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|Portrayed by = [[Chloe Grace Moretz]] |
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|Appearance = [[Dark Shadows (2012)]] |
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|Origin = Collinsport, Maine, USA |
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| + | |Species = Werewolf|Family = [[Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (2012)|Elizabeth Collins Stoddard]] (mother)<br/>Paul Stoddard (father)<br/>[[Roger Collins (2012)|Roger Collins]] (uncle)<br/>[[Laura Collins (2012)|Laura Collins]] (aunt, deceased)<br/>[[David Collins (2012)|David Collins]] (cousin)<br/>[[Barnabas Collins (2012)|Barnabas Collins]] (ancestor)<br/>[[Joshua Collins (2012)|Joshua Collins]] (ancestor, deceased)<br/>[[Naomi Collins (2012)|Naomi Collins]] (ancestor, deceased)}}'''Carolyn Stoddard''' is the fifteen-year-old daughter of [[Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (2012)|Elizabeth Collins Stoddard]]. She is portrayed by [[Chloe Grace Moretz|'''Chloe Grace Moretz''']]. |
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| − | }}'''Carolyn Stoddard''' is a 15-year-old heiress to the Collinwood mansion and what remains of the family's fishing business. Her drowsy, minimally articulate mannerisms in the film suggest she may be evidencing or simulating "stoner" behaviour as part of her general attitude of teenage rebellion. She is also a werewolf. |
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| + | When Carolyn was only a baby, she was bitten by a werewolf. Somehow, she manages to keep her lycanthropy a secret from her family for fifteen years. Perhaps because of her condition, Carolyn is rather reclusive. Her perpetually drowsy, minimally-articulate mannerisms either evidence or simulate "stoner" behavior as part of her general teenage rebellion, signature of the seventies counterculture. |
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| + | Feeling restricted by her formidable [[Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (2012)|mother]], dismissive of her cousin [[David Collins (2012)|David]], and constantly wary of her secret, Carolyn plans to run away to Manhatten when she turns sixteen if her mother doesn't allow it. When she is introduced to [[Victoria Winters (2012)|Victoria Winters]], David's new governess, she's momentarily enthused to learn that the woman is from New York. Even so, she warns "Vicky" that none of David's prior governesses have lasted more than a week before slamming the door in her face, revealing a metal "Keep Out" sign posted on its exterior. |
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| − | [[File:68b5f5ee.jpg|thumb|Chloe Grace Moretz as Carolyn in Dark Shadows (2012)]]<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">Carolyn is the second youngest of the four living Collinses in 1972 (when the film is predominantly set) and is the daughter of [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Collins_Stoddard_(2012)?action=edit&redlink=1 Elizabeth Collins Stoddard], the niece of [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Collins_(2012) Roger Collins], and the older cousin of young [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/David_Collins_(2012)?action=edit&redlink=1 David Collins]. She expresses teen-aged disdain for David's claims to have conversations with the spirit of his mother, and is similarly dismissive of the supernatural and anachronistic quirks of her undead, newly unearthed vampiric "cousin"<span style="line-height:20px;"> </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Barnabas_Collins_(2012) Barnabas Collins]. But Carolyn has more in common with them than she wants to acknowledge.</p> |
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| + | At dinner that evening, Carloyn plays a record in the dining room and dances hippie-like to the song "Season of the Witch" until her uncle [[Roger Collins (2012)|Roger]] angrily demands she turn it down. Grudgingly switching it off, she slumps into a chair as if hopelessly bored at the far end of the long dining table, away from everyone else. She cruelly mocks her cousin David about being "loony" for believing he can still communicate with the spirit of his late [[Laura Collins (2012)|mother]] until her mother orders her to stop. Carolyn angrily storms out, complaining that the family "tiptoes" around David but no one seems to care how she feels.[[File:B1e65425.jpg|thumb|Carolyn meets Barnabas]]When a strange pale man bursts into their home one evening acting as if he owns the place, Carolyn is scornfully unimpressed, even when he assumes that she's a prostitute. After her mother questions the man, it turns out that he is [[Barnabas Collins (2012)|Barnabas Collins]], a distant relative from England. Weird as he is, he does breathe new life into the Collins family and motivates them to restore [[Collinwood (2012)|Collinwood]] manor and the [[Collins Fishing Fleet and Cannery|Collins Canning Company]] to their former glory. |
