Director : Tim Burton
Running Time : 114 mins
In the mid-18th Century, Barnabas Collins (Depp) is cursed and turned into a vampire by a witch, Angelique Bouchard (Green), for spurning her advances. The town’s people bury him alive and there he lies until he is dug up in 1972. When he awakes, he makes his way back to his home only to find that it has fallen into disrepair and that his descendants have allowed Bouchard take over the town and rename it Angelbay.
I didn’t have high hopes for this modern imagining of the popular American soap opera – personally, I’ve never seen any of the over a thousand episodes – but I was pleasantly surprised. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a laugh out loud comedy, but it does have its light moments mixed with the perfect amount of melodrama, keeping it faithful in some ways to its soap opera background. Fans of Tim Burton will enjoy this, and fans of monster mythology will like this interesting twist on how things could be.
You’ll like this if you liked : The Addams Family
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