Screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith also has Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter coming out later this summer, so he'll have a chance to tap another vein, as it were, of vampire myth. It's stately with a smirk, crossing Bram Stoker with The Addams Family to arrive at what sometimes feels like a wildly overproduced Saturday Night Live sketch. She turns him into a vampire, giving him eternal life, and then buries him alive to give him time to reconsider.ĭespite the generational gap between Barnabas and the family Collins of the 1970s, he takes to his descendants well, and David (Gully McGrath), Roger (Jonny Lee Miller), Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz) more or less accept him.Īll of which makes Tim Burton's Dark Shadows more a vampire-out-of-water story than a homage to the original TV show, or a trek through the Buffyverse. The action begins with an 18th century prologue, played straight - young Barnabas setting sail from Liverpool for Maine, where his family will establish a fishing village, and where he will make the mistake of sleeping with but not falling for a witchy servant girl named Angelique (Eva Green). But Burton and the rest of the cast seem less sure why they're there, and audiences may well feel the same way. To which the star now adds Dark Shadows' madly aristocratic vampire Barnabas Collins, onetime heir to Collinwood Mansion and, for roughly two centuries, buried alive - or at any rate undead - before being unearthed by a decidedly unfortunate construction crew.ĭepp, who as a kid was reportedly obsessed with Barnabas on the Gothic daytime soap that inspired this campy big-screen redo, is clearly delighted to be sinking his teeth into the role.
If you just took a few of the characters he's played for director Tim Burton - the Mad Hatter, mad barber Sweeney Todd, mad candymaker Willy Wonka, and those two mad Eds, Wood and Scissorhands, you'd have a whole closetful of costuming possibilities.
Putting together a Halloween costume must be a breeze at Johnny Depp's house.
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