The Primary Flashback continues:
The Night of the Collins Fires: Barnabas and Josette Victoria's Story
Elizabeth delivers Barnabas all she knows, and all she suspects, about Nicholas Blair. Then she delivers Barnabas and Vicki the cover story she devised on the way to the hospital, a story she drilled into the children and the servants.
Nicholas Blair is the grandfather of little Nicky Blair. On Carolyn's 1st day of kindergarten, little Nicky whispered in another boy's ear, "Her mommy is Elizabitch Collins Stoddard," which bought him a punch in the mouth from Carolyn. [See "Elizabeth's Secret, Chapter 4."] Elizabeth has always suspected that little Nicky got "Elizabitch" from his father or grandfather or both. Her suspicion is correct.
Blair's 1st wife died of a broken neck when she fell down the cellar stairs of their house. No one in town was surprised when the autopsy showed she was drunk. But those her knew her well, especially her children, were astonished that she was on those stairs at all. She had always feared and hated the cellar of that house and had never set foot in it.
Police Chief George Patterson investigated and found nothing, so the case was closed and Mrs. Blair's death was ruled an accident. But he too was suspicious. The Blair children, knowing which side their bread was buttered on, did not pursue the matter any further. But they added this to the reasons they hated their father.
Blair and his secretary/girlfriend were not nearly as clever as they thought they were. But Angie covered up their mistakes, and then delighted in tormenting Blair at board meetings with irrelevant remarks about his wife's death and hints of what Angie knew about it.
To the disgust of his children, Blair married his secretary just 6 months after the death of the 1st Mrs. Blair. Angie spent most of the ceremony snickering. Within a year of the wedding, the 2nd Mrs. Blair went to fat on a diet of bonbons and bourbon. Blair then fired his 1st new secretary, whom he had hired for her competence, and hired another new secretary strictly for her looks.
The 2nd Mrs. Blair did not object to this. "I married him for his money and his position, not his c***," she truthfully told herself. "The more he f***s her, the less he f***s me. And that's fine with me."
As Barnabas and Josette Victoria approach Blair's house, he tells her, "My dear Josette, you must persuade Mr. Blair to invite you into his house. When a human is safely behind the threshold of his dwelling, you cannot hypnotize him, not for any purpose. If you catch him outside, then you can make him your servant and order him to invite you across the threshold as soon as he crosses it himself. That is what I did with Willie on the night I returned to Collinwood after two centuries of being buried 'alive,' if you will pardon the expression.
"As soon as you are inside, hypnotize Mr. Blair and order him to invite me in. And I am sorry to say that you must fight your thirst a bit longer. We need Mr. Blair alive for a time."
"I understand, my love," Josette Victoria replies. She kisses Barnabas and then approaches Blair's door, while Barnabas waits close by. Josette Victoria steels herself to fight her thirst a little longer.
It is Josette Victoria and not Barnabas who rings Blair's doorbell because Blair's suspicion would be instantly aroused by the sight of Barnabas. They are hoping that the sight of a pretty girl will arouse other feelings in him, feelings that will overcome any suspicions aroused by the fact that the girl has the same kabuki skin and raccoon eyes as Barnabas Collins.
It proves easier than either of them dared hoped. It is the 2nd Mrs. Blair who comes to the door, with one drink in her hand and more than one in her gut. And a cigarette in her mouth.
"Mrs. Blair?" says Josette. "My name is Maggie Evans." It amuses Josette to use Victoria's once real name as an alias. "I have an urgent message for your husband. A message from Angie."
"Why are you dripping wet, lady?" Mrs. Blair asks. She is not really interested in why the pale-faced-bitch at the door is wet. She is taking the time to ask just to prove to herself that she is not so frightened of Angie that she will acquiesce instantly to a weird looking messenger girl from her.
"I fell off the boat while doing what Angie told me to do. I apologize for calling on you so late and while looking so sloppy. But the message for your husband is urgent and I could not take the time to change."
"So come in already," Mrs. Blair says. She is thinking, "And let me get back to my drinking." She doesn't care if the messenger girl drips all over the carpet. Cleaning up is the maid's problem.
Barnabas said nothing about keeping the 2nd Mrs. Blair alive, so Josette attacks as soon as she is across the threshold. With Josette's hand around her windpipe, the only sound the 2nd Mrs. Blair makes is the clunk of her glass hitting the carpet.
