Dark Shadows is a 2012 American horror comedy film based on a gothic television soap opera of the same name. The film is directed by Tim Burton and Johnny Depp stars, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, ChloÃÆ'Â · Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcote in multiple roles. The film has a limited release on May 10, 2012, and was officially released the following day in the United States.
The film performed disappointingly at the United States box office, but succeeded in overseas markets. The film received mixed reviews; critics praised his consistent visual and humor style but felt he did not have a focused or substantial plot and developed character. The film was produced by Richard D. Zanuck, who died two months after it was released. It featured the last appearance of the original series actor Jonathan Frid, who died shortly before release. It was the 200th film appearance of actor Christopher Lee, and his fifth appearance in the Burton movie.
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Plot
In 1760, the Collins family moved from Liverpool, England to Maine and founded the fishing town of Collinsport, where they built their plantation, Collinwood.
When he first arrived, Barnabas's youngest son (Johnny Depp), met the young Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), who instantly became crazy about him. Angelique's witch mother who was with him at the time warned him to socialize with the noble-born people. However, this did not stop Angelique from following the family for years, hoping to be loved by Barnabas, but to no avail.
In 1776, Barnabas, now a grown man, fell in love with a young woman named Josette du Pres (Bella Heathcote), jeering at Angelique who now works as a housekeeper. Turning to black magic, Angelique cursed the Collins family, first killing the parents of Barnabas (Ivan Kaye and Susanna Cappellaro) in an assumed accident, then by dazzling Josette to jump to his death from a cliff called Widow's Hill. In sadness, Barnabas tries to jump to his own death but fails, as Angelique condemns him to the eternal life of a vampire. When he still refused his progress, he changed the city against him, and he was buried alive in a coffin.
In 1972 (ie, 196 years later), the young Maggie Evans (also Bella Heathcote), under the assumed identity of "Victoria Winters", applies to a job as a nanny at Collinwood and meets a reclusive mother, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer). His nephew David (Gully McGrath), for whom Victoria will care, believes his mother, who is drowned in a boating accident, still visits her. Victoria did not divulge that since her young age she can also see ghosts.
After meeting with David, the psychiatrists of Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), his father Roger (Jonny Lee Miller), and Elizabeth's daughter who rebelled Carolyn (ChloÃÆ'Â · Grace Moretz), Victoria hired by Elizabeth. That night, Victoria saw the ghost of Josette, who warned that "she came" before disappearing after falling from a chandelier.
Elsewhere, a group of construction workers dug Barnabas's coffin and unintentionally released him. Having been satisfied with his blood for 196 years and shocked by the modern age he found in him, Barnabas returned to Collinwood, and hypnotized park keeper Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), as his personal Renfield, and introduced himself to the family as a "distant relative". Elizabeth believed her to be a con artist until he revealed the hidden treasures buried in a secret passage inside the house, while Elizabeth considered the family poor. After realizing who and what Barnabas is, he asks her to keep it a secret to protect the children from his true nature, handing him off as his own offspring, "Barnabas Collins III".
During breakfast with his new family, Barnabas fell in love with Victoria when he met him when he resembled Josette. Resolved to win his heart, he sought Carolyn's advice to ask him. Angelique, now an eternal wizard and rival, learned of the resurrection of Barnabas and visited him, telling him that he has now taken over Collinsport as a respected member of the community. In retaliation, Barnabas reopened Collins Cannery's family business and used hypnosis to steal some of the fishermen working for Angelique. As a result, he tries to buy it. However, even after the episode of the supernatural lust between the two, he rejected his offer. Meanwhile, Julia later discovers her identity by hypnotizing her and offering to heal her vampire condition through a blood transfusion.
After successfully restoring family property and business, Barnabas decided to throw a party to reintroduce the family to the townspeople with Carolyn suggesting that they make it happen with musician Alice Cooper as its main leader. During the ball, Barnabas catches Roger stealing from his guest coat and then finds Victoria looking out of the balcony. Feeling comfortable around him, Victoria confessed to Barnabas that he was really an escapee from a psychiatric hospital where his parents imprisoned him since he was a child because of his strength. Meanwhile, Angelique makes a great appearance to see Barnabas. When she catches her and Victoria kissing, she becomes even more bitter.
Motivated after Victoria replied to his feelings, Barnabas searched for Julia (hoping more desperately to become mortal again), only to find out that the latter had used her blood to make herself immortal. Feeling betrayed, he drained and dumped his apparently dead body into the city's bay with the help of Willie. After catching Roger trying to break through the secret passage, Barnabas gave him a choice: to stay and be David's model father or to go with enough money to live his abduction life elsewhere. Roger chose the latter, making David sad. Barnabas's true identity was finally revealed to the whole family and Victoria as he rescued David from the falling disco ball. Victoria was frightened by the revelation and escaped.
