Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows is a 2012 gothic dark fantasy film based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name. Directed by Tim Burton, the film stars Johnny Depp alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, and Bella Heathcote in a dual role. Christopher Lee has a small role in the film, marking his 200th film appearance and his fifth and final collaboration with Burton. Jonathan Frid, star of the original Dark Shadows series, makes a cameo appearance. He died shortly before the film was released. One of the film's producers, Richard D. Zanuck, died two months after its release.
Plot
In 1760, a young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy Collins family moved from Liverpool to Maine, where they established the town of Collinsport and constructed the Collinwood Mansion. Fifteen years later, Barnabas is engaged to Josette while having an affair with Angelique, who is secretly a witch, but he refuses any further advances.
Cast
- Alice Cooper
- Bella Heathcote
- Chloë Grace Moretz
- Christopher Lee
- David Selby
- Eva Green
- Gulliver McGrath
- Guy Flanagan
- Hannah Murray
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Ivan Kaye
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Johnny Depp
- Jonathan Frid
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Raffey Cassidy
- Shane Rimmer
- Sophie Kennedy Clark
- Susanna Cappellaro
- Thomas McDonell
- William Hope