So why not a movie, too? As early as 1968, Curtis began pursuing the idea of making a Dark Shadows movie, even while the series was still going. Eventually, House of Dark Shadows was the result.

I got to star in an MGM feature film based on the series, “House of Dark Shadows,” which was a critical and box office success that helped save the studio from bankruptcy. Dan Curtis created a ...

A series of films based on the cult gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71). Each film re-tells a popular storyline from the show: in House of Dark Shadows, the story of the vampire Barnabas ...

In the main house, a kitchen that ... vampirism on the Gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows” during the 1960s and ’70s. In the late ’90s, she published a series of novels inspired by her ...