Dark Shadows (2012)

Dark Shadows rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.2/10· 292K votes

Rotten Tomatoes35%

Metacritic55%

TMDb6.1/10· 8K votes

With 35% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.2/10 on IMDb and 55/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Dark Shadows

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Cast of Dark Shadows

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  Johnny Depp

  as Barnabas Collins

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  Michelle Pfeiffer

  as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

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  Eva Green

  as Angelique Bouchard

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  Helena Bonham Carter

  as Dr. Julia Hoffman

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  Chloë Grace Moretz

  as Carolyn Stoddard

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  Bella Heathcote

  as Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres

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  Gulliver McGrath

  as David Collins

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  Jackie Earle Haley

  as Willie Loomis

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  Jonny Lee Miller

  as Roger Collins

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  Ray Shirley

  as Mrs. Johnson

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  Christopher Lee

  as Clarney

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  Alice Cooper

  as Self

Dark Shadows facts

Budget

$150M

Box office

$245.5M

Our take on Dark Shadows

Tim Burton's 2012 fantasy comedy revives an old gothic soap opera as a fish-out-of-water romp: a vampire sealed in his tomb wakes up in 1972 and returns to his ancestral manor to find his family and fortune in decay. The setup leans on Burton's familiar tastes—shadowy interiors, deadpan macabre humor and a hero comically baffled by lava lamps and the modern world. It plays best for viewers who enjoy the director's arch style and a horror-tinged comedy that favors mood and gags over scares. If you like ornate production design and camp more than tension, this offbeat period piece is an easy, playful watch.