New DARK SHADOWS "Strange Family" Featurette Released

Another new featurette for Tim Burton's upcoming comedy/horror film Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp, has founds its way online. Hit the jump to check it out.

By PaulRom - May 01, 2012 02:05 PM EST

Filed Under: Horror

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 Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Dark Shadows is set to hit theaters May 11th.

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14 Comments

OptimusPrimeTime - 5/1/2012, 3:28 PM

I'll probably wait to rent this. Or possibly catch it on bootleg...

Not just because it looks like more drivel from the Burton/Depp assembly line, but because I don't want a single dollar of my moneys going to something that could be working to topple the Avengers from the box office throne!!!

Ichaos - 5/1/2012, 3:40 PM

I dont think Depp's depiction of a Mimepire will damage Avenger's box office. Besides you don't get a cut so whats it matter if someone sees a second movie this spring

headlopper - 5/1/2012, 4:08 PM

My kinda vampire from the 70's.

headlopper - 5/1/2012, 4:09 PM

^^^check out that cool prize inside!

Facade - 5/1/2012, 4:13 PM

Yet ANOTHER article on this site for the shity-ass movie. Get over it already! This movie will FAIL hard regardless of the editor love it gets here.

AUSSYACE - 5/1/2012, 4:54 PM

Its a Rental at best...

BellHorneKing - 5/1/2012, 8:47 PM

This looks like an absolutely fun and classy romp that anyone who has pubes will be sure to enjoy!!

Joe6Pack74 - 5/2/2012, 2:01 PM

How many children do you have to molest to be as weird as Johnny Depp?

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