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''Dark Shadows'' is a movie adaptation of the [[Dark Shadows (TV series)|TV series of the same name]] by [[Tim Burton]], with [[Johnny Depp]] [[Promoted Fanboy|realizing his childhood dream]] of portraying the [[Affably Evil]] Barnabas Collins, [[Curse|who's been turned into a vampire]] by Angelique, a witch, for [[Woman Scorned|rejecting her love]]. He is locked in an iron coffin and buried alive. He escapes 200 years later in the early [[The Seventies|seventies]], and goes to help out his declining family's descendants and confront Angelique once more.
Released in the Summer of 2012, unlike the series, the film is more comedic in tone, similar to early Burton films such as ''[[
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* [[Black Comedy]]: What this mostly is, though there's also tragedy, horror and romance elements scattered throughout.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Barnabas kills many innocent people (to feed his bloodlust) and freely uses mind control to force others to serve him. But Angelique is considerably worse, {{spoiler|spending two whole centuries tormenting a family simply because Barnabas rejected her.}}
* [[Blessed
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: The 1970s Angelique (she originally had brown hair).
* [[Bookcase Passage]] / [[Secret Underground Passage]]: You didn't expect a haunted old manor to have one of these, did you? Also [[Discussed]] and [[Lampshaded]].
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* [[Buried Alive]]: Well, Barnabas is a vampire so technically he's undead, but it certainly counts.
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Alice Cooper]].
** [[Christopher Lee]] shows up too, playing the aged fisherman Barnabas hypnotizes. Tim Burton frequently casts him in supporting roles; Christopher previously played the judge who sends Johnny to ''[[Sleepy Hollow]]'', and Johnny's father in ''[[Charlie and
*** Not to mention playing [[Dracula]] in the Hammer film series. The theater in Collinsport is even showing his film ''Dracula A.D. 1972''.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Some people probably laughed upon finding out [[Chloe Moretz]] of was playing a {{spoiler|werewolf.}}
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* [[Creepy Long Fingers]]: Barnabas develops these when Angelique curses him to become a vampire.
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: [[Inverted]]. {{spoiler|After having been smashed against a chandelier, the villainous Angelique dies in a crucifixion pose.}}
* [[Cry for
* [[Cursed
** Barnabas. Sure he can't endure sunlight, but he's gained immortality and vampiric powers.
** {{spoiler|Carolyn, who's been turned into a werewolf}}.
* [[A Date
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] considering {{spoiler|what Carolyn morphs into during the climax.}}
* [[Denser and Wackier]]
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* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Angelique is over 200 years old, perpetually young, and deeply depraved. Barnabas, although much less of a jerk, still uses very immoral methods (mind control, killing, etc.) to further his agenda.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Barnabas/Angelique; Barnabas/Victoria
* [[Is It Something You Eat?]]: Barnabas thinks a psychiatrist is an American delicacy at first.
* [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci]]: Played with. To cover up her immortality, Angelique always poses as the head of the Bouchard family, changing names and appearances every generation or so.
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Dr. Julia Hoffman.
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* [[Monster Mash]]: Vampires, witches, ghosts, {{spoiler|and werewolves}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: After a very serious opening, the film morphs into a [[Black Comedy]]. However, the film does switch back to a darker tone at times.
* [[Move Along, Nothing to See Here]]: Said almost word-for-word by the sheriff when the supernatural stuff really shows itself in the final act.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: [[Eva Green]] as the very sexy Angelique Bouchard. Even [[Chloe Moretz]] has a scene where she [[Show Some Leg|shows some leg]].
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Angelique hypnotizes Josette and [[Driven to Suicide|forces her to fall off the cliffs]].
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers play up the broad comedy and [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] aspects of the film and make Barnabas look more like a straightforward (if quirky) hero rather than [[Anti-Hero]] he is. [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer|The Maggie/Victoria plot is also never alluded to.]]
