Depends,

Rating: 7/10 (22 May 2012)

I have never seen the Dark Shadows TV show & to be honest, didn't even know it existed until this movie! So this is a blank page to me and I actually enjoyed it. (Despite all the bad comments which I found sadly to be true about the movie.) In the beginning, it set itself up to be an interesting & some-what dark movie like the trailers promised. Then, as I later realized after watching, the movie spiraled into a confusing and unexplained plot of events. I mean, you have Barnabus coming home to his distant family, which was weird considering he never had any kids. And how he had made a connection with Victoria Winters and then has sex with his supposed-to-be mortal (or in this case, immortal) enemy seeing she killed 'his true love' and his parents not to mention later revealing she was to blame for other family problems. So that left me asking what anyone's true motives where in this movie.
And some scenes had come to shock me like when the alcoholic 'psychiatrist' as she calls herself has her own affair with Barnabus. I did NOT see that coming but it definitely brings you out of your sleep.
Not to mention the teenage girl just so happens to be a werewolf? I was like REALLY? Especially since she had no effect so it was just pointless.
There were also those parts where I thought made the movie come back a bit like when Barnabus naively tries to understand how to get a girl and fails miserably which I thought was cutely funny.
I genuinely enjoyed myself and yes, I would see it again if someone asked. It may not be a 10 but I don't think it deserves less than a 5.