DARK SHADOWS Plot Revealed

Filming for Dark Shadows started this week and Warner has finally released plot details for the film directed by Tim Burton. Working alongside the familiar Johnny Depp, the two are recreating the supernatural television show from the 60’s about Barnabas the vampire and his dark family with all their secrets. Read more after the break for plot details on Dark Shadows.

The film stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer , Jack Earle Haley, Helena Bonham Carter and , Chloe Moretz. Here is the plot for Dark Shadows.

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.

Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.

Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

I remember watching episodes of this show and not finding it too exciting, so this seems as if it would fall more on the drama category than horror. Hopefully Burton will spice it up and we will end up seeing a great film. I’m sure Depp will out do the character of Barnabas especially the accounts of him being a womanizer.  As of now, the release date is set for May 11 2012 and as soon as shots and clips emerge we will bring them to you.