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| − | <p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">The film portrays Carolyn as a somewhat typical (some might say stereotypical) "rebellious" teenager of the Vietnam War era, a time when the war, military draft, dramatically shifting social and cultural attitudes, exposure of government corruption, and other factors had produced a "generation gap" between many young people and their parents (as well as other traditional authority figures). Like many teenagers of the era, identifying with what was then considered a "counter-culture" partly defined by rejection of prior generations' values, Carolyn responds to virtually everyone in the Collins household with a sneering, eye-rolling disrespect. However, when her family is threatened, Carolyn joins with them to fight back, in her own unique way.</p> |
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| + | Despite Carolyn's disdain for him, Barnabas nonetheless turns to her for advice on his attempts to woo Victoria. Even though she appears to be barely concealing her disgust, she does encourage him to hang out with regular people so he can learn to be less weird. |
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| − | <p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">In her first on-screen appearance, when introduced for the first time to<span style="line-height:20px;"> </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_Winters_(2012) Victoria Winters], Carolyn expresses momentary enthusiasm about Vicky having come from New York. Seemingly in part to bait her mother, Carolyn reveals her plan - which [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Collins_Stoddard_(2012)?action=edit&redlink=1 Elizabeth] dismisses as a "fantasy" - to relocate to Manhattan as soon as she turns 16. Despite Vicky's attempt to be friendly, Carolyn discourages her with the observation that none of David's prior teachers at Collinwood (whom she describes as being hired to "babysit the loony") has lasted more than a week. Before Vickie can respond, Carolyn promptly slams her bedroom door, revealing a metal "Keep Out" sign posted on its exterior.</p> |
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| + | When Barnabas later declares that the family should host a ball, Carolyn corrects him that people don't have balls; they have happenings and says that if they're going to throw one, they must have a mirror ball and hire [[Alice Cooper]] to perform. She's uncharacteristically delighted when he actually obeys her requests. She even speaks into a microphone the introductory words of a song for Alice Cooper: "The Ballad of Dwight Fry". She seems to direct the song's question about a father's whereabouts specifically at her mother, who is not amused. |
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| + | A day or so after the happening, the mirror ball falls and nearly crushes David. Luckily, Barnabas manages to pull the boy out of the way, but stands directly in the sunlight in the process. Carolyn can only stare along with the rest of her family as Barnabas bursts into flames, revealing him to be a vampire. Handyman [[Willie Loomis (2012)|Willie Loomis]] douses him before he's seriously injured, but the damage is nevertheless done. Presumably, Carolyn is amazed that she's not the only monster in the family.[[File:LMI_00035.jpg|thumb|290px]]Some time later, [[Angelique Bouchard (2012)|Angelique Bouchard]], the owner of a rival fishing company, leads an angry mob to Collinwood to demand Elizabeth's arrest. As she accuses Elizabeth of helping Barnabas with murder and arson, Carolyn senses that her lycanthropy is about to activate and quietly slips away so she can privately transform in her room. She's perched herself among a support beam out of the way when suddenly, Angelique is hurled through her bedroom floor. A startled Carolyn is furious at the intrusion and roars at the woman to get out, which she does by magically floating down to the foyer. Peering through the giant hole in her floor, Carolyn sees that her house is on fire and her family is in danger from Angelique, who is actually a two-hundred-year-old witch that cursed Barnabas to be a vampire in the first place. |
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| − | <p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">[[File:B1e65425.jpg|thumb|Carolyn meets Barnabas]]During<span style="line-height:20px;"> </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_Winters_(2012) Vicky]'s first meal with the Collins family, Carolyn puts on an LP record in the dining room and dances trippily to the song "Season of the Witch" (performed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan Donovan Leitch] ) until her [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Collins_(2012) Uncle Roger] angrily demands she turn it down. She switches it off and slumps into a chair, as if hopelessly bored, at the far end of the long dining table from everyone else. Carolyn, perhaps annoyed by the attention being paid to him, makes an unkind remark about her cousin [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/David_Collins_(2012)?action=edit&redlink=1 David], and he casually retorts, "Carolyn touches herself. She makes noises like a kitten." When Carolyn reacts, calling him a "little shit," Elizabeth orders her to leave the table. Carolyn storms out, complaining that the family "tiptoes around" David, but "nobody cares about how I feel!"</p> |
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| + | Carolyn leaps down from her room to defend her family from Angelique's powers, impatiently shrugging off her mother's shock that her daughter is a werewolf. Although she manages to attack Angelique twice, she proves to be no match for the witch and is soon knocked unconscious. Angelique gloats to Elizabeth that she was the one who sent a werewolf to bite Carolyn years ago in her crib because she felt that the Collins line was getting dull, and knew that a werewolf in the family would cause them more misery. |
