Unlikable hero, mostly entertaining movie

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 2012)

Dark Shadows was mostly entertaining, apart from some slow parts, and an overdone, unmotivated ending.
But what struck me most about the movie was how twisted its "ethics" were. Basically, the movie's "hero" is a horrible person, and, by the way, a serial murderer. The "villain", on the other hand, is a woman who started out as a maid, was abused by her employer (the aforementioned "hero"), and founded a company that eventually put her former employer's company out of business. The "happy ending" of the movie is the "hero" murdering her, presumably in retribution for her crime of being "uppity".
Along the way, there's also a female doctor, whom he murders because she tries to become a vampire. Yet he has no particular issues turning his girlfriend into a vampire later on, to prevent her from dying.
All of this made it very hard for me to identify with the movie's ostensible hero. It's sometimes fun to root for the bad guy, but when it becomes obvious that the bad guy is actually the good guy, while the good guy is a horrible person, the whole thing can quickly turn into a very frustrating experience.