![]() Soap operas are played with no specific end in mind. ![]() The show was a parody, a complicated riff as it were, on the whole idea of soap operas: people fall in love, they fall out of love, they are greedy, they fall in love with the wrong person, violence ensues, people disappear, they reappear, somebody gets their arm cut off, there is a fire, a monster lurks somewhere in this dark old house, at least one character turns into a werewolf, somebody lets the vampire out of his coffin, someone gets pregnant, another fire ensues, and so on. ![]() One often did not know whether to scream in terror or laugh because it was so funny. The best part of this outrageous production was watching all the actors play their roles straight as if they believed every word. I guess the production values for a daily soap opera lent themselves to a campy, gothic, soap opera about witches, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, curses, the undead, and general supernatural salad that probably invented a few new ghouls and goblins. For an eight-year-old, the show was incredibly spooky, frightening, and creepy. The production values were low, the dialogues were melodramatic, and the special effects were horrific, but not because the show was scary. Jonathan Frid, the Canadian actor who played the melancholy vampire of the ultimately campy and strange soap opera, Dark Shadows, died Friday in Hamilton, Ontario.
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