''Dark Shadows'' is a 2012 American
dark fantasy film based on the
gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
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**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
television
soap opera
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of the same name. Directed by
Tim Burton
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, the film stars
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer. A prolific performer whose List of Michelle Pfeiffer performances, screen work spans over four decades, she became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and ...
,
Helena Bonham Carter
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,
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
,
Jackie Earle Haley
Jack Earle Haley (born July 14, 1961) is an American actor and director. His earliest roles included Moocher in ''Breaking Away'' (1979) and Kelly Leak in ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976), ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The ...
,
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonathan Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is a British film, television and theatre 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 ...
,
Chloë Grace Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz (; born February 10, 1997) is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including four MTV Movie & TV Awards, two People's Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and two Young Artist Awards.
She began actin ...
, and
Bella Heathcote
Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress and model. She began her acting career in 2008. The following year, she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera '' Neighbours''.
Heathcote has since portr ...
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 long career spanning more than 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains, and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimat ...
has a small role in the film, his 200th film appearance and his fifth and final appearance in a Burton film.
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''.
Biography
Early life and career
Frid was born of Scottish ...
, star of the original ''Dark Shadows'' series, makes a cameo, which was his final screen appearance, as he died shortly before the release of the film. One of the film's producers,
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film ''Driving Miss Daisy'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zanuck was also instrumental in launching the career of director Steven Spielb ...
, 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, 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, original ...
and his wealthy family set sail from
Liverpool
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to the
New World
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, where they establish 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 in the U.S. state ...
in
Maine
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and construct
Collinwood Mansion
Collinwood Mansion is a fictional house featured in the Gothic horror soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971). Built in 1795 by Joshua Collins, Collinwood has been home to the Collins family and other sometimes unwelcome supernatural visitors ...
, their grand estate. Fifteen years later, Barnabas spurns the advances of his servant,
Angelique, who is secretly a witch. In response, she murders his parents using magic and curses Barnabas so that "all he loves will die".
Barnabas becomes obsessed with dark magic to prove his parents were murdered. Under Angelique's spell, his fiancée
Josette jumps to her death from a cliff called "Widow's Hill". He throws himself after her, but survives, further cursed by Angelique to eternal suffering as 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 creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mi ...
. Angelique turns the town against Barnabas and gets him buried alive.
In 1972, almost 200-years-later, Maggie Evans, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Josette, travels to Collinwood to fill the position of
governess
A governess is a largely obsolete term for 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. In contrast to a nanny, th ...
. She assumes the
alias
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* ''Alias the ...
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 ...
and meets the dysfunctional current-residents of Collinwood: Collins matriarch Elizabeth and 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
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...
; 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, ...
. That night, Victoria is visited by the ghost of Josette.
A construction crew building a
McDonald's
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unwittingly frees Barnabas from his tomb. He apologetically feeds on their blood and then makes his way to Collinwood, perplexed by the modern-day technology and fashion he encounters.
At Collinwood, Barnabas hypnotizes the caretaker, Willie, into his service and reveals to Elizabeth that the legends of the family curse and her long-lost ancestor are true. He asks to rejoin the family and shows Elizabeth the manor's secret passages and hidden treasure. Though wary, she introduces him to the family as a distant relative from England.
While adjusting to modern life and falling for Victoria, Barnabas uses his powers of persuasion and the family treasure to restore both the Collins Canning Company and Collinwood to their former glory. Dr. Hoffman learns of his true nature and offers to try to turn him mortal again. They start by removing his blood and giving him
transfusions
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of human blood.
Angelique, having survived through the centuries and now the owner of the dominant Angel Bay Seafood, is still in love with Barnabas. To protect Victoria, he gives in to Angelique's lust and they have sex in her office, but, afterwards, a remorseful Barnabas again rejects Angelique.
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 during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events.
History
Origins
Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happen ...
" at Collinwood for the entire town, with
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillot ...
as entertainment. He finds Victoria alone, who reveals she has seen the ghost of Josette her entire life; her parents committed her to an asylum as a result, but she eventually escaped and Josette directed her to Collinwood. She returns Barnabas' affections and they kiss, to Angelique's dismay.
More eager than ever to be human, Barnabas goes to Dr. Hoffman's office, where he discovers her transfusing his blood into herself to try to stop her aging. He drains all the blood from her body, and he and Willie dump her at sea, telling everyone she went away on business.
Barnabas confronts the greedy Roger and offers him a choice: to become a better father to David, or to leave Collinwood with enough money to live out his life elsewhere; Roger chooses the latter. Heartbroken, David is nearly struck by a falling disco ball, but Barnabas saves him with supernatural speed and catches fire in the daylight, revealing himself as a vampire. David, Carolyn, and Victoria are shocked.
Desperate, 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. Angelique destroys the Collins’ cannery and, with a recording of Barnabas' confession, rallies the town against the family.
David frees Barnabas, who confronts Angelique at Collinwood. They battle, and the townspeople see that she is a witch. Elizabeth and Carolyn, who reveals herself to be a
werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf (), or occasionally lycanthrope (; ; uk, Вовкулака, Vovkulaka), is an individual that can shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature), either purposely or ...
, join the fight, and Angelique enchants the house to turn against the Collins family. She admits she was responsible for the werewolf that bit Carolyn as an infant, and for the deaths of David's mother and Barnabas' parents. The ghost of David's mother appears and incapacitates Angelique, and the family escape the burning manor. Angelique offers Barnabas her heart, which crumbles as she dies.
Barnabas races to Widow's Hill and finds Victoria, who says there is only one way for them to be together. When he refuses to turn her into a vampire, she steps off the cliff. He leaps after her, biting her neck on the way down. On the rocks, he holds her in his arms. Now a vampire, she awakens as Josette. As they kiss, a voiceover from Barnabas declares that his curse is now lifted.