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| − | After<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:20px;"> </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Barnabas_Collins_(2012) Barnabas Collins]<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> arrives at the mansion, </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">Carolyn seems no more impressed. Finding his 18th century mannerisms hopelessly uncool, she looks up from examining her Bobby Sherman teen pin-up magazine and scornfully mutters, "Are you stoned or something?" It doesn't help that he assumes from her modern manner of dress that she's a prostitute. Later, she complains, </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">"He's not going to stay with us forever, is he?"</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">Despite Carolyn's clear disdain (he is, after all, the epitome of past generations' </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">outmoded</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">attitudes), Barnabas nonetheless turns to her for advice </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">in his attempt to woo </span> [http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_Winters_(2012) Victoria].<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> Visiting Carolyn's bedroom - apparently within the circular tower of Collinwood - Barnabas perches upon Carolyn's beanbag chair and counsels her that, at 15 years of age, she may soon be left a spinster if she doesn't soon mate ("put those birthing hips to good use"). Carolyn understandably snarls "You're weird."</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">[[File:E2ecc845.jpg|thumb]]Carolyn's bedroom is outfitted with typical teenage bedroom décor of the era - psychedelic </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">rock music posters featuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie Bowie] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix Hendrix] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop Iggy Pop] and others; a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lamp lava lamp] (which the out-of-touch Barnabas describes as a "pulsating blood urn"), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_(fabric) shag carpeting] , a rattan swinging [http://the-egg-chair.com/hanging-wicker-egg-chair "egg" chair] , etc. (Earlier in the film, Barnabas has encountered and been puzzled by a plastic, fuzzy-headed "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll troll doll] " which more than likely belongs to Carolyn and an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_game Operation game] that may be hers or David's.)</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">Though Vicky is closer to her own age than any of the other adults at Collinwood, Carolyn tells Barnabas, "She [Vicky] likes to think she's all rock'n'roll, but she's definitely a Carpenters kind of chick." (While she clearly means this as a putdown, Carolyn herself is shown watching a performance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpenters The Carpenters] ' "Top of the World" on a television console during a montage scene earlier in the film. On the other hand, [[Julia Hoffman (2012)|Dr. Hoffman]] does point out in a separate scene that Collinwood only receives one television channel.)</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">As a result of Carolyn's counsel to "hang out with some regular people" in order to seem less "weird" to Victoria, Barnabas spends an evening around a campfire with a marijuana-smoking tribe of smiling hippies whom he then, remorsefully, kills for their blood.</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">It is also Carolyn's (sarcastic) suggestion that leads Barnabas to hire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper Alice Cooper] ("the ugliest woman I've ever seen!") to perform at a party at the newly refurbished </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Collinwood_(2012)?action=edit&redlink=1 Collinwood]<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> mansion. (Barnabas initially refers to the party as a "ball," but Carolyn insists they should call "a happening.") As the party gets underway, Carolyn smiles and expresses uncharacteristic appreciation to Barnabas for his efforts.</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">During the party, Carolyn speaks into a stage microphone the introductory words of Alice's Cooper's "The Ballad of Dwight Fry": "Mommy, where's Daddy? He's been gone for so long! Do you think he'll ever come home?" The camera quickly cuts between Carolyn and her mother, Elizabeth, exchanging a tense glance. (While the film makes no other reference to Carolyn's paternity, the scene is probably an allusion to the classic TV series [[196|storyline]] in which Elizabeth Stoddard was blackmailed in the belief that she had murdered Carolyn's father,</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> </span>[http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Stoddard Paul Stoddard]<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">.)</span> |
