Dark Shadows (2012) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	May 11, 2012
On DVD:	October 2, 2012
Genre:	Comedy, Romance, Horror
Director:	Tim Burton
Writer:	Seth Grahame-Smith
Cast:	Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Official site:	darkshadowsthemovie.com
Running Time:	113 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for comic horror violence, sexual content, some drug use, language and smoking

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...

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Tim Burton. Johnny Depp. Together again. Woopty-fucking-doo.

Dark Shadows is a big screen adaptation of a television show that apparently was popular decades before I was born, and is about a rich young man named Barnabas Collins who is cursed by his evil witch mistress Angelique to forever being a vampire. She then locks him in a coffin for 200 years. He is released in the 1970's, where he discovers that his family's estate is in ruins, his odd family is odd and that Angelique is still alive and kicking, and also the business competition.

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