''Dark Shadows'' is a 2012
Gothic
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**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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dark fantasy film based on the
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language
** Gothic ( ...
television
soap opera
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of the same name. Directed by
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and producer. Known for popularizing Goth subculture, Goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is famous for his Gothic film, gothic horror and dark fantasy films. ...
, the film stars
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp, multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for ...
alongside
Michelle Pfeiffer
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,
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (; ; born ) is a French British-based actress, known for appearing in blockbuster and independent films, in which she often portrays eccentric, villainous, and complex characters. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she ...
,
Jackie Earle Haley
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,
Jonny Lee Miller
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,
Chloë Grace Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz (; born February 10, 1997) is an American actress. She began acting as a child, with early roles in the horror film ''The Amityville Horror (2005 film), The Amityville Horror'' (2005), the drama series ''Desperate Housewives' ...
,
Helena Bonham Carter
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, and
Bella Heathcote
Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress. Following her film debut in ''Acolytes'' (2008), she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera ''Neighbours'' (2009). She gained further recognition for he ...
in a dual role.
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horr ...
has a small role in the film, marking his 200th film appearance and his fifth and final collaboration with Burton.
Jonathan Frid
Jonathan Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden ...
, star of the original ''Dark Shadows'' series, makes a cameo appearance. He died shortly before the film was released. One of the film's producers,
Richard D. Zanuck, died two months after its release.
The film had a limited release on May 10, 2012, and was officially released the following day in North America. It performed poorly at the United States box office, but did well in foreign markets. Reviews for the film were mixed; critics praised its visual style and consistent humor, but felt it lacked a focused or substantial plot and developed characters.
Plot
In 1760, a young
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, a featured role in the ABC daytime serial ''Dark Shadows'', which aired from 1966 to 1971. Barnabas is a 175-year-old vampire in search of fresh blood and his lost love, Josette. The character, origina ...
and his wealthy family moved from
Liverpool
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to
Maine
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, where they established the town of
Collinsport
Collinsport is the fictional setting of ''Dark Shadows'', the 1960s Dan Curtis Productions Gothic horror soap opera.
Fictional location
In the series, Collinsport is a small, coastal fishing village located in Hancock County, Maine, Hancock County ...
and constructed the
Collinwood Mansion
Collinwood Mansion is a fictional house featured in the Gothic horror soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' (June 1966– April 1971), built in 1795 by Joshua Collins ( Louis Edmonds). Collinwood has been home to the Collins family and sometimes unwelco ...
. Fifteen years later, Barnabas is engaged to
Josette while having an affair with
Angelique, who is secretly a witch, but he refuses any further advances.
Enraged, Angelique murders his parents using magic and curses Barnabas. She then casts a spell on Josette, making her jump to her death from the cliff called Widows Hill. Distraught, Barnabas attempts to fall to his death but fails because Angelique has cursed him into a
vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and c ...
. She turns the town against him, and he is buried alive.
In 1972, Maggie Evans, under the
alias Victoria Winters
Victoria "Vicki" Winters is a fictional character from the television Gothic soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' and its remakes of the same name. The role was originated by Alexandra Moltke on the ABC series from 1966 to 1968. After Moltke left to ra ...
, is hired as
governess
A governess is a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the same residence as the children she is teaching; depending on terms of their employment, they may or ma ...
for the Collins family consisting of the Collins matriarch Elizabeth; her teenage daughter Carolyn; Elizabeth's brother: Roger, and his young son David, who believes he is being visited by his late mother's
ghost
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or Spirit (supernatural entity), spirit of a dead Human, person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from a ...
; and a live-in alcoholic psychiatrist, Dr.
Julia Hoffman
Julia Hoffman is a fictional character played by Grayson Hall in the 1966 ABC soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. A self-serving and conniving doctor in the fields of psychology and rare blood disorders, she is also head of the Windcliff Sanitarium, wh ...
. Meanwhile, a construction crew unwittingly frees Barnabas from his tomb before he kills them.
