The original series Dark Shadows was very much a love/hate type of show. Either you really loved it or really hated it. That is if you watched it. While it was a cult series that had a very rabid following, it was very weird and as a kid, I just didn't quite get there personally.
That isn't stopping me personally though as the trailer for the upcoming film remake of the show directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Grace Moritz and Jackie Earle Haley looks like absolutely brilliant. It walks that fine line between macabre and campy fun, (with it leaning more towards campy fun). The music choices are brilliant and how much do I love Eva Green in this role?
Yeah, I will be there opening night.
About the Film
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. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.
