Dark Shadows (2012)
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| German title | Dark shadows |
| Original title | Dark shadows |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 113 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Tim Burton |
| script | Seth Grahame-Smith |
| production |
Graham King , Johnny Depp , Christi Dembrowski , David Kennedy , Richard D. Zanuck |
| music | Danny Elfman |
| camera | Bruno Delbonnel |
| cut | Chris Lebenzon |
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Dark Shadows is an American horror - comedy from 2012 directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp in the lead role. The film is based on the television series of the same name produced for ABC in the 1960s and 70s .
action
In 1760, Joshua and Naomi Collins and their young son Barnabas set off from the port of Liverpool on an overseas voyage to expand the Collins family's empire to the New World . In the state of Maine , they set up a fishing company and the city of Collinsport within a year. In the following 15 years, their spacious property called Collinwood was built.
Barnabas, now a young man, has an affair with the servant Angelique. Barnabas cannot reciprocate their love, which is why Angelique uses her witchcraft to ensure that Barnabas' parents are killed by falling stones. In addition, she drives Barnabas' true love Josette to jump from the cliff Widow's Hill to her death. Barnabas jumps after her, but since Angelique has put a curse on him and turned him into an eternal vampire , he stays alive. Angelique now incites the citizens of the city against "the monster" who buried Barnabas alive in a coffin locked with chains.
In 1972, Maggie Evans went to Collinwood because of a job advertisement seeking a governess . Because of her personal history (later it is learned that she had previously escaped from an insane asylum to which she had been deported by her parents) she does not want to introduce herself under her name and spontaneously chooses the name Victoria Winters based on an advertising poster for winter sports in Victoria .
Shortly afterwards, construction workers come across Barnabas' coffin and break it open. The starved vampire kills all eleven workers and goes to his old estate. There he hypnotizes the caretaker Willie, who is to be his servant from now on. Barnabas finds that his splendid Collinwood estate, as well as the fishing business, have been severely neglected. In addition, he is often surprised and overwhelmed by the technical innovations and the conventions of the time. To his descendant Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Barnabas reveals himself to be a vampire, but promises not to harm any resident of the house, but rather to help the family back to wealth and success. Elizabeth accepts on condition that no one else in the family knows about it.
Barnabas is introduced as a distant relative from England into the family, which still consists of Elizabeth's rebellious daughter Carolyn, Elizabeth's brother Roger Collins and his son David, who speaks to the spirit of his deceased mother and, for this reason, of the mostly drunk psychiatrist Dr. Julia Hoffman is looked after, as well as the new governess Victoria Winters. This looks very similar to Barnabas' former love Josette, which is why he immediately falls in love with Victoria.
Barnabas tries to restore the family's own fish canning factory to its old size with the help of a previously secret family treasure, and also manages to bring about an economic boom. But the biggest competitor is run by Angelique, who has lived in the city for two hundred years. She seduces Barnabas, but he still does not return her love.
Dr. Hoffman has since discovered Barnabas' secret when she hypnotized him for a therapy talk. She promises Barnabas to help him transform himself back into human by giving him blood transfusions containing human blood. Barnabas discovered, however, that she was only interested in administering Barnabas' blood to herself and thus becoming an immortal vampire.
Barnabas then kills Dr. Hoffman and sinks her body into the sea with the help of his servant. David's father Roger turns out to be a thieving freeloader, whom Barnabas simply gives him the choice of either becoming the exemplary father that David deserves, or disappearing forever with a severance payment. Roger Collins decides on the severance payment without hesitation and abandons his son.
Angelique, who now wants to destroy the entire Collins family, tapes a confession from Barnabas that he killed the people and uses a ruse to lock him again in an iron coffin. Then she lets the family's fish canning factory go up in flames and then presents the onlookers and the sheriff with a recording of Barnabas' confession. When the police can't do anything against Barnabas, Angelique fights the Collins family herself. It is revealed that Carolyn is a werewolf .
Angelique confesses that it was she who put a werewolf on Carolyn, who was still in her cradle, who was supposed to bite and transform her. She also admits that she was responsible for the death of David's mother as well as the murder of Barnabas' parents, and that she cursed the entire Collins family. David asks Angelique to leave Barnabas and the rest of the family alone, which the witch is unimpressed.
Then the ghost of David's mother appears and hurls Angelique against a chandelier, so that she falls to the ground with it. She reaffirms her love for Barnabas. He assumes that it is her curse not to be able to love at all and that she does not really want to love him, but wants to own him. To prove the contrary, she tears her heart out of her chest and holds it out to him, until shortly afterwards it crumbles into small pieces and she finally dies. The family watch as Collinwood falls into the flames.
