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Thursday, May 4, 2017

MPI Presents ... The Best of Dark Shadows ... and Barnabas ... and Scariest Moments ...

 When I was a kid in the early 1990s, Dark Shadows was undergoing a fairly sizable renaissance, thanks in part to the 1991 revival, but also because video company MPI began to release the entire series on video.  Thinking back, the fact that 5 episodes on one tape set you back $20.00 sounds insane, but this was also two years before the SciFi Channel began running the entire series twice a day beginning with episode 1.  And, if you were like me, you set your VCR to record the series while you were at school (in Montana, DS ran at 9 a.m.) and man, did those video tapes go quickly!  (I still have some of them, beeteedubs.)

Also, if you were like me, and you couldn't really afford a regular helping of MPI's regular monthly offering, relief appeared in the form of these $9.98 "best ofs" that showed up in the video bins in stores like Kmart and Shopco (or, before it went out of business, the Woolworths in Glasgow).  They make absolutely no sense:  random clips with no explanation, put into a non-sequential, unrelated order.

And I love them.  I love them still.  (And some of them were included on the DVDs MPI released years later!)

Here's a taste of some of the tastes MPI offered us in those dim, dead days before the coffin set became a thing.





David, menaced by Barnabas!



 The curse!



Barnabas chomps Millicent!



 The seance ... with Vicki possessed by Sarah!
 

Maggie Evans has the Dream Curse!



Charity dreams sexy Quentin dreams!


 Nicholas sacrifices Maggie during a Black Mass!



Angelique casts the "fire and ice" spell to drive Vicki out of the Old House!


Willie opens the mystery box!





Barnabas starts to look a little worn around the eyes!



Barnabas wants to eat Maggie!


Barnabas arrives at Collinwood!



Barnabas versus the Phoenix!



Barnabas ends up on the receiving end of Tom the vampire's fangs!



Barnabas begs Julia for help!



Barnabas confesses his love to Josette!





Parallel Angelique returns from the dead!


Chris becomes the werewolf!



Old Barnabas hurts his own flesh and blood!


Barnabas experiences the painful fangs of karma!


Quentin the zombie kidnaps Rachel!


The Head of Judah Zachery possess Gerard Stiles!


Josette's portrait undergoes a radical reduction!


Jeremiah buries Angelique alive!



Quentin's ghost rules Collinwood ... with laughter!

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