable format. The show was filmed live-to-tape every day and scripts usually only written a few weeks in advance; that meant that it gave the writers a lot of wiggle room to react to things the audience responded to well, and cut out things they didn't. And the audience really responded to Barnabas Collins; he was played by Canadian theater actor Jonathan Frid, who brought a lot of humanity to the part despite it being written in a very villainous way.

The writers had a prominent ghost around Collinwood named Josette Dupress who was often referenced in the early parts of the show; so they worked her into the story as having been Barnabas' doomed fiancé, who just happened to look exactly like a local girl named Maggie Evans. This kicked off the "Lucy" part of the plotline, but from here the writers began to deviate from the Dracula storyline. Once it was clear that the vampire was immensely popular (essentially saving the show from cancellation) the writer's began to tweak the character in order to justify keeping him around. They began introducing more human aspects to his character in order to make him more nuanced; one of the most prominent ones being his obsessive need to find and be reunited with Josette.

The show ran for over 1200+ episodes, and was a pop culture phenomena. By the end, Barnabas had firmly established himself as the main character of the series, and the Josette reincarnation plotline had been repeated several times. In 1974, two years after the series end, Curtis would go on to adapt Dracula into a television movie; he borrowed the reincarnated lover plotline from his own television show for that movie. Since then, it's become almost a trend in Dracula adaptations to follow this plot formula; sometimes with Lucy, but most often with Mina.

Not many people know about Dark Shadows these days, but the show had a huge cultural impact in the late 60's. Again, I'm not 100% able to say that every adaptation that features this trope is borrowing from Dark Shadows. Likewise, while a lot of the 'sympathetic vampire' or 'vampire as an affliction/disease rather than a creature of evil' may have have been inspired by something prior to Dark Shadows (Varney the Vampire is something to check out) it definitely helped to popularize the trope and bring it into the modern consciousness. (Sidenote; any adaptation that features 'curing' vampirism through medicine is, most likely, inspired by DS, but I'm not sure how common that one is)

So, uh, anyway! In conclusion if you're trying to mark out your bingo board of Dracula adaptations checking out a few episodes of the original Dark Shadows (NOT the tim burton one i cannot stress this enough) might be worth it. As an added bonus you get the world's most tortured pathetic Renfield-esque character, and a badass female doctor in the Van Helsing role. Thanks so much for asking and if you're reading Dracula for the first time I hope you enjoy it!!

#god thank you for asking this you're my new best friend i'm wiring 20 USD to your location rn #dark shadows #ds #dracula #dracula daily #barnabas collins #jonathan frid #ds 66 #josette dupress #asks #goooddd im so long winded

[collinsportmaine]

Josette Du Pres

#dark shadows #Josette du Pres #kathryn leigh scott #Barnabas Collins #ghost

[dancurtisowesmemoney]

Dark Shadows Hottest Character Poll

#dark shadows hottest character #fuck that soap opera character #ds hottest character poll #wild card #Josette Collins #Mrs Filmore #bathia Mapes #Hannah stokes

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Vicki seems to really be enjoying having Josette Collins enter her.

Like, much more than her kiss with Burke Devlin…

#dark shadows (1966) #victoria winters #josette collins #séance #accidental (?) sapphic vibes #dark shadows

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 478: Carried on the wind

Soap operas usually have multiple more or less independent storylines going simultaneously. Dark Shadows had trouble keeping that up, usually having an A story with all the action and a B story that never got off the ground and eventually dried up altogether. Now, in the spring of 1968, they have several equally dynamic arcs going at once. As a result, today’s episode is a bit of a jumble, as we…

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#accents #alexandra moltke #alexandra moltke isles #amnesia #angelique #barnabas collins #barnabas shows his cards #cassandra collins #dark shadows #dr eric lang #dream sequence #fog machine #frankenstein #jeff clark #josette du pres #kathryn leigh scott #lara parker #maggie evans #malware #music box #peter bradford #smart vicki #spam #tea party #the dream curse #the evans cottage #victoria winters

[dismemberment-on-a-tuesday-night]

You can't Follow Your Heart if there's a Stake Through It is inspired by the Barnabas/Maggie arc of Dark Shadows (1967) but like the exact opposite.

#Abraham original: Hot off the press #You can't Follow Your Heart if there's a Stake Through It #Dark Shadows #dark shadows 1966 #Barnabas Collins #Maggie Evans #Josette Collins

[terrorpenned]

portraits at Collinwood

Jardinet, Portrait of a Yankee Sea Captain, 1835 / N. Currier, William Henry Harrison / miniature, Portrait of a Young Boy / Portrait of a girl, 1790-1800 / Valentine Green, Martha Ray / Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Portrait of a Young Man

#collinwood. #elizabeth collins stoddard. #josette dupres. #roger collins. #edits & art.