At Collinwood, Barnabas hypnotizes the caretaker Willie, and reveals to Elizabeth that the family curse is true. He asks to rejoin the family and shows her the manor's secret passages and hidden treasure. Meanwhile, Angelique is running a rival cannery called Angel Bay Seafood. Once discovering that Barnabas has escaped, she goes to Collinwood to confront him, reminding him of her powers and popularity within the town before she leaves.
While adjusting to modern life and falling for Victoria, Barnabas uses his powers and the family treasure to restore the Collinwood family business. Dr. Hoffman learns of his true nature while he is under hypnosis and offers to try to turn him mortal by removing his corrupted blood and giving him
transfusions
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of human blood. Angelique arranges another meeting with Barnabas. She begs him to love her back, but after having supernatural
intercourse with her, he refuses. She vows to destroy his family and Victoria.
Barnabas hosts a "
happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events.
History
Origins
Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happening" i ...
" at Collinwood for the entire town. He talks with Victoria, who reveals she has been seeing Josette's ghost her whole life. Her parents committed her to an asylum for it. However, she eventually escaped, and Josette directed her to Collinwood. Determined to be human again, Barnabas goes to Dr. Hoffman's office, where he discovers that she deceived him to turn herself into a vampire and avoid death from old age. Barnabas kills her, and he and Willie dump her body at sea.
After catching Roger attempting to break into the secret passage that leads to the hidden fortune, Barnabas confronts him, offering him a choice: become a better father or leave Collinwood with financial gain; Roger chooses the latter. Heartbroken, David is nearly struck by a falling
disco
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ball, but Barnabas saves him before catching fire in the daylight, revealing himself as a vampire to the whole family and Victoria.
Believing they will never accept him, Barnabas meets with Angelique, who goads him into confessing to his murders and demands he join her as her paramour. He refuses, so she again traps him in a
coffin
A coffin or casket is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for burial, entombment or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" a ...
. Angelique destroys the Collins' cannery and, with a recording of Barnabas' confession, rallies the town to storm Collinwood Manor.
David frees Barnabas, who confronts Angelique at Collinwood. They battle, and the townspeople see that she is a witch. Carolyn, who is revealed to be a
werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf (), or occasionally lycanthrope (from Ancient Greek ), is an individual who can shapeshifting, shapeshift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a Shapeshifting, therianthropic Hybrid beasts in folklore, hybrid wol ...
, joins the fight, and Angelique uses her enchantments to subdue them, damage the house and start fires.
Angelique admits she was responsible for the werewolf that bit Carolyn as an infant and for the death of David's mother. Her ghost appears and incapacitates the witch, and the family escapes the burning manor. Angelique offers Barnabas her heart, but he refuses; she then crumbles into dust.
Barnabas races to Widow's Hill and finds Victoria, who says she has to be a vampire if they are to be together. When he refuses, she falls off the cliff. Barnabas leaps after her, biting her neck. Now a vampire, she awakens as Josette, with his curse lifted. Meanwhile, Dr. Hoffman, bound and on the sea floor, is resurrected by Barnabas’ blood and becomes a vampire.
Cast
*
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp, multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for ...
as
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, a featured role in the ABC daytime serial ''Dark Shadows'', which aired from 1966 to 1971. Barnabas is a 175-year-old vampire in search of fresh blood and his lost love, Josette. The character, origina ...
, an 18th-century
vampire
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who awakens in 1972.
** Justin Tracy as Young Barnabas
*
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (; ; born ) is a French British-based actress, known for appearing in blockbuster and independent films, in which she often portrays eccentric, villainous, and complex characters. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she ...
as
Angelique "Angie" Bouchard, a vengeful
witch
Witchcraft is the use of magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. According to ''Enc ...
who plots a vendetta against Barnabas and his family. She is still alive in the 20th century, having posed as five successive generations of women who own a seafood business called Angel Bay, which has outcompeted the Collins family business.
Her face and body begin to crack during the latter part of the film, resembling a
porcelain doll
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.
