Throughout the years, the entertainment industry has been filled with film and TV shows about angsty, sexy vampires, ranging from Interview with the Vampire's Lestat to The Twilight Saga's Edward ...

For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour accompanied by the common proclamation, "I used to run home from school to watch ...

A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stephen ...

The first pictures of Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows have emerged. The movie, based on the '60s gothic soap opera involving vampires, werewolves, ghosts and zombies, is Depp's ...

A new documentary recalls the life and career of Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old guilt -ridden vampire on Dark Shadows, the horror-themed daytime soap opera that ...

Johnny Depp has criticised the modern portrayal of vampires in cinema, and promised a return to their classic image in his upcoming film Dark Shadows. The Tim Burton-directed feature, an adaptation of ...

A nervous Jonathan Frid, who played vampire Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows, was known for forgetting his dialogue.Courtesy photo In 1966, a weird daytime soap opera debuted on ABC. Unlike most soaps ...

In her first professional acting gig, she battled the vampire Barnabas Collins on the ABC daytime serial. Years later, she wrote four novels based on the show. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lara Parker ...

Her three-dimensional portrayal of a character who was also a vampire helped the Gothic soap opera develop a cult following. By Alex Williams Lara Parker, who found small-screen fame in the 1960s and ...