Dark Shadows

Synopsis: In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas 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 has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth C
Director(s): Tim Burton
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
37%
PG-13
Year:
2012
113 min
$79,711,678
Website
6,215 Views


Liverpool 1760

It is said that blood is thicker than water

It is what defined us, bind us

curses us

Come on, Barnabas

For some learn the mean the life

over wealth and privilege

for others a life of solitude

Angelique, how many times do

I tell you not to stare at him

Remember your place

When I was but a boy

My father took us to the new world

To expand the Collins family empire

We brought English

industry to the wild maine

and build a fishing business the like

of which America had never seen

One year later

A man should take pride in what he builds

But remember, Barnabas

Family is the only real wealth

As our business grew

The town of Collins Port grew with it

and we decided to put

down permanent roots

We spent the next 15 years

building our beloved home

Collins Wood

But not everyone share

in our family success

love

Let me hear you say I love you,

Angelique and I want you

Angelique, I am sorry my dear, but..

you would be hearing a lie

make the high and mighty

Arrogant creatures down you go

The links to my parents

were no accident

I became obsessed with dark

magic and ancient curses

behold upon the gates of hell

If I saw the characters alone

Blessed upon the satan true name

Myvestvuolas

But even then in my depth of my grief

not all was darkness,

I have found my one true love

promise me we'd be together forever

God is my witness Josette.

I swear it

Of all the servants I could have sperm

all the hearts that I could have broken

I got the one secret

I got the Witch

if he dug another true

love to relent his heart

And I and Magic shall dis-might

his youth so all he loves will

die

Caught in Angelique spells

My beloved Josette

wanders helplessly to those hill

where many of the despondent

soul have leap to their death

Josette

Josette

Josette

Help me

Josette

What have you done?

Angelique had curse me to be a vampire

so that my suffering would never ends

There is the monster

Result that I would

never belong to her

Angelique turn the towns

people against me

And condemned me to suffer

my anguish alone in the dark

for all time

Let me out I say

Release me

GOVERNESS WANTED

Hello, My name is Maggie Yves

Hello, my name is Victoria Winters

Please call me Vicky

So where are you from you, Veronica?

New York, and it's Victoria

and it's Victoria, I love this chick man

- New York's a trip huh?

- I guess

What about you?,

What bring New York

girl up to the states?

An old friend

Take it easy, Veronica

- Hello, I'm Victoria Winters

- Congratulations

I'm here to see

about the governess position

Well I'm been expecting you

Come on

Sorry I didn't pick you up at the

station damn wagon been acting up

Elizabeth most spend

getting the place fix

It's beautiful

Full with dust is all it has

Place was designed for

staff of a hundred

And now the only staff is me

Me and Mrs Johnson

She but as useful as

a bucket without a bottom

Still not every family has a

house like this

or a whole town name of them

- Come again?

- Collins, Collins Port

I forgot that

Who's that?

Barnaby maybe,

Some part of Barn

Must be the important

one from way back

Back they were rich-rich people

Barnabas

His name was Barnabas Collins

and he's the finest man

this family had ever knew

Welcome to collins Wood

you have to imagine us on a better day

The house has some

to save on heating

We don't even go in

the old wing anymore

Sit

There are only 7 of us after all

My daughter, Caroline and I

My brother Roger and his son, David

Willy who you met

Mrs. Johnson and

Dr. Hoffman

Who I suspect is sleeping off on

her legendary hangovers

And where is David's mother?

If you don't mind my asking

Laura was lost at sea

When David was 5

He had a rather difficult

time accepting her passing

I brought the Doctor Hoffman

here to work with him for a month

That was 3 years ago

I have just a few questions

if you don't mind

- That were not on the application

- Of course

How do you feel about

the president?

Never met him

- The war?

- I don't watch Television

Do you think the

sexes should be equal?

Heavens no

Men would become unmanageable

I I we'll get along just fine

Miss Winters

Vicky, please.

Call me Vicky

Caroline

Caroline, this is Miss Winters

- Miss New York?

- I am

What Manhattan like?

I'm going to live there when I'm 16

Caroline has a fantasy

that I going allow this

and mother has a fantasy that I

wouldn't run away if she doesn't

So you're here to babysit the lunny?

What have I told you

about using that word

- I'm here to teach David

- Good luck

Most of the others last only a week

- Miss Winters

- Please, call me Vicky

KEEP OU:

Chop chop Jullianne, I'm starving

God help me if it another

Bone Dry Pop Roasta

Who's this?

Miss Winters, this

is my brother, Roger

Roger Miss Winters is to

be David new governess

Please, call me Vicky

- Nice to meet you

- Yeah, yeah

Nice to meet you

You're a liar

I can tell you know just

by a person's face

Yours says

I might look sweet and innocent,

but I hide secrets

Secrets that make my hairs stand up

Leave her be Julia

You're the doctor

Yeah and you're the nanny,

because she's a catch

How do you ever expect

to live with us if

you keep introducing

each other with labels

So Vicky

Caroline, would you please

turn that noise down

David this is Vicky,

she's going to be your new governess

You ruin it, I was going to scare her

Damn it David, what did I told you

about putting holes into the sheet?

Those were Egyptian cotton

I was going to scare her,

Are you scared?

Terrified beyond belief

You don't have to be nice

because he's nuts you know

Caroline

Caroline touches herself

and make noises like a kitten

- David

- He's lying, sh*t

Caroline, enough. Both of you

If I may, what is the family business?

Seafood. Miss Winters

We have a large cannery in town

We still own a few fishing boats

and David's mother at

the bottom of one of them

Caroline, go to your room

Everybody in this house take

his side and never care what I feel

She didn't die

- She can't

- Enough David

Yes, David really believe

his mother some kind of

of being immortality,

fascinating really

I feel her

She talk to me, all the time

Well

I think ghost are just

people who moved

to a slightly different

dimension than ours

and I think some people have antenna

strong enough to pick them up

There's actually scientific

evidence to support...

Thank you Miss Winters

David you startled me

Getting ready for Halloween?

He's coming

He's coming

We hit something, lets dig it out

- What the hell is this?

- You think its a gas main?

Not suppose to be any out here

You got to be shitting me.

Grab me some bolt cutters

Jesus

Run

I am terribly sorry

You can't even

imagine how thirsty I am

Myvestvuolas

Show yourself, Satan

Mock me not with

your strange luminescent

Curiously strange

What is this?

Some specter approaches

Is it the eyes of the devil himself

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Seth Grahame-Smith

Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American novelist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film. more…

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