Welocme to Collinswood. My Name is Barnabas Collins

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2012)

Dark Shadows was a classic TV show that ran until 1971. However Dark Shadows the show had years to wrap up it's run this movie only has a couple of hours. Barnabas Collins is the rich son of the owner of Collinsport he lives in the mansion Collinswood. the year is roughly 1752. When Barnabas Rejects the love of angelique,She is driven to the dark side and finds a way to curse him with becoming a vampire. She also kills his true love Josette. Angelique leads a mob to Collinswood and they drag Barnabas to a open coffin and chain him in the coffin and chain the coffin. and then bury it. when 1972 rolls around a construction crew uncovers the coffin and free Barnabas who promptly feeds on them. He returns home to Collinswood. And it is there he meets his family and the nanny. Victoria Winters is a young lady with a secret. But then again they all have secrets. The film quickly moves into Barnabas fighting to restore his family to greatness once more. and to destroy angelique for what she has done . He also struggles with his curse and fights to find a cure.
The Film is dark in some places light in others and it resembles a 70's vampire film. Still while it bears the names and the basic storyline it is not the TV Series. Dark Shadows the film is a honest effort to retell one of the classic Vampire stories of the Television era. Johnny Depp portrays Barnabas Collins in such a Fried like manner that you know he is doing this as a tribute to Jonathon Fried and a love for the Barnabs Collins character.
Worth seeing. I enjoyed it a lot because it was different then any of the films released in 2012. And that's a good thing.