Though Barnabas thinks he is finally safe, Dr. Hoffman, bound and on the sea floor, opens her eyes.
Cast
*
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...
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, original ...
, an 18th-century
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 creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mi ...
who awakens in 1972.
** Justin Tracy as Young Barnabas
*
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
as
Angelique "Angie" Bouchard, a vengeful witch 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 over the course of the film, resembling a
porcelain doll
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.
**
Raffey Cassidy
Raffey Camomile Cassidy (born 12 November 2001) is an English actress. She has had roles in films including ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' (2012), ''Mr Selfridge'' (2013), ''Tomorrowland'' (2015) and ''The Killing of a Sacred Deer'' (2017).
Ea ...
as Young Angelique
*
Bella Heathcote
Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress and model. She began her acting career in 2008. The following year, she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera '' Neighbours''.
Heathcote has since portr ...
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, her widowed father was Andre du Pres (D ...
. Heathcote plays both Josette, Barnabas' 18th-century love, and Victoria, David's governess and Barnabas' 20th-century love-interest.
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
Alias may refer to:
* Pseudonym
* Pen name
* Nickname
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Alias'' (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian documentary film
* ''Alias'' (TV series), an American action thriller series 2001–2006
* ''Alias the ...
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 in the U.S. state ...
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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196 ...
, 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 a British film, television and theatre 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 ...
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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She began actin ...
as
Carolyn Stoddard, Elizabeth's rebellious 15-year-old daughter, who is revealed to be a
werewolf
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late in the film.
*
Gully McGrath as
David Collins David Collins may refer to:
Persons
* David Collins (Hampshire cricketer), 18th-century cricketer
* David Collins (New Zealand cricketer) (1887–1967)
* David Collins (Scottish footballer) (1912–?)
* David Collins (Australian footballer) ( ...
, Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, who is regularly visited by the
ghost
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...
of his dead mother.
*
Jackie Earle Haley
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as
Willie Loomis
The following is a list of characters from the ''Dark Shadows'' franchise. The list distinguishes characters from the original ABC daytime soap opera series, the 1970s films, the 1991 NBC remake series, the 2004 WB pilot, and the 2012 film.
1966 ...
, caretaker of
Collinwood Mansion
Collinwood Mansion is a fictional house featured in the Gothic horror soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971). Built in 1795 by Joshua Collins, Collinwood has been home to the Collins family and other sometimes unwelcome supernatural visitors ...
.
*
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 long career spanning more than 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains, and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimat ...
as Silas Clarney, a "king of the fishermen who spends time in the local pub, The Blue Whale."
*
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillot ...
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 Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan in all three seasons of ''The Borgias (2011 TV series), The Borgias' ...
as Joshua Collins, the father of Barnabas Collins.
*
Susanna Cappellaro
Susanna Cappellaro (Cohen) is an Italian actress and writer living in Soho, London.
Biography
Cappellaro started her career in the fashion world. In 2011 she began her film career. Her first role was in Berberian Sound Studio (directed by Pe ...
as
Naomi Collins
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196 ...
, 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 as Sheriff Bill (credited as Sheriff), the sheriff of Collinsport.
*
Guy Flanagan
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Background
Born in New Longton, Lancashire, Flanagan attended Cardinal Newman College, and went on to trai ...
as Bearded Hippie
*
Sophie Kennedy Clark
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Her first big break came when she starred as David Tennant's eldest daughte ...
as Hippie Chick 1
*
Hannah Murray
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as Hippie Chick 2
*
Shane Rimmer
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as Board Member 1
At the
San Diego Comic-Con
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2011, 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''.
Biography
Early life and career
Frid was born of Scottish ...
,
Lara Parker
Mary Lamar Rickey (born October 27, 1938), better known as Lara Parker, is an American television, stage, and film actress known for her role as Angelique on the ABC-TV serial ''Dark Shadows'' which aired from 1966 to 1971.
Early life
Parker ...
,
David Selby
David Lynn Selby is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for playing Quentin Collins on the daytime soap ''Dark Shadows'' (1968–71) and Richard Channing on the prime-time soap ''Falcon Crest'' (1982–90). ...
, and
Kathryn Leigh Scott
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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 te ...
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 soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport ...
'' from the estate of its creator,
Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971) and ...
.
Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...
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 animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as ''Beetlejuice'' (1988), ''Edward Scissorhands'' (1990), ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993), ...
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 te ...
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''.
Biography
Early life and career
Frid was born of Scottish ...
'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, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his work on the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series, Ang Lee's ''Hulk'' and ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. He starte ...
, costume designer
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born September 25, 1948) is an American costume designer.
Atwood has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning four times - for the films ''Chicago'' (2002), ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (200 ...
, editor
Chris Lebenzon
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He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the f ...
, and composer
Danny Elfman
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.
French cinematographer
Bruno Delbonnel
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—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
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and
pop 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
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plays over the end credits.
''Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' was released on May 8, 2012, as a
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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
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and "
Paranoid
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" by
Black Sabbath
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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 ''
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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 259 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
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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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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,
comedy
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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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, 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 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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Ear ...
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
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suggested by its title or in playful, go-for-broke
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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
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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
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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
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.
On the same day,
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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
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'' (1970)
* ''Night of Dark Shadows
''Night of Dark Shadows'' is a 1971 horror film by Dan Curtis. It is the sequel to ''House of Dark Shadows''. It centers on the story of Quentin Collins and his bride Tracy at the Collinwood Mansion in Collinsport, Maine.
David Selby, Lara Parke ...
'' (1971)
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