Victoria, who is still under the influence of a final spell by Angelique, is on the verge of throwing herself off the cliff just like Josette did back then. Barnabas can grab them just before they fall. But Victoria, who wants to spend all eternity with the vampire out of love, deliberately drops and forces Barnabas to bite her while she is falling and thus to transform her into a vampire before the fatal impact, which also succeeds. When Barnabas calls out Victoria's name, she opens her eyes and replies "Josette".
In the last scene, the supposedly dead Dr. Hoffman, who is still tied to the bottom of the sea, but has survived there, transformed into a vampire.
background
- Dark Shadows is the third feature film based on the television series of the same name, which ran successfully on US television from 1966 to 1971 and achieved national cult status. Film versions of the series were released in 1970 with The Castle of the Vampires (OT: House of Dark Shadows ) and 1971 with The Castle of the Lost Souls (OT: Night of Dark Shadows ).
- Four actors from the original series have a brief guest appearance in the film and can be seen as ball guests of Collinwood: Kathryn Leigh Scott , Lara Parker , David Selby and Jonathan Frid . For the former Barnabas actor Frid, who died in April 2012, this was his last film appearance. In the last line of the film's credits, there is a dedication to Dan Curtis , the creator of the television series who died in 2006.
- The film was produced by Warner Bros. , which in July 2007 secured the film rights from the estate of Dan Curtis. John August was initially responsible for the script in 2009, but was replaced by Seth Grahame-Smith. Grahame-Smith is named in the film as the sole screenwriter, but August is mentioned along with Grahame-Smith as the writer of the story based on the script. Even the Oscar -preisgekrönte production designer Rick Heinrichs and with three Oscars excellent costume designer Colleen Atwood are part of the creative team of the film.
- The shooting took place from May 18 to September 30, 2011. It was largely filmed in the UK . Filming locations were Beckenham Place Park in Kent , Bourne Wood near Farnham , Surrey , Cornwall County , the Isle of Mull and Argyll and Bute in Scotland , South Devon and Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby in Ontario, Canada . The interior shoots took place at Pinewood Studios .
- The official film launch in Germany was on May 10, 2012, in the USA the day after. Production costs were estimated at $ 150 million. The film grossed approximately $ 239 million at box offices worldwide, including 79 million in United States cinemas.
Reviews
“The year is 1972. The year is important, because when 'Gothic' and early 1970s pop culture meet, 'Dark Shadows' is one of its strongest scenes. Johnny Depp, almost invisible behind his white make-up and nose prosthesis, plays what he does best: the tragic outsider, whose diligent attempts at adaptation always turn into a parody. "
"After the after profundity -digging Twilight series or TV series hits like Vampire Diaries and True Blood Burton's work could mark the ironic climax of the vampire movie boom. At least since Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires (1967) there has certainly not been a funnier bloodsucking film. "
“The script written by Seth Graham-Smith proves to be a major weakness. [...] 'Dark Shadows' does not go beyond a stencil-like drawing of the family members, some of which are reminiscent of the Addams Family [...]. "
“Vampires meet retro bliss: With 'Dark Shadows', Tim Burton captures two of the currently dominant zeitgeist currents - and swirls them into a colorful, detailed screwball comedy, which unfortunately loses a lot of linguistic wit and richness of quotation in German dubbing . "
“For Tim Burton, the classic 'Frankenstein' is not a horror film, but a story about how every society creates its outsider; and his ghosts - some appear in 'Dark Shadows' too - are seldom threatening: why shouldn't it be a good thing if a little boy whose mother has died can still see them? In this sense, 'Dark Shadows' is a typical Burton film, and the most gruesome thing here is the witch Angie, who in 1972 took control of the fishing village in Maine with capitalist zeal. "
“Fans of the director will also experience a new side of him here: Usually the strict age ratings of his films were more due to violence; now he comes out as a master of eroticism. "
“Entertaining homage to a cult series from the late 1960s as a travesty of the vampire genre, in which the romanticism of the chill and the disco era collide. Although without any particular narrative depth, the splendidly equipped film develops into a firework of absurd and macabre humor. "
Web links
- Official website for the film (German)
- Dark Shadows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dark Shadows at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Dark Shadows at Metacritic (English)
- Dark Shadows in the online film database
- Dark Shadows in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Dark Shadows . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 692 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Dark Shadows . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Filming locations ( memento of the original from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. according to IMDb
- ↑ Financial data according to Box Office Mojo
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Lord of the formulas . In: The daily newspaper of May 10, 2012.
- ↑ Elke Vogel: The ironic climax of the vampire boom . In: Stern from May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Michael Pekler: An asexual bloodsucker in the vortex of times . In: Der Standard from May 7, 2012.
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Johnny Depp in "Dark Shadows": I am a lover, I am a sinner . In: Spiegel Online from May 8, 2012.
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Vampires Like Us . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 15, 2012.
- ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte : Johnny Depp - death suits him well . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Dark Shadows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
