Blood-curdling!.....Take
it on the rise: vampires, curses, the Adams family, hallucinogenic 70s, with sharp,
cliff-face promontories….The film doesn’t take itself seriously and invites you
not to do the same…..Homage to the B movie horrors with buckets, buckets and
buckets of blood, reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins is released after two
centuries from a chained coffin. He meets his descendants in the run-down
family pile and sets about restoring the
family business – canned fish – to its former glory…..Running through his veins
is the curse of the she-devil…...Everybody camps up in this movie. It is shot
and conceived in excess, so you either go with it or you don’t….Wicked
performances by Burton veterans Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, while popular
newcomer, Chloe Moretz, is a convincing teenage uber-slayer, transformed into a
werewolf……Dark Shadows is a diversion, with cameo moments by Alice Cooper, lava
lamps, which underscore Burton’s affectionate, nostalgic retro-70s, neon look……