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Barnabas and Angelique do ''not'' pull any punches during their climatic fight.
* [[Not Good
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Angelique is shown to be wearing one back in the late 18th century as she is casting the spell to {{spoiler|cause Josette to fall from Widow's Peak.}}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Christopher Lee]] as Clarney.
** [[Alice Cooper]] [[As Himself]].
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Barnabas fits the classic definition. [[Weakened
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Carolyn takes on a mostly human form with big hairy wolf legs, sharp teeth, golden eyes, and claws. Also, it seems she can transform at will}}.
** {{spoiler|Or the final fight probably happened during a full moon}}.
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* [[Really 700 Years Old|Really 200 Years Old]]: Angelique. And Barnabas, of course.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: {{spoiler|Barnabas finally ends up with Maggie, in whom Josette is apparently reincarnated}}.
* [[Remake Cameo]]: Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby and Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Barnabas Collins, Angelique, Quentin Collins and Josette DuPres in the original ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'', appear in the ball at Collinwood Manor. This was the last role for Jonathan Frid, who died less than a month before the film opened.
* [[The Renfield]]: Willie the butler becomes this after Barnabas hypnotizes him.
* [[The Reveal]]: The climatic fight reveals that {{spoiler|Carolyn is a werewolf}}.
* [[Revenge
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Copious beautiful shots of woods, lakes, and cliffs. Also the interior of the mansion.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: In the final scene of the film, {{spoiler|Dr Hoffman is shown underwater opening her eyes, implying she was successfully turned into a vampire and thus will probably be back to give Barnabas grief. For fun, this scene recalls a shot of the drowned Shelley Winters, in 1955's ''[[Night of the Hunter]]''.}}
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** At one point Angelique spews out green vomit at Barnabas, as the possessed Regan did in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
** During the finale, part of the staircase comes alive as a snakelike beast, similar to ''[[Beetle Juice]]''.
** Dr. Hoffman and Barnabas have a conversation about how filthy and disgusting life in England was. [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Helena Bonham Carter]] were the two leads in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Angelique gives Barnabas one in an early scene between them, leaving a lipstick mark around his mouth.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: Bella Heathcote gets a few seconds as Josette and none as Victoria.
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* [[Table Space]]: Carolyn eats at the far end of the table.
* [[Title Drop]]: Once, by Barnabas.
* [[Town
* [[Trash the Set]]: {{spoiler|Collinwood manor burns to the ground during Barnabas and Angelique's [[Final Battle]].}}
** [[Johnny Depp]] mentions in an interview that the filming of his and [[Eva Green]]'s sex scene resulted in a lot of trashed hotel rooms.
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* [[Vampires Are Rich]]: In his life, Barnabas was the heir of an affluent colonial family. Over time, the family fortune dwindled, but fortunately {{spoiler|Barnabas' father left behind some treasure}}.
* [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]]: Barnabas used to be quite handsome and knew his way with the ladies. His undead appearance may be freaky and creepy, but he still has romantic encounters of varying depth with three female characters.
* [[Villain
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Angelique vomits [[Covered in Gunge|green, bug-filled slime]] onto Barnabas a la ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
* [[Wall-Bang Her]]: And ceiling, couch, and floor bang her.
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{{quote| '''Angelique''': I'm going to offer you a business proposal, Barnabas. My final offer; either you agree to rule this little pond of mine side by side, partners ''and lovers''...Or I put you back in the box.<br />
'''Barnabas''': I have already prepared my counter-proposal. It reads thusly: ''You may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!'' }}
* [[Weakened
* [[What Year Is This?]]: Uttered verbatim by Barnabas.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Barnabas can't endure the idea of seeing Victoria age and die, so he asks Angelique to turn him back into a mortal. She refuses, naturally. {{spoiler|[[Take a Third Option|The problem is solved at the end, when he bites Victoria to save her from a fatal fall]]}}.
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