After drinking the 2nd Mrs. Blair to a withered husk, Josette turns to Barnabas, who is now standing just outside the door. She says, "Yuck! I thought blood would taste good to a vampire."
"She was drunk, my sweet Josette. Alcohol tastes terrible to us."
Josette steps on the cigarette, smoldering on the carpet, and then carries the corpse of Mrs. Blair away from the door, to get it out of the way. It will also be out of Blair's sight when he invites Barnabas to enter. She fears the sight would distract Blair, even while he is under the spell of the vampire. Then she goes searching for Mr. Blair. She notices that the house stinks of cigarettes.
She finds Blair in his "study." He uses the recliner and the television more than he uses the desk, and most of the books on the shelves are unread. Josette finds him snoring in the fully tilted recliner with ABC's Monday Night Football playing on the TV.
The study stinks of cigarettes ten times worse than the rest of the house. Josette thanks God she no longer needs to breathe. She has been breathing on and off out of habit up to now. She consciously stops breathing to escape the stench.
One brief sniff close to Blair confirms that he reeks of cigarettes too, and she dreads touching him to wake him up. Then she sees the half-finished drink on the table next to the recliner, with half-melted ice cubes in it.
Josette smiles at the sight of the drink. Then she picks up the glass and pours its cold, wet contents into Blair's face.
Barnabas enjoyed most of his rides in the Collins' Chevy, once he got over his astonishment at the machine. But he does not enjoy the car ride from Blair's house to Angel Bay.
Angie did not allow the executives of Angle Bay to own cars that were newer models than her own. So after she bought the '70 Plymouth Barracuda, all the executives rushed out to buy 1970 models for themselves.
The 2nd Mrs. Blair's car is a '70 Corvette - out of the question for transporting 2 vampires, a man, and the corpse of Mrs. Blair herself.
Mr. Blair's car is a '70 Lincoln Continental Mark III 2-door hardtop. There is enough room in the trunk for Mrs. Blair. Josette sits in front with Mr. Blair. No one in Collinsport would be surprised to see Blair with a woman not his wife, but this pale skinned young thing is someone new.
In the back seat, Barnabas is out of sight of anyone they pass, but not very comfortable. The fact that the car stinks of cigarettes even worse than the house makes both vampires uncomfortable, even though they need to breathe only to get the wind to speak.
"Why was this motorcar built with so little room back here? And why did the builders exacerbate the problem by furnishing no rear doors?" he complains shortly after squeezing into it.
Victoria replies, "I don't know why the lack of room, but two doors are cooler than four doors."
"On a cold day, surely four open doors would cool the machine faster than two open doors."
"I'm using the word 'cooler' in its metaphorical sense, the way Carolyn does. As for why two doors are 'cooler' than four doors ... hmmm, maybe you better ask Carolyn."
One by one, the executives of the Angel Bay Seafood Co. enter the conference room, in compliance with the phone calls they received from Nicholas Blair. They find him sitting in Angie's chair at the end of the table. Each of them asks how dare he sit in Angie's chair. He replies, "Angie is dead. As First Vice President, I am now in charge."
All of them respond with variations of, "If you really believe Angie is dead, just because Elizabitch Collins Stoddard says so, then you are a f***ing fool."
They also ask why they are here, and why there is a folded blanket on the table in front of Blair, and why the blinds are closed when Angie always wants them open. Blair replies that he will explain when they are all present.
When the last of them is seated, they hear the doors at the other end of the room open. They all turn, expecting to see Angie coming through one of the doors. And they suddenly fear they will be the targets of her wrath for not dumping Blair out of Angie's chair. Instead they see 2 soaking wet vampires, one in each doorway.
"Good evening, gentlemen," says Barnabas. "And I use the word loosely."
After the vampires have given the executives of Angel Bay their orders, and asked them a few questions, Barnabas spreads the blanket on the floor behind the President's chair. He says, "Mr. Blair, stand in the middle of the blanket."
"Yes, Master," says Blair as he moves to obey.
When Blair is in position, Barnabas turns to the other executives and says, "Gentlemen, and once again I use the word loosely, you shall obey us in all things for two reasons. Firstly: we command it. Secondly: you do not want to share the fate of the late Mr. Blair." He turns to Josette and says, "He is all yours, my love."
