Dark Shadows (2012) movie poster

Dark Shadows (2012)

"Every family has its demons."
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👍 69%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 45%
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Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.1/10 (7,549 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
35%
Metacritic
55

Cast

Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins · 75% avg
Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard · 73% avg
Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard · 69% avg
Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman · 77% avg
Chloë Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard · 67% avg
Bella Heathcote as Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres · 71% avg
Gulliver McGrath as David Collins
Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis · 69% avg

Is Dark Shadows good?

It's divisive. Only 69% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 45%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1874 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#148 / 225 · 2012
Rank among its director's films
#19 / 20 · Tim Burton

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Dark Shadows is a 2012 American horror comedy directed by Tim Burton, based on the 1966-1971 gothic television soap opera created by Dan Curtis. Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins, an 18th-century Maine aristocrat who was cursed into vampirism by the vindictive witch Angelique Bouchard, played by Eva Green, after he spurned her love, and then buried alive in a chained coffin for nearly 200 years. Unearthed by construction workers in 1972, Barnabas must adapt to the bewildering modern world of lava lamps, hippie culture, and Alice Cooper while attempting to restore his crumbling family estate, Collinwood Manor, and protect his dysfunctional descendants from the vengeful Angelique, who has spent two centuries building a business empire in the Collins family's fishing town.

Eva Green's scene-stealing performance as the vengeful, sexually voracious Angelique — a woman scorned across centuries whose obsessive love has curdled into destructive rage — was the film's most compelling and entertaining element, bringing genuine menace and dark comedy in equal measure. Tim Burton's recreation of the early 1970s aesthetic was visually rich, and the fish-out-of-water comedy of an 18th-century vampire confronting television, automobiles, and McDonald's provided the film's lightest moments. The supporting cast included Michelle Pfeiffer as the matriarch, Helena Bonham Carter as a psychiatrist, and Chloë Grace Moretz as a sullen teenager.

Dark Shadows earned $245 million worldwide on a $150 million budget.

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