Johnny Depp

Michelle Pfeiffer

Helena Bonham Carter

Eva Green

Jackie Earle Haley

Jonny Lee Miller

Chloë Grace Moretz

Bella Heathcote

Gulliver McGrath

Christopher Lee

Ray Shirley

Alice Cooper

Ivan Kaye

Susanna Cappellaro

Raffey Cassidy

Alexia Osborne

William Hope

Glen Mexted

Josephine Butler

Shane Rimmer

Michael Shannon

Nigel Whitmey

Philip Bulcock

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Hannah Murray

Victoria Bewick

Charlotte Spencer

Lee Nicholas Harris

Harry Taylor

Sean Mahon

Guy Flanagan

Richard Hollis

Felicity Brangan

Justin Tracy

Duncan Casey

Jonathan Frid

Kathryn Leigh Scott

Lara Parker

David Selby

Danny Elfman

Tim Burton

Colleen Atwood

Seth Grahame-Smith

David Kennedy

Graham King

Richard D. Zanuck

Christi Dembrowski

Rick Heinrichs

John August

Tim Headington

Chris Lebenzon

Bruce Berman

Bruno Delbonnel

Susie Figgis

Tolga Kenan

Marc Mailley

Jo McLaren

Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

Alistair Williams

Richard Dwyer

Ben Meechan

Tom Johnson

Julian Slater

Michael Semanick

Nigel Gostelow

Dean Clegg

Joel Harlow

Siobhan Lyons

Talila Craig

Simon Purdy

Ali James

Kohli Calhoun

Sarah Clark

Christopher Mullen

Neil Swain

Charlotte Leatherland

Mary Mackenzie

Sandra Phillips

Tom Sayers

Francesca Jaynes

John Dexter

Chris Rosewarne

Jacob Barrie

Harriet Kendall

Steve Buscaino

Kim Frederiksen

Dan Morgan

Oliver Driscoll

John Bush

Tamsin Dorling

Alex Rouse

Katterli Frauenfelder

David Allcock

Roxana Alexandru 

Chuck Finch

Stuart Hurley

Chris Knoll

Jason Knox-Johnston

Sally Rose Davidson

Duncan Jarman

Ben Dixon

John Bohan

Zak Melemendjian

Cheryl Beasley Blackwell

Richard Morrison

Natasha Allegro

Charlie Hounslow

Eloise Waymouth

David Balfour

Mauro Borrelli

Adam Brockbank

Ryan Taggart

Faye Morgan

Andrea Borland

Katie Gabriel

Glen Gathard

Rob Campbell-Bell

Madlen Mierzwiak

Jessie Thiele

Will Newton

Pip Norton

Denise Yarde

Dave Brennan

Julian Bucknall

Stephen Finch

Stuart Godfrey

Mike Valentine

Christine L. Cantella

David Slonaker

Christian Huband

Sophia Knight

Joseph Koniak

Steve Ellingworth

Leah Gallo

Comedy

Fantasy

Dark Shadows

Tim Burton Productions

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GK Films

Village Roadshow Pictures

Dan Curtis Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Zanuck Company

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

witch

vampire

imprisonment

curse

fish out of water

chains

gothic

madness

old house

lost love

angry mob

18th century

ghost

hidden room

old mansion

absurd

hilarious

Let's leave it all at the door here. I loved Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and Batman. Hated Batman Returns, Alice in Wonderland, and Willy Wonka. Could care less about Nightmare before Christmas and Sweeney Todd. Okay, so I'm not a Tim Burton hater. I'm not a huge Tim Burton fan. I think in this situation, I'm as close as you get to the average movie goer. No agenda, no attachments. That being said, this film is terrible. Burton spent so much effort and time worrying about making this film Gothic and off pace, stuffing his favorite actors into the film even though half of their parts were pointless, he forgot he was making a film. It's a simple and fun idea but it feels like ego and "showiness" kept them from making the plot even make sense. We get it Tim! You are weird! Don't ruin a good performance by Depp and a fun idea for a film because you have to live up to your own Gothic standards. Grow up. So much talent is wasted on these films having the same look, cast, and feel to them. Take that talent and make something fresh! Stretch yourself just a tad out of that Hot Topic comfort zone will ya? This movie was long, boring, and ruined. All of the funny scenes were in the trailer. By the way.... wasn't this supposed to be the 70's? Other than a shot or two of trees and a hippie van it was just like the set of Sweeney Todd. The whole film felt like London in the 40's. That's bad film making whether your name is Tim Burton or not.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I generally like Tim Burton as well as  Johnny Depp. This movie was no exception. It is a dark (of course with Tim Burton) comedy with some hint of action/thriller in it. I would not really characterize it as a horror movie even though there are a vampire as well as a witch and a werewolf in it. Of course there is the romance stuff but I personally feel that is really more of a background or justification to the plot than anything else.