Josette replies, "Thank you, darling." She steps in front of Blair and says, "I release you from our service."
Blair blinks his eyes, looks around, and cries, "What the hell?!"
"This hell," Josette replies as she grabs his throat. She jerks him down to a convenient height and lets him see her fangs before she plunges them into his throat.
When she is finished, she turns to Barnabas and says, "Yuck! he didn't sober up much."
Thanks to the blanket, no blood gets on the floor.
The vampires [in the back seat] and the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. Blair [in the huge trunk] ride to Collinwood with Claude North in his 1970 Cadillac Sedan de Ville 4-door hardtop. [After the discomfort he suffered in the back seat of Blair's Mark III, Barnabas asked each executive, "What kind of motorcar are you driving tonight?" during the board meeting.]
North smokes, but his car does not smell nearly as bad as Blair's.
The Cadillac rounds the last turn before the gates of Collinwood just in time to see a pair of tail-lamps turn in through those gates, which Elizabeth and the 2 vampires did not close behind them earlier in the evening.
"That was not the Chevy," Victoria says. "Mr. North, turn off your headlights and drive as I tell you."
Victoria's vampire eyes can actually see better without the glare of the headlights reflecting off the objects ahead. Under her direction, North turns in through the open gates and drives slowly up the driveway. When they are past the 1st turn, Victoria tells him to stop and turn off the engine.
"Barnabas, I think we should see who that is and what they are doing here."
"I heartily agree, my love. Wait here, Mr. North."
Evan Hanley [age 17] and his cousin Eddie [16] are thieves. They go to Portsmouth once or twice a month to steal car parts. They specialize in hubcaps, spare tires, and radios. If they feel safe enough to take the time, they grab the battery, voltage regulator, and carburetor from under the hood.
So far, they have only found a fence who deals in hot parts. If they ever find one who deals in hot cars, they will steal whole cars. They are so lazy they plan to restrict such thievery to the fools who leave their keys in their cars.
Evan also has the hots for Carolyn. He has been nagging her for a date for over a year. At 1st she just said "No," but his persistence is stoking her sarcasm.
Evan and Eddie have never stolen anything in Collinsport. The only crime Angie allows in Collinsport, other than her own, is the nightly bar fight. The fight amuses her, even though she never witnesses it personally.
Evan and Eddie were about to leave on another thieving trip when they spotted Collinwood burning on its hill above the town and the red glow of the cannery fire.
Evan and Eddie arrived at the burning cannery too late to hear Angie's speech, of course. They were even too late to hear Elizabeth pronounce Angie dead. They get the news 2nd hand from their older cousin Elroy. Elroy was a member of the angry mob that followed Angie to Collinwood, and he is now just hanging around at the cannery fire. Elroy included the news that Barnabas Collins is a vampire and Angie was a witch.
Evan nudged Eddie and then lead him back to Evan's car: a beat up, black 1960 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 2-door sedan. He bought it cheap from an elderly relative who could no longer drive. His style of driving has put more wear and tear on the car in one year than the relative did in 11 years. He hopes to save enough money from the stolen car parts business to buy a used van. Evan's idea of moving up in the world is stealing more than 2 spare tires [that's all that will fit in the trunk on top of his own spare] per trip. Hell, with a van he can carry a big hydraulic jack and steal all the tires on a car.
And a van will have a lot more f***ing room in it.
But given how much money Evan spends on beer and marijuana, it will take him a long time to save enough for a van.
Barnabas and Josette Victoria move hand in hand up the long driveway of Collinwood. They move in utter silence thanks to the 6 inches of thin air between the ground and the soles of their wet shoes. Josette Victoria whispers to Barnabas, "I'm glad I did not try levitating for the first time on an empty stomach."
In reply, Barnabas smiles back at her and gently squeezes her hand.
They stop in the dark shadows just outside the opening in the wall around the manor and the circular driveway. For vampire ears, this is close enough to hear every word the trespassers at Collinwood are saying.
The Olds is parked next to Angie's Barracuda. The Barracuda's spare tire and radio are already in the trunk of the Olds. Evan is bitterly disappointed that he doesn't already have the van: Angie's mag wheels are worth plenty.