**
Raffey Cassidy
Raffey Camomile Cassidy (born 12 November 2001) is a British actress. She first appeared as a child actress in the television movie '' Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen'' (2009), adding her first brief film role in ''Dark Shadows'' (2012), her f ...
as Young Angelique
*
Bella Heathcote
Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress. Following her film debut in ''Acolytes'' (2008), she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera ''Neighbours'' (2009). She gained further recognition for he ...
as
Victoria Winters
Victoria "Vicki" Winters is a fictional character from the television Gothic soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' and its remakes of the same name. The role was originated by Alexandra Moltke on the ABC series from 1966 to 1968. After Moltke left to ra ...
/
Josette du Pres
Josette du Pres (or Josette Collins) is a character played primarily by Kathryn Leigh Scott during the 1795 flashback on the TV serial ''Dark Shadows''.
Story
Josette and Barnabas
Born in 1774 in France, Josette du Pres (Kathryn Leigh Scott)'s ...
. Heathcote plays both Josette, Barnabas' 18th-century love, and Victoria, David's governess and Barnabas' 20th-century love-interest.
In the end of the film she becomes Josette and a
vampiress when Barnabas bites her on the neck as they fall off the cliff. Victoria and Maggie Evans' roles from the original series were combined for the film, and, in her first scene in the movie, Maggie adopts the
alias of "Victoria Winters", inspired by a poster on the train to
Collinsport
Collinsport is the fictional setting of ''Dark Shadows'', the 1960s Dan Curtis Productions Gothic horror soap opera.
Fictional location
In the series, Collinsport is a small, coastal fishing village located in Hancock County, Maine, Hancock County ...
advertising winter sports in
Victoria, British Columbia
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.
** Alexia Osborne as Young Victoria
*
Michelle Pfeiffer
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as
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
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The ...
, the family matriarch.
*
Helena Bonham Carter
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as
Dr. Julia Hoffman, the family's vain and often inebriated live-in psychiatrist, who was hired to treat David's trauma over his mother's death.
*
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonathan Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English actor. He achieved early success for his portrayal of Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson in the dark comedy-drama film '' Trainspotting'' (1996) and as Dade Murphy in '' Hackers'' (1995) before ...
as Roger Collins, Elizabeth's
Ne'er-do-well
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Colonial context
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brother.
*
Chloë Grace Moretz
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as
Carolyn Stoddard
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The ...
, Elizabeth's rebellious 15-year-old daughter, who is revealed to be a
werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf (), or occasionally lycanthrope (from Ancient Greek ), is an individual who can shapeshifting, shapeshift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a Shapeshifting, therianthropic Hybrid beasts in folklore, hybrid wol ...
late in the film.
*
Gully McGrath as
David Collins David Collins may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* David Collins (''Dark Shadows''), character in the television series ''Dark Shadows''
* David Collins (''EastEnders''), character in the television series ''EastEnders''
P ...
, Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, who is regularly visited by the
ghost
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or Spirit (supernatural entity), spirit of a dead Human, person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from a ...
of his dead mother.
*
Jackie Earle Haley
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as
Willie Loomis
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The ...
, caretaker of
Collinwood Mansion
Collinwood Mansion is a fictional house featured in the Gothic horror soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' (June 1966– April 1971), built in 1795 by Joshua Collins ( Louis Edmonds). Collinwood has been home to the Collins family and sometimes unwelco ...
.
*
Ray Shirley as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Collinwood's elderly maid.
*
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horr ...
as Silas Clarney, a "king of the fishermen who spends a lot of time in the local pub, The Blue Whale."
*
Alice Cooper
Vincent Damon Furnier (born February 4, 1948), known by his stage name Alice Cooper, is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusion ...
as himself
*
Ivan Kaye
Ivan Blakeley Kaye (born 1 July 1961) is an English actor and producer. His international fame came with roles in historical drama shows like the Duke of Milan in all three seasons of '' The Borgias'', and King Aelle in the first four Seasons o ...
as Joshua Collins, the father of Barnabas Collins.
