Synopsis:
Dark Shadows is an upcoming supernatural drama film based on the 1966-1971 gothic soap opera of the same name. Centers on vampire patriarch Barnabas Collins and also features monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies. In 1752, the Collins family sails from Liverpool, England to North America. The son, Barnabas, grows up to be a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and is the master of Collinwood Manor. He breaks the heart of a witch, Angelique Bouchard, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. In 1972, Barnabas is freed and returns to find his manor in ruin. It is occupied by dysfunctional descendants and other residents, all of whom have secrets.
Dark Shadows Hollywood Movie Reviews:
Yup, they’re strange. But I guess only one of them is a vampire. Weren’t they all vampires in the original TV shows? I don’t know, I only remember the early ’90s version with Ben Cross and Joanna Going, and not even that clearly, alas. Anyhoo. Check out a new featurette for Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows” that focuses on the film’s dysfunctional family dynamics. See, this would have been easier if they were all vampires. Or at least werewolves.
I mention before that the film has a 50-50 chance of either becoming a big hit or falling flat on its face at the box office. Honestly? After a whopping 9 clips and a half dozen more trailers and featurettes, I’m still not sure where it’s gonna fall…
Johnny Depp leads the all-star cast, which includes Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomas McDonell, and Ray Shirley.Fairly slow week this time around for the Rotten Watch. I guess no one wanted to screw around with The Avengers. Who can can blame ‘em? Whedon and company are blowing everyone away. This week we’ve got shadow-y cats Johnny Depp and Tim Burton reunited.
Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at what This Rotten Week has to offer. What do you think it's like at Johnny Depp’s house? And if you know, please don’t ruin it for me because I’ve got a vivd imagination and would rather just create his pad in my mind. I imagine a lot of scarves. Plenty of blacklight. Bongs everywhere. Well adorned and bejeweled mannequins in each room. Between 15 and 43 cats, all black. A bust of Sitting Bull. Bach’s Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor playing on a constant loop in the background. Someone that looks like her serving Appletinis. And a midget or two. Sounds about right don’t you think? Coincidentally, I imagine Tim Burton’s house to be about the same, except Helena Bonham Carter is running around screaming and stuff at his place. It’s why Burton and Depp are a match made in Odd.
These dudes have worked on six live action movies together, an unbelievable amount for a director-actor team. In fact, I don’t think any other Hollywood duo comes close to this amount of teamwork. If anyone knows of any, pass them along. I’ve got nothing. Together they’ve done: Those flicks average out to 78% on the Tomatometer, an impressive number. And besides probably investing in industrial sized barrels of Ben Nye’s “Super White” Face Powder and a whole host of midnight black clothing apparel, these dudes do seem to put together quality flicks.
But I wonder if with their latest, Dark Shadows we might be getting close to some style fatigue here. How many times can we see Depp in roles like this with Timmy B? It feels very “been there, done that.” Granted I’m not really a Burton fan, so I admit my opinion is a bit skewed. Here Depp plays Barnabus Collins, a vampire come back to haunt the 1970’s (where he’d probably fit right in) with the flick based on the long running soap opera of the same name which aired in the late Sixties. But really it looks like Depp playing Depp and Burton doing Burton. Again, been there, done that. I think critics will trend close to the middle, and like Burton and Depp’s trip down the rabbit hole, it won’t be a complete critical darling. In Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of the cult horror TV series, Miller plays Roger Collins, a ne’er-do-well mortal who soaks up the Collins family fortune but neglects his son after the death of his wife. “My character in Byzantium is also not a vampire,” Miller reveals, adding, “He’s also quite an unpleasant guy.”
But while his characters may have no supernatural abilities, Miller himself is walking on air, thanks to back-to-back projects with a couple of directing masters: "I was so amazed in the space of several months to be able to work with two iconic directors," Miller says.
“But the thing that’s the same about great directors is they make you feel really at ease, and they make you feel important,” he continues. “I was a smallish part in both movies, and yet I felt really like they wanted me there and that it was important, what I was doing.”
