Dark Shadows (film)

Dark Shadows is a 2012 American horror comedy film based on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows, that was broadcast between 1966 and 1971. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, a 200yearold vampire who has been imprisoned in a coffin. Collins is eventually unearthed and makes his way back to his mansion, now inhabited by his descendants. He discovers that his jealous exlover Angelique Bouchard played by Eva Green has taken over the towns fishing business that was once run by the Collins family Bouchard is a witch who was responsible for transforming Collins into a vampire. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Collins cousin Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family. The film had a limited release on May 10, 2012, and was officially released the following day in the United States.

In 1760, the Collins family moves from Liverpool, England to Maine and establishes the fishing town Collinsport where they built their estate Collinwood.16 years later in 1776 the son Barnabas Collins falls in love with a young woman named Josette du Pres, scorning a maid named Angelique Brouchard, who had fallen in love with him. Turning to black magic, Angelique curses the Collins family, first killing Barnabass parents in an assumed accident, then by enchanting Josette to leap to her death off a cliff. In a fit of grief, Barnabas attempts to leap to his own death, but that fails as well, as Angelique has cursed him to the immortal life of a vampire. When he still rejects her advances, she turns the town against him and he is buried alive in a coffin. ........

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