Dark Shadows.

Dark Shadows- Dark shadows is a TV series remade by Tim Burton as a film which was released in cinemas on May 11th this year. A young man named Barnabas Collins falls in love with a young woman; however things get messy when one of the servants get jealous and curses the 2 lovers and has the young woman walk to a cliff to plunge to her death. Barnabas sees all of this, and with his despair throws himself off the cliff in hopes to join her, however once he's at the cliff bottom he realizes he cannot die, the witch has cursed him for all eternity, drove mad with jealousy she has him hunt down and put in a coffin for 196 years until the year 1972, he has been dug up and now let loose on the strange town he once knew. He finds some distant relatives and focuses on releasing the curse put upon his family, the mysteries of the witch begin to unfold, and matters are resolved once the witch is killed.


Dark Shadows was directed by Tim Burton, as much has Tim Burton’s style of films is amazing, I couldn’t help find that the plot was rather predictable, He used the same actors such as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, I have found that when watching these 2 actors in other films they tend to play the schizophrenic characters, the main character in Dark Shadows is called Barnabas, he plays a paranoid vampire, I couldn’t help think of Tim Burton… I also found that Dark Shadows will be nothing like the TV series, the series was full of bloopers such as wrong clothing, badly made effects, wrong dialogue, this added the humour to the series which the audience admired, whereas the film had little of this and didn’t quite live up to my expectations as a film, even though the film was good, I don’t think much characterisation was focused on in the film, Tim Burton focused more on his artistic style and the special effects….