FilmPGGothic Ghosts & Haunting Witchcraft & Occult

Night of Dark Shadows1971

Name: Night of Dark Shadows
Genre: Gothic, Ghosts & Haunting, Witchcraft & Occult, Psychological
Released: 1971-08-04
Rating: 5.6

“Just another night of... Terror.”

Directed by Dan Curtis

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.4TMDB 6.6

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Year

1971

Runtime

95 min

Box Office

Budget

$900,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$1,400,000

The premise

Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.

Horror Vault's take

Newlyweds Quentin and Tracy Collins arrive at the sprawling Collinwood estate to begin their new life together, only to discover that the ancestral mansion holds far more than old furniture and family portraits. Dark presences tied to the estate's history begin to exert a growing influence over Quentin, blurring the line between past and present in increasingly unsettling ways. Rooted in the gothic soap opera legacy of the original Dark Shadows series, the film leans into atmosphere, obsession, and the seductive pull of the supernatural. Fans of slow-burn, mood-drenched horror will find plenty to unsettle them within Collinwood's shadowed halls.

Content: Depictions Of Hanging, Scenes Of Marital Infidelity, Nightmare Sequences, Mild Peril