*
Susanna Cappellaro
Susanna Cappellaro (Cohen) is an Italian actress and writer living in Soho, London.
Education
Cappellaro studied acting at the London School of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2009.
Biography
Cappellaro started her career in the fashion world. ...
as
Naomi Collins
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, the mother of Barnabas Collins.
* Josephine Butler as Laura Collins, David's mother, whose ghost has been appearing to her son since she drowned in a shipwreck caused by Angelique.
*
William Hope William Hope may refer to:
* William Johnstone Hope (1766–1831), prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician
* Sir William Hope, 14th Baronet (1819–1898), British Army officer
* William Hope (VC) (1834–1909), Scottis ...
as Sheriff Bill (credited as Sheriff), the sheriff of Collinsport.
*
Guy Flanagan
Guy Nicholas Flanagan (born 1980) is an English actor, best known for portraying John Mitchell in the pilot episode of '' Being Human''.
Background
Born in New Longton, Lancashire, Flanagan attended Cardinal Newman College, and went on to tr ...
as Bearded Hippie
*
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Sophie Kennedy Clark (born 1990) is a Scottish actress. She is the daughter of actress and singer Fiona Kennedy and the granddaughter of singer Calum Kennedy.
Career
Her first big break came when she starred as David Tennant's eldest daughter ...
as Hippie Chick 1
*
Hannah Murray
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as Hippie Chick 2
*
Shane Rimmer
Shane Lance Deacon (May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019), known professionally as Shane Rimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom. The self-proclaimed "Rent-A- Yank" of the British ente ...
as Board Member 1
*
Jonathan Frid
Jonathan Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden ...
as Guest #1
At the 2011
San Diego Comic-Con
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, it was confirmed that four actors from the original series would appear in the film. In June 2011,
Jonathan Frid
Jonathan Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden ...
,
Lara Parker
Mary Lamar Rickey (October 27, 1938 – October 12, 2023), better known as Lara Parker, was an American actress and writer known for her role as the witch Angelique Bouchard Collins on the ABC-TV serial ''Dark Shadows'', which aired from 1966 to ...
,
David Selby
David Lynn Selby (born February 5, 1941) is an American film, television, and stage actor and writer. He is best known for playing Quentin Collins on the daytime soap ''Dark Shadows'' (1968–1971) and Richard Channing on the prime-time s ...
, and
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Kathryn Leigh Scott is an American television and film actress and writer who is best known for playing several roles on ''Dark Shadows''.
Early life and education
Kathryn Leigh Scott (born Marlene Kathryn Kringstad) was born of Norwegian de ...
all spent three days at
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England. It is approximately west of central London.
The studio has been the base for many productions over the years from large-scale films to t ...
to film
cameo appearance
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s. They all appeared as guests during the ball held at Collinwood Manor and can be seen arriving as a group. Frid died in April 2012, making this his final film appearance.
Production
In July 2007,
Warner Bros.
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acquired film rights for the Gothic soap opera ''
Dark Shadows
''Dark Shadows'' is an American Gothic fiction, Gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulatio ...
'' from the estate of its creator,
Dan Curtis
Daniel Mayer Cherkoss (August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006), known by his pen name Dan Curtis, was an American television and film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known as the creator of the gothic soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' ...
.
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp, multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for ...
had a childhood obsession with ''Dark Shadows'', calling it a "dream" to portray Barnabas Collins, and ended up persuading
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and producer. Known for popularizing Goth subculture, Goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is famous for his Gothic film, gothic horror and dark fantasy films. ...
to direct. The project's development was delayed by the
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. After the strike was resolved, Burton was attached to direct the film.
By 2009, screenwriter
John August
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was writing a screenplay for ''Dark Shadows''. In 2010, author and screenwriter
Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American writer and film producer, best known as the author of ''The New York Times'' best-selling novels '' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'' and '' Abraham Lincoln, Vampire ...
replaced August, but, on the finished film, August did receive story credit with Smith for his contributions to the film.
