Carolyn Stoddard (2012)

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. But let´s not make a big deal about that, as she says in the film.

Carolyn is the second youngest of the four living Collinses in 1972 and is the daughter of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the niece of Roger Collins, and the older cousin of young 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" Barnabas Collins. But Carolyn has more in common with them than she wants to acknowledge.

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.