When Barnabas and Josette Victoria arrive at their listening post, Evan and Eddie are leaning on the hood of the Barracuda [something for which Angie would have killed them], taking a beer and pot break before they tackle the parts under the hood. They are drinking beer from bottles and passing a joint back and forth. And they are repeating the argument they had all the way to Collinwood. There are long pauses in that argument as they inhale the pot smoke and hold it in their lungs.
"This is crazy, stealing from Angie," says Eddie.
"Angie is dead."
"If you really believe Angie is dead, just because Elizabitch Collins Stoddard says so, then you are a f***ing fool. And you didn't even hear it from her, you heard it second hand, from Elroy."
When he hears "Elizabitch," Barnabas starts forward to teach Eddie a painfully fatal lesson. Victoria grabs his arm and whispers, "No, Barnabas. We have bigger fish to fry. If we kill these two, how do we get rid of their car? We must hypnotize them and send them on their way."
Barnabas nods in agreement. But he silently resolves to deal with Eddie another night. He has heard Elizabeth say, "We have bigger fish to fry," so he does not ask what Victoria meant by it.
Eddie continues, "And Elroy said Angie was a witch and that spooky looking Barn-ass dude is a vampire."
Barnabas does not react to an insult aimed merely at him, not at his family.
"That's bullshit," says Evan.
"Elroy saw with his own eyes that Angie was a witch and that Barn-ass is a vampire, and you say, 'Bullshit.' Elroy says that Elizabitch says that Angie is dead, and you believe it."
"Let me do the thinking."
There is a long silence as the thieving cousins hold the marijuana smoke. The vampires start forward, then stop when Eddie says, "How are we gonna get anything out of Collinwood?"
"I told you, gold and silver and jewels don't burn. All we gotta do is sift through the ashes."
"There's gonna be a ton of ashes from all this shit burning. And more than a ton of fallen stone on top of it."
"Let me do the thinking. It's gotten us this far." Evan laughs and throws his empty beer bottle on the cobblestones, shattering it. "And for me, there's gonna be a bonus in all this."
"What bonus?" Eddie drains the last of his bottle, and then follows Evan's example in disposing of it.
Once again, Victoria's hand on Barnabas' arm restrains him.
Evan provokes Barnabas yet again, saying, "Carolyn, man! With her house and cannery burned down she can't be such a stuck up bitch anymore."
And yet again, Victoria restrains Barnabas. She squeezes his arm. She leans toward him, with the intention of whispering in his ear, "No, Barnabas. We will punish him some other night for his insult of Carolyn."
But then Evan throws away the life Victoria has worked so hard to save.
He completes the thought that began with calling Carolyn " ... a stuck up bitch ... "
Evan kills himself with the words:
"I ask her out,
she says yes,
I f*** her raw in the back seat."
Victoria moves before Barnabas does. But this is the 1st time that she has moved at the Speed of Blur. She overshoots her target by 20 feet and then walks back to him.
A startled Evan asks, "Who the hell are you?"
Josette replies, "For you, I am the Angel of Death." She grabs Evan by the throat with her left hand and pushes him down to his knees. "Stick out your tongue."
Evan struggles instead of obeying. Josette tightens her grip and says, "Stick out your tongue and I will let you breath."
Evan sticks out his tongue.
"Farther," says Josette.
Evan obeys.
In the meantime, Eddie has been slowly backing away. It did not occur to him for a moment to try to help Evan. The crazy pale-faced-bitch is clearly too strong for Eddie to be of any help. He wants to turn and run, but he is afraid to take his eyes off of her. He backs up until he bumps into someone. Then he turns around to tell the newcomer, "Run for your life, man!" The words freeze on his lips when he sees the newcomer.
"Leaving so soon?" says Barnabas. "I insist you stay and enjoy the evening's entertainment." He grabs Eddie by the top of the head and twists, forcing Eddie to turn back around. Then he pushes Eddie down to his knees, to give him a better view of the evening's entertainment.
Josette makes a fist of her right hand, or at least she tries too. She discovers that the long fingers of a vampire can not be curled into a proper fist. The fingers must be folded against the palm, the point of the nails reaching almost to the wrist. But given her vampiric strength, it is fist enough for the job at hand.
Josette drives her fist into the point of Evan's chin, so that his teeth amputate his tongue most foul.
Josette did not allow Evan to breath very deeply, but his scream still sprays blood on Josette's dress. The dress is still wet, so maybe the blood will not stick. Josette releases Evan, so his next scream will not spray more blood on her.
