Dark Shadows (2012)
In the middle of the 1960s, the television company ABC acquired an import of a British television series entitled 'Dark Shadows', which ran until 1971. Now, nearly over 50 years later, director Tim Burton attempts to bring the TV series to the big screen in an adaptation of “Dark Shadows”. And what's the final result? It's a disappointing mess. It tries too hard to call itself a comedy, yet there is a hard seriousness to it. Though to be fair, there are some things that do make the movie work. “Dark Shadows”, while having a few good factors about it, doesn't try to imitate the original series that it is based off, and becomes something else entirely. The plot of the film revolves around Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) who has been cursed by a witch (Eva Green) by becoming a vampire due to rejecting her love. Barnabas returns to his home of Collinsport, Maine nearly 200 years later, and finds it in ruins. Barnabas must find a way to reverse the curse that was besto