i first saw this one when it be first show and so i be not too objective about it . it really manage to scare me and partly because it be so late at night and but partly because of that whole feeling from a videotaped suspense story ( the same thing that help dark shadow itself ) . and the casting be so right . i hardly know shane briant from anything else and so it might not be so right to call him well cast and but to me and he be dorian gray . and as far a the other male actor and the one who fit his part so well be nigel davenport ( who so good at large than life character ) a sir henry . and john karlen and a sort of dan curtis repertory player at the time and because of dark shadow . a one poster point out and this version manage to include the involvement with men and in a fairly subtle way . the scene where dorian recite a list of men name to john karlen character and a a way of blackmail him and and the look on karlen face and be very well do . ( if that scene be do now and it would probably be do in a too obvious way and and be bad by comparison . ) i saw it when dorian gray be barely a name to me and let alone more and so even more than the famous 1945 version ( which be rightly famous ) and this be the version to me .