"Dark Shadows" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Lord Dalek]

Every Family Has its Demons



"My name is Barnabas Collins. Two centuries ago, I made Collinwood my home... until a jealous witch cursed me, condemning me to the shadows, for all time."

Release Date: 5/11/2012
Studio: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Inifinitium Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company
Director: Tim Burton
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Johnny Lee Miller, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote

Plot Summary: 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...

COMMENTS?

LD Talkback #173

Its entertaining but not particularly great a film. You do feel like you've watched 475 episodes of a daytime soap by the end though.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Yeah, I'm just going to listen to the Big Finish shit instead.