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| − | <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">During Barnabas' decisive exchange with Angelique on the front steps of Collinwood, Carolyn mysteriously slips away, shutting the mansion's front doors behind her. As Barnabas and Angelique's dispute exposes the supernatural "monstrosity" of both to the townspeople, then escalates into a supernaturally-empowered all-out battle, Barnabas uses his vampiric strength to hurl Angelique through the ceiling and into Carolyn's room above. There, the reason for her withdrawal from the scene on the front steps is revealed: Carolyn has transformed into a [[Werewolf|werewolf]]. "Get. Out. Of my room!" she yells.</span> |
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| − | [[File:LMI_00035.jpg|thumb|290px]]Moments after expelling Angelique, Carolyn leaps down from her room to defend Barnabas from the witch. Carolyn's mother Elizabeth expresses horror and concern at her daughter's sudden transformation, to which Carolyn responds with typical impatience: "I'm a werewolf okay? Let's not make a big deal about it!" Then, preparing to renew her counter-attack upon Angelique, she playfully snarls, "Woof." |
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| − | Like the other adults at Collinwood, Carolyn proves no match for the witch, who triumphantly gloats that she had sent a werewolf to bite Carolyn years before, "in her crib," accounting for the young woman's lycanthropy. (It is not explained how this monster attack on an infant within the house had escaped the notice of the family.) |
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==Trivia== |
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* Actress Chloe Grace Moretz previously played a [[Vampire|vampire]] in the motion picture '''''Let Me In.''''' |
* Actress Chloe Grace Moretz previously played a [[Vampire|vampire]] in the motion picture '''''Let Me In.''''' |
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| + | * Although Carolyn scornfully considers Victoria more "Carpenters" than rock 'n' roll, she herself watches the Carpenters perform "Top of the World" on television. Then again, they apparently only get one channel at Collinwood. |
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| + | * The tense glare Carolyn and Elizabeth share after the former speaks the opening lines of "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" is most likely an allusion to the original TV series [[196|storyline]] in which Carolyn suspected her mother of murdering her father, Paul Stoddard. |
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* In the motion picture '''''The Killing Fields''''' one of her co-stars was [[Jessica Chastain]] who portrayed [[Carolyn Stoddard (WB)|Carolyn Stoddard]] in the WB [[Dark Shadows (2004)|Dark Shadows Pilot]]. |
* In the motion picture '''''The Killing Fields''''' one of her co-stars was [[Jessica Chastain]] who portrayed [[Carolyn Stoddard (WB)|Carolyn Stoddard]] in the WB [[Dark Shadows (2004)|Dark Shadows Pilot]]. |
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| + | * Carolyn is the only character to transform into a werewolf. |
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[[Category:Dark Shadows (2012) Characters|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
[[Category:Dark Shadows (2012) Characters|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
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[[Category:Werewolves|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
[[Category:Werewolves|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
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[[Category:Females|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
[[Category:Females|Stoddard, Carolyn]] |
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Carolyn Stoddard |
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Collinsport, Maine, USA |
| Supernatural abilities |
Super strength, metamorphosis into a werewolf |
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Werewolf |
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Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (mother) |
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Carolyn Stoddard is the fifteen-year-old daughter of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. She is portrayed by Chloe Grace Moretz.
Biography
When Carolyn was only a baby, she was bitten by a werewolf. Somehow, she manages to keep her lycanthropy a secret from her family for fifteen years. Perhaps because of her condition, Carolyn is rather reclusive. Her perpetually drowsy, minimally-articulate mannerisms either evidence or simulate "stoner" behavior as part of her general teenage rebellion, signature of the seventies counterculture.
Feeling restricted by her formidable mother, dismissive of her cousin David, and constantly wary of her secret, Carolyn plans to run away to Manhatten when she turns sixteen if her mother doesn't allow it. When she is introduced to Victoria Winters, David's new governess, she's momentarily enthused to learn that the woman is from New York. Even so, she warns "Vicky" that none of David's prior governesses have lasted more than a week before slamming the door in her face, revealing a metal "Keep Out" sign posted on its exterior.
