Dark Shadows

Starring: Depp, Johnny and Pfeiffer, Michelle

Product Description

In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from England to start a new life in America, where they build a fishing empire in the coastal Maine town that comes to carry their name: Collinsport. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of falling in love with a beauty named Josette DuPres (Bella Heathcote) and 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. Nearly two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972, a stranger in an even stranger time. Returning to Collinwood Manor, he finds that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin, and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883929240777
• Release Date: February 2014
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Studio Distribution Servi
• Director: Burton, Tim
• Starring: Depp, Johnny, Pfeiffer, Michelle
• Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

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A movie about a whiter shade of pale I must admit that I never watched the original “Dark Shadows” (1966–1971), as I spent decades ignoring soap operas and most weekly serial entertainment programs, except for a few classics. However, even though I keep saying I do not like the Jonny Depth sort of film, I find that I strangely enough purchased just about all of them. After watching “Dark Shadows,” I guess I will just have to admit that I do like his body of work. Turns out it is a lot of Burton's films with which I am not enamored. Just in case I am not the only person to have missed the original storyline, this film is about the head of a household, “Collinwood,” or more of a financial empire, who returns to a crumbling future to rebuild that empire. In his youthful lusty way, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) besmirches a young which, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), and soon must turn to the dark side to protect himself and the new love of his life. It is to no avail as he is transformed into a vampire and forced to covet his neighbor’s blood. He is boxed for a couple of hundred years, and on his return, he now must cope with a new world and his reencounter with his gorgeous, lustful nemesis. This looks like it is probably a pilot for a new series of films like his previous “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. Now I want the soundtrack. I have most of the songs now, but it is a nice mixture and will remind me of the movie. “The Secret Room” “Nights in White Satin” “Season of the Witch” “Superfly” “I’m Sick of You.” “Highway Star” “Theme from a Summer Place” “Top of the World” “Crocodile Rock” “Paranoid” “Happy Nightstrums” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” “The Joker” “Bang a Gong (get it on)” “No more Mr. Nice Guy” “Ballad of Dwight Frye” “Go all the way.” “I would like to teach the world to sing (in perfect harmony)”