"Dark Shadows" Movie? Fangs For The Memories

I'm ambivalent about reports that "Dark Shadows" may become a Tim Burton movie with Johnny Depp starring as vampire Uncle Barnabas Collins. They do great work, but the show's real charms seem like they'd be hard to re-create. As a Baby Boomer lad I spent many happy afternoons watching the Gothic soap opera set on the foggy, stormy Maine coast, in a spooky old mansion haunted by family secrets including vampirism and lycanthropy. Jonathan Frid was a creepy marvel as Barnabas. Early episodes were, if memory serves, in black and white. Somehow the incredibly cheesy sets, bad acting and blown lines made the (mostly offscreen) horrors more believable. And like any soap, they were good at using daily cliffhangers to get you to come back tomorrow - with a big one on Friday to make sure you tuned in on Monday. I would wait for weeks for a good look at the face of toothy werewolf Quentin Collins (David Selby)  in full slaver. Here's a couple of videos. The first is the atmospheric opening title sequence - in Spanish with subtitle, for some reason. And then there's a strikingly homoerotic scene with Barnabas and one of his human hunters, in a typically cheesy waterfront-bar set. They say so much, and yet so little...