Eddie screams too. Barnabas gives Eddie's head a painful squeeze and says, "Silence, thief, or you will join him."
Josette steps away from Evan, who is curled up on the cobblestones making horrible sounds. He is trying to push both hands into his mouth, hoping they will stop the pain.
Josette says, "It is a sin to waste food. But the blood that flowed through that tongue shall never touch mine." She turns to Barnabas and asks, "Will he bleed to death from that wound, or must I finish him off somehow?"
"Death by exsanguination often follows the excision of the tongue, unless the wound is cauterized with a red hot iron." Now Barnabas speaks with mock sadness, "Alas, we have no red hot iron."
"I am sorry I have complicated our work tonight."
"Do not apologize, my dear Josette. You simply made the punishment fit the crime. And I have been giving some thought regarding the disposal of these two thieves. Many a despondent soul has leapt to their death from Widow's Hill. And many a drunken fool has simply staggered off of it, usually while 'showing off' to another drunken fool." He waves his hand over Evan and Eddie. "Allow me to introduce two such drunken fools. And the Sheriff will find proof of their drunkenness in the form of the broken beer bottles. That is why I shall not force this one to pick up the pieces with his lips."
Eddie cries, "No! Please don't kill me! It was all Evan's idea!"
"Silence!" Barnabas emphasizes the order with another squeeze of Eddie's head. And this time he uses his nails to press the point.
Josette looks in the Olds, and then turns to Barnabas with a big smile on her face. "More proof of their drunkenness. There is a bucket full of ice and beer bottles in the car." She waves at Evan's blood on the cobblestones. "What about the blood?"
"This one shall spend his last hours carrying water from the fountain to wash away the blood. And there is time enough before dawn for him to 'sober up' a bit and give you a taste of clean blood."
"You have worked very hard tonight, my love. You take him to renew your strength."
"We shall share him, as we shall share all things from this night forward."
"No! No!" cries Eddie. Barnabas gives his head a painful twist.
Josette suddenly smiles. "I have an idea that might make your plan even better. Let that one go."
Barnabas releases Eddie, who stands up crying, "Thank you, lady, thank ..."
"Silence!" cries Josette, raising her hand and waving her long fingers in Eddie's face. "Silence and deliver me your utmost obedience."
"Yes, Mistress," Eddie replies in a sleepy voice.
"What is your name?"
"Eddie."
"Have you a knife, Eddie?"
"Ayuh."
"Show it to me."
Eddie reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pocket knife.
Barnabas does not ask, "What matter of knife has no blade?" He saw Willie use such a knife to cut the rope that bound Dr. Hoffman to the concrete block that carried her down to Davy Jones Locker.
"I was hoping for something fancier," says Josette. "What is your friend's name?"
"He's not my friend. He's my cousin," replies Eddie.
"You are right, he is not your friend since he leads you into such terminal trouble. What is your cousin's name?"
"Evan."
"Has Evan a knife?"
"Ayuh. A real fancy one."
"Get it."
The sounds and movements of Evan expressing his pain are much reduced from what they are when his tongue was 1st removed. But Eddie still has difficulty extracting the knife from Evan's pocket. He shows it to Josette.
"Perfect!" cries Josette. "A switchblade!"
"And what, pray, is a switchblade?" asks Barnabas.
"Eddie, show my one true love how a switchblade works."
Eddie presses the button and the blade flicks out.
"Astonishing!" says Barnabas.
"And illegal," says Josette. "When the Sheriff finds it here, he will assume that he who held the switchblade, spilled the blood.
"You spoke of drunken fools, my love. Sometimes drunken fools quarrel and kill each other. And there is no honor among thieves. They quarrel and kill each other over the division of the loot." Josette smiles as she waves her hand over Evan and Eddie. "Allow me to introduce two drunken thieves. One of them stabbed the other and threw the body off Widow's Hill. But in his drunkenness he stumbled off the edge himself."
"A most splendid plan, my dear Josette."
Josette turns to Eddie. "Dip the blade in the blood and then drop the knife here." She points to a spot a few feet from the worst of the blood.
Eddie obeys.
"Pick up your cousin's tongue - Yuck! - and put it in your pocket."
Eddie obeys.
"Now drag your cousin to Widow's Hill."
"Which way is that, Mistress?"