Upset, Barnabas bursts into Angelique's office to demand that he let him out of his curse, and while he offers blood to her because he knows that Julia is no longer there to give her a blood transfusion, she also threatens to send Victoria from the Widow of the Hill, the same way he does on Josette, and offers him an ultimatum: Become a partner and a lover with him or locked in a coffin again. With Barnabas rejecting the first, he went on to do the latter, this time placing it in the Collins Family Mausoleum. Shortly after, he was found and freed by David, alerted by his mother's ghost, and they returned home. Meanwhile, Angelique destroyed Collins Cannery and implicated Barnabas in the murder of Julia and all the people she had to eat, turning the townspeople against the family.
In the mansion, Barnabas and Elizabeth saw the police, Angelique, and an angry mob approaching when Carolyn retired to the mansion. Willing to surrender as long as he is with him, Barnabas reveals his true nature and Angelique in the face of angry mobs and quarrels, pitting Barnabas and Elizabeth against Angelique. During the fight (following the mass departure of these revelations), Carolyn reveals to her family that she is a werewolf and joins her family in battle against Angelique, but then a fire breaks out inside the house. In the end, the ghost of David's mother (Josephine Butler) manages to throw Angelique into the candlestick, which then falls to the ground, injuring him as he begins to crumble. He reaches to his chest and truly offers his heart to Barnabas this time because it destroys it too, resulting in his death. Concerned about his health in Victoria, Barnabas immediately searched for his mother when David told him through his mother that he was headed for Hill Widows. When David asked Elizabeth what they were going to do now, Elizabeth said that they would do what they always do as Collins's family: "Survive."
After meeting Victoria at Widow's Hill, Barnabas stopped him from jumping and refused to turn him into a vampire to save him from eternal suffering as enduring, despite his request. Touched, Victoria threw herself off her cliffs, so Barnabas jumped up chasing her and bit her, so she could survive the fall as a vampire. She wakes up, begs him to call her Josette, and two kisses excitedly on the rocky shore.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2011, it was also confirmed that four actors from the original series appeared in the film. In June 2011, Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby and Kathryn Leigh Scott all spent three days at Pinewood Studios to film a cameo appearance. They all appeared as party guests during a ball party at Collinswood Manor. Frid died in April 2012, making this his last movie appearance.
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Production
In July 2007, Warner Bros. acquired the film rights for Dark Shadows' gothic soap opera from Dan Curtis's creators. Johnny Depp has a childhood obsession with Dark Shadows, calling it a "dream" to describe Barnabas Collins, and ultimately persuading Burton to direct. The development of the project was delayed by the Writers Guild 2007-2008 strike. After the strike is completed, Tim Burton is attached to direct the movie. In 2009, screenwriter John August was writing a screenplay for Dark Shadows . In 2010, screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith replaced August in writing the script. However, August received a story credit with Smith for his contribution to the film. The filming began in May 2011. The film was filmed entirely in the UK, at Pinewood Studios and on site. Depp attempted to imitate the "rigidity" and "elegance" of the original Barnabas Collins Jonathan Frid, but also got inspiration from Max Schreck's performances at Nosferatu .
Additional and regular Burton's crew members are production designer Rick Heinrichs, costume designer Colleen Atwood, editor Chris Lebenzon and composer Danny Elfman. French cinematographer Bruno DelbonnelÃ, - known for his work on Lonely Affairs and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - works on projects.
Music
Score
The film is printed by Burton's longtime collaborator, Danny Elfman. An album featuring 21 composition tracks from the film by Elfman was released on May 8, 2012.
Track list
Soundtrack
The soundtrack featured scores of contemporary rock and pop songs in the 1970s, along with others from then and a little earlier, including "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues, "I'm Sick of You" by Iggy Pop , "The Witch's Season" by Donovan, "Top of the World" by The Carpenters, "You're the First, The Last, Everything I Am" by Barry White and "Get It On" by T. Rex. Alice Cooper, who made a cameo in the movie, sang "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Ballad of Dwight Fry". A cover of the Raspberry song 'Go All the Way' by The Killers also plays the final part of the credit. Soundtrack, featuring 11 tracks (including two pieces of scores by Danny Elfman, and Depp recitation as Barnabas from several lines from "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band) was released on May 8 as a download, and on various dates as a CD, including on May 22 as imports in the United States, and on May 25, 2012 in Australia. Songs are not featured on the soundtracks of the movie including "Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield, "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John and "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath.
Track list
- Included next to each song is the year of the original release of the song, excluding the score cut.
