
In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the h... (Full plot summary below)
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In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekIn the end the delicate oddity that enlivens the earlier portion of the picture evaporates in an orgy of big-budget mayhem. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereDepp's Barnabas is a Kabuki-faced boy vampire with a notably smooth visage for a character played by a 48-year-old man. |
| The Daily Review/CrikeyLuke BuckmasterThe jokes seem to have been written, fittingly enough, by the dead. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Dark Shadows" is a lot more fun than any of the "Twilight" movies combined. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyIt's a movie of singular moments, but the images, set-pieces, and special effects don't congeal into a coherent narrative that sustains emotional or thematic engagement. |
| The Movie MinuteJoanna LangfieldAnemic in parts, this Johnny Depp/Tim Burton reboot is still, often, a bloody blast. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisDark Shadows isn't among Mr. Burton's most richly realized works, but it's very enjoyable, visually sumptuous and, despite its lugubrious source material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeIs it obviously a Tim Burton picture? Sure it is. That's what I expect -- and, in fact, what I want -- from a Burton movie. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. GreydanusFeels less like a fond and knowing tribute than a work of indifferent, uninspired hackery. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottFinally. A vampire movie you can sink your teeth into. Move over Edward Cullen. Barnabas Collins really sucks. In style. With panache. And without all that awful sulking. |