Filming began in May 2011. Production took place entirely in England, at both
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England. It is approximately west of central London.
The studio has been the base for many productions over the years from large-scale films to t ...
and on location.
Depp attempted to emulate the "rigidity" and "elegance" of
Jonathan Frid
Jonathan Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden ...
's original portrayal, but also drew inspiration from
Max Schreck
Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck Eickhoff, Stefan. 2007 (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), Walk, Ines. 2006. known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film ...
's performance in ''
Nosferatu
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''.
A number of Burton's frequent collaborators worked on the film's crew, among them production designer
Rick Heinrichs
Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, visual effects, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean (film ser ...
, costume designer
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born September 25, 1948) is an American costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across film and television. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awa ...
, editor and executive producer
Chris Lebenzon
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He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the fil ...
, and composer
Danny Elfman
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.
French cinematographer
Bruno Delbonnel
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Life and career
Delbonnel was born ...
—known for his work in ''
Amélie
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'', ''
A Very Long Engagement
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'' and ''
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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''—also worked on the project.
Music
Score
The film was scored by long-time Burton collaborator
Danny Elfman
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. An album featuring 21 tracks of compositions from the film by Elfman was released on May 8, 2012.
Track listing
Soundtrack
A number of contemporaneous early-1970s
rock
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and
pop
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songs appear in the film, along with others from earlier and slightly later. These include "
Nights in White Satin
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" by
The Moody Blues
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, "I'm Sick of You" by
Iggy Pop
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, "
Season of the Witch" by
Donovan
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, "
Top of the World" by
The Carpenters
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, "
You're the First, the Last, My Everything
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" by
Barry White
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and "
Get It On" by
T. Rex.
Alice Cooper
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makes a cameo in the film and sings "
No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "
Ballad of Dwight Fry". A cover of the
Raspberries
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' song "
Go All the Way" by
The Killers
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plays over the end credits.
''Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' was released on May 8, 2012, as a
download
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and on various dates as a
CD, such as on May 22 as an import in the United States and on May 25 in Australia. It features 11 songs, among them two score pieces by Danny Elfman and a recitation by Depp as Barnabas of several lines from "
The Joker
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" by
Steve Miller Band
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. Songs not featured on the soundtrack that are in the film include "
Superfly" by
Curtis Mayfield
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, "
Crocodile Rock
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" by
Elton John
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, "
Paranoid
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" by
Black Sabbath
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and "
Monster
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" by
Skillet
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.
Track listing
:
''Included next to each track is the year of the song's original release, excluding the score pieces.''
Reception
Box office
The film grossed $79.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $165.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $245.5 million.
For a Burton film, ''Dark Shadows'' achieved below-average domestic box office takings, with many commentators attributing that to the domination of ''
The Avengers
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''.
It made $29.7 million in its first weekend, then $12.8 million in its second.
Critical response
On
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, ''Dark Shadows'' holds an approval rating of 35% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 5.30/10; the site's critical consensus reads: "The visuals are top notch but Tim Burton never finds a consistent rhythm, mixing campy jokes and gothic spookiness with less success than other Johnny Depp collaborations."
On
Metacritic
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, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by
CinemaScore
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Background
Ed Mintz, who ...
gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.
Some critics felt the film lacked a focused or consistent plot or
genre
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(as either
horror
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**Psychological horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Christmas horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Analog horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
* ...
,
comedy
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Origins
Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
or
drama
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),
pointing to problems with Grahame-Smith's script, and that some jokes fell flat.
Some claimed that Burton and Depp's collaborations had become tired.
Many of these same critics, however, noted that this film's visual style was impressive.
Positive reviewers, on the other hand, opined that the film successfully translated the mood of the
soap opera
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and that its '70s culture
pastiche
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worked to its advantage. There was also acclaim for the characters and actors, most notably Depp as Barnabas—who several critics said was the stand-out character due to his humorous
culture shock
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—and Pfeiffer.
