4.9 Score

2012 • 1h 53min • PG-13 • Comedy, Fantasy

Dark Shadows

"Every family has its demons."

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.

IMDb 6.2

RT 35%

MC 55

Director

Tim Burton

Writers

Seth Grahame-Smith

John August

Seth Grahame-Smith

Composer

Danny Elfman

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Johnny Depp

Barnabas Collins

Michelle Pfeiffer

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

Eva Green

Angelique Bouchard

Helena Bonham Carter

Dr. Julia Hoffman

Chloë Grace Moretz

Carolyn Stoddard

Bella Heathcote

Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres

Gulliver McGrath

David Collins

Jackie Earle Haley

Willie Loomis

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