Movie cast & crew:
Release Date: 11 May 2012
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Tim Burton
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Kennedy, Graham King
Music Director: Danny Elfman
Cast Members:
Johnny Depp
Helena Bonham Carter
Eva Green
Dark Shadows is an upcoming supernatural drama film based on the 1966-1971 gothic soap opera of the same name. Centers on vampire patriarch Barnabas Collins and also features monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies. In 1752, the Collins family sails from Liverpool, England to North America. The son, Barnabas, grows up to be a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and is the master of Collinwood Manor. He breaks the heart of a witch, Angelique Bouchard, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. In 1972, Barnabas is freed and returns to find his manor in ruin. It is occupied by dysfunctional descendants and other residents, all of whom have secrets.
Dark Shadows Hollywood Movie Reviews:
Yup, they’re strange. But I guess only one of them is a vampire. Weren’t they all vampires in the original TV shows? I don’t know, I only remember the early ’90s version with Ben Cross and Joanna Going, and not even that clearly, alas. Anyhoo. Check out a new featurette for Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows” that focuses on the film’s dysfunctional family dynamics. See, this would have been easier if they were all vampires. Or at least werewolves.
I mention before that the film has a 50-50 chance of either becoming a big hit or falling flat on its face at the box office. Honestly? After a whopping 9 clips and a half dozen more trailers and featurettes, I’m still not sure where it’s gonna fall…
Johnny Depp leads the all-star cast, which includes Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomas McDonell, and Ray Shirley.Fairly slow week this time around for the Rotten Watch. I guess no one wanted to screw around with The Avengers. Who can can blame ‘em? Whedon and company are blowing everyone away. This week we’ve got shadow-y cats Johnny Depp and Tim Burton reunited.
Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at what This Rotten Week has to offer. What do you think it's like at Johnny Depp’s house? And if you know, please don’t ruin it for me because I’ve got a vivd imagination and would rather just create his pad in my mind. I imagine a lot of scarves. Plenty of blacklight. Bongs everywhere. Well adorned and bejeweled mannequins in each room. Between 15 and 43 cats, all black. A bust of Sitting Bull. Bach’s Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor playing on a constant loop in the background. Someone that looks like her serving Appletinis. And a midget or two. Sounds about right don’t you think? Coincidentally, I imagine Tim Burton’s house to be about the same, except Helena Bonham Carter is running around screaming and stuff at his place. It’s why Burton and Depp are a match made in Odd.
These dudes have worked on six live action movies together, an unbelievable amount for a director-actor team. In fact, I don’t think any other Hollywood duo comes close to this amount of teamwork. If anyone knows of any, pass them along. I’ve got nothing. Together they’ve done: Those flicks average out to 78% on the Tomatometer, an impressive number. And besides probably investing in industrial sized barrels of Ben Nye’s “Super White” Face Powder and a whole host of midnight black clothing apparel, these dudes do seem to put together quality flicks.
But I wonder if with their latest, Dark Shadows we might be getting close to some style fatigue here. How many times can we see Depp in roles like this with Timmy B? It feels very “been there, done that.” Granted I’m not really a Burton fan, so I admit my opinion is a bit skewed. Here Depp plays Barnabus Collins, a vampire come back to haunt the 1970’s (where he’d probably fit right in) with the flick based on the long running soap opera of the same name which aired in the late Sixties. But really it looks like Depp playing Depp and Burton doing Burton. Again, been there, done that. I think critics will trend close to the middle, and like Burton and Depp’s trip down the rabbit hole, it won’t be a complete critical darling. In Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of the cult horror TV series, Miller plays Roger Collins, a ne’er-do-well mortal who soaks up the Collins family fortune but neglects his son after the death of his wife. “My character in Byzantium is also not a vampire,” Miller reveals, adding, “He’s also quite an unpleasant guy.”
But while his characters may have no supernatural abilities, Miller himself is walking on air, thanks to back-to-back projects with a couple of directing masters: "I was so amazed in the space of several months to be able to work with two iconic directors," Miller says.
“But the thing that’s the same about great directors is they make you feel really at ease, and they make you feel important,” he continues. “I was a smallish part in both movies, and yet I felt really like they wanted me there and that it was important, what I was doing.”
Movie cast & crew:
Release Date: 11 May 2012
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Tim Burton
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Kennedy, Graham King
Music Director: Danny Elfman
Cast Members:
Johnny Depp
Helena Bonham Carter
Eva Green