Roger Ebert
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gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and said: "
he film
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offers wonderful things, but they aren't what's important. It's as if Burton directed at arm's length, unwilling to find juice in the story." He went on to note that "Much of the amusement comes from Depp's reactions to 1970s pop culture," and concluded that the film "begins with great promise, but then the energy drains out".
Manohla Dargis
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Before being a film critic for ''The New York Times'', Dargis ...
, in a mostly-positive review written for ''
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'', said that the film "isn't among Mr. Burton's most richly realized works, but it's very enjoyable, visually sumptuous and, despite its
lugubrious
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source material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent," and opined that Burton's "gift for deviant beauty and laughter has its own liberating power."
''
Rolling Stone
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''s
Peter Travers
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gave the film a mixed two-and-a-half stars out of four, claiming that "After a fierce and funny start, ''Dark Shadows'' simply spins its wheels," and adding that "the pleasures of ''Dark Shadows'' are frustratingly hit-and-miss. In the end, it all collapses into a spectacularly gorgeous heap."
In ''
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'',
Ann Hornaday
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Ea ...
dismissed the film, awarding it just one-and-a-half stars out of four and explaining that "Burton's mash-up of post-'60s
kitsch
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and modern-day knowingness strikes a chord that is less self-aware than fatally self-satisfied. ''Dark Shadows'' doesn't know where it wants to dwell: in the eerie, subversive
penumbra
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suggested by its title or in playful, go-for-broke
camp
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."
Richard Corliss
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of ''
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'' pointed out that "
urtons affection is evident, and his homage sometimes acute," and reasoned: "All right, so Burton has made less a revival of the old show than a hit-or-miss parody pageant," but praised the star power of the film, relenting that "attention must be paid to movie allure, in a star like Depp and his current harem. Angelique may be the only demonic among the women here, but they're all bewitching."
Peter Bradshaw
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, in the British newspaper ''
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'', weighed the film in a mixed write-up, giving it three stars out of five, and pointing out his feeling that "the Gothy, jokey 'darkness' of Burton's style is now beginning to look very familiar; he has built his brand to perfection in the film marketplace, and it is smarter and more distinctive than a lot of what is on offer at the multiplex, but there are no surprises. There are shadows, but they conceal nothing."
Accolades
Home media
''Dark Shadows'' was released on both
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and
DVD
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in the United States on October 2, 2012 (the date confirmed by the official ''Dark Shadows''
Facebook
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page and the official ''Dark Shadows'' website). It was released on both formats several days earlier in
Australia
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; in stores on September 24, and online on September 26. The film was released on
home video
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in the UK on October 15.
The DVD includes just one featurette, "The Collinses: Every Family Has Its Demons", while the Blu-ray contains a total of nine short featurettes and six deleted scenes. Several worldwide releases of both the DVD and Blu-ray contain an
UltraViolet
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digital copy
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of the film.
Possible sequel
In December 2011, Pfeiffer told
MTV
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that she was hoping there would be sequels to the film. On May 8, 2012, various tabloids, like ''
Variety
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'', reported that Warner Bros. may have wanted to turn ''Dark Shadows'' into a
film franchise
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.
On the same day,
Collider
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mentioned that the ending lends itself to a possible sequel. When Burton was asked if he thought this could be a possible start to a franchise, he replied: "No. Because of the nature of it being like a soap opera, that was the structure. It wasn't a conscious decision. First of all, it's a bit presumptuous to think that. If something works out, that's one thing, but you can't ever predict that.
he endinghad more to do with the soap opera structure of it."
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See also
* Vampire film
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There have been two other feature films based on the soap opera ''Dark Shadows'':
* ''House of Dark Shadows
''House of Dark Shadows'' is a 1970 American feature-length horror film produced and directed by Dan Curtis, based on his ''Dark Shadows'' television series. In this film expansion, vampire Barnabas Collins ( Jonathan Frid) searches for a cure ...
'' (1970)
* ''Night of Dark Shadows
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'' (1971)
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