Dark Shadows
(2012)
Overview
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.
Director
Tim Burton
Writers
Seth Grahame-Smith, John August, Seth Grahame-Smith
Top Billed
Johnny Depp
Keywords
Top Billed Cast
Crew
Reviews
darrenhamilton14
⭐ 8.5/10May 13, 2012
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 muc… read the rest.
Dark Jedi
⭐ 7/10February 25, 2018
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 …
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Wuchak
⭐ 7/10November 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-ol…
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Gimly
⭐ 4/10May 19, 2020
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
⭐ 7/10November 14, 2020
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 weirdn…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$150,000,000
Revenue
$245,527,149