Dark Shadows [Movie]

In 1776, a witch cursed Barnabas Collins for rejecting her in favor of another woman, transforming him into a vampire, and caused him to be buried for almost 200 years. Freed when construction expands around the Maine hamlet of Collinsport — a town founded by his family in better days — Barnabas awakens to a much different world than the one he knew two centuries ago. Can Barnabas restore his family’s fortune and honor, or will the same witch that cursed him destroy his family and Barnabas once and for all?

Did anyone watch this ? Johnny Depp playing the absurd fool sounds like an enjoyable movie experience or is this vanilla X tv tropes to infinitude ?

After 10 years of Twilight torture, I might actually watch a Vampire movie at last.

I just gotta see it, I mean Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton movie is just so brilliantly original.

Originally Posted by molonthegreat

I just gotta see it, I mean Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton movie is just so brilliantly original.

QFT. Next you'll be telling me that it will have heavy gothic overtones, saturated colors that fade in and out, and focus more on looking pretty and selling the aesthetic than the actual plot of the film. So out of Burtons wheel house.

sounds like a typical over the top johny depp character to me.

I did enjoy the soap opera and later show on a campy level though so, though I despise Tim Burton, I might see this.

saw it, loved it, and it just goes to show that tim burton has a mancrush on johnny depp and is totally ok with watching his wife, helena bonham carter blow him.

Worth the five dollars I spent to see it. It was pretty good just somewhat lacking in few areas like character development. Would have liked to have seen Barnabas coping more with being 200 years behind in the times. Picking up women with moves that would have worked in 1792 yet would now be awkward in 1972. I found the other family members to be a bit vague in their relations to one another. Chloe Moretz was underused in my opinion, like other characters you saw her for a few scenes and then not till the near the end.

And of course the story unsurprisingly left open for a sequel.

I thought it was weird as all hell, and I loved every second of it.

And that evil witch chick was sexy :surprise and the other girl was looking pretty good too.

Yes, the house and all the decorations are quite nice and I'd really want every pieces of them in my home....

Other parts are either plain or bad - such as the long, boring introduction of the story in the beginning of movie. Twilight is much, much better.