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Dark Shadows (2012)

PG-13 05/11/2012 (US) Comedy, Fantasy 1h 53m

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Every family has its demons

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Vampire Barnabas Collins 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 and family have fallen into ruin.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Screenplay, Story
Tim Burton

Director
John August

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Top Billed Cast

Johnny Depp

Barnabas Collins
Michelle Pfeiffer

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Eva Green

Angelique Bouchard
Helena Bonham Carter

Dr. Julia Hoffman
Chloë Grace Moretz

Carolyn Stoddard
Bella Heathcote

Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres
Gulliver McGrath

David Collins
Jackie Earle Haley

Willie Loomis
Jonny Lee Miller

Roger Collins
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A review by Wuchak

70%

Written by Wuchak on November 4, 2018

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 pro... read the rest.

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