House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows - Blu-ray's in 2012

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

HMV potentially.

Warner ignored the UK market until HMV made a deal to get some out over here, exclusive to them.

The problem is, the discs are rather disappointing. Both have a lot of DNR and Night only has the cut version when the director's cut material has been found.

Wiki says the recovered deleted scenes are missing the sound, and it appears there’s some bits still missing. Looks like it was totally butchered.

Much of the excised footage was recovered in 1999, but was without sound. This material consists of 16 sequences which extend existing scenes. Highlights of the discovery include flashback between the doomed lovers Charles and Angelique, two new scenes featuring menacing groundskeeper Gerard Stiles, several romantic interludes between Quentin and Tracy, a candlelit "exorcism" sequence in the gallery (the film's original climax), and the "hanging" sequence.

[seamus11]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Wiki says the recovered deleted scenes are missing the sound, and it appears there’s some bits still missing. Looks like it was totally butchered.

The actors came back to do the ADR for the scenes several years ago.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by seamus11

The actors came back to do the ADR for the scenes several years ago.

Thank you — after a bit of googling I found the post regarding Darren Gross’s restoration attempts over at that other forum. In fact, I had even forgotten that I had posted in it! Glad to re-cement in my brain that all the missing footage and some of the missing sound elements were located, and relooping has been done for the rest. I have updated the Wikipedia article accordingly. Now if only WB would play ball.