Dark Shadows Movie Review - A Smart and Entertaining Vampire Movie

Special thanks to Warner Bros. Philippines for the invites.

Now before we proceed with this review, I just want to say that you will never go wrong if you go and see a movie directed by Tim Burton together with his wife Helena Bonham Carter and their frequent collaborator Johnny Depp.

The film is an adaptation of the wildly popular TV show of the same title revolving around the Collins household. Think "Munsters" only more British and with a rather higher level of comedy.

Depp stars in the film as Barnabas Collins; one of the earliest Collins who travelled from England all the way to the new world for business. He's funny and a bit arrogant and typical of Johnny Depp movies, a ladykiller.

This new movie for the younger generation delivers a good and fun time in this post-Avengers world we now live in. One of the biggest things that struck me is how surreal and gothic the Collinsport is both during Barnabas Collins' time and even during the 1970s era.I am not a gothic fan per se but I do enjoy looking at all things Gothic once in awhile and this movie just gave me a hankering for some gothic art just about now. I guess we all have to thank Burton for that part.

Big Reveal: Dark Shadows Character Posters

Check out the character posters for Warner Bros. Pictures' "Dark Shadows" starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins.



Fresh from revealing the teaser poster of the new Johnny Depp-starrer “Dark Shadows” last week, Warner Bros. has just rolled-out nine character posters for the gothic comedy!

Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series “Dark Shadows” to the big screen featuring an all-star cast.

The individual posters feature the nine major characters Barnabas Collins (Depp), Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz), Bella Heathcote (Victoria Winters) and David Collins (Gully McGrath).

Johnny Depp Goes Full Vampire in Dark Shadows Poster and Trailer

Check out Johnny Depp has he transforms into the vampire Barnabas Collins for the film "Dark Shadows" directed by Tim Burton.

Synopsis: 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 (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 (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.