‘Dark Shadows’ trailer: What is this?
I admit: I’ve never seen a single episode of “Dark Shadows,” the goth soap opera that ran for five season in the late 60s/early 70s. But still I formed a picture in my head of what I thought it was about.
This is not it.
The Burton staples are all here: the Danny Elfman music, Johnny Depp being a goofy weirdo, Helena Bonham Carter in a silly costume. But the cheesy 70s setting … I don’t know. It’s kind of bumming me out. The whole thing makes me want to watch Burton’s Big Fish just to get the image of Eva Green’s tongue out of my mind.
What say you? Does this movie look awesome or awful?
Responses to "‘Dark Shadows’ trailer: What is this?"
Having never seen the source material, this looks aight. Frankenweenie looks better, though!
I wish he had just called it something else, because Dark Shadow fans are going to be dismayed.
I watched it as a kid – it was creepy and frightening and while cheesy, still well made.
This looks disappointingly awful.
The kids might lap it up, tho.
Depp+Burton+Bonham-Carter… I’m there! Looks hilarious.
I used to watch the original show every afternoon when I got home from elementary school and I didn’t care how awful the production values were because, hey, it involved vampires (Jonathan Frid rocked!) and witches. This movie looks hilarious and I will definitely see the flick.
WTF!
My first thought—-Then got a feel for that ‘Frankenweenie’ vibe– and thought ‘why not?’
It would be hard to go back to the true Dark
Shadows story–This feels fresher( well, as fresh as the undead can feel!) and could be a Beetlejuice sort of popular genre—I would see it!
This coming from a huge DS fan hoping for some fun back story references!
IT LOOKS FANTASTIC! Im really excited! It looks really funny!
Im thinking Beetle juice + edward scissor hands!
actually, the very best Dark Shadows experience might be the big screen version made by the TV cast in the early 70′s “House of Dark Shadows”[I saw it at the Starlight Drive-In when I was a tiny tot--you wouldn't believe the begging it took for my family to succumb and take me].
With the hoopla surrounding this release, the old film might finally recieve a release on DVD—it IS worth the watch (even if someone has to watch my old VHS copy).
I was too late to see the originals too, but this looks . . . um, interesting. It is hard to resist the continuing combo of Burton/Depp/Elfman.
It should have been called DARK SHADOWS:THE NEXT GENERATION. I mean Star Trek got away with it. And “generation” sounds kinda 70s anyway! Like a bottle of Coke. “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony . . . “
I’m a huge fan of the original series – every day after school. Although this is a different, albeit more modern take on DS, I think it looks fresh and fun. I’m rarely ever disappointed with the Burton/Bonham Carter/Depp productions, so I will definitely be partaking of this one. No one can compare to the fantastically brooding Jonathan Frid, but I don’t this DS version is intended to be a remake as much as it is a tribute – a humorous tribute. I’m in!
I’m not thrilled by the it’s-been-done-to-death ‘man-out-of-time’ jokes or the it’s-been-done-to-death-and-then-more ‘wasn’t the 70′s a goofy time’ jokes.
I really wish it’d gone a different direction, but I do hope to be surprised at whatever this new re-invention is.
(actually, someone mentioned freshness, and at the risk of sounding like a geek (who?me?), the new comic book version [they're only on their 4th issue] kind of takes the old characters and dumps you into a new-feeling story—maybe, like in many cases, the comic/graphic novel folks will kick Hollywood’s butt as far as originality and intensity goes.)