Josette rolls her eyes at such ignorance. She had assumed that everyone in Collinsport knew where Widow's Hill is. This boy is so ignorant he has not even learned the local lore. She points down the driveway and says, "Follow the driveway, then turn right on the first path leading into the woods."
"Yes, Mistress," says Eddie.
Eddie grabs Evan's wrists and starts the trip to Widow's Hill. Evan is not dead yet, he is not even unconscious. But he is too weak to put up a struggle. The trip to Widow's Hill is not a very long one if you are just walking. Eddie will soon discover it is much longer if you are dragging an almost dead cousin.
"Josette, shall we collect Mr. and Mrs. Blair?"
"Certainly, my love."
Barnabas and Josette Victoria walk, not levitate, hand in hand back to North's car. Barnabas says, "We must carry Mr. and Mrs. Blair by their necks, with their feet off the ground, all the way to Widow's Hill. And we must do so while levitating so that our own feet do not touch the ground. My love, are you strong enough to do that, all the way to Widow's Hill?"
"I think so. But why must we carry them like that?"
"Hypnotizing humans into doing what we tell them to do is much easier than hypnotizing them into believing what we tell them to believe. It will be better if the physical evidence leads the Sheriff to the conclusion you have described. I have been watching the police procedural plays Dragnet and Highway Patrol with Master David. There must be only one set of 'drag marks' leading to Widow's Hill, the one Eddie and Evan are making even as we speak.
"Also, the Sheriff might use hounds in an attempt to track the late occupants of the black motorcar. No hound will follow the track of a vampire. I hope Eddie's footprints and the dragging of Evan's bloody body, whether currently dead or still dying, will cover the scent we left earlier in the evening."
North drives to Collinwood under the direction of the 2 vampires in the back seat. The circular driveway is blocked by the Olds parked next to the Barracuda, so North turns around just inside the wall.
The vampires remove the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. Blair from the trunk of the Cadillac and then order Mr. North to go home, and to remember his hypnotic instructions.
Hand in hand, with their other hands holding up the corpses, Barnabas and Josette Victoria float 6 inches above the ground all the way to Widow's Hill. As they pass Eddie, dragging what is now the corpse of Evan, they offer words of encouragement.
As they move, still levitating, past the tip of Widow's Hill, Josette Victoria says, "I am really glad I didn't try this on an empty stomach."
They drop the corpses onto the black rocks below, and then float slowly down themselves. They carry the corpses into the cave. The tide is coming in, but so far the water is only ankle deep. They weigh the bodies down with rocks to make sure they will not float out of the cave at the next low tide, which will be after sunrise.
When they are finished, they levitate back to the top of Widow's Hill to wait for Eddie and Evan. Victoria says, "Barnabas, my love, it is one thing to make the Blairs disappear off the face of the earth. But those boys have families, families that perhaps love them in spite of how despicable they were. I want their bodies to be found eventually, so their families can bury them."
"Certainly, my sweet Victoria. But only after the tides and the crabs and the fishes have obliterated all trace of how they died. Speaking of which, we must remember to tell Eddie to remove Evan's tongue from his pocket. I am sure the crabs will find that morsel especially ... tasty."
Josette Victoria laughs, and kisses her one true love.
NOTE
1. During his 1st conversation with Elizabeth in the drawing room, Barnabas could not bring himself to touch the orange haired troll doll on top of a pile of books. The 2nd book from the top of the pile was History of the Motorcar. In my ficverse, this is one of the books Elizabeth gave him to bring him up to date. That is why Barnabas says "motorcar" instead of just "car," even though the text of the book makes much use of the word "car." [Yes, I bought the book after seeing it in the movie.]
2. In 1960, 98 was the fanciest and most expensive model of Oldsmobile. Dynamic 88 was the plainest and cheapest. I assume that the convertible was the most expensive body style and the 2-door sedan was the cheapest.
Michael Shayne was a private eye show that ran for one season, 1960-1961, on NBC, the same network that broadcast the 1991 prime time version of Dark Shadows. Shayne drove a 1960 Olds 98 convertible. It was white, or a color so light that it looked white in black and white.
The hero in Michael Shayne drove a white version of the most expensive '60 Olds, so I put Evan Hanley in a black version of the cheapest.
3. Track of the Vampire was a cheap vampire movie produced by Roger Corman and released by American International Pictures in 1966, the year the original Dark Shadows began.