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ORIGINAL TITLE

Dark Shadows

YEAR

2012	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

113 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Tim Burton

SCREENWRITER

Seth Grahame-Smith (Characters: Dan Curtis)

COMPOSER

Danny Elfman

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Bruno Delbonnel

CAST

Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Gulliver McGrath, Christopher Lee, Ray Shirley, Alice Cooper

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Dan Curtis Productions / GK Films / Infinitum Nihil Production / Warner Bros. Pictures

OFFICIAL WEB

http://darkshadowsmovie.warnerbros.com/

GENRE

Comedy. Horror. Fantasy | Horror Comedy. Vampires. Family Relationships. The 70s

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Based on the popular "Dark Shadows" TV series. 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.”

PRO REVIEWS

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"A baroquely droll and Burtonized update of the gothic oddball vampire soap opera (...) Depp's performance is more than just funny — it's ghoulishly endearing" (Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly)

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"Few director-star partnerships are as consistently eccentric or malleable as that of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, but even loyalists will detect an odor of mothballs clinging to their eighth bigscreen collaboration" (Justin Chang: Variety)

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"'Dark Shadows' sinks its teeth half-way into its potentially meaty material but hesitates to go all the way" (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)

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"An elegant production without a central drive. It offers wonderful things, but they aren't what's important (...) for a feature-length film, we need more than attitude (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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"'Dark Shadows' 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" (Manohla Dargis: The New York Times)

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