Reception
box office
The film earned $ 79,727,159 in the United States and Canada, along with $ 165.8 million in other regions, totaling $ 245.5 million worldwide. For the Burton movie, Dark Shadows achieves a below-average domestic box gain, with many commentators attributing it to the dominance of The Avengers . However, the film was popular overseas; it comes second to The Avengers in most countries in terms of opening the office pickup box.
Critical response
Dark Shadows has received mixed reviews from film critics. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 37% approval rating, based on 233 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The critical consensus of the site reads: "The visuals are very good but Tim Burton never finds a consistent rhythm, mixing camping jokes and gothic spookiness with little success compared to other Johnny Depp collaborations. " At Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 out of 100, based on 42 reviews, showing "mixed or average review".
Some critics feel that the film does not have a focused or consistent plot or genre (either as horror, comedy or drama) that refers to the Grahame-Smith script, and that some jokes become unclear. Some again claim that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's collaborations have become tired. Many of the same reviewers, and others, however, noted their visual style is impressive.
The positive reviewers, on the other hand, argue that the film succeeds in translating the mood of the soap opera, also praising the actors - especially Depp as Barnabas, who some say are prominent characters. because of the funny culture shock, and Pfeiffer - and their character; and further, that the 70s film pastoral culture works for its benefits.
Roger Ebert said, "[The movie] offers beautiful things, but it's not that important.It's like Burton is pointing his arm to his arm, not wanting to find the juice in the story." Ebert later noted that "Much of the entertainment comes from Depp's reaction to the 1970s pop culture," eventually concluding that the movie "starts with a great promise, but then energy flows out," giving it two and a half stars out of four. Manohla Dargis, writing for The New York Times, said that it "is not among Burton's richest, most exquisite, luxuriously visible works and, despite its poor source material and sporadic shock shocks, surprisingly overwhelming, "and argued in most largely positive reviews that" Burton's gift for beauty and aberrant laughter has the power of liberating itself. "
Peter Travers gave the film a mixture of two and a half stars, claiming, "After a fierce and funny start, Dark Shadows just spun the wheels," " and adds that the "fun of Dark Shadows" is frustratingly beat-and-miss, in the end, it all collapses into an incredibly beautiful pile. "In The Washington Post Ann Hornaday dismissed the film, gave it only one and a half stars, explaining that "Burton mash-up of post-60 kitsch and modern knowledge touches a chord that is less self-conscious than a fatal complacency. Dark Shadows do not know where want to stay: in penumbra, frighteningly subversive suggested by title or in playful, go-to-break camp. "
Richard Corliss in Time shows that "Burton's affection is real, and his reverence is sometimes acute," and reasoned: "Okay, so Burton has made a bit of a revival of the old show rather than a hit parody. or-miss parody, "but praised the power of the movie star, conceding that" attention should be paid to the attraction of the movie, in stars like Depp and its harem today.Angelique may be the only devil among the ladies here, but they all dazzle. "Peter Bradshaw, in the British newspaper The Guardian, weighed on the film in mixed writing, gave him three stars out of five, and showed his feelings that" Gothy, jokey 'darkness' of the Burton Style is now beginning to look very he's built his brand for perfection in the movie market, and it's smarter and more typical than what's offered in multiplex, but there are no surprises, but they do not hide anything. "
Accolades
Home media
Dark Shadows was released on Blu-ray and DVD in USA on October 2, 2012, a date confirmed by Facebook's official Facebook Dark Shadows page and official Dark Shadows i> website. The film was released in both formats a few days earlier in Australia; in stores on September 24, and online on September 26, 2012. The film was released on October 15, 2012 in the UK.
The DVD includes only one featurette, "The Collinses: Every Family Has Its Demons", while Blu-ray contains a total of nine short featurettes and six deleted scenes. Some worldwide releases of both DVD and Blu-ray contain digital copies of UltraViolet from the film.
Possible sequel
On December 7, 2011, Pfeiffer told MTV that he hoped a sequel would be made for the film. On May 8, 2012, Variety reported that Warner Bros. may want to turn Dark Shadows into a movie franchise. On the same day, Collider mentioned that the ending is suitable for sequel possibilities. When Burton was asked if he thought that this could be a possible start for the franchise, he replied, "No. Because of its sinetron nature, it is a structure.That is not a conscious decision.First of all, it is rather arrogant to think it. , that's one thing, but you can not predict it. [End] more to do with the soap opera's structure. "
See also
- Vampire movie
There are two other feature films based on soap opera Dark Shadows :
- House of Dark Shadows (1970)
- Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
References
External links
- Dark Shadows on IMDb
- Dark Shadows in the TCM Film Database
- Dark Shadows in Box Office Mojo
- Dark Shadows at Rotten Tomatoes
- Dark Shadows in Metacritic
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