"Dark Shadows" Review

"Dark Shadows" Review

10/10

2012
A Tim Burton Film
Protagonist(s): Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helen Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gulliver McGrath
Antagonist(s): Eva Green
Run-time: 1 hour 53 minutes

A centuries old vampire returns to his shadowed home, where he meets his modern descendants.

I have yet to see a Depp or Burton film which I did not like. They are both so thorough in their trades even if one tends to stick to unconventional and dark genres and the other seems to have spoken in an odd British accent in a majority of his latest films.

The soap opera plot and the occult mixed in makes for a thoroughly entertaining film, which hold promise as a potential series of films.

The Antagonist was very compelling and credible, and the main Protagonist was flawed as any man when it came to the temptations of the flesh.

I do not often say this, but I hope there will be a sequel (If not, I hope Tim Burton will do a remake of the Addams Family with Johnny Depp as Gomez Addams).

It is well worth the two hours of near-Shakespearean diction and odd plot twists.