Title:
Dark Shadows
Genre:
Fantasy
Directed by:
Tim Burton
Starring:
Johnny Depp
Release date:
Fri 11, May 2012
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 (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.