This is not a magnificent movie but it’s a good movie. I have never seen the original series so I am not biased by that. It seems that many people that considers this to be a bad movie refers to the original show. I have read several of the critical reviews and I do not agree with most of them.

I found this movie to be a nice, moderately paced, comedy in a vampire/gothic setting. The mood and the wackiness were fairly typical for a Tim Burton production. Johnny Depp was pretty much as can be expected which is a good thing if you like Johnny Depp. 
The return of Barnabas to his, now rather dysfunctional, family is rather funny. The ease with how Barnabas was duped and trapped again in the second half of the film was a bit annoying but then, he had been asleep for a few centuries.

The entire family quite enjoyed this movie.

***I don’t get all the hate***

On coastal Maine, a Vampire named Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is released in 1972 after almost 200 years in captivity and reacquaints himself with his family’s chateau & the nearby fishing village. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the Collins matriarch, Helena Bonham Carter the in-house shrink, Eva Green a conniving witch, Bella Heathcote the reincarnation of Barnabas’ long-lost love and Chloë Grace Moretz a 15 year-old punk.

Directed by Tim Burton, “Dark Shadows” (2012) isn’t far removed in tone from his “Sleepy Hollow” (1999), which also featured Depp as the protagonist, although I suppose “Shadows” throws in a little more humor. I’ve never seen the TV soap opera Dark Shadows or the subsequent two movies, so I can’t compare this movie to them. All I know is that I liked this rendition quite a bit, just as I liked the inexplicably reviled “The Lone Ranger” (2013).

The October/November ambiance (i.e. Halloween-season) is to die for and Depp as Barnabas Collins maintains your interest throughout. He’s obviously a fish-out-of-water in 1972, but acclimates pretty quickly. Eva Green is perfect as the ee-vil witch and Carter is enjoyable as usual. I don’t get the hubbub over Moretz, but she’s a’right (and holds a surprise for the last act). Alice Cooper is featured in a glorified cameo. I should add that the opening credits sequence with “Nights in White Satin” is cinema at its finest.

The movie runs 1 hour, 53 minutes and was shot in England (Devon, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Cornwall &  Farnham) and Scotland (Mull, Argyll and Bute) with exteriors of the chateau shot at Trafalgar Castle School, Whitby, Ontario, Canada.

GRADE: B

Gimly

I'm sorry but I am incapable of buying 50-year-old Johnny Depp as the immortal, youthful, irresistible heir to his father's New World empire. Maybe in a better movie, I would have been too distracted to be bothered by it, but this is Tim Burton's 2012 reboot of _Dark Shadows_, so that was not the case. 

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Kamurai

Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.

Don't get me wrong, this is probably a stranger than good watch, but from concept to story to characters, it has a lot of good to it.  Some of the choices are a bit odd, but they do create their own problem-solution story arcs that make it feel like this was a comic book that was consolidated into a movie.

While Depp's typical weirdness is abundant, each character has their own weirdness about them, and the otherworldly atmosphere of the movie is what makes it.

Eva Green does steals the show whenever she makes an appearance, and her character is a force of power, and it shows.

There is something very intriguing about immortal characters locked in battle, and that's what really draws me back to this movie.

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Written by darrenhamilton14 on Sun May 13 2012

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