At dinner that evening, Carloyn plays a record in the dining room and dances hippie-like to the song "Season of the Witch" until her uncle Roger angrily demands she turn it down. Grudgingly switching it off, she slumps into a chair as if hopelessly bored at the far end of the long dining table, away from everyone else. She cruelly mocks her cousin David about being "loony" for believing he can still communicate with the spirit of his late mother until her mother orders her to stop. Carolyn angrily storms out, complaining that the family "tiptoes" around David but no one seems to care how she feels.
Carolyn meets Barnabas
When a strange pale man bursts into their home one evening acting as if he owns the place, Carolyn is scornfully unimpressed, even when he assumes that she's a prostitute. After her mother questions the man, it turns out that he is Barnabas Collins, a distant relative from England. Weird as he is, he does breathe new life into the Collins family and motivates them to restore Collinwood manor and the Collins Canning Company to their former glory.
Despite Carolyn's disdain for him, Barnabas nonetheless turns to her for advice on his attempts to woo Victoria. Even though she appears to be barely concealing her disgust, she does encourage him to hang out with regular people so he can learn to be less weird.
When Barnabas later declares that the family should host a ball, Carolyn corrects him that people don't have balls; they have happenings and says that if they're going to throw one, they must have a mirror ball and hire Alice Cooper to perform. She's uncharacteristically delighted when he actually obeys her requests. She even speaks into a microphone the introductory words of a song for Alice Cooper: "The Ballad of Dwight Fry". She seems to direct the song's question about a father's whereabouts specifically at her mother, who is not amused.
A day or so after the happening, the mirror ball falls and nearly crushes David. Luckily, Barnabas manages to pull the boy out of the way, but stands directly in the sunlight in the process. Carolyn can only stare along with the rest of her family as Barnabas bursts into flames, revealing him to be a vampire. Handyman Willie Loomis douses him before he's seriously injured, but the damage is nevertheless done. Presumably, Carolyn is amazed that she's not the only monster in the family.
Some time later, Angelique Bouchard, the owner of a rival fishing company, leads an angry mob to Collinwood to demand Elizabeth's arrest. As she accuses Elizabeth of helping Barnabas with murder and arson, Carolyn senses that her lycanthropy is about to activate and quietly slips away so she can privately transform in her room. She's perched herself among a support beam out of the way when suddenly, Angelique is hurled through her bedroom floor. A startled Carolyn is furious at the intrusion and roars at the woman to get out, which she does by magically floating down to the foyer. Peering through the giant hole in her floor, Carolyn sees that her house is on fire and her family is in danger from Angelique, who is actually a two-hundred-year-old witch that cursed Barnabas to be a vampire in the first place.
Carolyn leaps down from her room to defend her family from Angelique's powers, impatiently shrugging off her mother's shock that her daughter is a werewolf. Although she manages to attack Angelique twice, she proves to be no match for the witch and is soon knocked unconscious. Angelique gloats to Elizabeth that she was the one who sent a werewolf to bite Carolyn years ago in her crib because she felt that the Collins line was getting dull, and knew that a werewolf in the family would cause them more misery.
After Angelique's eventual defeat, Carolyn regains both consciousness and human form. Her tough, rebellious façade momentarily forgotten, Carolyn hugs her mother as they and David watch their home burn to the ground.
Trivia
- Actress Chloe Grace Moretz previously played a vampire in the motion picture Let Me In.
- Although Carolyn scornfully considers Victoria more "Carpenters" than rock 'n' roll, she herself watches the Carpenters perform "Top of the World" on television. Then again, they apparently only get one channel at Collinwood.
- The tense glare Carolyn and Elizabeth share after the former speaks the opening lines of "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" is most likely an allusion to the original TV series storyline in which Carolyn suspected her mother of murdering her father, Paul Stoddard.
- It is unknown how Carolyn is educated. At 15, Carolyn is still of school age and the October, 1972, time-frame is certainly set during a conventional school term, but Victoria appears to only tutor David, not Carolyn.
- In the motion picture The Killing Fields one of her co-stars was Jessica Chastain who portrayed Carolyn Stoddard in the WB Dark Shadows Pilot.
- Carolyn is the only character to transform into a werewolf.