The 'Adams Family' would be proud of the Collins Family.

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2015)

I had missed this movie when it came out a few years ago and recently found it on DVD at my public library. I like most of the actors here, particularly Depp who may be controversial at times but always creates interesting and entertaining characters. His vampire character here isn't too far removed from his Captain Jack Sparrow roles.
Johnny Depp is Barnabas Collins who in the late 1700s comes to America with is family. They settle on the coast of Maine, develop a canning industry and they are responsible for the town of Collinsport springing up.
As a young adult Barnabas is in love with a pretty young lady who from a spell lets herself go over an oceanside cliff to her death on the rocks below. Barnabas follows her but he also has a spell cast by a witch and now he is a vampire, so he survives. But then he is trapped and put into a spell that results in his being imprisoned and buried deep in a coffin. He stays there for over 200 years.
Near present time during excavation for a construction project they hit an object, it is the long-buried coffin with Barnabas bored, hungry, and waiting to get out. Of course he also has to see all the men are dead otherwise his identity would be obvious.
The movie doesn't take itself seriously. Barnabas finds the witch is alive and in the community, determined to finish him off. He meets a new young lady, the new governess, who appears to be the reincarnation of his lady that died all those years ago over the cliff.
The movie has a great cast including Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter (doing her barely passable American accent), Eva Green (letting her French accent show often), Jackie Earle Haley (one of my favorites), Jonny Lee Miller ( doing a good American accent), and Chloë Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard who we find out is a Werewolf.
Just fun entertainment, not a serious movie at all. If you like Burton and you like the actors then you may well like the movie!